Good Friday?

[vchimpanzee]

There probably is a place to ask this question for stations with formats other than Christian. But are any stations airing special Good Friday programming?

WNAM in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, usually America's Best Music, which I hear online, will have a three-hour service from a Lutheran church in the area. I will be at a college library which is not closing, so I won't be listening to that station that day.

 

[Gregg.]

I remember a Tropical Spanish station in NYC, which aired music most of the time, would switch to religious programming during the day on Good Friday. But I doubt these stations do that anymore. The FMs keep playing music and the AMs are now mostly Sports, either from ESPN Deportes or Univision Deportes.

I assume the same is true of AM stations in English. There are enough religion stations that mainstream stations usually don't do anything differently on Good Friday or Easter Sunday. In fact, I even doubt most FM Christian Contemporary stations will break their format.

 

[davideduardo]

I remember a Tropical Spanish station in NYC, which aired music most of the time, would switch to religious programming during the day on Good Friday. But I doubt these stations do that anymore. The FMs keep playing music and the AMs are now mostly Sports, either from ESPN Deportes or Univision Deportes.

It was once traditional in much of Latin America for stations to either not broadcast or to play classical music on Good Friday.

By the late 60's and early 70's, stations played instrumental music of the Percy Faith type if they did not want to do the extreme.

In 1968, WKAQ, the Mike Joseph consulted Top 40 in San Juan, stayed in format. Hundreds of listeners assembled and tried to burn the station down.

In about 1986, I was consulting a station in the Dominican Republic. By then, most stations stayed in format on Good Friday. But the military government decreed that we must play instrumental or sacred music. The station owner, relying on having what was the dominant morning show called "The Morning Government" said, "we will play instrumental music, and the instruments we've selected are the saxophone, the güiro and the tambora". That, of course, meant we would play Dominican merengue... and the government was so afraid of the morning show that they did nothing.

 

[gr8oldies]

I'm trying to remember in the deep recesses of my mind if my first station broke for a three hour mass (it was a very Catholic area.). I doubt K-Love does anything all that different, the talking/teach stations will probably run regular program with a Good Friday/Easter sermon theme, and I wouldn't doubt the Catholic networks might do mass.

 

[anotherguyTN]

K-LOVE, Air 1, and WAY-FM will probably have comments about Good Friday and Easter during their breaks and short minute messages from preachers, and like gr8oldies said a lot of the teaching programs will probably do messages. And then you'll have the dollar a holler crackpots like Stair who will do messages that Easter is a pagan holiday and that their idea of true Christians shouldn't observe it.

 

[vchimpanzee]

K-LOVE, Air 1, and WAY-FM will probably have comments about Good Friday and Easter during their breaks and short minute messages from preachers, and like gr8oldies said a lot of the teaching programs will probably do messages. And then you'll have the dollar a holler crackpots like Stair who will do messages that Easter is a pagan holiday and that their idea of true Christians shouldn't observe it.

There was a preacher I used to hear when I would wake up with a local station and actually leave the station on while I would lie in bed. This man had his message on Sunday morning but constantly said the biggest sin churches committed was having church services on Sunday rather than the Sabbath. And he would say at Easter that it is not Easter but Passover we should be celebrating. He also said Jesus rose on Saturday, not Sunday. I think his explanation was that the Sabbath began on Friday evening and Sunday began on what we consider Saturday evening.

 

[vchimpanzee]

On the subject of Easter, WSJS Winston-Salem continues a tradition it began in 1930 in spite of a recent format change.

http://www.journalnow.com/news/ask_...cle_32513077-2ff2-5dc8-bfa8-166af9ff3577.html

 

[anotherguyTN]

There was a preacher I used to hear when I would wake up with a local station and actually leave the station on while I would lie in bed. This man had his message on Sunday morning but constantly said the biggest sin churches committed was having church services on Sunday rather than the Sabbath. And he would say at Easter that it is not Easter but Passover we should be celebrating. He also said Jesus rose on Saturday, not Sunday. I think his explanation was that the Sabbath began on Friday evening and Sunday began on what we consider Saturday evening.

This guy must have been in some sort of Seventh Day church that went more by Jewish laws than Christian tradition. But actually I think some Messianic Jews (Jews who believe in Jesus) do a combination of both. I can remember hearing a Messianic group that advertised on WCRV in Memphis inviting Christians to attend their Passover Seder, and talked about how Passover and Easter tie in together.

 

[gr8oldies]

VChimp, that's what Herbert W. and Garner Ted Armstrong believed....that Christians should observe Friday/Saturday Sabbath, celebrate the Jewish holidays and feast days and observe Jewish dietary laws. They were prominently on radio and TV. I still pass a 7th Day Church of God which is located in a heating A/C shop, with a sign advertising it's Saturday service and a banner when it's time for their Feast of Tabernacles.