The voice behind the station
Rick Minerd
Rick Minerd is the reason the station sounds the way it does. A longtime fixture of Columbus radio, Minerd is the driving force behind Best Oldies Radio’s programming, and the station’s reach well beyond central Ohio traces directly back to the work he’s put into it.
About Best Oldies Radio
Best Oldie Radio broadcasts on 99.1 HD2 out of Columbus, Ohio, and streams free worldwide at bestoldiesradio.com. The format is classic country, full stop, the 1960s through the 1990s, played all day, every day, with no detours into today’s pop-leaning Nashville sound.
Where we’re heard
Best Oldies Radio streams on HD2 in Columbus and on the open web at bestoldiesradio.com, reaching listeners well past the Columbus signal footprint.
That’s a narrower lane than most “oldies” outlets run. Classic hits and classic rock stations chase Motown, the British Invasion, and arena rock nostalgia. Best Oldies Radio stays with country’s defining decades: the era that took the format from regional AM daytimers to a genre with its own charts, its own stars, and its own night-and-day identity on the dial. No shuffle-everything playlist. No genre-blending. Country, and only the country that earned “legend” status.
Listen now
Stream Best Oldies Radio any time at bestoldiesradio.com, or tune 99.1 HD2 in Columbus. Station updates and news run on the News Center at bestoldiesradio.com/news.
RICK MINERD
FOUNDER, BEST OLDIES RADIO
What you’ll hear
The playlist draws from country music's biggest and most enduring names — the artists who built the format into what it became and who still define "classic country" for anyone who grew up with it on the radio. Personality, imaging, and a station-built sound carry the format; this isn't an algorithmic shuffle of a Spotify country-oldies tag.ur paragraph here