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WNTP Drops Fox News
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No major difference. SRN is basically an ultra-Christian version of Fox News.
Scary, I know.
Scary, I know.
No major difference. SRN is basically an ultra-Christian version of Fox News.
Scary, I know.
It's no secret that Salem Broadcasting is a Christian based network. Below is what they post on their web site.
Salem is a leading U.S. radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher targeting audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values. In addition to its radio properties, Salem owns Salem Radio Network®, which syndicates talk, news and music programming to approximately 2,000 affiliates; Salem Radio Representatives™, a national radio advertising sales force; Salem Web Network™, a leading Internet provider of Christian content and online streaming; and Salem Publishing™, a leading publisher of Christian-themed magazines. The company owns and operates approximately 100 radio stations, including stations in 23 of the top 25 markets.
So if hearing a Christian perspective isn't YOUR cup of tea, then use the station selector and tune in one of the many non-Christian oriented stations that serves Philly. There's nothing wrong with a station that offers a perspective for a specific demo, which actually is what all radio stations do. WNTP and WFIL are Salem stations so you know right off that their perspective will be from a Christian perspective. WNTP actually aims at a Judeao/Christian perspective as a couple of their talk hosts are conservative Jews (Prager and Medved).
900 AM in Philly, forget the calls aims at a urban minority audience. B-101 aims at females, WIP and the Fanatic 97.5 aim at men, WHYY-FM aims at liberals and intellectuals, WPHT aims at rightwing conservatives, etc, etc.
Scary, I know.
It's no secret that Salem Broadcasting is a Christian based network. Below is what they post on their web site.
Salem is a leading U.S. radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher targeting audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values. In addition to its radio properties, Salem owns Salem Radio Network®, which syndicates talk, news and music programming to approximately 2,000 affiliates; Salem Radio Representatives™, a national radio advertising sales force; Salem Web Network™, a leading Internet provider of Christian content and online streaming; and Salem Publishing™, a leading publisher of Christian-themed magazines. The company owns and operates approximately 100 radio stations, including stations in 23 of the top 25 markets.
So if hearing a Christian perspective isn't YOUR cup of tea, then use the station selector and tune in one of the many non-Christian oriented stations that serves Philly. There's nothing wrong with a station that offers a perspective for a specific demo, which actually is what all radio stations do. WNTP and WFIL are Salem stations so you know right off that their perspective will be from a Christian perspective. WNTP actually aims at a Judeao/Christian perspective as a couple of their talk hosts are conservative Jews (Prager and Medved).
900 AM in Philly, forget the calls aims at a urban minority audience. B-101 aims at females, WIP and the Fanatic 97.5 aim at men, WHYY-FM aims at liberals and intellectuals, WPHT aims at rightwing conservatives, etc, etc.
I hear SRN news all the time and I haven't heard anything "scary" or "ultra-Christian." Give us an example.Interstate 78 said:No major difference. SRN is basically an ultra-Christian version of Fox News.
Scary, I know.
musichead1029 said:I hear SRN news all the time and I haven't heard anything "scary" or "ultra-Christian." Give us an example.Interstate 78 said:No major difference. SRN is basically an ultra-Christian version of Fox News.
Scary, I know.
rtetro said:
That might explain it. The WNTP webcast carries the first three minutes of the news and fills :03 - :06 with ads and program announcements.
Sorry guys. Didn't mean to offend any SRN news fans. They're not too bad. I just mean that SRN sounds too much like Fox News with their pro-Republican spin on things, saying they are balanced but when you get down to it, focusing more on things that spin the Obama presidency negatively and spin the Republicans positively. I'm not even an Obama fan. I generally vote independent. I'm just calling it as I see it. The liberal networks like MSNBC do the exact opposite. It's amusing how the networks can all take the same hard facts and spin it a certain way. No one is lying. They just spin it to sound how they want it. That's all I meant. And for a station that markets itself as a news/talk station (WNTP doesn't really market themselves as Christian, just news/talk), I'd go with a more generic, straight-ahead news network. Maybe something like IRN/USA Network news that a lot of smaller AM stations use. Funny thing is IRN/USA's network programming are rather conservative, too, but their 5 minute hourly newscast which a lot of rural small AM stations use alone just for news is pretty straight ahead. Just an idea. But what do I know.
Let's face it, as a reporter, it is very easy to write a news story to reflect a bias as we all have them. That's what makes a good reporter, in my opinion, is the ability to go that extra mile to write the story in a generic fashion so that the listener doesn't know your political leaning. Each network has done stories without a bias showing, but unfortunately each network including SRN also does show their bias. As Salem is aiming at an evangelical audience their news tends to lean right like Fox News, and as NPR's, CBS, and ABC radio newscasts tend to lean left.
What makes SRN different from all of them is they do tack on a couple of Christian or church related stories at the end of their newscast. Generally speaking unless there was a scandal involved, you'd never hear Christian or church related news stories on any radio or TV network, be it left leaning or right leaning other than possibly when someone big like a Jerry Fallwell or the Pope passes away. So Salem fills that void for a Evangelical Christian audience. EWTN radio, 1420 West Chester, airs Catholic news in their programming.
I agree, the Salem talk stations like WNTP, don't seem to market themselves as Christian as their sister station WFIL does as it does offer essentially Christian oriented programming and talk. WNTP's tag line says that they offer intelligent conservative talk. Which is a true statement as their hosts have more of the NPR style of presentation and generally are better educated just as NPR's hosts are than many of the more popular talk hosts like Rush and Beck specifically (I'm not sure of Hannity's education). Unlike NPR's left leaning hosts, Salem's hosts are conservative and Christian or conservative Jews. This is in contrast to the more bombastic approach of Rush/Hannity/Beck, etc. Rush isn't really religious, Hannity is Catholic, and Beck is Mormon.
What makes SRN different from all of them is they do tack on a couple of Christian or church related stories at the end of their newscast. Generally speaking unless there was a scandal involved, you'd never hear Christian or church related news stories on any radio or TV network, be it left leaning or right leaning other than possibly when someone big like a Jerry Fallwell or the Pope passes away. So Salem fills that void for a Evangelical Christian audience. EWTN radio, 1420 West Chester, airs Catholic news in their programming.
I agree, the Salem talk stations like WNTP, don't seem to market themselves as Christian as their sister station WFIL does as it does offer essentially Christian oriented programming and talk. WNTP's tag line says that they offer intelligent conservative talk. Which is a true statement as their hosts have more of the NPR style of presentation and generally are better educated just as NPR's hosts are than many of the more popular talk hosts like Rush and Beck specifically (I'm not sure of Hannity's education). Unlike NPR's left leaning hosts, Salem's hosts are conservative and Christian or conservative Jews. This is in contrast to the more bombastic approach of Rush/Hannity/Beck, etc. Rush isn't really religious, Hannity is Catholic, and Beck is Mormon.
musichead1029 said:I hear SRN news all the time and I haven't heard anything "scary" or "ultra-Christian." Give us an example.Interstate 78 said:No major difference. SRN is basically an ultra-Christian version of Fox News.
Scary, I know.
What in the world is so scary about a Christian point of view? One of the most moronic statements I've seen here in a long time.
Seltzer said:musichead1029 said:I hear SRN news all the time and I haven't heard anything "scary" or "ultra-Christian." Give us an example.Interstate 78 said:No major difference. SRN is basically an ultra-Christian version of Fox News.
Scary, I know.
What in the world is so scary about a Christian point of view? One of the most moronic statements I've seen here in a long time.
Ok, ok. Point taken. I clarified a bit in my second response. Again, not meaning to offend SRN fans. MikefromDelaware's latest response is good and I agree WNTP does a good job airing more intelligent programming than your normal talk station. I'll give SRN News a closer listen.
Having not listened to WNTP I didn't know they had Fox 'News' but it seems odd they'd have 3 affiliates in the same market, with WNPV & now WFYL, both in eastern Montgomery Country serving the same basic area with conservative talk. I saw WFYL advertising their Fox affiliation in the Lansdale newspaper (The Reporter). Don't most news outlets offer exclusive rights to 1 station in a market?
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