You would be very surprised. When people love God they will appreciate the music and focus in on it. Those who are inclined to. So it may prove beneficial. KLove has some feel for the market so didn’t take a shot in the dark.
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Don't know about Norfolk, but I would say in the urban areas of the Raleigh market people are more liberal.
Charlotte isn't quite as liberal but outside the city there are probably a lot of fundamentalists. And the two K-Love stations each cover a significant part of the market, and one is close enough I'm not even sure it's a rimshot. There's also a third one that is definitely a rimshot.
I beg your pardon. I was thinking "Christian Contemporary Radio" instead of "Christian Contemporary Music"! Clear(water)ly, my "creedence(sp)" wasn't valid.
While I haven't developed a taste for Christian music, I am liking Creedence the more I hear them.I beg your pardon. I was thinking "Christian Contemporary Radio" instead of "Christian Contemporary Music"! Clear(water)ly, my "creedence(sp)" wasn't valid.
The only "feel" is based on the percentage of the population that is fluent in English.
Obligatory English in public schools was eliminated about 55 years ago. Only private schools teach English as a second language.
While a good number of Puerto Rican over 60 know English, among those who went to public schools since the 70's don't know much English.
Maybe 10% to 15% of the market is bilingual. Essentially none are English-only. That is a small market for a niche format.
Good point David. But I believe sometimes these ministry things have a sense or information that spurs them to spend the money. It’s different than commercial radio for sure. Since it’s listener support driven I don’t know what the market is for English Christian Contemporary music in Puerto Rico but maybe it’s more than we realize.
Maybe they have a handful of churches that are big donors and enough members that support it so it works.
I don’t know.
Nueva Vida will play some English hits. But most of the music will be in Spanish.
Urban is also a genre where lyrics matter quite a bit. WODA, Puerto Rico's main urban outlet, may play some Cardi B, but most of the playlist will be Bad Bunny. If Cardi is played alongside other English-language music, it will be in WKAQ and WTOK, both CHR stations that play significant amounts of English-language music (and WTOK plays English pop exclusively).
Even if Puerto Ricans understand English, they will prefer to hear the message of the Lord and the message of the streets in Spanish.
Yes, makes sense. I guess maybe KLove is off base here and it wasn’t maybe the most logical investment?
I can image KLOVE slogan will be, "Serving 3 Countries, and all 50 states, District of Columbia, and the US Territories of American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands This is K-LOVE Radio". The only US territories that KLOVE haven't serve are Guam and Northern Marina Islands.
Maybe they want visitors from the mainland to be able to hear the K-Love they hear at home
First, nearly no hotel in PR has radios in rooms. And how many vacationers take a radio today with them to a "foreign place"?
(It should be noted that "motels" do have radios and/or streaming audio)
And somehow I don't see visitors to the Island as being quite the same lifestyle...
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>>>I don’t know if 100.7 KKHT is still Christian or not, I rarely tune in but most of the time when I do they’re talking more politics than religion.<<<
KKHT 100.7 is a standard Salem station airing a Christian talk and teaching format. Salem has them in nearly all big markets and many medium ones. But since the station is brokered, when you tune in, you may be hearing a host who realizes most Evangelical Christians are also politically conservative. So denouncing Democrats and praising Republicans and Donald Trump may bring in more donations.
There is a one-hour show hosted by Jay Sekulow heard on virtually all Salem Religion and Talk stations each day at varying times. Sekulow seeks donations to his legal foundation during the program. It has no Christian preaching. Sekulow is an attorney, sometimes for Donald Trump. But he pays Salem and Salem runs it.
KKHT 100.7 is a standard Salem station airing a Christian talk and teaching format. Salem has them in nearly all big markets and many medium ones. But since the station is brokered, when you tune in, you may be hearing a host who realizes most Evangelical Christians are also politically conservative. So denouncing Democrats and praising Republicans and Donald Trump may bring in more donations.
There is a one-hour show hosted by Jay Sekulow heard on virtually all Salem Religion and Talk stations each day at varying times. Sekulow seeks donations to his legal foundation during the program. It has no Christian preaching. Sekulow is an attorney, sometimes for Donald Trump. But he pays Salem and Salem runs it.
On the contrary, there's also markets and towns where only the EMF networks exist as a CCM station, but there are no regional networks serving that area. Kalispell MT has Your Network of Praise in addition to K-LOVE, but they are not a 24/7 CCM network. YNOP only airs Christian music at certain timeframes during the day, with a lot of teaching/preaching, Jay Sekulow, Adventures in Odyssey, etc. throughout the other timeslots. Meanwhile, Missoula has a full-power CCM station with SOS Radio out of Las Vegas, and most of their broadcast day is music.
On my road trip, if I listened to Christian music, it was from the local and regional networks - I much prefer them to the mega-conglomerate out of Nashville that just keeps buying high-quality secular FM stations to air satellite programming with one generic local TOH ID per hour. Which is why I donated to my local 'regional' network's fundraiser this week (Positive Life Radio in eastern WA).
I just wish these CCM networks would realize their older audience would enjoy the classics as well. As far as they know, DC Talk, Point of Grace, Steven Curtis Chapman and Amy Grant don't even exist as Christian artists/bands. Unless it's "Don't Lose Heart," SCC's latest single. But he has how many #1s again? Even I'd love to hear a classic here and there from the '80s or '90s.
On my road trip, if I listened to Christian music, it was from the local and regional networks - I much prefer them to the mega-conglomerate out of Nashville that just keeps buying high-quality secular FM stations to air satellite programming with one generic local TOH ID per hour. Which is why I donated to my local 'regional' network's fundraiser this week (Positive Life Radio in eastern WA).
I just wish these CCM networks would realize their older audience would enjoy the classics as well. As far as they know, DC Talk, Point of Grace, Steven Curtis Chapman and Amy Grant don't even exist as Christian artists/bands. Unless it's "Don't Lose Heart," SCC's latest single. But he has how many #1s again? Even I'd love to hear a classic here and there from the '80s or '90s.
Well sir...looking for your oldies fix, check out this link and enjoy: wpjb.org. We play many of "The Forgotten Classics" that haven't been heard in years. Once you check out the stream, I think you'll enjoy it.
Dan <><
P.S. Many of those singers, you speak of, are in heavy rotation on this broadcast. Have plans of adding even more of "The Forgotten Classics" in the future. After all, I too, love me those songs and want to keep them playing.
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You'd have to have an audience that was listening to those artists when they were current I would think; legacy churchgoers who either didn't leave the church during their college-age years or left and came back once married with kids. Recent converts wouldn't have heard them, at least I would think. I remember EMF experimenting with a Classic CCM format.
Perhaps. However, my church, albeit it leans towards the middle-age and younger audiences (we have a huge teen youth group, for example), does have a large minority of 65+. No guarantees that they are listening to classic CCM vs. classic hymns or gospel in their spare time.
CHRB-1140 High River AB, which is an easy grab at night here (without auroral hiccups), plays a mix of country music and older CCM from the '80s-mid '00s. But for the current CCM networks, it's as if the first Christian song ever sung was "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe. That's as old as it gets...2001. Once in a great while, City on a Hill's "God of Wonders" from 2000 gets played on my local network.
Casper WY is another market with only the national EMF networks. Pilgrim Radio is definitely not Christian Contemporary as "Radio-Locator" states...most of their broadcast day is teaching/preaching.
CHRB-1140 High River AB, which is an easy grab at night here (without auroral hiccups), plays a mix of country music and older CCM from the '80s-mid '00s. But for the current CCM networks, it's as if the first Christian song ever sung was "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe. That's as old as it gets...2001. Once in a great while, City on a Hill's "God of Wonders" from 2000 gets played on my local network.
Casper WY is another market with only the national EMF networks. Pilgrim Radio is definitely not Christian Contemporary as "Radio-Locator" states...most of their broadcast day is teaching/preaching.
In West TN outside of Memphis there would be no CCM radio if K-LOVE and WAY-FM hadn't come in because no Christian station in the area would do anything with it until they proved there was an audience for it. Because of that most people only know about the CCM from 2000 on like was mentioned by Crainebo.
A classic CCM station with anything from before 1990 is definitely out of the question in most places where CCM was never heard of before then or faced opposition from churches and radio stations that wouldn't give it a chance. EMF does still have some K-LOVE Classic stations, but even they're mostly AC CCM from the 90's.
The best options I've found for classic CCM have been online like Classic Christian Rock Radio and Dan's station at wpjb.org, although he does a broader range of Christian music at times.
A classic CCM station with anything from before 1990 is definitely out of the question in most places where CCM was never heard of before then or faced opposition from churches and radio stations that wouldn't give it a chance. EMF does still have some K-LOVE Classic stations, but even they're mostly AC CCM from the 90's.
The best options I've found for classic CCM have been online like Classic Christian Rock Radio and Dan's station at wpjb.org, although he does a broader range of Christian music at times.
My wife was in a CCM group in the late 70’s, and she and now I are close to several of the members and their spouses. I would definitely want to hear music from the 70s through the 90s on a regular basis, if not as a full-time format.
Fine with me.
Amy Grant is the one I'm most familiar with. I can do without her on secular radio.
However, one time a recording of "El Shaddai" was played at my church. That's traditional enough for me.
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