{"id":237063,"date":"2025-10-24T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237063\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:55:09","slug":"kix-rebrands-to-iheartcountry-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237063\/","title":{"rendered":"KIX rebrands to iHeartCountry Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/category\/whats-new\/\" class=\"tag color-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> October 24, 2025                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2398.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>KIX Country has been rebranded to iHeartCountry Australia, a move which ARN says will create one unified country music network across metro and regional Australia, establishing a single, national destination for country fans on-air, online, through live events and via the iHeart app.<\/p>\n<p>The rebrand sees iHeartCountry Australia launch with a refreshed national schedule, new shows and an expanded music library \u2013 blending the best of Nashville\u2019s global hits with homegrown Aussie country.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Joyce, ARN\u2019s Chief Audience &amp; Content Officer, said \u201cCountry music is the fastest-growing genre in the world, and Australia is one of the largest country markets. This is an exciting time to create a single, national network, under the iconic iHeartCountry brand, bringing the best of country music to Australian listeners. It\u2019s a turnkey solution for our clients to connect their brands with the passionate country fans, while offering Aussie artists the biggest platform in the country to hear their music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include:<\/p>\n<p>Artist of the Week \u2013 The main stage of iHeartCountry where a favourite artist takes over the station for an hour 3pm daily for an entire week<br \/>\nCountrified \u2013 Country artists covering non-country hits.<br \/>\nAussie Hour \u2013 Celebrating the best in Australian country, 8am Sundays<br \/>\nKIX Live @ 5 \u2013 A double shot of live country music every weekday at 5pm.<br \/>\niHeartCountry Countdown \u2013 The hottest 30 country tracks 9am Friday morning and again Sundays at 4pm.<br \/>\niHeartCountry Party \u2013 Wall-to-wall, foot-stomping country bangers \u2013 Friday &amp; Saturday nights, commercial-free.<br \/>\nMorning Music Muster \u2013 No talk, no fuss, just great country music to start the workday.<br \/>\nMore Aussie Music \u2013 An even stronger focus on new Australian country artists and emerging talent.<\/p>\n<p>iHeartCountry Australia is now live. Listeners can tune in via FM, DAB+, and iHeart to stream live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New October 24, 2025 KIX Country has been rebranded to iHeartCountry Australia, a move which ARN says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-237063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}