K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I think it is perfectly okay for someone to like CCM and still have a distaste for the ownership of the station playing it.
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I think it is perfectly okay for someone to like CCM and still have a distaste for the ownership of the station playing it.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
A question, as long as I'm here: I don't suppose EMF plays the Christian rock band The Call?
I ask because "Let The Day Begin" and "The Walls Came Down" happen to be personal favorite songs.
I ask because "Let The Day Begin" and "The Walls Came Down" happen to be personal favorite songs.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I don't need to go to the trouble. Both songs are in rotation on the Flashback Weekend program that is part of my format The Eighties Channel™ on KRKE. I was just curious.
The K-Love folks have local outreach programs in many, many of their markets. And they have phone call centers with counselors and advisors for their listeners.
That is correct. It is violation if any church, church programming, etc to be talking about their take on politics if they are tax-exempt. If they want to get into giving their political opinions and polititcs, start paying the taxes to do that
When KLove buys a station usually it is put on satellite and the local former employees are just that FORMER. They usually get rid of the studios too. There might might be some kind of outreach person in Buffalo as Dave said. But that person most likely have no access to the transmitter site. The remote control might not informing where ever they keep up with their stations. If someone in Nashville knew they would call the engineer that covers that station.
EMF has regional engineers that monitor all the properties in the region. There are people locally to coordinate local events they sponsor at local churches and venues. EMF knows what their stations are doing anytime.
And secondchoice, just like in secular radio, when the format changes everyone gets the boot and the local person they hire has no reason to be in the transmitter site. They call the engineer if they haven't heard from the engineer about the issue already.
And secondchoice, just like in secular radio, when the format changes everyone gets the boot and the local person they hire has no reason to be in the transmitter site. They call the engineer if they haven't heard from the engineer about the issue already.
Don't worry. It'll be back in 3 days or less.
Could it be that the remote transmitter controller is not programmed to contact the correct person? How long have they had this station? I know I got a call from a transmitter controller for a station I no longer worked for once.
If they can find an engineer to roll away the stone.
There are a lot of guesses and misunderstandings here about how K-Love's engineering operation works.
From what I've seen from a number of people who do local engineering for the company, their engineering operation is (usually) a very tight ship. When they take over a station, they install a full rack of equipment that comes already assembled from HQ, which used to be in California and has now relocated to their new home base in Tennessee. Everything is standardized across every station right up until it hits the transmitter, and EVERYTHING is remoted back to their network operations center, including monitoring of every piece of gear, security cameras on the site, etc.
They don't leave anything connected from the previous operation.
They employ regional contract engineers who usually oversee multiple stations in a region. I'm not sure who that is for western New York, other than it's not any of the contract engineers I work with around here.
The engineering operation is entirely separate from any local outreach team they might have on the programming side. They report to different sets of management in Tennessee.
I am quite certain that they're well aware in Tennessee that there's a problem with the transmitter in Colden, and that they were aware of it as soon as it went off the air. I can also say that the top level of engineering at K-Love is in flux right now, which may explain why 102.5 isn't back to full power more quickly.
From what I've seen from a number of people who do local engineering for the company, their engineering operation is (usually) a very tight ship. When they take over a station, they install a full rack of equipment that comes already assembled from HQ, which used to be in California and has now relocated to their new home base in Tennessee. Everything is standardized across every station right up until it hits the transmitter, and EVERYTHING is remoted back to their network operations center, including monitoring of every piece of gear, security cameras on the site, etc.
They don't leave anything connected from the previous operation.
They employ regional contract engineers who usually oversee multiple stations in a region. I'm not sure who that is for western New York, other than it's not any of the contract engineers I work with around here.
The engineering operation is entirely separate from any local outreach team they might have on the programming side. They report to different sets of management in Tennessee.
I am quite certain that they're well aware in Tennessee that there's a problem with the transmitter in Colden, and that they were aware of it as soon as it went off the air. I can also say that the top level of engineering at K-Love is in flux right now, which may explain why 102.5 isn't back to full power more quickly.
The state of flux is never good. I figured with their financial strength they would be able to replace folks easily.
I wonder if there's a religious sniff test that potential employees have to pass.
There is. Employees are expected to agree to a statement of faith.
That's pretty common with many religious broadcasters.
Kind of makes sense for their program hosts and counselors -- although there could conceivably be Jews or Muslims or Buddhists out there with a deep knowledge and appreciation of contemporary Christian music who'd be interested in doing a regular air shift on K-Love. Guess they'd be out of luck, no matter how good their pipes. But why should EMF care whether an agnostic or a Baha'i fixes their transmitters?
They shouldn't. That's professional, technical work. Nothing to do with the mission of the organization. But it's their transmitter and their money.
Tax breaks are granted to non-profit organizations, of which the vast majority are secular. The tax code does not and should not discriminate or withhold the tax exempt status for specific organizations simply because some people like you do not see the value in them. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country and billions around the world see the value in organized religion.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Point of clarification: We are not against religious organizations having non-profit tax breaks, but we expect them to follow the rules and not cross the lines into politics. That's not our opinion ... that's IRS regulations.
As has been stated, there is a lot of value in churches and other religious entities. They do a lot of humanitarian work by seeing to their congregation's needs. And when you are truly doing God's work in that way, they deserve their tax-exempt status.
Political activity on their part, though, crosses the line, and it is those organizations -- a subset of the whole, if you will -- should have that status revoked. Last I knew, God did not endorse candidates or ballot measures.
Whatever rules applied six months ago appear to be headed out the window.