NYC Radio: NashFM Morning Show Is Big On Talk

• WNSH's Blair Garner and country co-hosts are light on music and New York content

Blair Garner

New York's new country-radio morning show is breezy, fast-paced, smooth, upbeat and, by current standards, family-friendly.

What it doesn’t have is a lot of music. Or a lot of New York, write David Hinckley at NY Daily News.

Blair Garner, lead host of the show on WNSH (Nash-FM, 94.7), used to work at WPLJ, so he knows the city and will occasionally refer to a place he likes on, say, 72nd St.

His partners — country singers Terri Clark, Sunny Sweeney and Chuck Wicks, plus Lee Ann Womack on Fridays — are more likely to discuss Canada or Nashville, where the show originates.

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New Yorkers will recognize Jeff McKay, who cuts in with regular traffic reports. But it’s clear he’s here and they’re there, just as Robin Meade of HLN reads the headlines from somewhere else.

Garner has tried to bring New York into the conversation during the show’s first week, referring regularly to “the city” and riffing on our heat wave.

But he didn’t walk to work in it. This program is called “America’s Morning Show” for a reason: Cumulus Media, which owns the station, ultimately wants it everywhere, not tied to one city.

That’s not bad, just a different kind of radio.

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