{"id":608557,"date":"2024-02-14T06:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/radio-station-wont-play-texas-hold-em\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T06:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:12:55","slug":"radio-station-wont-play-texas-hold-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/radio-station-wont-play-texas-hold-em\/","title":{"rendered":"#Radio station won&#8217;t play &#8216;Texas Hold &#8216;Em&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"72565702007\" title=\"Ad Meter 2024: Verizon\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/02\/12\/USAT\/72565712007-verizon.png?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/02\/12\/USAT\/72565712007-verizon.png?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">Ad Meter 2024: Verizon<\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 stars in this Super Bowl ad from Verizon. Be sure to vote for your favorite Super Bowl ad with Ad Meter! Go to admeter.usatoday.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>KYKC, a country music radio station based in Oklahoma, came under fire for rejecting a fan&#8217;s request to play Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new song &#8220;Texas Hold &#8216;Em,&#8221; one of two new country tracks she released after a surprise Super Bowl ad on Sunday.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>Fans were sent into an uproar after a post by one on X, formerly known as Twitter, made the rounds on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> Tuesday. User <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jussatto\/status\/1757444577416417579?s=20\">@jussatto<\/a> tweeted a screenshot of an email from S.C.O.R.E. Broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I requested &#8216;Texas Hold \u2018Em&#8217; at my local country radio station (KYKC) and after requesting, I received an email from the radio station stating &#8216;We do not play Beyonc\u00e9 on KYKC as we are a country music station,'&#8221; the user wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The station&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> manager said the station wasn&#8217;t yet playing Beyonce&#8217;s new singles because of the size of its market.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong>Jay-Z&#8217;s Grammys speech about Beyonc\u00e9 reiterates an ongoing issue with the awards<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a small market station. We&#8217;re not in a position to break an artist or help it that much, so it has to chart a little bit higher for us to add it,&#8221; said Roger Harris, the general manager of Southern Central Oklahoma Radio Enterprises (S.C.O.R.E.). &#8220;But we love Beyonc\u00e9 here. We play her on our [other top 40 and adult hits stations] but we&#8217;re not playing her on our country station yet because it just came out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-inline>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 seems to have been embraced on country music playlists curated by streaming services such as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le Music and Spotify. Country music radio charts are released every Monday.<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"><\/cta-atoms-container-inline><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong>Look back at 6 times Beyonc\u00e9 has &#8216;gone country&#8217; ahead of new music album announcement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>S.C.O.R.E. is comprised of five radio stations, ranging from FM to country. Harris said the KYKC station hadn&#8217;t played either of Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new singles because it follows trends from bigger stations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sort of pattern ourselves after the bigger stations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When they start playing it, that&#8217;s a big factor, and the charts are the second biggest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"15035125\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"><\/media-gallery-promo><\/p>\n<p>Harris described the email as a &#8220;standard response&#8221; to requests to play songs by artists that don&#8217;t typically make country music. &#8220;If somebody calls and requests the Rolling Stones on that station, we&#8217;re going to say the same thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he did say the station would play Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new songs in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t play her, but we will (with) this one, if it&#8217;s a country song, we will certainly play it,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;It just has to chart higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he was interested in a fresh take on the genre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard that (the songs are) leaning toward being country music, and I that like that,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s cool because we get tired of playing the same old beer drinking, truck driving&#8230; things like that. So, yeah, I&#8217;m really excited about somebody different doing a country music song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-inline>\n<p>As fans know, Beyonc\u00e9 recently shocked the world when she dropped &#8220;Texas Hold &#8216;Em&#8221; and &#8220;16 Carriages&#8221; during the Super Bowl. The songs have virtually broken the internet and made headlines as they challenge music industry norms and highlight the Black roots of country music.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong>Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new country singles break the internet and highlight genre&#8217;s Black roots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 has dabbled in the country music realm before with her 2016 hit &#8220;Daddy Lessons.&#8221; The same year she performed at the Country Music Association Awards alongside the country band the Chicks. While the performance was praised by many, she was met with some controversy for it.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s full &#8220;Act II&#8221; album will be available March 29.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Cach\u00e9 McClay, the USA TODAY Network&#8217;s Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0Knowles-Carter reporter, on\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cachemcclay\/\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cachemcclay\"><em>TikTok\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>and\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CacheMcclay\"><em>X<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0as @cachemcclay<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"72444380007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"><\/media-gallery-promo><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2024-02-14 03:12:55 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2024-02-14 03:12:55 +0000 UTC\"><\/lit-timestamp><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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