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dicipleofjesus
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Catholic Radio Demise
Am I the only Catholic in the Western states who is concerned and dismayed with the dismantling of our approximate 31 Immaculate Heart Catholic Radio (IHR) stations in the western United States. It is inconceivable to me that in a matter of months a corporate conglomerate from the East took over all our stations and removed the magnificent name of our precious spiritual mother and queen of heaven, Mary, from all our approximate 31 stations in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, and Hawaii. Then to give them all a name like Relevant Radio that does not even suggest that they are Catholic is deplorable. What I hear when they announce the new name is “Irrelevant Radio.” It is truly heart breaking. You would think they might have at least renamed all the stations something Catholic like Sacred Heart Radio, Immaculate Heart Radio, or Holy Family Radio.
In addition to the name change, they dumped many of the wonderful inspiring programs that the faithful followers of IHR had enjoyed for so many years. I hated loosing the Catholic Answers Program, the Mother Miriam program, and others. I guess I’ll stop supporting them financially and start focusing on watching and supporting EWTN who I understand is going to pick up the Catholic Answers programs, one of the mainstays of IHR in the past.
Don’t get me wrong, I love having a Catholic radio station and I like much of what is being aired but I think until management will consider giving us Western USA Catholics the IHR name and old programs back I will work the web to recover what we lost. To give Patrick Madrid 3 hr/day and cut Catholic Answers and other programs makes no sense.
Am I the only Catholic in the Western states who is concerned and dismayed with the dismantling of our approximate 31 Immaculate Heart Catholic Radio (IHR) stations in the western United States. It is inconceivable to me that in a matter of months a corporate conglomerate from the East took over all our stations and removed the magnificent name of our precious spiritual mother and queen of heaven, Mary, from all our approximate 31 stations in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, and Hawaii. Then to give them all a name like Relevant Radio that does not even suggest that they are Catholic is deplorable. What I hear when they announce the new name is “Irrelevant Radio.” It is truly heart breaking. You would think they might have at least renamed all the stations something Catholic like Sacred Heart Radio, Immaculate Heart Radio, or Holy Family Radio.
In addition to the name change, they dumped many of the wonderful inspiring programs that the faithful followers of IHR had enjoyed for so many years. I hated loosing the Catholic Answers Program, the Mother Miriam program, and others. I guess I’ll stop supporting them financially and start focusing on watching and supporting EWTN who I understand is going to pick up the Catholic Answers programs, one of the mainstays of IHR in the past.
Don’t get me wrong, I love having a Catholic radio station and I like much of what is being aired but I think until management will consider giving us Western USA Catholics the IHR name and old programs back I will work the web to recover what we lost. To give Patrick Madrid 3 hr/day and cut Catholic Answers and other programs makes no sense.