What is your local CCM station?

I have heard "worldy" too. But wasn't the piano at one time considered worldly?

LOL

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Yeah, music we typically sing at my church which only uses a piano and an occasional flute would have ruffled feathers years ago.

Imagine the shock when the bass guitar and drums kick in!

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"What is your local CCM station?" and people answer mainly K-LOVE. Apparently K-LOVE and Salem are the Wal-Marts of CCM.

Here in Canada, 24 hour Christian Radio was banned for decades, until more recent years. Christian programs on secular stations was about the only way you could here Christian music on a Canadian radio station, and some of that was really good. First heard bands like Vector, 77's and Barnabas that way. Some really good memories.

Also heard some full blown Christian stations, coming up from the States, but most of that wasn't to exciting. Sometimes I picked up WCFL from Chicago (Am radio), which played a lot of Adult Contemporary material like Amy Grant. That didn't do a lot for me, though I did enjoy hearing their black gospel/church segments and "Rock Talk" (a talk show). I think the station ended up going secular, due to financial problems. We also used to pick up a Christian station from Buffalo New York, WDCX (if I remember the call letters correctly). A very boring and safe format, dishing out the more safe boring side of CCM, and that was before the more current trends.

In my neck of the woods, the radio dial isn't as interesting as it used to be. I have no regular Christian music programs, like I did in the 80's or 90's (to a lesser degree). This, despite the fact, that there is a 24 hour Christian station in my city, calling itself "Hope Fm". It promotes itself as "family friendly" and "safe and fun for the whole family". Outside of the southern gospel segments (which isn't my cup of tea), it mostly plays the type of CCM I find distasteful, mainstream stuff like Casting Crowns, Jeremy Camp, Starfield, Third Day, Kutless and the vomit inducing sounds of Big Daddy Weave.

Hope Fm does have one music program that I do find to be half decent, calling itself "The Loft", heard every Monday to Friday from 2 to 3 Pm. It plays some artists that I enjoy, such as The innocence Mission, Sufjun Stevens, The Welcome Wagon, Fleming & John, Pedro the Lion, Patti Griffin, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, etc. Last year around Christmas, I even heard Low being played. Unfortunately, I often have to sift through other songs on the show, that I find to be mediocre or not so great, like Copeland, Owl City or Leigh Nash (I tend to find her solo stuff on the so so side). Than there are the constant advertisements ruining the flow of the show, every one to three songs! Plus the fact, that it's on at a time, that I'm normally unable to listen. I'm off of work this coming Friday, so will probably tune in again.

Another thing about "The Loft", is it doesn't play much music before the 00's. There's a whole wealth of stuff from the 90's and earlier that would be great to hear, but to be fair, the host is a lot younger than me.

Our local "family friendly" station could be better, but I give them some points for playing bands like The Innocence Mission and other groups ignored by radio in general.

Here is a link to the station: http://www.hopefm.ca

I listen to chrisitan hardrock.net, pandora, or my ipod. yup that about it. Hate klove, so boring. Of course my parents love it and everyone else so

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WJRF "The Refuge" from Duluth had a translator in my area from about March of 2003 until sometime in 2011 or so. I guess The Refuge still has quite a few translators in the Midwest. Listening to them in 2003 was quite an unpleasant change from the CCM radio listening I had done before.

That's a pretty astute analogy. Hoping to please the widest group of people without offering a whole lot of quality.

KCMS 105.3 FM - Spirit - Seattle

For the Atlanta area:

104.7 "The Fish" (Has the strongest signal-across the entire metro, and consequentially the most listeners)



"93.3 "The Joy FM" (Atlanta's original CCM station)-strong signal south and west sides of the city. Decent signal on the northwest and eastern sides of town, as well as the center of the city. Signal starts to weaken on the far northeastern side of the city.



Victory 91.5 (strong signal in the far northern areas of the metro) Weak signal pretty much everywhere else. Plays both CCM and Praise & Worship.




93.5 "Life FM" This station technically is the CCM station of nearby Rome, Georgia. However, given the proximity of the Atlanta area to Rome, it can be heard fairly clearly in the far northwestern area of metro Atlanta.


There is also the Immanuel Broadcasting Network which plays both praise and worship, CCM, and traditional gospel music on several, shorter signaled (usually no more than thirty mile radius) stations around the metro and throughout northern Georgia. Three stations operate in metro Atlanta and four others operate throughout the rest of northern Georgia.