Florida radio station rebrands itself as ‘Trump Country’
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So it's a country music radio station. It's in Fort Myers, Florida. And they rebranded themselves as Trump Country 93.7. Oh, what does that mean? |
| 0:10.7 | They did this on inauguration day. So they have a logo that has a Trump-like animated image. He's wearing a cowboy hat and the fonts are very similar to the Trump Vance campaign branding font. |
| 0:23.0 | Sure. |
| 0:23.9 | So since they launched on inauguration day, they have tripled in ratings in the money demo. |
| 0:30.8 | Interesting. |
| 0:31.2 | Although they're still only the second highest rated country station in Fort Myers, Florida. |
| 0:37.3 | But here's the interesting thing. |
| 0:38.7 | The station president said that they were branding out of comedy. |
| 0:42.9 | They didn't ask Trump's permission. |
| 0:46.0 | And, you know, Trump's team, they've historically fought unauthorized use of his image and name. |
| 0:52.7 | And the station's logo is make country great again. |
| 0:57.2 | The station president, he's actually running for Congress in that district, which is currently |
| 1:03.3 | held by Representative Byron Donald's. Okay. Who's running for governor. Oh, that's right. Yes, |
| 1:08.8 | he's running for. Okay. So I obviously in our cluster, we have a country radio station, Hank FM. |
| 1:16.0 | We're the Colts games. |
| 1:17.6 | You can hear the Colts games. |
| 1:20.1 | Um, the, I would tend to think that the makeup of a country music audience, well not all, certainly, would lean more Republican. |
| 1:30.7 | You would think that if you go to the crowds and the events and the political events, it always |
| 1:34.7 | seems to be country music. And clearly, at least in the short term, it is paid off to some |
| 1:41.3 | extent. There appear to be more listeners based on what you're saying the |
| 1:44.5 | ratings are doing. It is interesting they couldn't get to number one. Right. Still can't get to number |
| 1:49.0 | one in their market. By the way, just aside, my favorite thing is we have a lot of fun with how good |
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