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Powerline with Brother Jon Rivers

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I've had a listener asking where they could find old "Powerline" shows, and my efforts only turned up one Christmas special on eBay.

Does anybody know if these shows are still available anywhere (I know they stopped making them a number of years ago), or if there's any kind of an audio archive of the shows online?

After several listeners expressing interest... I would consider running old episodes on Sunday morning on my 80s station, if I could get enough of them lined up and ready to go!
 
Have you contacted the Southern Baptist Convention? I assume they still hold the rights; if not they would know who does. I suppose they wouldn't want old shows airing for any number of reasons -- for example, the old music and discussions might make the church sound dated and church views on some issues may have changed over the years. It really was a swell show, though, as religious shows on the radio go. The SBC also produced "Master Control" for AC stations (different host), with AC music and a celebrity interview segments.
 
My first radio job back in '81 was the Sunday morning graveyard from about 6 am to 1 pm, running all the public affairs and religious shows the station buried there to satisfy soon-to-be-repealed FCC requirements. Included were an hour long snoozefest from a pro-corporate think tank; a 15 minute show from the University of Georgia; another hour long talk show, this one from the University of Texas; 2 hours of the Larry Black show, contemporary Christian music; and Powerline. (Followed by American Top 40.) Larry Black and Powerline were on discs; the other shows were on reel-to-reel.
During my first month on the job, I decided to go to a nearby fast food joint to grab breakfast while Powerline was airing. (I was the only one at the station, and it wasn't automated.) When I returned, I found the PD standing in the control room, freshly woken and unhappy.
Yup, the disc skipped in my absence.
"I'd fire you right now," he said, "if the same thing didn't happen to me when I started in radio."

I recall the Southern Baptists offered several shows: Powerline, Master Control, Streams in the Desert, Country Crossroads (co-hosted by Jerry Clower), The Baptist Hour, and a couple of others.
 
I have not contacted the Southern Baptist Convention... with them dissolving the department that created the shows, I wasn't sure where to check.

I'm also suspicious as to whether or not they would have archived the shows... but I don't have a better lead right now. I'll see what I can find out! Thanks for the suggestion.
 
The Southern Baptist Radio and TV commission became Family Net Radio, and a part of Charles Stanley's (Pastor of First Baptist Atlanta) organization. When I've done a search for Powerline the link went to Family Net, but apparently they aren't doing any new shows.
 
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