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CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION?

Retro said:
It's a known fact that the majority of New Englanders, politically and socially, lean to the political left. With that being said, a Contemporary Christian music station would be a waste of time, money and effort.
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I totally disagree. CCM is providing a service, maybe even good radio? Remember that which always seems to float around here. And they would program to protestants, not Catholics. Besides, the Salem Stations still get one half percent of the pie generally. That is pretty good when you consider the area.
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I never said that CCM didn't provide a service or good radio. Read my entire post. I don't think that a 24-7 CCM would be profitable in the metro areas of New England. I hope I'm wrong. I'm a fan of the format.
 
Do you believe a Christian Contemporay Music station being broadcast on an AM from Boston would do ok? The problem is the FM stations cost a ton of money but we could possibly afford an AM.

Our radio network is known as LIFT FM. We're located in Southern New Jersey but do you believe we would we survive if we set up a LOCAL base in Boston?

www.liftfm.com

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! :)
 
I agree with Randy. CCM would be tough in metro New England as the culture wouldn't support it. Possibly a station where the population is primarily Swamp Yankees would have a marginal chance.
 
josh said:
Do you believe a Christian Contemporay Music station being broadcast on an AM from Boston would do ok? The problem is the FM stations cost a ton of money but we could possibly afford an AM.

Our radio network is known as LIFT FM. We're located in Southern New Jersey but do you believe we would we survive if we set up a LOCAL base in Boston?

www.liftfm.com

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! :)
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Josh,

In all honesty, AM frequencies still cost a pretty penny in Boston so, if you were interested in acquiring a property, be prepared to carry a bit of debt service. As I opined previously, I don't think a 24/7 CCM would do well in Boston, based on the demographics. Just spitballing, I doubt an AM CCM would garner more than a 1.0 in the Boston ratings.
 
Do you believe a CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN Music station being broadcast on an AM from Boston would do ok? The problem is the FM stations cost a ton of money but we could possibly afford an AM.

Our radio network is known as LIFT FM. We're located in Southern New Jersey but do you believe we would we survive if we set up a LOCAL base in Boston?

www.liftfm.com

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

PS sorry about spelling errors in previous post. :)
 
MarcB said:
Some 10 years ago there was a brokered CCM show on an AM station in Hartford. It was a decent show and had quite a few sponsors, but the host had to give up the show when he got a full-time job which ate up most of his free time.
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That would seem to be the only practical way to get CCM up into this region.

A current example of this is "Heart-Rock Radio", a brokered CCM music program airing Saturday mornings at 10 am on Providence-market brokered operation 1320-WARL.

http://www.thearticmission.org/
 
EMF seems to believe differently than most here, they've been operating 96.7 K-Love WKLV-FM Port Chester, just outside NYC for a couple of years now. The signal is fantastic into Queens and Brooklyn, no problem. I'd love to know how it's doing.
 
BostonRandy said:
Not to get political (well, yes I am), there are a lot of Catholics in New England. The problem is that many self-described Catholics are Catholic only on Sunday. That's if they go to church.

True, and left or right political aside, New Englanders are the LEAST religious people in the USA.
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pariho2013 said:
BostonRandy said:
Not to get political (well, yes I am), there are a lot of Catholics in New England. The problem is that many self-described Catholics are Catholic only on Sunday. That's if they go to church.

True, and left or right political aside, New Englanders are the LEAST religious people in the USA.
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Ironic, considering what prompted the English to come here in the first place.
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HHH said:
The low power repeater of WRYP will soon be on 103.7 from the top of the Hancock.

Mostly preaching stuff, but some music I understand. Not sure if any of the music would be considered "Contemporary Christian".
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I thought this was in saugus??
 
robotique said:
HHH said:
The low power repeater of WRYP will soon be on 103.7 from the top of the Hancock.

Mostly preaching stuff, but some music I understand. Not sure if any of the music would be considered "Contemporary Christian".
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I thought this was in saugus??
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wow i just looked up the CP. They squeezed that right in there. Damn. When that 103.7 translator frequency came online in Gloucester or Danvers or wherever originally...was Boston a viable location then? Or did something change?
 
That's assuming you listen to the lyrics. Not me. The voice is most times merely just another instrument & CCM is dreadfully dreary when it comes to musical variety.
 
The Catholic 550 and 1060 are doing a solid job delivering the Word. I'm not Catholic but 65% of RI is. I can understand how many listeners derive comfort from the teaching and companionship provided by these two stations.

CCM is a monolithic, mono thematic, crashing bore. Song after song after song about the SAME THING ad infinitum...

A good positioner for most CCMs could be: "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the snooooozzzze"...

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I'm not even Christian, but I find both Southern gospel and black gospel very powerful music and good listening. CCM is a bland, whitebread product by comparison, but hey, I understand that the message is supposed to be the main point of any contemporary Christian song and to have the intended recipient of the message distracted by the urge to tap his feet, clap his hands or dance dilutes that point.
 
Agreed. We had southern gospel on a station I do work for & it is very powerful. Same thing with AM1360 in Jacksonville when I used to live near there. They were VERY popular! CCM is too bland like you said.
 
N1WVQ said:
CCM is too bland like you said.
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With every genre, there's bland music being created, but also exciting music being created. The problem is, while there are smaller CCM outlets around the country (89.3 WMSJ in Portland is one), K-Love/Air 1/Way FM own the lion's share. Artists don't have a lot of different outlets to crack into radio airplay.

The other element is that there are two very different ways to run a CCM radio station. The EMF stations are very much a ministry that just happens to play music. Listen to the talk between songs, and you might as well be listening to WEZE. Clear Channel used to own a few CCM stations (KFMK in Austin, TX was one), and their stations didn't have the 'ministry' element - they were positive radio stations that just happened to play music full of Christian themes, but there was no preaching.
 
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