"I think it got a lot of attention focused on something that frankly the audience probably knows nothing about, which is the fact that there are gatekeepers at radio and people that consult and decide what gets played,” McBride said. “I don’t think people were really aware of that. … I don’t know if it’s helped or not helped, but we do have some more females getting some airplay on the radio than there was a year ago."
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Tomato-gate
Tomato-gate (also SaladGate) was a 2015 controversy in country music, stemming from comments made by radio consultant Keith Hill to the country radio trade publication Country Radio Aircheck, regarding the under-representation of women in the play lists of country music radio stations. Hill advocated that stations ought not play songs by women artists back to back, and drew an analogy with the composition of a salad, with male artists as the lettuce, and female artists as the tomato garnish. The
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