Family Life Network

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Family Life Network
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Type Radio network
Country
United States
BrandingFamily Life
Ownership
OwnerFamily Life Ministries, Inc.
Links
Website http://www.familylife.org/

The Family Life Network is a Christian radio network, broadcasting on FM stations across Western and Central New York, as well as northern Pennsylvania, from flagship station WCIK 103.1 Avoca. It is owned and operated by the Family Life Ministries of Bath, New York. FLM is an accredited member of the Evangelical 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]

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The Family Life Network should not be confused with the unrelated Family Life Communications (also known as Family Life Radio), a different chain of Christian radio stations in the South, Southwest and other regions of the U.S.

History

Family Life Ministries was founded in 1957;67 years ago. For most of its first 30 years, FLN operated a single radio station at 88.3 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 in Friendship, 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 isn't subject to Federal Communications Commission restrictions on the number of stations it can own in one broadcast region. It has largely avoided the AM 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 or WCD. According to the company's station list, these abbreviations stand for Where Christ Is, Where Christ Offers, Where Christ Grants and With Christ Discover. Flagship WCIK, for example, represents "Where Christ Is King."

Stations and Translators by Markets

New York

Binghamton

  • WCII - Spencer - 88.5 FM with 17,000 watts.
  • WCIJ - Unadilla - 88.9 FM with 5,000 watts.
Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W275BC102.9 FM Chenango Bridge, New York 57D FMQ
W205CB88.9 FM Cayuga Heights, New York 180D FMQ
W293BE106.5 FM Norwich, New York 10D FMQ
W250BE97.9 FM Oneonta, New York 10D FMQ
W283AT104.5 FM Walton, New York 70D FMQ

Buffalo

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W239BX95.7 FM Albion, New York 38D FMQ
W291CN106.1 FM Buffalo, New York 250D FMQ
W263CN100.5 FM Dunkirk, New York 150D FMQ
W262CQ100.3 FM Lockport, New York 250D FMQ
W239BA95.7 FM Niagara Falls, New York 250D FMQ

Elmira

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W293CE106.5 FM Bath, New York 9D FMQ
W281BA104.1 FM Corning, New York 10D FMQ
W257AX99.3 FM Hornell, New York 10D FMQ
W273BI88.5 FM Watkins Glen, New York 50D FMQ
W230BM93.9 FM Wellsboro, Pennsylvania 40D FMQ

Rochester

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W220CJ91.9 FM Penn Yan, New York 10D FMQ
W234AZ94.7 FM Rochester, New York 250D FMQ

Syracuse

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W252AC98.3 FM Fairmount, New York 250D FMQ

Western Twin Tiers

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W280EB103.9 FM Alfred, New York 34D FMQ
W231AH94.1 FM Olean, New York 44D FMQ
W264AT100.7 FM Warren, Pennsylvania 250D FMQ
W249ED97.7 FM Westfield, New York 38D FMQ

Pennsylvania

Central Pennsylvania

  • 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.
Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W204CR88.7 FM Butler, Pennsylvania 13D FMQ
W279AB103.7 FM Clearfield, Pennsylvania 175D FMQ
W272BO102.3 FM Coudersport, Pennsylvania 10D FMQ
W284BG104.7 FM Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 250D FMQ
W269CX102.3 FM Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 250D FMQ
W277BJ103.3 FM Williamsport, Pennsylvania 250D FMQ

Erie

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W254AJ98.7 FM Erie, Pennsylvania 250D FMQ
W238BD95.5 FM Titusville, Pennsylvania 10D FMQ

Northeastern Pennsylvania

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W255BL98.9 FM Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 240D FMQ
W228CH93.5 FM Towanda, Pennsylvania 19D FMQ

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References

  1. ↑ "Financial Accountability - Family Life". www.familylife.org. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Site of the Week 7/9/2021: Wellsville and Alfred, NY. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  3. ↑ "WSEN, Sunny 102 combining into one 'super' radio station". 21 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Deal digest: EMF makes buys a Tulsa FM
  5. ↑ "FM Query Results". FM Query Broadcast Station Search (Database search result; 1 record returned). Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "NERW Year in Review 2020, Part I: The Year in Station Sales". 28 December 2020.
  7. ↑ "Site of the Week 9/10/2021: Around Northwest Pennsylvania". 10 September 2021.
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