I get it, but i also try as much as i can to look at things logically.... and with whats going in with public radio, some of us could lose our jobs. so i get it.
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K-Love Acquires B93.3 & FM102.1
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I get it, but i also try as much as i can to look at things logically.... and with whats going in with public radio, some of us could lose our jobs. so i get it.
And the fundraising strategy comes in full force.
Some interesting pieces about Life 102.5 - WNWC is owned by the University of Northwestern, which is located in suburban St Paul, Minnesota. Not local to Wisconsin, but still more local than Educational Medica Foundation.
Their flagship station, KTIS, is regularly one of the best performing stations in the Minneapolis St Paul market. Their AM and FM stations are very well engineered and have robust staffing.
As a conservative religious University,
students, faculty, and staff are required to agree to their covenant when attending their University, which prohibits same sex marriage and divorce, among other issues. Learn About the Declaration of Christian Community at UNW | University of Northwestern, St. Paul
While I'm sure the two orginizations have similar values, Educational Media Foundation is less explicit about their values publicly.
They're also less active politically, which in my view makes them better than most of the other religious radio options.
Can anyone confirm if 93.3 FM is becoming Air 1? What will they do with 102.1 FM?
102.5 FM (W273DQ) is known as The Family and is broadcasts in the Milwaukee Region. 102.5 FM (W273DQ) is an FM translator powered by AM 1460 WEMK which joined The Family. There is a station called Life 102.5 (WNWC) and that's based in Madison Wisconsin.
Most likely 93.3 will be K-Love and 102.1 will be Air 1. No information yet on if they have plans to make changes to the current K-Love feed on 105.3.
We know. Patty’s bringing up a point that’s relevant to the conversation.
EMF must be flipping one of these to Radio Nueva Vida as well.
Heard a phone testimony the other day on KTSY Boise (my local for now...I am moving back to WA later this month) where the caller praised KTSY for being all local and that the "national networks" don't do meet ups or get out in the community...
What did I say earlier? Local Christian radio is a dying breed, and it shouldn't be.
Would you rather have Elevation and Lakewood Church operating giant satellite campuses in 80-100 cities where everyone sits in comfy chairs to watch a SATELLITE broadcast on a big screen...or a local church that goes out and feeds the homeless, plants trees in parks, heals the sick, operates a soup kitchen, you name it?
Heard a phone testimony the other day on KTSY Boise (my local for now...I am moving back to WA later this month) where the caller praised KTSY for being all local and that the "national networks" don't do meet ups or get out in the community...
What did I say earlier? Local Christian radio is a dying breed, and it shouldn't be.
Would you rather have Elevation and Lakewood Church operating giant satellite campuses in 80-100 cities where everyone sits in comfy chairs to watch a SATELLITE broadcast on a big screen...or a local church that goes out and feeds the homeless, plants trees in parks, heals the sick, operates a soup kitchen, you name it?
middays and evenings on KTSY arent local
It is very hard and expensive to do something like this.. id wager even more than commercial radio, if youre depending on donations and underwriting
Yes, I know Melony is from Kansas City. And Brandi Lanai is from...I can't remember. She voicetracks at PLR as well. Which will once again become my local Christian station in about 3 weeks when I move back to Yakima.
(Couldn't land a job for the fall and my landlord is not renewing my lease. Time to go
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(Couldn't land a job for the fall and my landlord is not renewing my lease. Time to go
)Tell that to Hope Media Group’s KSBJ in Houston, which is consistently at or near the top of the ratings. HMG also operates the WAY-FM and Vida Unida Networks. KSBJ is far ahead of K-Love and Air1 here. Curious what they will do with their newly acquired Worship 24/7 network.
Primarily because Salem sold its stations to EMF. There had been interest by VCY to buy a station in San Francisco, but they were outbid.
It's not on HD2 either. Nothing after midnight last night on the playlog. I wouldn't be surprised if they shut it off. With the AM gone, along with most of the staff, it isn't really serving much of a purpose. Unless they get 1290 back up and running, and then they'll need programming for it.
Froggy is still on HD3.
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Even if VCY had been successful (this is one case of a non-profit actually managing to outbid a national religious operator, thank God) it still would not have been local ... or Christian Contemporary, for that matter.
I think @crainbebo is going to have to set aside his expectations of those markets getting a local CCM station. The costs are too high in those markets for an independent operator.
Its like any market.. if there was a format hole and it would bring in donations or revenue, someone would be doing it. Just because theres a hole doesnt mean it needs to be plugged, Klove or not
VCY is definitely not local. The programming is all out of, coincidentally, Milwaukee.
And it is definitely not CCM. They actually consider CCM to be evil. VCY is for the hardcore religious radicals that hate everything and everyone, but still hope to get to heaven. Not sure what they expected to do with a small FM station covering San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.
They went on a buying spree over the past few years after getting tens of millions of dollars selling the UHF spectrum of their Milwaukee TV station (WVCY-TV is still around, piggy-backing on another station). They probably needed the money, because I certainly can't imagine why anyone would want to send them money.
Act the gadfly, harass the local LGBT and left-wing population, and get away with it from their comfortable Waukesha offices.