# Brittany Grunig: Building Country Radio Listeners Love Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/brittany-grunig-building-country-radio-listeners-love Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/brittany-grunig-building-country-radio-listeners-love.md Podcast: [The Sound Off Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125) Published: 2026-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://art19.com/shows/sound-off-podcast-series/episodes/548cefb1-4583-4a3e-80c4-83c691b5b46d Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/p.podderapp.com/8355482824/op3.dev/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/548cefb1-4583-4a3e-80c4-83c691b5b46d.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/episodes/brittany-grunig-building-country-radio-listeners-love Duration seconds: 2252 ## Resource Brittany Grunig , whose journey through Canadian country radio perfectly illustrates why one should bel bullish on radio’s future. Brittany shares how growing up in small-town Nova Scotia, studying marketing at Holland College, and stumbling into a radio internship led to gigs at Ocean 100 , K-Rock , and CFCY , before a chance interview booking helped her leap to New Country 94 in Ottawa . We talk about her rapid evolution from on-air host to Music Director and eventually Regional Program Director at Bell, navigating competitive markets, the infamous hit/non-hit regulations in Ottawa, and how she used creativity, artist relationships, and a passion for Canadian country to build compelling stations and shows. Brittany then explains why she moved on from corporate radio, how motherhood reshaped her priorities, and why she’s now energized by working with My Broadcast Corporation in Kingston. Her optimism about fiercely local, community-first radio will make you rethink what’s possible for the next 10 years of audio. I mentioned during the show that I once had country superstar Meghan Patrick on a podcast. Did you know she is a leading member of the Buffalo Bills Mafia?  Please sign up for the SOUNDING OFF Newsletter.  All the things that went unsaid on the show. Also we added the Sound Off Podcast to the The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) A free and open-source podcast  prefix analytics service  committed to open data and listener privacy.  You can be a nosey parker by checking out our downloads here. Thanks to the following organizations for supporting the show: Megatrax  - Licensed Music for your radio station or podcast production company. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:/… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/episodes/brittany-grunig-building-country-radio-listeners-love/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/brittany-grunig-building-country-radio-listeners-love.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.