Contemporary Christian/Catholic Radio, your opinion?

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Are you satisfied with your local Christian/Catholic Music Radio Station? (Yes, you do have mulitple choices).

Please provide your comments about your local stations. Would you recommend others to listen to the station when visiting your area?

If given a chance, how would you improve your station? Be creative!
 
WFHM in Cleveland has been here for three years and they still play the same Christian music. The formula is getting OLD. I like the morning show.

I’'d like to hear more Catholic aritsts, but I think (IMO) there is definately a bias against Catholic artists and music.

go with God!
Edwin
 
We’ve got two Christian radio stations and no Catholic ones – I used to listen to them all the time when I was Protestant but now that I’m a convert to Catholicism I’ve noticed the blatant anti-Catholic undertones on one station and the outright anti-Catholic sentiment of the other.

I can’t in good conscience listen to either of them anymore. So I listen to tapes, classic rock, oldies, and a LOT of NPR … my kids are having classical music pounded into their heads because I have so few options!😃
 
We have a Christian FM station that is a combo of music and talk shows. The music segments are often good, but the talk portions sometimes are blatantly anti-Catholic.

Our Catholic stations are both AM, and are mostly talk. One of them has Spanish Mass and music on Sunday morning, but that’s about it. 990 AM out of Ann Arbor is Ave Maria radio, and is the home of Al Kresta. His show only goes until 6pm so I don’t get to hear it often, but the few shows I’ve heard are really good. 1090 AM broadcasts daily morning Mass from the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, which is a real treat if I’m on the road at the right time.
 
I wish we had Catholic radio in the Denver area. I guess it disappeared a short time ago. Because of that Catholic radio station, some friends of ours came to the Church!

In any case, I’ve always had a hard time listening to radio. One radio station that was sort of tame occasionally had advertisements about how wonderful it was to donate her eggs to some poor women who wanted a baby. :banghead:

So, for the past year, I’ve been listening to KLOVE, only because there is no other alternative. I realize they are fairly anti-Catholic (if Catholics are in the news, it’s bad news), but I find it amusing to listen how Catholic they really are and don’t know it. They have advertisements discussing how you can’t just rewrite the bible to suite your needs, singing the Apostle’s Creed, etc. Unfortunately they will not advertise free events open to the public if it’s sponsored by our archdiocese.

But, it’s better than the other stations, and I don’t have to worry about what my children may hear (when they aren’t listeing to VeggieTales or books on tape).
 
Has anyone considered listening to Catholic programs/stations over the Internet? This is how I get my stations. (We have no Catholic radio in Cleveland, but one is coming soon).

Do any of your Catholic stations have websites? Let’s post some here. On some of the sites there are icons you click to ‘Listen Live’ Let’s take advantage of these sites, so you shouldn’t really say there is ‘no’ Catholic radio, it’s just streamlinked.

AS for Catholic music on broadcats radio…it’s s disgrace!
On the web, there are a few good sites, few and far between.

go with God!
Edwin
 
I listen to KSBJ. ksbj.org or godlistens.com or 89.3 FM in Houston.

They are not Catholic but they aren’t anti-Catholic either. If you call for prayer and tell them you are Catholic they will also pray for intercession to Mary or other Saints with you. They also have a nice variety of music, and some great DJs. They don’t seem to play a lot of Catholic artists however.

We have a Catholic station but it is mainly EWTN programing with little music, and it’s on AM so sometimes it doens’t come in. However, a few nights ago they covered a local youth concert and I missed half of Catholic Answers. Good thing it repeats at 8 the next morning here.
🙂 Lilder
 
I only listen to Catholic radio via the internet.

www.relevantradio.com

www.wdeo.net

We don’t have Catholic radio. We have what I call Tri-Faith TV which is supposed to be a Catholic television station.I am sure some of you have heard of the “God Squad” Well Telecare our TV station is their home base. More often than not when I tune in it is a protestant, muslim or jewish program. I do like to watch the shows with our Bishop or recently they had the ordination Mass for both Priests and Deacons. They catch the feed from EWTN then its very good.

Dianne
 
I didn’t vote.
I don’t like to listen to protestant stations because I think the music is hokey.
But I like my Catholic station because they have Catholic Answers, EWTN’s daily mass, Bishop Sheen and some other offerings that are great. They play sacred classical music too, which I enjoy better then the pop music of the evangelicals 😛
 
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ridesawhitehors:
I didn’t vote.
I don’t like to listen to protestant stations because I think the music is hokey.
But I like my Catholic station because they have Catholic Answers, EWTN’s daily mass, Bishop Sheen and some other offerings that are great. They play sacred classical music too, which I enjoy better then the pop music of the evangelicals 😛
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Does your station have a website?
If I can streamlink the signal over the Internet, I would be interested in the religious classical music part.
Would like something nice to lilsten to while in prayer.

go with God!
Edwin
 
I listen to K-Love on the radio. It is a Protestant station, but there isn’t much talk on it. It’s mostly music. The music is excellent. I’ve even heard the organist in my Catholic Church play it during mass. The music is positive and upbeat. It’s a good way to start my morning on the way to work.
 
Bumped my first Poll.
Pug wanted to see what my first poll looked like) 😃
 
Well, the one we have is pretty staticy in some areas. Other times it’s clear as day. The music is about half good, half lame modern pop-sounding talentless garbage (pardon me for being so critical).

Eamon
 
I generally do not like the music played on our Catholic radio station, but I love each and every talk, call-in, q&a, and prerecord they play.
 
For music, we get K-Love. I had to do some digging (iTunes, PhatMass, etc.) on the web to find authentic Catholic music…and hope it wasn’t a remake of yet another Haugen and Hass classic (I honestly downloaded a New Orleans style jazz group playing “Gather Us In” as a joke. Nobody thinks it’s funny).

K-Love gets me because the music is shallow and panders to a certain system of belief, in that if one justs gets with the message that Jesus loves you, all will be well. Well, well, well…that doesn’t begin to take into account redemptive suffering, or Jesus’ love when things are going bad or you’re hurting. And it gets old fast, just like Haugen and Haas…repetitive, formulaic, and down-right canned.

Catholic rado is Relevant Radio on three different AM stations (Chicago, Joliet, and South Bend). It is 99% talk. Some of that is good, some not so hot.
 
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Edwin1961:
Are you satisfied with your local Christian/Catholic Music Radio Station? (Yes, you do have mulitple choices).

Please provide your comments about your local stations. Would you recommend others to listen to the station when visiting your area?

If given a chance, how would you improve your station? Be creative!
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There aren’t any Christian/Catholic music stations here in my area, so I just listen to my CDs or music from the internet. The only Christian station in my area is mostly talk (one of the talk shows had anti-Catholic comments after John Paul II’s passing) instead of music, so I stopped listening to that station altogether. 😦 And that stinks, since I really like Christian rock. I listened to a Christian music station called “The Fish” when I was vacationing in Anaheim earlier this month, and it was a really good station. 🙂
 
Most of the so-called “Christian” radio stations are filled with anti-Catholic programming and most of the music is too contemporary for me. The best alternative is to buy a shortwave radio and listen to WEWN, which is the radio part of EWTN. It usually comes in pretty good, and you don’t have to listen to any more anti-Catholic garbage.
 
This is a new one I just heard about today, so I haven’t had much time to look it all over, but you might try spiritandsong.com/. It’s internet radio and I love the picture on the home page.😃

Lori
 
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