Of course they are. At 110,000 watts @ 355m that's the most powerful FM signal in the region. Another distress sale to help EMF opportunistically bulldoze their dogma onto everyone's radio.
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Of course they are. At 110,000 watts @ 355m that's the most powerful FM signal in the region. Another distress sale to help EMF opportunistically bulldoze their dogma onto everyone's radio.
Last I checked, radio had a tuning knob or button. Nobody is forced to listen... And K-love is pretty generic and non-proselytizing
Really? Explain why they need to expand their Radio Empire then? That's exactly what EMF is doing. Charlatans like Joel Osteen live like kings from the riches they take in from the gullible masses...
Christians just don't get how offensive the smugness of their assumption that they're the only ones with an afterlife to look forward to is to people of other faiths, or no religion at all.
I don’t sense that EMF is evangelizing, but instead is preaching to the choir. Their target is current evangelical Christians.
I think there are many religious operators that quietly realize that there are a lot of people who will never, ever listen to any sort of religious format, so they concentrate on the base they already have.
Most of the "Born Again" (or whatever they call themselves) Christians that I have encountered feel it is their duty to "Sell the Word". They are active in looking for new recruits.
Jehovah Witnesses also do this. Many of these groups buy hour blocks of TV time for this very purpose.
EMF wants to buy more stations to have a bigger footprint. That means more dollars coming in and more opportunities to increase the flock...
So what? Anything illegal? No. Anyone, including you, can do what they do. Start a non-profit in your garage and buy a station.
Super-serving the sliver can be very profitable.
One of THE most annoying things about many religions is the mission to spread the word. Even worse, the ones who have the desire to make everybody else live by their religious guidelines (even though they themselves often don't). I wish many of these peoplewould be satisfied to just sit happily in their little bubble and not bother anybody.
The want to reach 100% of the US and its territories. A recent purchase in the USVI was preceded by one in American Samoa and one that covers part of Puerto Rico. Every area that does not have a 60 dbu signal from a station or repeater is a candidate for a purchase.
EMF's two formats are music based, and are not "preaching and teaching" content driven.
The management of EMF is, if anything, highly underpaid for what they do and they do not have an overly large management team.
Joel Oseteen is a different case. His entire "philosophy" is based on "prosperity gospel" based on living a certain type of Christian life. I don't agree at all with that, but his huge following, in the millions, is not radical or socially divisive, either.
This is about the best summation of Osteen's ministry I can find:
Joel Osteen in Indianapolis: Why the televangelist is so beloved and controversial
Joel Osteen has a fancy house and massive Lakewood Church. He is liked by many, but was criticized after Hurricane Harvey. Here's what else we know.
www.indystar.com
If you don't like religions in general, that is different. Don't listen. I don't listen to alternative rock for the same reason: I don't care for it and it does nothing for me. But I know a certain percentage of people do like it and that is just fine by me.
The only group of radio operators that is significantly profitable is Salem, and that comes from a combination of radio and publications, mostly online.
Yes, there are some, but few, televangelists who do live a "big" lifestyle but compared to the priests and ministers in our communities who visit the ill and aid the poor and other things their Bible or other "core document" tells them to do, they are a small, small number.
In my experience, I have not found any Christians who don't understand that many different faiths have different views or visions of the afterlife. Some believe in reincarnation, some in a version of heaven or paradise.
But I guess that there are some overly self-centered Christians who think that they have a monopoly on some beliefs. By definition, they are not Christians at all.
Of course, the belief in an afterlife sorta' means you believe in a Higher Power, doesn't it?
Were I still an owner, I'd welcome EMF "and friends" to my market. Each of those stations is one less dividing up the finite amount of radio revenue available for the rest of us!
There's a difference between understanding and acceptance. Most Christians I've found know that Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, etc. have different views of the afterlife and what a believer needs to do to get the best one. But they also feel it's their duty to tell those people they're wrong, that Jesus said "I am the light, the truth and the way" and that "no one comes to the Father (God) but through me," and therefore those other people aren't getting to Heaven, Nirvana, reincarnation as a cat, or whatever other eternal reward they believe is promised them, literally or figuratively, unless they buy into that boast and the man who uttered it. That, my friend, is smug and offensive. Jews don't do this. Buddhists don't do this. Christians do.
The largest Christian religion by far is Catholicism. If you research, you will find that it's belief today is generally that anyone who finds God can find Heaven.
Can only Catholics go to heaven? - The Leaven Catholic Newspaper is a good explanation of how today's Catholics view the gate pass to an afterlife
It's interesting that the largest of the Christian faiths is the smallest, proportionally, in terms of radio presence in the US. In fact, only in the most recent years has there been any effort to create local, regional or pseudo-national catholic stations or groups.
In Mexico, one of the world's most Catholic nations, there were no religious stations at all allowed until recently. In Puerto Rico, USA, there is one AM and one FM Catholic station... and the FM is quite secular... but one out of every 5 of the 130 total stations in the market is non-Catholic religious.
Some Christians.
And not all faiths believe in proselytizing; Christians believe their Bible teaches them to spread the word. Unfortunately, that belief was well exaggerated in certain eras, producing the Crusades and Holy Inquisition... but that was about half a millennium ago.
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Hey CTListener, since I wasn't chosen to be in Nirvana because I didn't have a flannel shirt, can I be reincarnated as Cat Stevens? That might have Bryan Adam's idea of Heaven.
On a lighter note, since we're on the topic of religions:
Where does a Druid priest work when he's not at the main church? The branch office.
On a lighter note, since we're on the topic of religions:
Where does a Druid priest work when he's not at the main church? The branch office.
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people. Religion, politics, and The Great Pumpkin
No station is being FORCED to sell to EMF. They are merely going after stations that are being put up for sale. And how is EMF different from when IHeart was Clear Channel and they were buying stations right and left?
CBS didn’t sell its radio properties to (then) Entercom in order to get back into radio later
You just applied a woefully ignorant point of view to a couple of billion people worldwide, unless you mean hardcore radio and tv preachers who are even obnoxious to this Christian.
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