And Beasely paid over 40 Mill for it...so I've read.
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WJBR sold to VCY???
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I guess what is most upsetting is knowing that no one, and I truly mean no one, will listen to WJBR once it's VCY. It'll be a 50kW glorified toaster. At least now people are still listening to it and it serves a purpose.
I've heard VCY on WVBN in NYC (103.9) and it's 20% God, 80% Trump (though the two are one in the same to these sorts of Christians). The programming is as out of touch with the general public as you can get. Only the most hardline conservative evangelicals will tune in.
The final point is just how astonished I am that Beasley sold WJBR for a mere 5 mil. Insane.
I've heard VCY on WVBN in NYC (103.9) and it's 20% God, 80% Trump (though the two are one in the same to these sorts of Christians). The programming is as out of touch with the general public as you can get. Only the most hardline conservative evangelicals will tune in.
The final point is just how astonished I am that Beasley sold WJBR for a mere 5 mil. Insane.
New programming aside, I do wonder if there will be an on-air send-off in the way of, say, a WPLJ. They've been a market stalwart for a few decades and instead of dropping the format cold for some stunting before "101 Reasons You're Going to Hell" starts up, it'd be a nice farewell to hear from old DJ's, retrospectives, and any classic station audio that might be in the archives before they cut the mics and turn off the studio lights.
Are your serious? I come from the old school, where religion was separate from politics. Is VCY really programming 80% (or at least a majority) of political propaganda on their stations?
id wager with a slanted view, hes exagerating
Religion and politics are inextricably linked in the GQP. Yeah, you’ll find the occasional exception, but those are rare.
A bit of an exaggeration, but not much.
Presently, NPR receives funding for less than 1% of its budget directly from the federal government, but receives almost 10% of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly.
That's 90% of their funding from donors, grants, etc.
I don’t hear any political views on K-Love or Air-1. Although admittedly it’s been a few years since I’ve listened to either one.
The amount of money each tax payer gives that ends up going to the corporation for public broadcasting amounts to about $2.50 a year. If anyone wants that money back, message me here and I'll personally give it back to you out of my own pocket.
Signed,
An NPR member station Program director whos station would be devastated and likely forced off air without CPB funding, leaving over 1200 people with zero local information
Damn! That means my 42 years as a working taxpayer sent $110 to the CPB, money that could now buy me three tins of gummies at the local dispensary with $15 left over for pizza and soda? That's TYRANNY! Please send that check to me ASAP!
It might be easy to lump them together because of their religious nature but there's a massive format difference between the likes of K-Love and VCY.
And Tallahassee, where I was the corporate manager for a couple of stations a couple of decades ago. It had the classic bar that "was a good place for a beer and a fight".
I also supervised an AM/FM in Lake City, which is sorta' like a southern extension of Valdosta, GA.
I should add an addendum.... sorry! lol... i'll give you one years of taxes that wouldve gone to CPB
Seems that most of folks on this board think that these non-com groups buying these stations is somehow ruining radio. I would suggest the opposite is true. Advertising revenue is declining rapidly especially in major markets, which of course lowers the value of properties. A non-com entering the market leaves a larger share of the advertising base for the remaining commercial signals which is a good thing for the for profit operators. Would it be better for FM signals to start going silent because there were no buyers and the current owner can no longer or doesn't want to operate at break even or a loss? If you think that's not going to happen, look at the amount of AM licenses being turned in and the aging of audiences on FM. So if you truly care about the medium of radio, it would seem to me that actually keeping stations on the air would be more important than complaining about programming you don't like and that no one is forcing you to listen to. If it's not you are truly showing your bias.
I know very little about VCY, so I’m trying to learn. I assumed they were similar to BBN, but I looked on their website a while back and saw some contemporary artists played.
“Radio” is just one means of content delivery. That ecosystem has expanded dramatically, and it’s shortsighted to dwell only on “AM/FM.”
Some may put all their eggs in one basket for any number of reasons/constraints. But the reality is there are all kinds of options to get content to people.
Some may put all their eggs in one basket for any number of reasons/constraints. But the reality is there are all kinds of options to get content to people.
NPR receives less than 1% of its funding from the CPB. The vast majority of CPB's funding goes directly to individual stations, most of which are located in small, conservative towns, which often have little to no locally-oriented commercial radio programming.JJSPC said:
These stations do broadcast some NPR programming, but also programming from PRX (Public Radio eXchange), content produced and distributed by stations like WNYC and WBEZ, the BBC World Service, etc., as well as of course their own locally produced programming.
Back in the day (century) I worked both at Kiss-FM 100.3 and then at EZ-101.
This recall is purely subjective, but I'd often tune into soft-AC WJBR on the way to work -- and found them professionally smoother and better than either paycheck I cashed from Kiss or EZ.
Things change, yeah. And too many things are forced to change hastily because things continue to change. But I'm content enough with what's left of my own religious upbringing and how certain principles affect myself and others. So I hear some preacher start in on any station, and 'click' goes the off switch. Bye, WJBR.
This recall is purely subjective, but I'd often tune into soft-AC WJBR on the way to work -- and found them professionally smoother and better than either paycheck I cashed from Kiss or EZ.
Things change, yeah. And too many things are forced to change hastily because things continue to change. But I'm content enough with what's left of my own religious upbringing and how certain principles affect myself and others. So I hear some preacher start in on any station, and 'click' goes the off switch. Bye, WJBR.
Its hard to say a "majority", because close to half of the broadcast day is filled with traditional Christian music with a vignette from a preacher once or twice an hour.
However, their long-form talk shows are pretty out there. Today's program at 2pm ET was hosted at the "Election Crime Bureau" summit in Missouri.
That was followed at 3pm by "Crosstalk" hosted by the president of VCY. Crosstalk appears to be very little about Christ, and lots about fringe issues. Today's program covered how the Covid-19 pandemic was planned by "the elites" in order to usurp the Constitution.
These programs air in re-runs several times a week, although they individually do not make up the majority of the programs.
There are more traditional ministers. They re-run sermons from the late Charles Stanley, and programs where they literally read the Bible.
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