Will Jazz Return to the Pittsburgh Airwaves?

[KeyTimes950]

Why does every religious group with a couple bucks feel they have to broadcast the same crap everywhere and anywhere?

They're evangelizing.

The He's Alive radio network and others like it are run by religious hypocrites. If they were so concerned with loving people they would spend their money on feeding the hungry or buying medicine for sick people or any other way than spamming the airwaves with their so-called message.

I wouldn't know if they're hypocrites or not. There's plenty of questionable messages on Christian radio (and
don't even get me started on Christian television) but I enjoy He's Alive in the late-night and overnight hours,
when the station/network is playing mostly music.

C.

C. is right on count one. As He ascended into heaven, Jesus did say go into all the world and make disciples of every nation. And He didn't limit the means so we must assume in the modern age that would include radio.

And as to the second argument, when Judas Iscariot objected to a woman breaking open a container of precious ointment and anointing Jesus with it, saying it could have been sold and the proceeds given to the poor, the evangelist writing this account pointed to Judas taking advantage of the disciples' treasury and quoted Jesus as saying that woman had done a good thing, essentially anointing Him for burial in the days that would follow. Jesus said there always would be the poor, but He would not always be with His disciples, again forecasting His death.

Finally, as to that reference to "crap," yes there is chaff (sometimes a lot of it) along with the wheat on most religious stations ... as I suspect there is in every aspect of life, religious and secular. By the way, given the variety of denominational and non-denominational stations out there, I would not call it the "same" never mind the "same crap." But what can I say?

 

[FreddyE1977]

I see no way 88.1 will get a listenable Signal into The Pittsburgh Area. I sing About AM Radio. 1550 is Available at 1/4 the Price, and even the 4 Watts Nighttime serves Braddock ,Rankin , Forrest Hills

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Lisa is listening to KJZZ. At four watts, "one of the most
powerful jazz stations in the country". She is in the shadow of the tower and still can't receive it.

 

[kenhawk1160]

Why does every religious group with a couple bucks feel they have to broadcast the same crap everywhere and anywhere?

Three reasons...money, money, money.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Why does every religious group with a couple bucks feel they have to broadcast the same crap everywhere and anywhere?

Three reasons...money, money, money.

Does not account for WAOB. Those folks appear to have bottomless pits of money,
and they broadcast neither ads nor appeals for donations.

 

[xm41]

Why does every religious group with a couple bucks feel they have to broadcast the same crap everywhere and anywhere?

Three reasons...money, money, money.

Does not account for WAOB. Those folks appear to have bottomless pits of money,
and they broadcast neither ads nor appeals for donations.

The folks at WAOB worship the god of dead air.

 

[KeyTimes950]

Why does every religious group with a couple bucks feel they have to broadcast the same crap everywhere and anywhere?

Three reasons...money, money, money.

Does not account for WAOB. Those folks appear to have bottomless pits of money,
and they broadcast neither ads nor appeals for donations.

The folks at WAOB worship the god of dead air.

No, the folks at WAOB do dead air to give listeners a chance to consider what they just heard and meditate on it. That is not worship of "the god of dead air." It isn't compelling radio, either, but to each broadcaster their own idea of how to get a point across.

 

[FreddyE1977]

No, the folks at WAOB do dead air to give listeners a chance to consider what they just heard and meditate on it. That is not worship of "the god of dead air." It isn't compelling radio, either, but to each broadcaster their own idea of how to get a point across.

Yes, it is clear what they are doing. It is also done at certain points in the Catholic Mass, to give the faithful
time to reflect.

But it is horrible radio. Particularly to non-Catholics who may be listening and not have a clue.

 

[Parttimer]

They view it not so much as a radio station and more as a really big P.A. system....

 

[xm41]

Listening to religious radio is pretty much what I imagine Hell to be like. ;D

 

[PHIL Z]

They Should look at WBKC, CP for Evans City 89.7, 6400 watts. The CP Expires in Oct 2013. Owned by 1400 corp 450 Lincoln Ave Pgh 15202.