I'm writing this an hour after getting off the air for our station's "Days of Giving" campaign. Our big ask to keep the station funded for the next six months. It's a lot of talking, a lot of strategy, and a lot of amazing stories of how God is using WCSG in our community.

I feel exhausted and thankful. Each gift represents a "why we do what we do"...why the alarm goes off in the middle of the night, why we answer the phones in the studio even when it isn't convenient, and why we select the songs that we do.

During this week, we get affirmation that it's "working." People are being impacted and at times, lives are being changed. They see the value in having a local Christian station at their disposal and are willing to support it with their wallets, which is pretty amazing and humbling.

For me, this is the best time of the year. It's the start of baseball season! If you're a baseball fan, you've probably heard of Sid Bream. Even if you're not a baseball fan, you still may have heard of Sid. But Sid's story has an application for every radio ...

If you're the creative type, you've probably been there; you're sitting in a meeting and one of the analytical-types starts talking and sharing numbers and next thing you know, you're daydreaming and have no idea what's going on. SO BORING. On the flip side, if ...

If you're the kind of person who gets up in the middle of the night to pee, avoid Switzerland. "A man may not relieve himself while standing up after 10 p.m." No flushing the toilet late at night either. It's the law. Down in Italy, keep your frown upside down. Milan ...

Don't freak out. That's step one. But I have a few other ideas, too. Contemporary Christian music radio in America is weird. One of the many ways it's weird is our perceived competitive landscape. Our format has small, medium and large stations. We have some small ...

$103.5 Million. That is how much K-LOVE has paid to acquire six stations from Cumulus: WPLJ in NYC, WYAY in Atlanta, WRQX in Washington D.C., KFFG in San Jose, WZAT in Savannah, GA, and WXTL in Syracuse, NY. Cumulus needed the cash and K-LOVE has it. They're not ...

Radio stations spend a lot of time and money chasing cume. And cume is important, for sure. The more customers, the better the chance to build a loyal fan base. But many stations put far too much emphasis on attracting more listeners, when they should be concentrating ...

I think there can be a programming tendency-in an attempt to draw in more listeners- to keep things from becoming "too Christian." Funny thing is, our listener expects us to reflect their values, and that includes faith. It would be very tough to program a CCM ...

Greetings to you from the year 2019! Where the old rules don't always apply. It's probably time to update your artist separation approach, in your log rules and possibly in your Current categories. You can thank (or blame?) Spotify, PPM, and/or your listeners ...

You've probably heard a variation on this line of thinking sometime over the past couple of years. The format, of course, would be that of our standard, run-of-the-mill, Christian AC stations. And, while there are differences among stations, they all play in the ...