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CSN Radio (Christian Satellite Network) has a couple Christian translators here in town, they are K204DX 88.7 and K292FF 106.3. They play automated praise and worship music with Christian talk programs from various pastors and other people mixed in. They have one live show which is hosted by their FCC applications technician, on Saturday nights. Not sure about any others.
CSN seems to pay the bills by asking on air for donations while offering prizes such as DVDs and books in return to get people to donate. I guess nobody does because the quality on both of the San Antonio stations is pretty bad. They use low quality digitally compressed audio over a satellite, which cuts in and out knocking the stations off air temporarily just about every time it rains. 106.3's audio levels are quiet when compared to other stations next to it.
The group owns tons of translators and a few full power stations around the country, I mean hundreds. To my knowledge I'm not even sure if they have local engineers supporting it or people regularly managing the sites, because when I asked them to look into the local stations' audio quality issues, they said they might get around to fixing it this summer. That was a year ago.
They all use the group's KAWZ in Twin Falls, ID as the primary station, there is a rule to allow this for non-commercial translators to pick up stations from completely out of the area, as long as they're below 92.1. 106.3 is allowed to be on because they can pick 88.7 off air there at the site, but I hear other stations on 88.7 and static a lot during tropo.
The stations (at least the local ones) are owned by Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, according to the FCC. Yet the group is not Calvary Chapel, and the FCC licensee name is misleading. Here is the website for the real translator owners, The River Christian Fellowship. The site clearly says the church is non-denominational. http://www.theriverchristianfellowship.com/ministries/
From what I've read online they broke off from the Calvary Chapel group in 2006/2007 and never got around to updating the FCC info for their stations- that's not important anymore? Also they do not air proper legal IDs, when the translators are supposed to ID I hear random IDs for other translators in the network. At least they've got "This is KAWZ Twin Falls." every hour.
Sorry for going on for so long, but this group just seems a little fishy. Perhaps it might be good for them to sell to other operators? CSN seems way too big for their own good, if they can't properly manage each transmitter site. At least they have a message on the website with a phone number to call if you notice station outages. http://www.csnradio.com/contact/
CSN seems to pay the bills by asking on air for donations while offering prizes such as DVDs and books in return to get people to donate. I guess nobody does because the quality on both of the San Antonio stations is pretty bad. They use low quality digitally compressed audio over a satellite, which cuts in and out knocking the stations off air temporarily just about every time it rains. 106.3's audio levels are quiet when compared to other stations next to it.
The group owns tons of translators and a few full power stations around the country, I mean hundreds. To my knowledge I'm not even sure if they have local engineers supporting it or people regularly managing the sites, because when I asked them to look into the local stations' audio quality issues, they said they might get around to fixing it this summer. That was a year ago.
They all use the group's KAWZ in Twin Falls, ID as the primary station, there is a rule to allow this for non-commercial translators to pick up stations from completely out of the area, as long as they're below 92.1. 106.3 is allowed to be on because they can pick 88.7 off air there at the site, but I hear other stations on 88.7 and static a lot during tropo.
The stations (at least the local ones) are owned by Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, according to the FCC. Yet the group is not Calvary Chapel, and the FCC licensee name is misleading. Here is the website for the real translator owners, The River Christian Fellowship. The site clearly says the church is non-denominational. http://www.theriverchristianfellowship.com/ministries/
From what I've read online they broke off from the Calvary Chapel group in 2006/2007 and never got around to updating the FCC info for their stations- that's not important anymore? Also they do not air proper legal IDs, when the translators are supposed to ID I hear random IDs for other translators in the network. At least they've got "This is KAWZ Twin Falls." every hour.
Sorry for going on for so long, but this group just seems a little fishy. Perhaps it might be good for them to sell to other operators? CSN seems way too big for their own good, if they can't properly manage each transmitter site. At least they have a message on the website with a phone number to call if you notice station outages. http://www.csnradio.com/contact/
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