I don't listen either, but know some folks who work there. They are definitely the top dog across the country by a large margin. That's the reason they have the cash flow to buy signals. More signals across more real estate, means the same quality Christian programming can be found in markets 1 through 300. And all those listeners are potential donors.
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Why isn't K-LOVE showing up in Nielsen?
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Maybe K-Love could purchase KLUV 98.7
If lovers of other formats were as generous with their personal money as Christians, FM radio would sound very different. All it takes is someone to organize the lovers of those formats. The Christians I know donate a portion of their income to these stations.
Religion is a "cause". System of a Down and Bad Bunny are not.
Classical music lovers see their music as a "cause." Which is why they support symphonies, operas, and other classical charities.
Taylor Swift seems to be a religion.
When a dance station on the Franken FM in New York City begged for money to stay afloat in July 2009, people donated $150000 in one day. Probably could have gotten a million in a year if they were allowed to continue. That’s an EDM format, not exactly mainstream, but it had potential.
K-LOVE is everytime without question Jesus-Tron rated number 1!
New York City, your radio says 95.5, but this is not a radio station, it's the congregation of the Christian nation!
Boss on the cross radio, K-LOVE!!!
If Audacy sells an FM in DFW, it’s unlikely to be that signal. It has one signal that's a Class C1 and operates at about 25,000 watts while the others, including 98.7, are full Class C sticks. The C1 would probably be the one to go with its format going somewhere else in the cluster.
You know how they say past performance is not an indicator of future performance?
It’s not feasible to extrapolate that they could have gotten a million bucks. If people were tapped out on a donation after the initial pledge, that pace isn’t continuing.
BigA's example of classical music stations seems to apply here. One could say the same thing with other community stations, like KEXP in Seattle. They have a faithful audience that supports the station because they support the format. They were doing it when it was KCMU, and helped keep the station on the air. The listeners were pretty dedicated and still are.
And $1 million is hardly enough to run a station in NYC.
I'm Agnostic so I just love everyone praising the creator, and believe that everyone's, including my own, way of spreading the message of unity and love is to be celebrated as a gift from god.
It's not for me to judge those whose own fight against evil leads them to the evil of misinterpreting the gifts we all are blessed with, in this case love hearted humor.
I do wish that they played Inspiration music that was more mass appeal, sonically better, for example the Eats Everything song "Tell you what it is", that's a song praising the Lord that would bring Secular people and people like me to K-LOVE.
It's all love, and his or her gift for all of us to enjoy....
Top of the hour breaker: "Serving the Eternal verse, from the top of Mount Sinai, with 100,000 watts of a higher power!
Praising the Lord above, this is the heavenly K-LOVE, Earth."
Jock break: "It's your #1 inspiration hit music station, with me, John 316, my pleasure to bring the salvation.
Always keeping the flock locked, commercial and sin free.
Coming up about 20 minutes away it's your 5 O'CLOCK JESUS JAM!
DJ Creator behind the fader, our highest rater.
Also, listen for them praise tones, that your que to call in and win, caller 9 on the Holly Devine Request Line, win your way in to Lordapalloza, the tickets some would give their soul for, no reason we got plenty more.
Now it's the new Toby return of the Mac, they bringing back, on the station where we praise and roof raise, reppin' the Lord above, this is K-LOVE!"
Why am I hearing George Carlin's voice in my head when I read DOB's imagined Christian DJ shtick? The irreverent attitude obviously, but mostly because Carlin recorded his Top 40 parody "Wonderful WINO" in the '70s, and the '70s was the last time that kind of patter worked on radio.
Maybe for a couple weeks, depending on format.
To my knowledge, there hasn't been much attempt on the part of secular non-comm operators to emulate the EMF model for their niche.
The only one I know who attempted anything remotely national in scope in the music discovery/non classical non-comm world was KEXP. They had a programming agreement with 91.5 WNYE in New York City, and provided them some prime time programming and specialty shows curated by the KEXP team in Seattle.
There's some "regionals" - WXPN for example, has a network of signals in their area. But no one's really attempting to follow this model for secular NCE programming.
I don't listen to K-LOVE as much as I used to but I'm thankful they exist because they managed to bring CCM radio into areas that never would have had it otherwise, like where I live in West TN. Outside of Memphis and Nashville no Christian station would give CCM a chance because they were afraid it would offend their listeners, or the owners were biased against it themselves. It wasn't until stations like K-LOVE and WAY-FM came in and proved there was an audience for CCM. Along with that they bought struggling Christian stations that if they had sold to someone else would possibly gone to other formats.
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