2012 The State Of The Station

Friends, listeners, country music artists... the state of the station is very good. Max, Shannon and Porkchop continue to wake up the people of Tucson with free money every morning, plus concert tickets and other prizes, news, weather traffic from Kricket the Head Traffic Ranger, and lots of music. Cactus Dave plays your requests at lunch each day, and there's a guy in the afternoon we're trying to get rid of. Plus we're helping improve the economy by hiring some new sales people... call 887-1000 to find out more.

During the last year we have seen what can be accomplished when we work together. For example, we learned that if we request a Chris Young song and it goes to #1, I won't have to eat a shoe.

We learned that for the 2nd year in a row, channel 4 is better at basketball than the KIIM crew.

and we learned that if you say not nice things on the internet about Scotty McCreery, the internet bites back.

In 2011 we gave about about a zillion dollars, plus trips and lots of other cool stuff.

Some might call this a good record. I call it a good start. Tonight I pledge that in 2012 we will continue to exceed your expectations for country music and fun.

How I narrowly missed having to eat a shoe:

In March, I declared that if Chris Young's "Tomorrow" didn't go to #1, I'd eat a shoe. Hear that here.

In May, I even had Kix Brooks in studio and tried to convince him to "fix" the American Country Countdown so that "Tomorrow" would be #1. Hear that here.

A listener even baked me an apple pie in the shape of a shoe, just in case: 

It took many many weeks, and there was a point where the song seemed "stuck" at #5 for a few weeks, but eventually "Tomorrow" kept moving up. 

Thankfully, this week "Tomorrow" landed at the top spot of the charts. Congrats to Chris Young on his fourth #1, and here's to many more!

Chris Young is coming to Desert Diamond Casino in October, click here for the info!

I did EVERYTHING I could to try to convince Kix Brooks to move Chris Young's TOMORROW to #1 this week

We spoke to Kix Brooks of American Country Countdown this morning about my statement that I would eat a shoe if Chris Young's TOMORROW is not a #1 song.

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