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WENO BARRED FROM TEACHING/TALK FORMAT

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jetfli

Totally missed this earlier, but in reading through the fine print on the WENO to Anchor sale, I noticed terms of the sale include a five-year prohibition on the station programming a Christian Teaching or Talk format.

Although this sale was announced first, this is one of the unwritten terms of WNAZ's sale to Bott, I betcha...
 
5 years? What will they broadcast then?
Donations to many ministries are down. Many teaching talk stations are being re evaluated.
With 760's poor signal it's got to be a hard sell. You have 980, 1160 1300 and 1340 doing various versions of that format, plus 91.7fm (Moody) giving options....There aren't enough good ministries out there to fund all that many stations, I would think. How do they stay profitable?
 
onetake said:
There aren't enough good ministries out there to fund all that many stations, I would think. How do they stay profitable?
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There are lots of good, even great ministries out there, but they're not usually on radio.

Anyway, to answer your question, what usually happens is that stations end up having to lower their price, and the content providers create fewer fresh shows.
 
The older you get, and the more change you observe, there comes a time when you have to recognize that very few things stay "fixed-as-is".

People who buy and own radio stations that program religious programming need to have a view of how "ministry" is constantly changing, and how organized "church" is constantly changing. One needs to be a genius of some kind to know where religious broadcasting will be 5, 8 or 12 years from now.

.... and smarter than the average bear to even know where religious broadcast IS TODAY!
 
[There are lots of good, even great ministries out there, but they're not usually on radio.


This is a significant point you made jetfli.
Andy Stanley told me once he is trying to reach younger people and added "and they aren't listening to AM radio."
Truth is web browsing ha taught people to look for free but pass the "donate" button, more than ever these teaching stations rely on donations of 55+ givers.
I'm not sure a new generation is coming along feeling the need to give, meaning of course, where is this format and what about all those AM stations that do this format, going to be....AM might end up the "all spanish music" band
 
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