[Spooks] WWCR

[Tom Morris]

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 <rickhampton at comcast.net> wrote:
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> "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:
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>> 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
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Tom Morris, KG4CYX
Sun Electronics International
Engineer, WRGP 88.1/95.3/96.9 FM, Homestead/Miami/North Miami Beach