Understandable. Most Spanish language religious stations have typically featured a good amount of music, but also just as much preaching. Vida Unida is quite different as the music is the message. The host chatter is pretty much what you would hear on K-Love or Air1.
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Another Christian FM For New York
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Don't give them an idea, or they will buy another 500 stations.
EMF has Radio Nueva Vida as an HD subchannel on a number of their stations.
Estaciones - Radio Nueva Vida
Estaciones CA AK AZ CO FL HI ID IL LA NE NM NV NY OH OR TX WA DC MÉXICO CA CALIFORNIA Bakersfield 90.9 FM Bermuda Dunes 105.1 FM HD 3 Calexico 94.9 FM Camarillo 90.3 FM Coachella 91.3 FM Carlsbad 95.7 FM HD 2 Desert Center 91.3 FM Fremont 100.9 FM Fresno 980 AM […]
nuevavida.com
Don't worry, they have amassed such an obscene amount of tax-free cash they're well on their way to becoming the biggest radio conglomerate. Before you know it they'll have a religious clone of every format and buy up the maximum possible number of stations in every market.
EMF has Radio Nueva Vida as an HD subchannel on a number of their stations.
Estaciones - Radio Nueva Vida
Estaciones CA AK AZ CO FL HI ID IL LA NE NM NV NY OH OR TX WA DC MÉXICO CA CALIFORNIA Bakersfield 90.9 FM Bermuda Dunes 105.1 FM HD 3 Calexico 94.9 FM Camarillo 90.3 FM Coachella 91.3 FM Carlsbad 95.7 FM HD 2 Desert Center 91.3 FM Fremont 100.9 FM Fresno 980 AM […]
I don't think EMF owns it, but it would seem to have an agreement to distribute it on some of its stations.
And then trumpets will sound, thunder will roll, the skies will open, and a long-awaited prophet will return .... but it will turn out to be Muhammad, and all the EMF execs will go, "Oh s***, we're screwed now!"
I've listened briefly to Radio Nueva Vida on WARW 96.7 HD3 a few times. It seems more time is devoted to preaching than music. I have yet to hear 2 songs in a row, uninterrupted by preaching, or such features as Bible verses. So it is does not even remotely resemble K-Love, or Vida Unica.
If you look at the very public full financials, they are not sitting on huge amounts of cash. What comes in pretty much goes out, except for enough as a reserve if donations slow (such as a deeper recession) or a good purchase opportunity comes up. Otherwise the spend most of the income of the product and on expanding the outreach program.
I can tell you that Spanish-speaking Catholics are much more open to CCM than their Anglo counterparts. The aforementioned WNVM in San Juan advertises itself as "la estación para evangélicos, católicos y gente que no asiste a ninguna iglesia (the station for Evangelicals, Catholics and people who attend no church)".
It probably helps that Christianity in all of its forms (including LDS, which some denominations here brand as heresy) is much more dominant in Latin America than in the United States, with its many religious minorities and significant numbers of atheists and agnostics. I have a feeling there's no significant objection to Christian radio -- either music or spoken-word evangelism -- in Latin America comparable to what we see here in RadioDiscussions.
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And many listen due to the perception that all contemporary music is dirty, sinful and unappealing. A lot of the Christian songs in Spanish have nicely crafted lyrics about humanity, not just worship. And there are more and more good singers.
I'll still stick with Carlos Vives, Silvestre Dangond, Morat and Gente de Zona to name a few.
No, there is not. In El Salvador, all but one of the San Salvador AMs is not religious... mostly non-Catholic evangelical churches or charismatic ministers.
In some places, religious radio is limited. Only recently has Mexico allowed any religious stations at all... but that is the nation that 100 years ago prohibited priests and nuns from wearing "the cloth" in public other than in their churches.
Still, the language is filled with religious terms. When I leave the house, I don't say goodby to my wife; I say "bendición" or "bless (me)". If we wish for a good outcome, we say "if God wants it so". In Puerto Rico, the catch all term for "whatever" and "too bad" and "darn" and a hundred other things is "ay ¡bendito!" or "oh! bless it!". Or in Mexico, the universal "Órale" (Pray on/about it!) which has about 1000 meanings.
I'm not especially religious (I go to Quaker meeting from time-to-time) but have been listening to more and more K-Love alongside Soft AC radio lately. I'm probably getting old, but I've simply got tired of the negativity in a lot of pop music. I was doing the dishes with a CHR (very mainstream, not urban) station playing recently and heard some gobshite singing about "your mother doesn't love you, I'll smack you like your mother, she should've used a rubber" and I just thought to myself - why am I listening to this moron?
Although I wouldn't discuss it in company in my own country, where religion is an increasingly dirty word, I like the positive lyrics of a lot of the music on CCM radio, even though I wouldn't call myself Christian. I think I'm probably the market the likes of K-Love are going for - people who want something to listen to that's not relentlessly angry and negative. I have a few US country stations on my presets for the same reason.
With WVIP being sold, only WVOX1460 AM will remain in what seems to be an unusually large building for a single AM station.
The WVOX Building
The WVOX Building
Paid for years ago, will probably be sold along with WVOX if and when the family decides it's time.
106.3 WILD FM is a Caribbean pirate out of Flatbush and stops WKMK from getting thru most of the time. The HD2 signal of WVIP cannot be heard in many jewish areas of Brooklyn.
Same as the ubiquitous Arabic "Inshallah" that Muslims tack on to their hopes concerning everything from relationships to cricket matches to wars.
Which exists in Spanish due to centuries of Moorish occupation in Spain as "Ojalá".
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