Christian radio

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Christian radio refers to

news and talk shows covering popular culture, economics, and political topics from a Christian perspective.,[1]

Business models

A church with its own radio station
Radio Maria studio in Switzerland.

noncommercial licensed stations in the U.S. A minority of stations, typically music stations, use the traditional model for music radio and allow traditional commercial advertising.[1]

Numerous religious broadcasters own many of their own stations. In the U.S., religious radio stations are exempt from certain rules requiring radio stations to have some local operations, which allows them to have massive networks of transmitters covering far larger areas than a radio station would otherwise be allowed and may not face the same restrictions on the number of signals a broadcaster can own within one geographic area.

Radio formats

Most Christian radio stations transmit a mixture of Christian music and Christian talk and teaching.

Christian music

Christian

Christian rap, Christian country music, and Christian alternative rock. Many artists within the Christian music industry criticize Christian radio for only playing "safe" music, and not taking enough chances on new artists, or in some cases older artists, that may not be as appealing to the largely conservative Gospel Music Association.[1]

Many non-religious radio stations devote some of their weekend programming to Christian music; for example, Black Gospel programming is common on Sundays on many stations featuring the

Urban Contemporary
format.

Christian talk, radio drama, sermons

Other Christian stations will present a no-music format that features

The Voice of Prophecy. Radio drama programs, long dead in most other radio formats, continue to be transmitted on Christian radio; notable examples include long-running Adventures in Odyssey, Patch the Pirate, and Unshackled! and relative newcomers such as Down Gilead Lane and A Work in Progress
.

Denominations

Christian radio, particularly in North America, is dominated by

Radio Maria USA
.

The

Seventh-day Adventists are most closely associated with Three Angels Broadcasting Network.[citation needed
]

North American and international availability

Most Christian radio stations as well as programmers based in the United States are members of the

Radio 74, and the Bible Broadcasting Network
are other notable examples in the world.

Christian radio expanded in the early twenty-first century. It became available in the United Kingdom with changes to broadcasting regulations. Premier Christian Radio is based in the London area where it is available on medium wave and DAB; elsewhere, it is available digitally or by Internet. United Christian Broadcasters is an international broadcasting and media company; radio stations are based in Albania, Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. Trans World Radio is an evangelical media distributor broadcasting Christian programs in 190 countries in more than 300 languages, TWR-UK can be heard in the United Kingdom on Sky, Freeview and online.[2]

Christian radio programs

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "What's Up with Radio?". ChristianityToday.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "About TWR-UK". TWR. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  • Lochte, Bob (2005). Christian Radio: The Growth of a Mainstream Broadcasting Force.
    ISBN 0-7864-2239-4
    .

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