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Christian AC -- 89.7 WMCU Miami Sold to Pub Caster

They were a regular DX catch in Melbourne / Palm Bay - if I still lived there I would miss the station. However, WAY-FM's new signal should cover much of the Northern portions of their service area.
 
xmusicmatt said:
100kw 89.7 WMCU Miami has been told to a pub caster (Minnesota's American Public Media). Last day on air with Christian format will be Sept 30th.

http://897spiritfm.com/index.asp?str_string=Home~Home~none
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Someone on the the Miami board noted there were several christian stations to choose from in the Miami area, but all i could find doing a search on radio-locator was a translator for WAY-FM, WKAT-AM in North Miami, and WLVJ-AM in Boynton Beach (47 miles away). Am I missing something here? How is that considered "several to choose from"? That's a shame a Christian organization would sell out to a group headed by Minnesota Public Radio. I'm not really sure, but I figure MPR is affiliated with NPR (National Public Radio), an organization which holds views in sharp contrast with Christian beliefs and ideology. Although I listen to classical music from time to time myself, and I do feel that the Miami area does need a classical outlet, why not try to see about selling WMCU to a christian organziation? I suppose money does talk...


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Pretty much all of the alternatives listed on Spirit FM's web site are rimshots in Miami proper - most of them serve areas to the north and northwest-the lone exception being WMBM-AM). REACH-FM's primary signal doesn't even reach West Palm Beach.
 
20 Million is a big check to write as well. I guess it was too big of a number for them to pass on. I know they said that they would have liked to have sold it to a Chrstian radio organization that would have kept the format in place, but I don't know of anyone with that type of cash within the format.
 
From their website posting, it was clear that no Christian organization was able to compete with the MPR offer.

Also - there is a REACH-FM translator in West Palm Beach, I think, at 96.7. They actually have quite a few translators.
 
At least south Miami still has the Call-FM ...while a lot more edgy then Spirit at least Christian music will be reaching out to the lost of southern Florida.
 
I guess MONEY talks and Bullsh*t walks, Said to see they soldout. There are no Christian stations in south Florida as strong in wattage as WMCU. Classical music is for the refined and not for the everyday folks who need Christian music in their lives. Another :'( :mad: evil comes ashore on Miami.
 
misterscrubs said:
I guess MONEY talks and Bullsh*t walks, Said to see they soldout. There are no Christian stations in south Florida as strong in wattage as WMCU. Classical music is for the refined and not for the everyday folks who need Christian music in their lives. Another :'( :mad: evil comes ashore on Miami.
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Having seen town after town [0] lose public radio service altogether to buyouts by ultra-well-heeled far-right "Christian" broadcasters, I don't really think the Christian radio community has anything to complain about here. Especially with the station flipping to classical -- a secular format that's hardly in conflict with Christian principles. (and frequently actually includes Christian music)

If they were going to flip WMCU to yet another CHR I might join you in tagging it as "evil".

[0] most recently: Tyler, Texas and Jackson and Dyersburg, Tennessee.
 
Very unfortunate.

Sure, it's a class C, but WMCU's signal is located very much on the southern edge of the market, covering Everglades and ocean far more than anything else. The human population that the signal covers well is largely "hillbilly"-types and Cuban immigrants, though, making classical a very strange choice. Although there are potential listeners on the beaches and in Hollywood, Davie, Pembroke, Aventura, and so on, most of the likely audience for classical is in the northern part of the metro, outside of WMCU's city-grade. (But, again, it's a class C, so...)

My guess: "classical" will be a short-lived, "quell the upset," transitional format; the audience under the signal is probably a better target for the standard-fare, Minnesota-socialist brainwashing and propaganda than classical music.
 
neutralobserver said:
My guess: "classical" will be a short-lived, "quell the upset," transitional format; the audience under the signal is probably a better target for the standard-fare, Minnesota-socialist brainwashing and propaganda than classical music.
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My guess - all of the above mixed in with jazz and stuff for the gay community down there.

89.7 selling out reminds me of when WCIE Lakeland sold out - because Moody wanted money for its better signal on a commercial frequency. It left tens of thousands of listeners with NO Christian radio that mattered to them.

I'd hate to get to heaven and say, in the presence of souls not saved - that could have been saved - "I was a good businessman and got a lot of money for the Christian station I owned".
 
I'd hate to get to heaven and say, in the presence of souls not saved - that could have been saved - "I was a good businessman and got a lot of money for the Christian station I owned".
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Some of those folks who own christian-formatted stations may not understand that fact until they get there. Christian radio does have an impact. I know, because I'm one of those "souls" who were saved about 8 years ago as a result of listening to christian radio. Although listening to a christian station wasn't the sole reason I'm saved today, it did play an important part, along with other things in my life that were happening at the time.

We'll all have to give an account to God one of these days about how well we used the resources He provided us while on earth.


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rbrucecarter5 said:
neutralobserver said:
My guess: "classical" will be a short-lived, "quell the upset," transitional format; the audience under the signal is probably a better target for the standard-fare, Minnesota-socialist brainwashing and propaganda than classical music.
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My guess - all of the above mixed in with jazz and stuff for the gay community down there.

89.7 selling out reminds me of when WCIE Lakeland sold out - because Moody wanted money for its better signal on a commercial frequency. It left tens of thousands of listeners with NO Christian radio that mattered to them.

I'd hate to get to heaven and say, in the presence of souls not saved - that could have been saved - "I was a good businessman and got a lot of money for the Christian station I owned".
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A) I love jazz. I love NPR. I love classical. I'm a Christian. And I'm NOT gay.

B) You presume to know the hearts and spirit motivations of the sellers of this station = Judgement #1 without Spirit revealed knowledge.

C) You presume they're greedy. = Judgement #2 without Spirit revealed knowledge

D) You underestimate God's power and sovereignty by assuming he can't save the souls he has chosen to save if he doesn't have this radio station. = Judgement #3 without Spirit revealed knowledge
 
KountryBill said:
A) I love jazz. I love NPR. I love classical. I'm a Christian. And I'm NOT gay.

B) You presume to know the hearts and spirit motivations of the sellers of this station = Judgement #1 without Spirit revealed knowledge.

C) You presume they're greedy. = Judgement #2 without Spirit revealed knowledge

D) You underestimate God's power and sovereignty by assuming he can't save the souls he has chosen to save if he doesn't have this radio station. = Judgement #3 without Spirit revealed knowledge
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Whatev ----

A) I love Classical. Some smooth Jazz. The overwhelming spouting out of radical leftist agenda on NPR makes me wish the equal time laws applied to it, or the government would pull the funding and let the radical leftists pay for it if they want it.

B-D) How do YOU know it was without Spirit revealed knowledge? When I hear of a major Christian outlet selling out, the Holy Spirit within me is grieved. And this situation seems almost identical to the WCIE sell-out. As far as other souls getting saved without the station - I am God will reach out to them another way. Whether that other way is as effective - we will find out when we get to heaven, won't we?!

Clillax - and listen to some smoothe jazz on your new pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-democrat NPR station.
 
KountryBill said:
rbrucecarter5 said:
B-D) How do YOU know it was without Spirit revealed knowledge?
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Well when in doubt, I guess our job is to refrain from judging, isn't it?
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Bruce almighty has no doubt. Doubt is a tool of Satan.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
A) I love Classical. Some smooth Jazz. The overwhelming spouting out of radical leftist agenda on NPR makes me wish the equal time laws applied to it, or the government would pull the funding and let the radical leftists pay for it if they want it.
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Be careful what you ask for. The return of the Fairness Doctrine would have a much greater effect on the world of "Christian" radio than it would on public radio. Neither of which would come anywhere close to the effect on radical right-wing commercial radio.
 
w9wi said:
Be careful what you ask for. The return of the Fairness Doctrine would have a much greater effect on the world of "Christian" radio than it would on public radio. Neither of which would come anywhere close to the effect on radical right-wing commercial radio.
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Bring it.

Christian radio, conservative talk - pay their way. No government subsidies. Let's put NPR on the same level playing field.
 
It seems that MPR has an agenda to take down Christian stations. They were also buying WGTS but they finally came to their senses. These people (and I'm not referring to WGTS) are not "nice". I know first hand.
 
Christian broadcasters have bought out public radio stations as well. When Ohio's X Star Radio Network (an NPR affiliate) was dissolved, one of its stations was acquired to create an NPR duopoly, and the rest were sold off to Christian Voice of Central Ohio, which flipped them to a Christian Talk format called The Promise Radio Network at http://www.promiseradionetwork.com/ .

NPR listeners in these areas were told to buy a Sirius radio if they wanted to continue listening to NPR.

I have come to the conclusion that nothing in radio is sacred or secure, as a radio station (even on satellite) is ultimately an asset of the secular world, and it will be used to generate the greatest return, whether in ratings or new subscriber numbers. So I enjoy what radio I can, while I can, and I take Christian radio as a gift that God has allowed to happen. When it passes, I have to believe that everything has its season, as the owners of this station mention on their website.
 
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