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"Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making Christian broadcasters nervous. Pelosi, D-Calif., recently said she supports resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine, a 1949 Federal Communications Commission policy that required broadcasters who sent out specific messages to set aside time for opposing views. Such a move would ''really make it impossible to preach the whole counsel of God,'' said Rich Bott, owner of Kansas-based Bott Radio Network, which broadcasts Christian programming across 10 states. It would also, he said, likely put him out of business. "

CHICAGO, August 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago has drawn the wrath of homosexual activists who object to the induction of Dr. James Dobson, a major figure in the US Christian pro-life and family movement. Wayne Besen, a homosexual activist, organised a campaign against the Hall of Fame that resulted in several hundred emails demanding that Dr. Dobson be removed from the list of nominees.  Dr. Dobson is the founder and head of Focus on the Family, one of the most prominent US Protestant evangelical organisations. According to homosexual activist Wayne Besen, Dr. Dobson...

Focus on the Family is speaking out against a new pro-Obama radio ad airing on Christian radio. The ad calls for "a better Christian witness in politics." The new liberal political action committee Matthew 25 is running pro-Barack Obama ads on Christian radio. Salem Radio affiliate KBIQ 102.7 FM in Colorado Springs, Colorado -- home to Focus on the Family -- aired an ad that came in response to Dr. James Dobson’s recent criticism of the presidential candidate's theological views. Following is an excerpt from the radio ad: "You know it’s an election year when certain people start grabbing headlines...

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What in heavens is going on with WJMJ? The radio station, heard at 88.9 FM in the Hartford area, is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford but offers air time to programming from other religions. Earlier this month, Protestant leaders were informed that most or all of their programming would be dropped as the station went to a more Catholic format. The Rev. John Gatzak, executive director of the archdiocese's Office of Radio and Television, said last week that the station would become more active in Catholic evangelization. He said it was becoming an affiliate of EWTN Radio,...

There's a mournful hush in Sacramento these days, the empty sound of an entire political viewpoint quieted. More than 32,000 weekly listeners who once tuned to KSAC (1240 AM) to hear partisan Democrats beat up on President George W. Bush, now hear only Christian hip-hop. There's nothing wrong with Christian hip-hop; it's a great outlet for artists breaking out of the gansta rap mold. But there are six other commercial radio stations licensed in the Sacramento area programming the Christian message. In the political realm, three local radio stations program 264 hours of partisan Republican radio talkers beating up on...

When about 75 people gathered outside the international headquarters of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod this week, it was a rare display of public dissension among the members of a relatively quiet Christian denomination. . . . When the church pulled the plug on its KFUO-AM program, "Issues, Etc.," and fired its host and producer, the show's fans turned up the volume. . . . The show had a conservative, traditionalist theological bent. . . . Many of the protesters said the current administration is too focused on recent evangelical megachurch growth models instead of on traditional Lutheran doctrine. . ....

WASHINGTON – Today is the last day for public comments on a proposed Federal Communications Commission rule change some say would threaten the licenses of Christian radio stations from coast to coast. At issue is a proposal that would require every radio station to take programming advice from community advisory boards representative of the area's population. Advocates of Christian programming say that would require Christian broadcasters to seek advice from non-Christians and even those opposed to the Christian message. Some radio stations fear organized groups of atheists, for instance, could demand representation on the new FCC-mandated advisory boards that would...

Although not directed specifically at those using the airwaves to disseminate the Good News of the Gospel, potential rule changes could put Christian Broadcasters in an untenable position. If enacted, the proposals could force Christian radio programmers to either compromise their messages by including input from those who don’t share the same values, or to run the risk of costly, long and potentially ruinous government inquiries.

Your Opinion Counts The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) & U.S. Congress wants your opinion regarding proposed rule changes. Comments are due April 28, 2008 Thank you for taking the time to comment on these proposed rule changes that would adversely affect your Air 1 station. The time you invest in this could keep Christian radio strong. Here is some additional information about what is happening and why your opinion counts. While the FCC is considering these rule changes, at the moment nothing is "set in stone" as they await public comment. If any of these changes were adopted, there...

Sacramento talk radio is all but dead. Or maybe just born again. KSAC (1240 AM) found religion last month when it switched from a progressive talk format to hip-hop gospel, complete with a new set of call letters, KRJY Rejoice 1240. There are now only two local political shows remaining: Bruce Maiman hosts a program, with a moderate focus, weeknights on KFBK; and over at KTKZ, conservative Eric Hogue holds court every weekday at noon. What does this mean for Sacramento? Is KSAC's switch just another business-as-usual programming blip on an ever-changing radio radar? Or does the switch signal a...

Kids' dress-up day draws Christian ire 10 minutes ago An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office. Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex. A local resident informed the Voice of Christian Youth America on Friday. The Milwaukee-based radio...

...when the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod canceled its popular, nationally syndicated radio program "Issues, Etc.," listeners were baffled. Billed as "talk radio for the thinking Christian," the show was known for its lively discussions analyzing cultural influences on the American church. It seemed like precisely the thing that the Missouri Synod, a 2.4-million-member denomination whose system of belief is firmly grounded in Scripture and an intellectually rigorous theology, would enthusiastically support. Despite the show's popularity, low cost and loyal donor base, Mr. Wilken and Jeff Schwarz, the producer of "Issues, Etc.," were dismissed without explanation on Tuesday of Holy Week. Within...

I sometimes listen to "Christian Family Radio" simply because there isn't any better Christian Radio on. An occasional guilty pleasure is listening to Hank Hanegraaff, as his slow, deep, voice makes him fun to mimic... and I'll admit, to satirize, especially since everyone who disagrees with him is no Christian at all, in his eyes. Also fun to satirize is his penchant for tying completely unrelated bible passages, often condemnations, into any topic. But I was stunned to hear him last Tuesday, as I drove home for Thanksgiving: He definitively declared, through the use of preposterous numerology, the exact date...

The Reformation Show - 10/27/07 500 hundred years ago a major shift occurred in the worldview of Western Civilization. The Reformation elicited change in theology, philosophy, politics, civics, economics, the sciences, literature, and so much more. Today the Evangelical Churches continue that great tradition expressed in the five 'Solas'. But the question needs to asked, has the Reform movement outstayed its welcome? Is Evangelicalism and the conservative theological interpretations that it holds still a vital position in the Modernist/Post-Modern era? Have the fissures caused by the political and ethnic pressures within Roman Catholic Church now become a tempest in a...

NORFOLK Public radio is taking on Christian radio in a lawsuit over who has the right to use the name, The Current. Minnesota Public Radio, which runs a progressive music station called The Current, filed a federal lawsuit against a Virginia Beach Christian radio station that operates Positive Hit Radio, The Current. The public radio station says the Beach station is trying to "mislead and confuse" listeners and has asked the court to issue an injunction stopping Positive Hit Radio from promoting itself as The Current. MPR says listeners could be led to believe that the two stations are affiliated.The...

WLIB (1190 AM) is switching from the liberals to the Lord. After 29 months as the flagship station for the progressive talk network Air America, WLIB will become a full-time black gospel music station on Sept. 1. It will be "music-intensive," says Vinny Brown, operations manager of sister station WBLS (107.5 FM), "but will not exist in a vacuum, just playing songs. It will be heavily involved with the community, because in many ways the church is the community." Vice president/general manager Deon Levingston says while the "Praise and Inspiration" format will not have talk shows "per se," some shows...

Nearly all radio outlets affiliated with New Life Radio (NLR), a Russian satellite network operated by Christian Radio for Russia, have been forced off the air temporarily. All but two of nearly 100 outlets have been affected by an unexpected forced move to another Russian satellite... “This is due to the fact that the satellite distribution slots on the satellite we were using were all bought up by the Russian government.” Currently, only two affiliates of NLR are broadcasting its programs – an FM station in Volgodonsk, Russia operated by Volgodonsk Baptist Church, and KICY in Nome, Alaska. The nearly...

San Antonio, Texas -- site of the famous 19th-century battle at the Alamo -- is now host to another potential battle that is brewing, this one between homosexual activists and conservative Christians. The battle is centered on, of all things, a statewide chain of grocery stores. The H-E-B Grocery Company, with headquarters in Kerrville, began more than 100 years ago with one tiny family store. It now boasts over 300 stores across the Lone Star State and in northern Mexico and more than 56,000 employees. It also boasts of giving millions of dollars annually to charitable organizations, educational initiatives, and...

Msgr. R. Michael Schmitz, Vicar General of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, will be interviewed on Relevant Radio's "Morning Air" on Monday, 22 May, at 8:00 am CET. On that same day, Monsignor Schmitz will also be celebrating the Mass which is broadcast by the Catholic radio network at 8:30 pm CET, in the Traditional Latin Rite. For frequencies go to www.relevantradio.com. For streaming audio go to http://www.relevantradio.com/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=287&srcid=217.

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said Wednesday it would create a new channel of Catholic-themed programming with the Archdiocese of New York. The channel, which will launch in the fall, will carry live daily Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York as well as talk and music programming. Financial terms of the arrangement weren't disclosed. Sirius already carries other religious-themed programming, including Catholic-themed syndicated talk shows, news and teachings from the EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network as well as programs from FamilyNet, the broadcast arm of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Those shows are also...

TORONTO - A decision by Canada's broadcast regulator, the CRTC, yesterday approved a new all-homosexual radio station in Toronto. It is the first new English-language radio station approved by the CRTC since 2001. In 2003 the CRTC rejected the application for an all-Catholic radio station in Toronto. This, despite the fact that about 2 million of Toronto's (GTA) population of 4.5 million identify themselves as Catholic and surveys have demonstrated that only 1% of Canadians identify as homosexual. Evidence of homosexual activism at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is present in the decision rendered yesterday, as one of...

"Americans will not give their blood and treasure to prop up new Islamic fundamentalist regimes. Religious freedom is not just 'an important element' of democracy; it is its cornerstone. Religious persecution leads inevitably to political tyranny. Five hundred years of history confirm this. Americans have not given their lives so that Christians can be put to death," Perkins said. Such sentiments are spreading through Christian radio stations, Web sites and blogs, stoked by traditional conservative institutions as National Review magazine. National Review Online quoted Chuck Colson, a former Nixon White House official, disgraced by Watergate and rehabilitated as a Christian...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has sent a letter of thanks to a leading pro-life advocate for his group's prayers and support during his Senate confirmation battle. The letter is coming under fire from pro-abortion groups who say it compromises his fairness of the high court even though it appears to be the same form letter Justice Alito sent to other people. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said on Wednesday that Justice Alito sent him a letter thanking him and his millions of radio listeners for their support. Alito wrote that "the prayers of...

DENVER -- Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said Wednesday that new Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sent him a letter thanking him and his radio listeners for their support during his Senate confirmation hearings. Alito wrote that "the prayers of so many people from around the country were a palpable and powerful force. As long as I serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep in mind the trust that has been placed in me," Dobson said on his radio broadcast. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Alito's note was in response to a letter Dobson sent congratulating...

Non-commercial Bandwidth Offering New Stations CHARLESTON, South Carolina, NOV. 1, 2005 (Zenit.org).- A window of opportunity for Catholic radio may open this winter. That's when the Federal Communications Commission is expected to make available the non-commercial educational (NCE) band of FM sometime in late 2005 or 2006. This would eliminate the need for Catholic startups to buy existing stations on the commercial bandwidth, which can be prohibitively expensive. Steve Gajdosik, president of the South Carolina-based Catholic Radio Association, described the development as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. "If you look at the phenomenal lead that [Protestant] Christian radio has on Catholic radio...

Just the week before, Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, had cheerfully predicted that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers had “turned the corner” and would never withdraw her name from consideration. Now, a few hours after Miers proved him dead wrong, Sekulow sounded as upbeat as ever. “She did the noble thing,” Sekulow told the million-plus people listening to his daily radio show on Christian stations last Thursday, adding, confidentially, “I saw this coming.” The next nominee, he predicted, would be a sitting judge just as worthy of support as Miers. It was vintage...

A new, national daily radio show focused entirely on the most radioactive issue confronting Americans – homosexuality – will launch Monday, and it will be hosted by a prominent former homosexual – and his wife. Stephen and Irene Bennett, founders of Stephen Bennett Ministries, will co-host the 30-minute program, "Straight Talk Radio," scheduled to debut in eight states Oct. 31. "'Straight Talk Radio' will feature the most outspoken guests, tackle tough issues and host very lively debates, while injecting a blend of adrenaline, compassion and a bit of humor," said Bennett, a former homosexual who abandoned his 11-year promiscuous "gay"...

Dobson, Bauer Face Questions October 25, 2005 By Paul Kane, Roll Call Staff Judiciary May Seek Testimony On Miers Conservative activists including James Dobson and Gary Bauer are facing questions from a bipartisan team of Senate Judiciary Committee investigators in advance of the high-stakes confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. As part of the process of considering whether to call Dobson, Bauer and other conservatives involved in conference calls about Miers nomination, Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking member, are contacting those activists and asking them to explain what happened in the...

Urgent Prayer Request!!! Our brother in Jesus Christ, is in jail because he asked a question, while speaking legally before the City Council of The City of San Antonio Texas. I received the following, Saturday Oct. 22, 2005. Pray for his wife, and family. Join us 5-7 am Sunday Oct 23 1-641-497-7302 access code 399430# Dear Wiley, Pastor Medoza was arrested during a City Council Meeting in San Antonio because he had the temerity to ask the Mayor and City Council members how they stood on the Marriage Amendment up for vote in Texas in Nov. 8 they refused to...

Today's lesson: Don't cross Christian broadcasting. Maynard (Mass.) High School's radio frequency, 91.7 FM, is being seized by a network of Christian broadcasting stations that the Federal Communications Commission has ruled is a better use of the public airwaves. ``People are furious,'' said faculty adviser Joe Magno. Maynard High's WAVM, which has been broadcasting from the school for 35 years, found itself in this David vs. Goliath battle when it applied to increase its transmitter signal from 10 to 250 watts. According to Magno, that ``opens the floodgates for any other station to challenge the station's license and take its...

Dr. Dobson Explains What He Knows About Harriet Miers The following is a transcript of Focus on the Family Chairman Dr. James Dobson's comments from Wednesday's broadcast, in which he discusses what the White House told him about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. OPENING VOICE TRACK: John Fuller: It's Wednesday. I'm John Fuller and you're tuned to "FOF" with psychologist and author, Dr. James Dobson. And Doctor, what a crazy week you've had! BODY: JCD: Well, John, if our listeners and friends have been monitoring the news on radio and television and the Internet and if they have been listening...

Advance copy of the transcript of Wednesday's taped program Focus on the Family's 30-minute daily radio program is aired on over 3,000 radio facilities each day across the United States. ANOTHER LOOK AT THE MIERS NOMINATION (rough, unedited transcript) Date: 10-12-2005 TRANSCRIPT OPENING VOICE TRACK: John: It’s Wednesday. I’m John Fuller and you’re tuned to “FOF” with psychologist and author, Dr. James Dobson. And Doctor, what a crazy week you’ve had! BODY: JCD: Well, John, if our listeners and friends have been monitoring the news on radio and television and the Internet and if they have been listening to other...

Seeking to avoid a threatened subpoena by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson, with White House permission, revealed the contents of his private phone conversation with President Bush's chief adviser Karl Rove regarding Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers – details that largely became public later. While the contentious confidential information was not the bombshell sought by some Democrats, the family advocate provided more insight into the selection process, which has become a bitter point of division among Republicans who feel betrayed by the president's choice of a nominee without a proven conservative judicial philosophy. According...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Three members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the immediate past chair, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) and Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D-Md.), have asked Sirius Satellite Radio (Sirius) executives not to cancel The Word Network, a five-year-old mainstream media broadcaster for African-American ministries and gospel music. On behalf of their constituents, the members of Congress urged Mel Karmazin, Sirius' CEO, to continue broadcasting The Word Network's family values programming. The letters from the CBC members cited the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) original intent for satellite radio: to serve the public...

Today's All Access online edition contains an ad that had the Radio Equalizer just plain baffled: CHRISTIAN RADIO NETWORK FOR MEN 25-54 WOW! We still have not found the right guy, who does not sound like he works at Salem. For the last time... if you are a FLAME-THROWING AIR-TALENT who has personality and not a limp-wristed girly man sound, send you're Mp3 now to programming@centalkradio.com or info@centalkradio.com Our national network targets christian men 25-54 "No chicks". We pay great not like the other so-called christian radio networks who pay low and bonus with God. Working for CEN means you...

The former management of Air America's Youngstown/Warren, OH affiliate, WANR/1570 Warren, OH, has officially wrestled back control of the station from the LMA group operating it as an AAR affiliate. The station changed format shortly after AAR's "Morning Sedition" today, and is now playing religious music and announcements. The station once ran a religious/Christian music format under the former manager who's leading the current group of investors. The same company owns oldies WEXC/107.1 in nearby Greenville, PA, and a Christian-oriented music format is expected to be installed there within days.

ROME - A court in Rome on Monday convicted a Vatican cardinal and the head of the city-state's radio station for electromagnetic pollution. "... A great victory for those people who have been suffering for years." They were given 10-day suspended sentences, which they have appealed. Cardinal Roberto Tucci. (AP File Photo) Cardinal Roberto Tucci, former head of Vatican Radio's management committee, and the Rev. Pasquale Borgomeo, the station's director general, were charged with "dangerous launching of objects," referring to the station's electromagnetic waves. Residents of the Rome suburb Cessano near the station complained they could hear Vatican Radio broadcasts...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, MAY 9, 2005 (Zenit.org).- An explosion in Lebanon destroyed the Voice of Charity Catholic radio station of the patriarchate of the Maronites. The blast in Jounieh, north of Beirut, killed two people and injured 27 on Friday. "I think it was hit directly and deliberately," said Bishop Bechara Rai of Jbeil of the Maronites on Vatican Radio. On Friday the radio station expressed its solidarity with family members of those imprisoned in Syrian jails in Damascus who "have denounced the atrocities of Damascus' prisons" and "what they saw." "I think those who have been harmed in Syria or...

WASHINGTON - An organization with strong Republican ties intends to spend $1.5 million on television commercials over next two weeks to help Senate GOP leaders in a showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees. The group, Progress for America, "will also run $350,000 of radio ads on Christian stations," according to a memo describing the plans. The effort underscores the political stakes in a struggle that revolves immediately around seven controversial appeals court nominees — but also has implications for any Supreme Court vacancy that occurs during Bush's term. Democrats blocked 10 of the president's first-term appeals court nominees by filibuster,...

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention may end 64 years of radio ministry, according to its North American Mission Board. The board has laid off the two remaining members of its radio production staff as of the end of April, rehiring them for at least two months on a contract basis while a final decision is reached, according to sources and a NAMB spokesman. Based at NAMB's Media Production Group in Fort Worth, Texas, the radio staff is responsible for producing five weekly 30-minute programs, each broadcast free by up to 400 stations, mostly during non-peak or overnight...

David Limbaugh wrote the book Persecution not long ago about the infringement of the rights of Christians wanting to worship and believe as they chose. So when I heard that Marty Minto, talk show host for Christian WORD-FM in Pittsburgh, was fired for asking if the Pope was going to heaven, I couldn’t believe that this man’s freedom of speech had been so blatantly violated by other Christians. After taking a call asking about the Pope, Minto said he didn’t know if the Pope was born again. The Bible writes that you have to be born again to secure salvation....

Follow up to the born again versus religeous discussion earlier this news item shows how intolerant everybody is becoming. Clearly Christ would have been totally rejected from this modern age as he was in biblical times, even by those who claim him as Christ.

POSTED: 7:44 am EDT April 14, 2005 PITTSBURGH -- An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired.... (see link)

PITTSBURGH -- An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired. Marty Minto, 39, a senior pastor at a New Castle church, was fired Friday after three years as a host on WORD-FM in Pittsburgh. He said he was told that he was alienating listeners. "As far as I'm concerned, I was doing what I've always done on the radio -- look at events around the world from a biblical perspective. I've always been willing...

Welcome to Internet Radio WFTS I came across this recently and I have heard some very interesting interviews, sermons etc. They post a schedule on the website. Let me know what you think.

Community activists cheered when the federal government began offering licenses for low-power radio stations five years ago. But now, some are wondering what happened to what they envisioned as an end-around to big media domination of the airwaves. After years of fighting legal battles for left-leaning "pirate" broadcasters, advocates pictured a sea of under-100-watt stations where low- income folks and communities of color -- "new voices," in government parlance -- could grab a tiny slice of a radio dial now dominated by conglomerates. Their idea was that these micro stations would be a programming rainbow, where Hawaiian music would lead...

By MICHELLE BEARDEN mbearden@tampatrib.com TAMPA - A Christian radio station canceled its advertising contract with a Muslim organization this week on the grounds that the content ``did not serve our Christian constituency.'' The 30-second spot promoted a Saturday event at the University of South Florida - a Christian-Muslim dialogue. ``This is exactly why we need to be doing programs like this,'' said Ahmed Bedier, director of the Central Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. ``There's a lot of misinformation about Islam, and relations are strained. Not only here, but all around the world.'' Christopher Gould Sr., general manager...

Eariler this month John MacArthur was ejected from Bible Broadcasting Network for teaching what they call "Election/Hyper-Calvinism" which they claim has brought much confusion to their listeners. The network asserts that there is no human answer to the sovereignty of God and the "free will of man". Both, they claim, are clear biblical teachings but beyond our human comprehension. Their evidence is to claim that for every verse which says, "God chose" there is one that says, "Whosoever will may come". While it is universally agreed among Christians that "whosoever will may come" is Scriptural truth, yet this text does...

We need Catholic Radio in Cleveland. And we are very close to getting it! There are over 15,000 radio stations in this country. Of these, over 1,500 are Protestant stations. Less than fifty are Catholic stations. In Cleveland, there are several Protestant religious stations and no Catholic stations. The recent scandals have discouraged many Catholics in the Diocese of Cleveland. We can sit back and condemn those who have failed or we can step up and help carry the cross. Our Lord instructed us: Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Hail Holy Queen...