Christian radio network in New York state and Pennsylvania
TheFamily Life Network is aChristian radio network, broadcasting onFM stations acrossWestern andCentral New York, as well as northernPennsylvania, fromflagship stationWCIK (103.1) inAvoca, New York. It is owned and operated by the Family Life Ministries ofBath, New York. FLM is an accredited member of theEvangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). Family Life is a listener-supported outreach with about 95% of its operating revenue coming directly from listeners, participants, and supporting churches.[1]
The Family Life Network airs a mix ofChristian Contemporary music, presented by localDJs, along withChristian talk and teaching programs. National religious leaders heard on the Family Life Network includeJim Daly,Chuck Swindoll,Greg Laurie,Joni Eareckson Tada,David Jeremiah andJohn MacArthur.
The Family Life Network should not be confused with the unrelatedFamily Life Radio (also known as International Life Media). Based inTucson, it is a different chain of Christian radio stations in theSouth,Southwest and other regions of the U.S.
Family Life Ministries was founded in 1957. For most of its first 30 years, FLN operated a single radio station at 103.1 FM in Bath. With the release of Docket 80-90 and the massive expansion of rural and suburban FM radio signals in the late 1980s, Family Life rapidly expanded into a network. It began by acquiring WCID inFriendship, New York (now WCOV).[2]
Family Life actively buys and sells stations and translators in its coverage area, a practice that takes advantage of the ministry's status as a non-commercial religious broadcaster. That means it is not subject toFederal Communications Commission restrictions on the number of stations it can own in one broadcast region. It has largely avoided theAM radio band. When presented with a right of first refusal to buy an AM station in Syracuse, it declined.[3] It quickly spun off two other AM stations in Elmira and Salamanca two months after acquiring them in the wake of Waypoint Media's dissolution.[4]
All of Family Life's stations begin with call signs WCI, WCO, WCG, WCD or WCE. According to the company's station list, these abbreviations stand forWhere Christ Is,Where Christ Offers,Where Christ Grants andWith Christ Discover. Flagship WCIK, for example, represents "WhereChrist Is King".
Stations and translators by markets
[edit]- WCII -Spencer - 88.5 FM with 17,000 watts.
- WCIJ -Unadilla - 88.9 FM with 5,000 watts.
- WCEB -Deposit - 94.7 FM with 770 watts.
- WCEG -Delhi - 100.3 FM with 1,600 watts.
- WCER - Delhi - 97.5 FM with 6,000 watts.
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- WCGS -Little Valley, New York - 105.9 FM with 7,000 watts.
- WCOV-FM -Friendship, New York - 89.1 FM with 7,000 watts.
- WCGN -Tidioute, Pennsylvania (formerly WCOTJamestown, New York) - 90.9 FM with 12,000 watts.
- WCOQ –Alfred, New York – 101.9 FM with 1,000 watts.
- WCOP -Eldred, Pennsylvania - 103.9 FM with 1,200 watts.
- WCOR-FM –Lewis Run, Pennsylvania – 96.7 FM with 2,850 watts.
- WCGB-FM –Franklinville, New York – 91.9 FMconstruction permit (originally issued as WCOIEllicottville).
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Central Pennsylvania
[edit]- WCOG-FM -Galeton - 100.7 FM with 7,700 watts.
- WCOH -DuBois - 107.3 FM with 18,500 watts.
- WCOA-FM -Johnstown 88.5 FM with 10,000 watts.
- WCOB -State College 88.3 FM with 1800 watts.
- WCOX -Bedford 91.1 FM with 4,000 watts.
- WILQ-HD2 -Williamsport - 105.1 FM (owned by Van Michael, HD2 operated by FLN under a local marketing agreement) with 638 watts digital.
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Northeastern Pennsylvania
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