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What can Radio Maria learn from K-LOVE?

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Limp73

K-LOVE continues to grow by leaps and bounds here in America's cornbelt....catchy professional on-air production vaules and even more so the way their local station ID's are done..although no other studios exist to my knowledge other than the originating station in Winchester,Oregon. Here in Ohio the growth began with a Dayton area FM licensed to Troy,then to the south in Wilmington,east of Springfield at South Vienna and a network of low power translators in Sidney,Findlay,Cincinnati,Richmond,IN with more planned for Urbana and Springfield according to their website.

How do they go about their fundraising?

How do they aquire frequencies so quickly?

and the one that makes me the most curious..how are the local legal ID's done at the top of the hour?

Radio Maria just opened up a station in Anna,Ohio(south of Lima) last year and supposedly some new repeaters for the Alexandria,Louisiana station are planned in PA,AL and WI. Also planned is a Spanish language station in Chicago.

Although K-LOVE is mostly music and RM is teaching with music,talk,rosaries,novenas and Masses..would K-LOVE be willing to share its growth experiences with RM?
 
Limp73 said:
and the one that makes me the most curious..how are the local legal ID's done at the top of the hour?
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In radio, we call that system "automation". ;D

On translators they are allowed 30 seconds per hour for a local insert to acknowledge and solicit donations ... might as well use that for a positioning ID (legal IDs on translators are generally done by FSK not heard by most listeners).

On full stations they can cut in and out as much as they want from the national feed ... and MUST give an accurate legal ID close to the top of the hour in a natural break in programming. The cues on when to break in are can be sent via satellite closures or based on time (if it is an exact time that they break away).
 
KLOV FM is in OR but K-Love actually originates out of Sacramento California.

The Full powered K-Love stations have a mini disc player or automation to insert a legal ID upon call from the satellite Feed, the translators are usually id'ed with FSK just iding at the TOH with the network ID as KLOV FM Winchester.
 
What can Radio Maria learn from K-LOVE? Maybe giving glory only to Jesus. psalm 115:1
 
Yep, Radio Maria needs to become fundamentalist protestant. I'm envisioning the Radio Maria/KLove smackdown! As each group who believes themselves to be "the only ones who are right" duke it out! Plus, there are a heck of a lot more donation bucks to go around from the fundy camp.

As for KLove helping RM, KLove won't even mention an event sponsored by a Catholic church on its church calendar, so why would they help the infidels with radio?
 
Analogy; Would a hard rock station share anything with a Spanish station?

RM and KLOVE are two different philosophies/ideas and 2 different owners. The purpose of having the station is to spread the owners beliefs. THATS what its fore. Why would you suggest they share anything?

The Protestants won't mention any Catholic thing (on "ask the Pastor" on the Protestant TCT TV netywork they NEVER have a priest or a rabbi or a rep of Islam but only have Prot ministers (who sometimes disagree).

WHY should the Catholics mention any Protestant thing?
 
One more thing;
It was incorrectly stated here; What can Radio Maria learn from K-LOVE? Maybe giving glory only to Jesus. psalm 115:1

RIGHT. Catholics DO only give Glory to God.

Mary and the Saints are "venerated" not worshipped. [EDIT]


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gr8oldies said:
As for KLove helping RM, KLove won't even mention an event sponsored by a Catholic church on its church calendar, so why would they help the infidels with radio?
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I was wondering when someone would point that out. EMF isn't going to "help" anyone, regardless of denomination. Especially Catholic.

As far as what one can "learn" from K-Love:
--be good at shaking the donation money tree
--keep overhead low (everything main-studio waivered so no local expenses except utilities, contract engineer, and LMA checks on some stations)
--grab for every bit of spectrum you can get (they must be running somewhere between 6-12 translators in this area, shoehorned in everywhere)
--and bottom line, put out a product that attracts as many listeners as you can (and then see 1st item...get them to send you money!)
 
Just goes to show we need unity on this board. If John Paul II and Billy Graham can be the best of freinds,brothers (and ecumenical) why can't the rest of Christianity benefit from unity as well? We can't beat 'ol slewfoot at his own game until we do.

Remember Ray Steven's singing "Everything Is Beautiful" back in 1970?...That was a gospel flavored "pop" song pleading for unity...its message jumps over denominational boundaries.

Mary is a saint..not a goddess or a deity....she intercedes to Christ on our behalf just as she did at the Cana wedding feast. She prays for all of us sinners as we would ask a fellow believer to do the same....she sets the example for all those who strive and struggle to be saintly.
 
And Mary had to acknowledge Jesus as her savior and ask Him for forgiveness just like the rest of us! She is a sinner just as we are and must rely on the sacrificial death of Jesus for salvation. Scripture says that she is blessed among women and not above women.
 
I don't recall in scripture Mary saying the sinners' prayer or going forward at a fundamentalist revival meeting.

Radio Maria needs deep, deep pockets to do the things that KLove has done. The Catholics (and no-evangelical/fundamentalist protestants) are about 75 years too late in knowing how use radio.
 
gr8oldies said:
Radio Maria needs deep, deep pockets to do the things that KLove has done. The Catholics (and no-evangelical/fundamentalist protestants) are about 75 years too late in knowing how use radio.
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Really - they took over two AM stations in Dallas. Real snore fests. BOR----RRR----RING!!!! I never thought I was say THIS - I'd rather have Air America. It was good for a laugh.
 
Actually they only own one station on the AM band in Port Arthur/Beaumont and the other is a leased FM subcarrier out of Houston which broadcasts in Spanish....by the way your "laugh" was a bit boring and a bit dry as well.
 
Thanks for your replies..was pretty much expecting the negative replies so I thank the ones who honestly answered my questions on how the legal ID's are done at K-LOVE...which aside from the fundraising thing and the frequencis and stuff is all that I asked for. Granted RM is new to the U.S. but it's been in Europe since the 80s...so yes RM are the new kids on the block so please judge not or you will be judged as Scripture says.

You're right gr8..RM is a bit late...but better late than never..it should have been around back before Vatican II.

Like the guy said..."keep it radio."

Peace be with you
Limp73
 
Limp73 said:
Thanks for your replies..was pretty much expecting the negative replies so I thank the ones who honestly answered my questions on how the legal ID's are done at K-LOVE...which aside from the fundraising thing and the frequencies and stuff is all that I asked for. Granted RM is new to the U.S. but it's been in Europe since the 80s...so yes RM are the new kids on the block so please judge not or you will be judged as Scripture says.

You're right gr8..RM is a bit late...but better late than never..it should have been around back before Vatican II.

Like the guy said..."keep it radio."

Peace be with you
Limp73
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Well said Limp well said.
 
You'd have had to have some very charasmatic personality who was a good fundraiser, able to convine enough people that the Catholic Church was right and their religion was wrong, or just someone who was a little controversial. Radio rosaries? No audience there.
 
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