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EMF Relocation

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I’m not against Christian Radio by any means but you can see now why EMF is begging for money every couple months. Ten studios for two over the air networks and recording some podcasts in a 166,000 sq. foot building? That’s almost the size of a Walmart Supercenter. More power to them I guess, but seems really excessive, and over the top spending of people's money.

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K-LOVE's EMF Completes Tennessee HQ Relocation - Radio Ink

K-LOVE and Air1 parent organization Educational Media Foundation has officially relocated its headquarters from California to Tennessee.
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Excessive to you, but the givers believe their money supports the mission. You want opulent? Look at the Vatican. In exchange for their donation, the givers get a tax deduction. The people who give listen to the station. So they're simply paying their fair share. Some Christians believe in tithing, which means to give 10% of their income to the church.
 
They need to pay the architect:

EMF Headquarters | HASTINGS Architecture

www.hastingsarchitecture.com www.hastingsarchitecture.com

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TheBigA said:
Excessive to you, but the givers believe their money supports the mission. You want opulent? Look at the Vatican. In exchange for their donation, the givers get a tax deduction. The people who give listen to the station. So they're simply paying their fair share. Some Christians believe in tithing, which means to give 10% of their income to the church.
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EMF is not a "Church" it's a ministry that offers entertainment. I am not discounting CCM's power to change hearts but IMHO Church is about a group of people meeting to Worship God. Do they have a referral service for "new Christians" to get those folks into a local or virtual Church?
 
I don't know why people think other people should work in crappy offices. I've worked in crappy places and pleasant places, and I do my best work in the offices that are nice places to spend time and have modern and efficient services that work; rather than the ones that are hot/cold, uncomfortable, have poor quality equipment or spotty networking, etc. Cheaping out on office space is a false economy.

EMF previously had various facilities in different locations and this brings it all into one place, for economy and efficiency. It also has a lot of non-broadcast staff - I work in a university fundraising team of 70, and EMF will have a fundraising and donor relations department significantly larger than that.
 
From the pictures nice facilities. The extra studios might be for another stream or set of stations. I too have worked in nice and not so nice environments. They don't do commercials but back in the analog days, I have had to wait for the production room to cut commercials and a few times had to clear out of the production room for a last minute commercial that "had" to air in less than 5 minutes. It would have been nice to work at a station that had "too many studios".
 
secondchoice said:
From the pictures nice facilities. The extra studios might be for another stream or set of stations.
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Curious about how much “space for future use” the facility has? Could mean additional program services are added beyond the current K-Love and Air1 output, at a time when extensive change is on the way for the radio industry.
 
Everyone should keep in mind that EMF has extensive outreach programs, with local activities and affiliations as well as what we'd call a "call center" where listeners can find counseling with a Christian focus on personal issues. Radio is the "nucleus" of this, but they are expanding streams and podcast related content as well as those listener counseling activities.

(I will say again that I do not listen and am not a supporter. But I do think that what they do fills a need with a significant audience group. And I commend them for implementing a truly successful "national radio station" that shows that such a system works in the U.S. just as it does in most of the world. )
 
Jesus may have been a poor carpenter, but there's money in selling salvation. Just sayin'. I could have been rich if I had become a preacher. Instead, I chose a life of poverty by going into Radio. Is it too late to form a 501c3 and start "Brother Ted's Traveling Salvation Sideshow" on a Class C in the Ozarks?
 
And everyone wants to blast EMF for their listeners supporting what they do. No wonder so many other stations are in trouble if the posters here are typical listeners. At least EMF listeners support what they life. And those of you that complain, what is it exactly that ticks you off. The way I see it, it is none of your concern...you don't listen...you don't contribute but rather seem to hate just because it is a 'ministry'.

By the way, selling salvation is not where the money is. It's the rare exception that makes it and it usually gets big (this Howard Stern to the average morning show). When I worked a Christian station I bet half of my clients paid out of their pocket for the airtime and held fulltime jobs in addition to pastoring a church.
 
People kvetch about radio having crap facilities and when stations pay crap wages... EMF comes in and has great facilities and takes good care of their people and they get dumped on.

Im pretty sure Klove and Air1 have back up studios with a hot, rolling automation (an automation thats on and rolling like its on air but its in the back up studio)

EMF also does things they dont talk about much.

Outreach/training for first responders and how to handle grim/death situations? check.

true 24/7/365 prayer lane thats toll free where people genuinely listen and the people who call for prayer are never called or emailed or snail mailed for donations? check.

And EMF, where required, pays local taxes on equipment, etc... at their tower sites
 
It's a large organization. It's grown from Radio, to Book Publishing, Movies, Concert promotion, Podcasting, etc. They need to be in the heart of it all, which for Christian media is Nashville.

The old building was built for the radio networks, which at the time were much smaller. That was in 2002. Air1 was still mostly unknown outside of California at the time but K-LOVE was starting to grow.

I think it makes sense overall when you look at it.
 
People moan about charities and nonprofits spending donated money on "administrators" and "offices" rather than whatever the charity was set up for, whether Christian ministry, cancer research, helping the refugees, whatever.

But without people to raise the funds, manage relationships with donors, steward the donations, analyze the data, manage trust and safety, deal with the accounts, and so on, there wouldn't be any money. Nonprofits need paid professional staff (volunteers won't cut it above a very small operation) and a place for them to work.
 
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And megachurch pastors need their private jets because they don't want to "get in a long tube with a bunch of demons":

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That is one exception to the norm that, if a private jet is used at all, it has a legitimate purpose.

There are many cases where a group of executives and their support team may fly together to both work on the way and to save a lot of time by flying direct to less accessible plant or office locations while not wasting the time of executives who make almost as much as a good quarterback or tennis player.
 
While it's not really my thing, they can do whatever they want. That's their right.

What they do seems to work well with their religiously-inclined audience, but it seems to have an alienating effect on more secular audiences, perhaps because of the way they tend to enter markets by buying up stations en masse and completely saturating said markets with their brand of programming. This may explain partly why people who aren't religious tend to feel sore at them, but I don't know.

From a business perspective however, I'm glad they treat their employees well, which is sorely lacking in all sorts of industries (tech and radio being among the most notoriously abusive).

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The thing we also need to remember is all of those claiming to be Christian aren't.

It was shortly after 9/11. The station I worked for had a couple of Muslims that had shows. One of my employees asked one of them why they didn't apologize for the attacks. The Muslim client answered: I'm sure you have heard about Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka that is creating scenes at all these funerals for deceased military. We all said yes. He asked if we considered Westboro a Christian organization. We all said no. He then asked if we thought Jim Jones of The People's Temple that forced so many to drink poison in Guyana was Christian. Again we said no.. The Muslim then said he can't identify with the people responsible for 9/11 any more than we can identify with the People's Temple or Westboro Baptist. And that is why he didn't think to apologize adding he doubted we said we were sorry for what Westboro Baptist or People's Temple did.

I personally have my questions about Kenneth Copeland.

Earlier cc333 mentioned those not religious are sore at EMF (Air1/K-Love). If I can get all Biblical, the Bible mentions Christians will be hated for simply being Christians. Actually I can understand some of that with what to me are some of the whack jobs carrying the label Christian I've come across in my life. I simply say Christianity is perfect. It just takes man to screw it up.

I'm baffled by the same. People hate EMF for simply being Christian. They are buying when nobody else will. Where are these ticked off people with their cash. Oh, I know: there are complainers and doers. They are succeeding and the haters will not even listen to them an hour or two to be educated on what they're talking about. So they make up lies about them (ie: their preachers trying to get at your money...they do not have any preachers on the air. And taking the money the fixed income elderly need through their on air pleas...they are not targeting elderly and never have). Such comments tend to prove the Bible is correct!
 
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