Pure Country is a Canadian radio network, that airs on stations owned by Bell Media.^[1] Launched in 2019 as a unifying branding for all of the company's country-formatted stations across Canada,^[2] the network broadcasts on 16 stations nationwide, as well as on selected digital subchannels of radio stations in markets where the company offers digital radio service but does not have a country-formatted primary station.

Programming

Weekday programming on the network consists of local hosts at each station in morning and afternoon drive, a national midday program hosted by Roo Phelps, and the syndicated The Bobby Bones Show in the evening^[1] except on CIMX-FM in Windsor, which clears the program in its standard morning timeslot (Windsor neighbours the Detroit market in the United States, where no station had presently cleared the show at all).^[1] Sophie Moroz and Jeff Hopper, the morning hosts on the network's Ottawa station, also host a national country music chart show on weekends.^[1]

In January 2020, the network's station in Kingston committed to playing a 50/50 balance of male and female country artists for one week, to draw attention to continued gender inequity in the music business.^[3]

Stations

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