[BC] DRM broadcasting to begin in USA

[Scott Fybush]

Glen Kippel wrote:

> But, what I meant is that
> nobody listens to Family Radio.  Maybe on SW, but not domestically.  What
> keeps them going is that they sold off their FMs for some *beau-coups* bones
> and moved their operations to AM.  They are surviving off the profits.  At
> one time, (very early `70's), Family Radio was pretty
> *avant-guarde,*playing the Gaithers, Linda Rich, Doug Oldham, Ray
> Hildebrand, Honeytree
> etc.  Then Harold Camping decided to re-trench and air nothing but choirs,
> quartets and old music.  Thus, when their listeners became old enough to
> become deceased, some of them left bequests, the others stopped giving.  I
> believe that when a station is listener-supported, it is helpful to have
> listeners.  Perhaps things will change when Camping goes to that great big
> radio station in the sky.  But since most of their stations are now AM, it
> may be too late to revitalize the network.  My bet is that they will
> eventuially fold.

Family has only sold three FMs that I can recall - 100.5 Sacramento, 
89.3 Sacramento and most recently 106.9 San Francisco. They still have 
their huge commercially-licensed FM signals in NYC (94.7 WFME), 
Philadelphia (106.9 WKDN) and Annapolis/Baltimore (107.9 WFSI), as well 
as a decent AM in Los Angeles and a whole bunch of noncomm FMs of 
various shapes and sizes. They can stay in business for a lot longer, if 
they want to...

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