WJBR sold to VCY???

[MarkW]

How long until Beasley sells its crappy translators in the Metro Detroit region to VCY or another such similar outfit?

Those assets have got to be considered non-core, one would think.

Do they still have some small AM stations in New Jersey? I know they have a few class A FMs there. If I were an employee of, say, WDHA, I'd be a bit anxious right now.

 

[Larry]

VCY isn't going to find its audience in Wilmington, DE.

Yes, but they might have an audience in parts of Chester county and to a lesser extent Delaware country

 

[PTBoardOp94]

VCY isn't going to find its audience in Wilmington, DE. They are old-school, BBN-type Christian teaching and talk programs, plus instrumental religious music late at night.

VCY (thinks they are) is in the business of converting the unsaved, not preaching to the converted. They explicitly want to be in places like Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco.

I'm not sure how agitprop about how 17 international firms including Coca-Cola and Cargill are working with the communist party of China to destroy farmland in North Dakota achieves that goal (that's the program running as I type this), but I can't understand everything.

 

[Identnut]

VCY (thinks they are) is in the business of converting the unsaved, not preaching to the converted. They explicitly want to be in places like Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco.

I'm not sure how agitprop about how 17 international firms including Coca-Cola and Cargill are working with the communist party of China to destroy farmland in North Dakota achieves that goal (that's the program running as I type this), but I can't understand everything.

This frequency squatting by VCY is borderline harassment IMO. It is especially evident with their attempted entry into San Francisco and Palm Springs. These places are safe spaces for the LGBT community and we have these jamokes spewing their bile into the airwaves.

VCY wants to get their foot in the door of the dens of sins that they believe large cities to be and act like the mad gadfly. You can get mad at EMF, but they serve an audience that genuinely loves their product.

 

[radiofan2023]

This frequency squatting by VCY is borderline harassment IMO. It is especially evident with their attempted entry into San Francisco and Palm Springs. These places are safe spaces for the LGBT community and we have these jamokes spewing their bile into the airwaves.

VCY wants to get their foot in the door of the dens of sins that they believe large cities to be and act like the mad gadfly. You can get mad at EMF, but they serve an audience that genuinely loves their product.

So get investors together and make an offer VCY can’t match

 

[CassChopper96]

I wish Christian companies would stop buying radio stations seriously

 

[nd2023]

I could see WJBR flipping to Christmas music as a transition before VCY takes over. The Christians will listen to the Christmas music and stay tuned for VCY’s format. So they won’t start out with zero listeners in this market

 

[nd2023]

I wish Christian companies would stop buying radio stations seriously

I wish that the tax laws wouldn’t allow the Christian companies to make big profits and not pay taxes. Not taxing churches was intended for local churches to have more money to help the homeless and the poor in their community. Not to help EMF turn another heritage station to K-Love

 

[davideduardo]

This frequency squatting by VCY is borderline harassment IMO. It is especially evident with their attempted entry into San Francisco and Palm Springs. These places are safe spaces for the LGBT community and we have these jamokes spewing their bile into the airwaves.

The thing about progressive (using that term in its traditional non-political sense of "enlightenment") markets like the Coachella Valley and San Francisco is that horrible programming that does not "synch" with the market's mentality will simply not be listened to. DOA, and deservedly so.

 

[davideduardo]

I wish that the tax laws wouldn’t allow the Christian companies to make big profits and not pay taxes.

Christian organizations don't make profits. They must employ their income in operating and furthering their cause since there is no "profit" to be distributed.

A religion or faith-based non-profit is no different than the Red Cross or St. Jude's Hospital or your local food bank or homeless shelter.

Not taxing churches was intended for local churches to have more money to help the homeless and the poor in their community.

It's broader and less specific than that. A non-profit simply uses the money it gets to further its cause, whether it be health, education, research, faith, charity or whatever.

Not to help EMF turn another heritage station to K-Love

The fact is that those "heritage" stations are not making money as for-profit operations and nobody else in the for-profit sector wants them, either. From the 1950's until consolidation began in the 90's about half of all US commercial radio stations have not made a profit. That means, simply, that there are too many of them in the US.

 

[crainbebo]

The thing about progressive (using that term in its traditional non-political sense of "enlightenment") markets like the Coachella Valley and San Francisco is that horrible programming that does not "synch" with the market's mentality will simply not be listened to. DOA, and deservedly so.

It's why I'm surprised BBN is in Seattle of all places. Some of the same programs air on KCIS-630 (like Insight for Living, Adventures in Odyssey, and Truth for Life). It's very old-school Christian programming that does not appeal to the majority demographics of the Seattle-Tacoma market, unlike their full-power FMs in Monroe LA, Norfolk, Tampa, and other places in the south.
Even AFR has stayed out of the west coast for the most part. One affiliate in WA (KAYB Sunnyside), one in OR, one in MT. They have rarely if ever bought out secular stations either.

 

[davideduardo]

It's very old-school Christian programming that does not appeal to the majority demographics of the Seattle-Tacoma market, unlike their full-power FMs in Monroe LA, Norfolk, Tampa, and other places in the south.

Tampa is in Florida. It is not in "the South".

Norfolk is also one of the least "southern" cities in the South. It's huge military influence and growth from folks from the Northeast make it more like Indianapolis than like Birmingham (of course, drive a bit into North Carolina and you will find that places like Elizabeth City are truly south'ren.

Even AFR has stayed out of the west coast for the most part. One affiliate in WA (KAYB Sunnyside), one in OR, one in MT. They have rarely if ever bought out secular stations either.

Maybe they think there are more "heathen" to be saved there? I can't listen to that for more than a minute without being angered or upset, so I can't really analyze their motivation.

 

[RStacey1990]

It's a Wilmington rimshot serving parts of the Philly market.

It reaches Pottsville along with WSTW, im sure it has the whole Philly market covered. Philly stations are Fringe in my area. Being that WSTW and WJBR are roughly 30-40 miles further, id say they can adequately serve most of, if not all of, the Philadelphia market.

 

[inari]

I wish Christian companies would stop buying radio stations seriously

They (Christian broadcasters) are about the only ones buying large market station right now. No one secular with money is stepping up to buy any of these stations.

 

[CTListener]

Tampa is in Florida. It is not in "the South".

But Jacksonville and Pensacola are, right? The further south you go in Florida, it seems, the less Southern it gets. The country singer John Anderson is from Apopka, in north central Florida, and his accent is as Southern as kudzu and palmetto bugs.

 

[RMarino]

But Jacksonville and Pensacola are, right? The further south you go in Florida, it seems, the less Southern it gets.

This was true 30-40 years ago, but it has changed. I was raised in (but not born in) Florida. When I was a kid, the running joke was everyone lives in Florida but no one is actually from Florida. Everyone was transplanted from somewhere else. Well that was two generations ago. Those people stayed and raised their own children who for the most part have been brought up in the southern culture. Florida has more native residents now than it ever has and it’s no longer the cultural melting pot it once was.

 

[atthestars]

It reaches Pottsville along with WSTW, im sure it has the whole Philly market covered. Philly stations are Fringe in my area. Being that WSTW and WJBR are roughly 30-40 miles further, id say they can adequately serve most of, if not all of, the Philadelphia market.

In your car IF you're lucky. There's no building penetration there of these two signals, and both stations don't care about that area at all when it comes to advertising and marketing. WSTW and WJBR both get spotty north of Center City, and don't penetrate buildings there either. In your car, sure you can pick them up, but to say they "Adequately serve most, if not all of the Philadelphia market" is false.

 

[Identnut]

The thing about progressive (using that term in its traditional non-political sense of "enlightenment") markets like the Coachella Valley and San Francisco is that horrible programming that does not "synch" with the market's mentality will simply not be listened to. DOA, and deservedly so.

The issue is that most crappy programming doesn't have tax-exempt money piped in from Wisconsin in order to prop it up.

 

[kevtronics]

Religious groups taking over the AM dial is what I predicted would happen, just like it did on shortwave. The fact that it's happening now on FM too means that things are even worse than I thought.

You have to remember that VCY, EMF, etc. are ministries. They care about God's ratings, not Nielsen's.

 

[JJSPC]

The issue is that most crappy programming doesn't have tax-exempt money piped in from Wisconsin in order to prop it up.

With VCY, EMF and others, at least their listeners are supporting the ministry by choice. In the case of the tax-exempt CPB and NPR (which most liberals defend), even people never listen to it or disagree with their views must support these organizations through forced tax dollars. So if you want to complain about tax-exempt radio, add government funded public broadcasting in there as well.