"Ave Maria in the Afternoon"

[johnbasalla]

With the passing of longtime host Al Kresta of "Kresta In The Afternoon", the show, heard on many EWTN radio stations, is not "Ave Maria In The Afternoon" as it continues to come from the Ave Maria Radio Network. The new host if Marcus Peters. He's added a couple of new features. He, more often than Al did, takes telephone calls. On Fridays, in the 5pm (EST) hour, he has someone there to talk about the readings listeners will hear at the weekend Mass. I think this is a good idea.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

With the passing of longtime host Al Kresta of "Kresta In The Afternoon", the show, heard on many EWTN radio stations, is not "Ave Maria In The Afternoon" as it continues to come from the Ave Maria Radio Network. The new host if Marcus Peters. He's added a couple of new features. He, more often than Al did, takes telephone calls. On Fridays, in the 5pm (EST) hour, he has someone there to talk about the readings listeners will hear at the weekend Mass. I think this is a good idea.

The problem with EWTN is its dry as milquetoast,.. its preaching to the choir.

If religious radio wants to survive in the digital age, they need to look at stations like WPOZ and networks like Relevant Radio and not preach to the choir.

Under John Harper, the morning show on Relevant Radio was pretty lively and styled more towards mainstream talk radio in its presentation style. I for one enjoyed it.

 

[davideduardo]

The problem with EWTN is its dry as milquetoast,.. its preaching to the choir.

If religious radio wants to survive in the digital age, they need to look at stations like WPOZ and networks like Relevant Radio and not preach to the choir.

As part of the project that Archbishop Ricketts Landazuri of Peru commissioned me to do, we took a very good AM facility (10 kw at 660) and made it an "outreach" station for the "New Neighborhoods" (Barrios Nuevos) in Lima. Those were the poorest areas, with many places without sanitation or electricity.

I recommended doing a "popular class" music format of Peruvian and Tropical music with 60" to 90" messages interspersed between music sets of two or three songs. The messages were both related to how to progress and how to make God part of that process. Encouragement for continued education for the "working class", guidance on health and sanitation, general topics on things like laws and elections were all part of the messaging, as well as brief Bible verses with a priest doing a read and then explaining it.

An effort was made to insure that the same messages were not repeated forever, and a number of priests and docents at Catholic schools were given the task of writing or preparing the material.

Otherwise, it behaved like a commercial station, with well organized music rotations and the like. It was called Radio Alfa.

The FM, which was commercial and intended to fund the AM, was called Omega.

 

[PTBoardOp93]

With the passing of longtime host Al Kresta of "Kresta In The Afternoon", the show, heard on many EWTN radio stations, is not "Ave Maria In The Afternoon" as it continues to come from the Ave Maria Radio Network.

Sorry, I had trouble parsing t he grammar. You're saying there are now two shows with the same name but different hosts on two different Catholic radio networks?

 

[johnbasalla]

Sorry, I had trouble parsing t he grammar. You're saying there are now two shows with the same name but different hosts on two different Catholic radio networks?

My typo. The word should have been NOW. "... is NOW "Ave Maria In The Afternoon". As was stated at the start, Al Kresta has passed away. The show, formerly known as "Kresta In The Afternoon" is now "Ave Maria In The Afternoon", hosted by Marcus Peters who took over for Mr. Kresta. They have new opening theme music as well as new music used at the start of the newscast which starts a couple of minutes into the show.