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Something's gotta pay the bills -- the Christian radio content is what they prefer to air, but they sell airtime as well. It's not unlike the paid programming in any other form of broadcast media. When I worked with James Crystal Radio up the road in Pompano Beach, all of the stations had paid programming blocks. WLVJ-AM, the Christian station in the cluster, also has paid programming and also hosts Ken Held's Doo-Wop Shop on Sundays. I dunno where Held's show is produced but it comes in live via ISDN. When I was board op on Sunday mornings, I made it a habit to make sure that the last guy doing a live program in WLVJ's studio left the faders set right -- I never understood why the guy before never got complaints if his peak level was like -15dBfs, but if Ken's show was in the mud, he would call my cell phone and tell me to fix it before his listeners started to get mad. :D I never did get to see the transmitter sites used there... One of them is GIGANTIC and is not too far down the road from WYFR, I guess. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Rick Hampton <[email protected]> wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this > list > > "I gather you listen frequently enough to be able to make a sweeping > generationalization like that!!!!" > > As much as I hate to admit it, I'm afraid I do. I ran across WWCR when > I moved to Nashville back in '91 and they nearly blew my S-meter out of > my radio. Turns out, I lived only about 5 miles from their transmitter > site. Back then, it was pure diatribe each evening about UFO cover-ups, > UN concentration camps, black helicopters, and mind-control beams, etc. > The militia stuff was later cited as something that McVeigh listened to > and if he actually believed that garbage, I can certainly understand > what pushed him to the edge. All I know is that after Oklahoma City, > the most egregious programming calling for violent overthrow of the US > government disappeared, never to return. > > At least the stuff today isn't as racist as the stuff of old, nor is it > quite as paranoid. I listen to it today (nearly every night) as a kind > of catharsis; no matter how bad my day is, it's never gotten as bad as > these guys say it is. As far as Alex Jones, to borrow a line from an > old Dirty Harry movie, he's a legend in his own mind. > > "Perhaps you get your info from the "Daily Kos"!!" > > Sorry, haven't a clue what you're talking about. Either way, it proves > that the time I spent in the military ensuring the right to free speech > worked. I just hope it was worth it. > > What I can't figure out is the Christian Radio connection to all the > rest of the stuff they transmit. To me it gives Christians a bad name. > > So, I find WWCR laughable. If you find it informative, so be it. I > listen to it, so you may as well do the same. > > Anyway, I don't mind this discussion, but I don't think it sticks well > to the intent of this reflector. As such, I won't follow up with any > more. I'd rather stick to identifying the weird things that aren't known. > > Have a good one... > > On 8/23/2011 11:14 PM, Richard wrote: >> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from >> this list >> >> It's WWCR in Nashville, TN. When they aren't transmitting Christian >> programming, they sell their air time to a bunch of wacko, conspiracy >> theory kooks. It's about half a notch above the Militia/White >> Supremacists from the mid-90's that Timothy McVeigh used to listen to." >> >> >> I gather you listen frequently enough to be able to make a sweeping >> generationalization like that!!!! I listen on occasion and find some of the >> programming quite interesting...Even the bombastic Alex Jones who I dont >> always agree with is often ahead of the curve in terms of social awareness, >> for good or bad he is even drifting into the main stream. >> Perhaps you get your info from the "Daily Kos"!! >> >> VE3MFN > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Tom Morris, KG4CYX Sun Electronics International Engineer, WRGP 88.1/95.3/96.9 FM, Homestead/Miami/North Miami Beach ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
