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    • Apr 19, 1984
    Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasting sells two country radio stations in Detroit, WCXI-AM & FM, to Shamrock Broadcasting, for a reported $4 million
    Sep 17, 1985
    A front page story in The New York Times proclaims that country music is "dead." The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as "not really country"
    Sep 9, 1986
    West Germany's Bertelsmann Music Group buys RCA Records from General Electric
    Apr 21, 1987
    A front-page story in The New York Times pays homage to MCA Records and the growing "New Traditionalism" movement
    Dec 19, 1987
    A St. Louis judge throws out a suit filed by an inmate who claims his rights are being violated because a security officer won't let him listen to a country station
    Jan 5, 1988
    Sony buys CBS Records, including the contracts of Ricky Van Shelton, George Jones, Ricky Skaggs and Tammy Wynette
    Aug 13, 1988
    Willie Nelson becomes the first artist ever to have an album spend 10 years on the Billboard country chart as "Stardust" logs its 520th week
    Jan 9, 1989
    Sony Music buys Tree Publishing for an estimated $50 million. The catalog includes such titles as "I Fall To Pieces," "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"
    Mar 4, 1989
    Warner Bros. merges with Time, becoming Time Warner. The conglomerate's country division includes Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt, The Forester Sisters, Emmylou Harris and Highway 101
    Apr 15, 1989
    The historic Lone Star Cafe closes in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. For years, the club was one of the few means of live exposure for country acts in New York. A performance at the venue inspired Hank Williams Jr.'s "Dixie On My Mind"



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