223:, playing US and UK country music, launched online in 2013, and since 2016 has been gathering carriage on DAB, mostly on small-scale multiplexes though also on some full local muxes including in London. In some areas Chris Country uses, or has switched to, the DAB+ broadcast standard. Chris Country was sold to the owners of the CountryLine app in 2020, with the radio station rebranded to
65:. There are more radio stations in the United States specializing in country music (about 2,100 stations) than any other format, out of a total of about 15,000 radio stations in the US. Country radio stations are very influential in the country music industry, compared to other genres of music. Until 2012, only country radio stations were counted in the
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launched. Initially just available through the website, the station is now available on Alexa, multiple radio streaming apps and it has its own
Android app. The station owner Chad J Country has a vision of taking radio back to how it used to be, where DJ's played the music they love and connect with
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and regional acts whose commercial performance would not warrant being played on a mainstream country station; Americana stations do not always self-identify as country. In terms of driving the mainstream popularity of hit country songs within the
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