Talk:Salem Communications
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Salem is a company that specializes in christian and conservative opinion themed programming. They own about 100 AM and FM radio stations in the Top 75 markets. Their stations are commercial stations. Their main format on about half their stations (AM in most cases FM in a few) is Christian Talk/Teaching. That format has a few hours a day of local call in religious talk where commercials pay for the show. The rest of the time though is sold as blocks to various ministries like "In Touch", "Focus On The Family", "Family news In Focus", "Freedom Under Fire", "Back To The Bible", and many more. In markets where Salem has no Contemporary Christian Music stations some of these stations in such markets also play Contemporary Christian music on the weekends. The ministries that air pay for their airtime so the stations take no donations.
- Most of Salem's FM stations have contemporary Christian music formats playing Christian music with an adult top 40 sound and approach. Some of these stations are named "The Fish". These stations offer almost no teaching features. They primarily play music and are sponsored by commercials like any other radio station.
- Salem also has a bunch of AM radio stations that run only blocks of programming similar to what the talk and teaching stations. These stations may also run local shows as well as local church programming.
- The most recent format is syndicated Conservative Talk programming. These stations are AM stations and they run shows like The Mike Gallagher Show, Jerry Doyle, Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Savage Nation with Mike Savage, Mike Reagan, and others. These stations are all on AM and except for Sunday mornings they run no religious programming.
Thanks -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:27, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Salem in Feb 2007 Christianity Today
Salem in radio made front cover spot of the Feb 2007 Christianity Today. CyberAnth 05:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template Created
Just today, I've created a template that lists Salem Communications-owned radio stations. Since it's BETA testing, the template's only listing the stations in Texas, but if anyone is willing to build from there, go to Template:Salem Communications.
Here's what it looks like now:
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Mbrstooge (talk) 21:23, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Template
The full template is now completed.
67.110.95.170 (talk) 21:15, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
