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Mormon Tabernacle Choir hits 5000th broadcast milestone

That's quite a feat.

I knew a guy, Ralph Neighbor, Sr., who was asked to deliver a devotion in early 1929. He did and although he was not in radio ministry at the time, he was told his was a part of the first religious broadcast with the purpose of evangelizing. Later the guy coached Billy Graham. When I knew him, I suspect he was nearing 80 and he was known for having the largest Sacred Music collection in radio. He was doing a radio ministry called Morning Sunshine (broadcast for years on BBN). Since he was not a weekly thing back then, he might qualify as a mention without a milestone.
 
The CBS Evening News did a feature but didn't mention the long history with CBS Radio. I gather it's distributed elsewhere today.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
Music and the Spoken Word is currently distributed by Bonneville International, the broadcasting company owned by the Church of Latter Day Saints.
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Bonneville was already syndicating it in the 1970s (at the latest) to stations outside the CBS Radio Network, especially to FM stations which could air the program in stereo.

We were airing it at the first station I worked for in 1976, sandwiched in-between the Sunday morning public affairs block and the local church services.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Bonneville was already syndicating it in the 1970s (at the latest) to stations outside the CBS Radio Network, especially to FM stations which could air the program in stereo.

We were airing it at the first station I worked for in 1976, sandwiched in-between the Sunday morning public affairs block and the local church services.
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When Bonneville owned Kansas City station KMBZ, the station aired the program twice on Sundays, once at 7 am and again at 11:30 pm. That was the case even when the CBS affiliation was elsewhere, as the CBS radio affiliation in Kansas City moved around a lot. KMBZ had it some years; other years, it didn't. It doesn't appear that KMBZ's FM counterpart, KMBR, aired the program, but it may just not have shown up in the (very extensive) Kansas City Star weekly radio listings.
 


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