Word FM goes with syndicted Dj's! Now where do we go for local Christian radio?

[GR8 Local Radio]

Does it bother anyone eles? I miss local Christian Dj's !!
Word Fm is now for 12-20 year olds!
Any alternatives out there?

 

[Betrayed]

I think they're only carrying a syndicated show during morning and afternoon drive, but of course that's when you're most apt to be listening. The afternoon Scott and Sam (Sam being a she) is generally listenable, but the Mornings with Brant show is nothing short of deplorable. It amounts to nothing more than a clone of all the other drivelcasts on FM, with the periodic, obligatory and unconvincing allusion to "we're believers too". It often comes over as more like "hard for you to imagine we're believers too, isn't it?" I don't listen and my kids (13 and 15) won't put it on.

Certainly missed are the years when the morning show was Tim and Heather, or Tim and Heather/Emily, or Dave and Emily. I know WORD-FM has recently been touting the expanded coverage of their network into Maryland and West Virginia, so I suspect maybe the money for "local" went into "expanded network", and voila, syndication.

If you're in Allentown proper, you could try 94.7 for the Family Life Network. It's a translator carrying 91.5 WCIG from Shanendoah. I'm too far away to get 94.7, but surprisingly on good weather days with some fidgeting with the FM antenna, I can get WCIG here in the Palm area of Montgomery county. I spend a fair amount of time along the route 6 corridor in Tioga and Potter counties and discovered FLN up there. They do a great job. Of course, that doesn't give you "local", but I think it will give you what you really miss more than just the "local"


There's also the WBYN option on 107.5 from Boyertown, but if you were more a WORD (WBYO) listner, FLN might be more to your liking

 

[double-d-sharp]

Keep in mind that WORD FM is now a regional network with translators all over God's creation (pun intended). I personally have a hard time listening to a translator of a distant station when the news, weather, and traffic is something I can't identify with. So a syndicated drive time actually makes some sense to me.

I know it won't happen, but what if...

• WDAC puts their HD2 format on 107.5 WBYN. WBYN already has a large signal overlap with WDAC, and WDAC-HD2 is much closer to a WORD FM format.
• WBYN then heavily promotes itself with local programming and content (and contests and remotes) in an attempt to pick up WORD FM listeners.

Once again I don't see that happening. WDAC alienated a lot of folks when they LMA'ed to Nassau, and I would think that they would like to keep those folks now that they have them back. The traditional Christian music has too much of a stronghold in Central PA -- especially in Lancaster / Berks counties. Just look at the Lancaster book -- WDAC has always been in the Top 5 (and even reached #1 in Lancaster a few years ago) while WJTL probably has never cracked the ratings book despite having a very respectable signal.

 

[bossjock 56]

WJTL is non-commercial and probably not included in local Arbiton books. By the way...12 to 20 year olds need a Christian radio outlet as well. At my church, alot of the teens and young adults listen to JTL and WORD FM. I know alot of the music sounds like Nickelback or Shinedown, but it seems to work.