Happy 50th Anniversary to KHCB

[scanman1809]

KHCB is celebrating 50th years of ministry to the Houston, Texas area. KHCB has been on the air since March 9, 1962. KHCB strives to carry a biblical-centered message throughout the entire day via teaching programs, music and vignettes. KHCB is very unique since they allow free airtime to all of their broadcasters and they do not air commercials. Their music playlist features several decades of Christian Inspirational and Worship music. Their slogan is Keeping Him Close By. Congratulations to KHCB for 50 years of faithful Christ-Centered service.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Hopefully that anti-CCM preacher I heard 30 years ago has been removed from the air long since. He didn't know what he was talking about, and was only filled with hatred for young people and the music that best reaches them.

Having heard heresy like that on KHCB, it was a long time before I bothered to listen again. Quality control - folks! We need quality control on Christian radio to keep anti-CCM freaks and other nutjobs like that off the air!!!

 

[anotherguyTN]

I looked at their website and it looks like they get most if not all of their programming from Moody. So the teaching is probably good for the most part, but they only play the softest extreme of CCM. They aren't really anti-CCM., but probably have an attitude of "Let someone else do it.", and that reaching young people isn't their calling. But then in areas that already have CCM radio it may not be necessary for them to do anything. But I still agree with Bruce that the anti-CCM and KJV Only preachers should be kept off, and for the most part it looks like they are.

 

[Ryan Williams]

Hopefully that anti-CCM preacher I heard 30 years ago has been removed from the air long since. He didn't know what he was talking about, and was only filled with hatred for young people and the music that best reaches them.

Having heard heresy like that on KHCB, it was a long time before I bothered to listen again. Quality control - folks! We need quality control on Christian radio to keep anti-CCM freaks and other nutjobs like that off the air!!!

That is an awfully hateful-sounding post coming from someone who is supposedly being critical of another's so-called "hate". How you connect someone's view against a certain style of music to "hatred for young people" is laugh-out-loud funny.

I'm in Houston every couple of months and I think KHCB does a wonderful job of serving their listeners. They put on top-notch teaching ministries, not just the ones who can pay and they don't even sell underwriting announcements like many non-commercial stations. They have earned amazing trust and loyalty from their supporters.

KHCB is a top notch organization. Happy Birthday!

 

[rbrucecarter5]

That is an awfully hateful-sounding post coming from someone who is supposedly being critical of another's so-called "hate". How you connect someone's view against a certain style of music to "hatred for young people" is laugh-out-loud funny.

The program I remember most was talking about a secular song - Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper". The idiot preacher said it was encouraging drug use because the song was "Don't Fear the Reefer". The true meaning of the song encourages suicide. So - it may sound hate filled - but he was a moron that didn't know what he was talking about. He at least needed to listen to the lyrics of the song.

One of their anti-CCM people lit into Kathy Trocolli because he thought her picture on the cover of CCM magazine was too provocative. I know the cover he was talking about. She was dressed perfectly decently. If he had a problem with it, he should have looked away - not slam her morality on the air.

With programming like that, I didn't really need to listen to them any more. Quality control, people!

Moody is the outfit that did the hostile takeover of WCIE in 1996. Really "nice" people, leaving all of Central Florida without Christian radio for young people until WPOZ came on the air. Secular radio could learn some hostile takeover techniques from them, for sure. They also went after WAY-FM, but thankfully didn't get hold of them. Moody people went after my show and got it kicked off of WJLU after a couple of weeks, because I dared to play Christian rock which pre-empted one of their shows. Yeah - really nice folks. I am a descendant of the Moody family way back a couple of centuries ago. I assure you, the illustrious Moody name is tarnished by these tactics, and no doubt the great preacher is rolling in his grave every time something like that is perpetrated in his name.

 

[CCMDJ]

R. Bruce Carter got it wrong when he said...

"Moody is the outfit that did the hostile takeover of WCIE in 1996.

A "hostile takeover" is when a company (usually with a majority of stockholders behind them) assumes control of your company. When Carpenters Home Church decides to sell a radio property licensed to them (through Evangel Christian School), it's simply a "sale." An unfortunate sale for CCM listeners, perhaps, but definitely not a hostile takeover. Happy Birthday KHCB -- and happy early birthday to KSBJ which, I believe, celebrates their 30th this summer.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I think a better term for what happened at WCIE might be a sellout. The previous owners sold the station to a group they knew had no intention of keeping a CCM format and probably made little or no effort to find a buyer that would keep CCM, and they deserved most if not all of the blame.

Something similar happened at least three times in TN, with WMSO in Memphis (Sold to Bott in 1986), WAJJ in McKenzie, TN (Sold to a KJV Only, anti-CCM group in 2005), and WNAZ in Nashville (Sold to Bott in 2011). In all three cases the same thing happened as with WCIE.

I was very vocal along with others when WMSO was sold about protesting Bott's removal of CCM, but they had it set in their minds that they were doing what they believed was God's will (right or wrong) and there was no changing it. As time went on and through contact with people who worked for Bott I realized that they didn't know anything about doing a CCM format and we should have never expected them to keep CCM, and that the previous owners deserved most of the blame for selling to Bott when they knew they had no intention of keeping CCM.

After that with the sales of WAJJ and WNAZ I knew the groups who bought the stations would do the formats they knew and I didn't expect them to change. So I directed my comments that I believed the sale was wrong at the previous owners, who deserved the blame. In the case of WAJJ I felt like I was the only one who protested the sale, but in the case of WNAZ there was a major effort to save the station by the listeners, but in both cases our protests were ignored and the stations were sold anyway. In both cases we were probably too late because by the time the news was out the deals were done. But in both cases the previous owners who sold out to the first buyer and made little or no effort to find a buyer that would keep CCM deserved the blame, not the new owners who they knew had no intention of keeping CCM.

In the case of WMSO however, God was able to turn it around and start something even better. The previous owners made up for selling WMSO in the 90's by starting WYLT 94.9, which eventually became the first K-LOVE station in Memphis, and was the first of all the K-LOVE and Air 1 stations in West TN, North MS, East AR, and SE MO. So although I believed WMSO's owners were wrong in selling out, God used it in a way to eventually expand CCM radio into areas that never had it before.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

I think a better term for what happened at WCIE might be a sellout. The previous owners sold the station to a group they knew had no intention of keeping a CCM format and probably made little or no effort to find a buyer that would keep CCM, and they deserved most if not all of the blame.

What makes the WCIE case different is that WCIE had just had a shareathon and raised over a million dollars. A large part of that was in the form of one time donations. The people pledging money pledged the money to support a Hot-AC CCM format. Moody took over less than 2 months later - and did not in good faith return the money to people who had given it for a CCM format. They pocketed the money to support their format. I think this is fraud and breach of contract. Maybe not enough for a class action lawsuit, but every WCIE listener I know who pledged money felt betrayed and used by Moody.

 

[KSB]

I think a better term for what happened at WCIE might be a sellout. The previous owners sold the station to a group they knew had no intention of keeping a CCM format and probably made little or no effort to find a buyer that would keep CCM, and they deserved most if not all of the blame.

What makes the WCIE case different is that WCIE had just had a shareathon and raised over a million dollars. A large part of that was in the form of one time donations. The people pledging money pledged the money to support a Hot-AC CCM format. Moody took over less than 2 months later - and did not in good faith return the money to people who had given it for a CCM format. They pocketed the money to support their format. I think this is fraud and breach of contract. Maybe not enough for a class action lawsuit, but every WCIE listener I know who pledged money felt betrayed and used by Moody.

I would think that any fraud or breach that took place would be on the former owner of the radio station. They were the recipients of the pledges, not Moody. Moody would not be pocketing anything - they purchased a radio station. Pledges and donations are made to the organization that owns the radio station, not the radio station itself. Want your money back? Talk to the directors of an organization that just had a pledge drive plus made money on the sale of a radio station!

 

[anotherguyTN]

I'd agree that it's more likely that the former owners were the ones most likely to have pocketed the money if there was any. But if the pledges were promises of monthly donations like most non-profit CCM stations are, some of the donors may have cut off their donations when they heard the station was sold, which is what I would have done. I do agree that any donors who had already sent in their money deserved a refund though.

I did read where WNAZ offered refunds to donors who had sent in money after the sale, which was the right thing to do. If WCIE didn't do that the people who donated should have questioned them at that time, but it's probably too late now.