Shawn Farrington Joins KHCB As VP/Content & On-Air Operations

[Josh Owens]

Shawn Farrington Joins KHCB As VP/Content & On-Air Operations

Houston Christian Broadcasters' KHCB Media has appointed Shawn Farrington as Vice President of Content and On-Air Operations. Farrington will oversee

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For the record, I know this could go to TX and LA, but due to prefix issues, I'm posting it here. I haven't heard of KHCB, since I left Ruston, LA, back in January of '09. I used to hear them from time to time on KHCL, can't remember the COL. I believe the President of the ministry was named Bruce and every night, at around 6, he'd do what he called Sincerely Yours Time, where he'd update folk on the station news of that day, etc.

 

[Ryan Williams]

Shawn Farrington Joins KHCB As VP/Content & On-Air Operations

Houston Christian Broadcasters' KHCB Media has appointed Shawn Farrington as Vice President of Content and On-Air Operations. Farrington will oversee

radioinsight.com

For the record, I know this could go to TX and LA, but due to prefix issues, I'm posting it here. I haven't heard of KHCB, since I left Ruston, LA, back in January of '09. I used to hear them from time to time on KHCL, can't remember the COL. I believe the President of the ministry was named Bruce and every night, at around 6, he'd do what he called Sincerely Yours Time, where he'd update folk on the station news of that day, etc.

I believe Bruce retired a year or two ago.

 

[Mediafrog+]

I don’t see any changes being made. KHCB is a very “old line” operation, much like you would have heard from religious formatted FMs 60 years ago.

 

[Ryan Williams]

I don’t see any changes being made. KHCB is a very “old line” operation, much like you would have heard from religious formatted FMs 60 years ago.

I think it actually sounds pretty different from even a year ago. Definitely some modernizing going on.

Interestingly, I was at the NRB convention early this year and Adam Curry (aka "The Podfather" for his role in creating podcasting) used KHCB as an example during his talk of one of the broadcasters using his company's product that connects listeners with podcasts so that radio listeners can hear the program again inside the station app without having to go somewhere else.

 

[Josh Owens]

I believe Bruce retired a year or two ago.

That's highly possible, it has been a while. As I've said for some time now, re: memories, everything's back there, just takes certain things to pull it out. )

 

[ted chittenden]

I don't know about the modernization of KHCB-FM's programming but its network of stations has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past five years or so. It's definitely in expansion mode. Interestingly, its counterpart Spanish network, Radio Amistad (headed by the 1400kHz station licensed to Galveston), has not been growing as quickly despite the large number of Spanish-speaking Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, living in the state.

 

[Mediafrog+]

I don't know about the modernization of KHCB-FM's programming but its network of stations has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past five years or so. It's definitely in expansion mode.

Plenty of basket case stations available to buy, especially as values collapse.

Interestingly, its counterpart Spanish network, Radio Amistad (headed by the 1400kHz station licensed to Galveston), has not been growing as quickly despite the large number of Spanish-speaking Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, living in the state.

KHCB 1400 is licensed to League City, though it was previously licensed to Galveston in the long-ago KILE days.

The 1400 signal is terrible, and its FM translator only covers a small part of the market. I would think HCB would want a better FM signal for the Spanish language service, and they are currently trying to reengineer and move a translator to 89.7 that would cover the Houston urban core. I have thought in the past that KFNC 97.5 would be a logical solution, but Gow Media appears to want too much money for the station.