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) in Avoca, New York. 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]

Contents

The Family Life Network airs a mix of Christian Contemporary music, presented by local DJs, along with Christian talk and teaching programs. National religious leaders heard on the Family Life Network include Jim Daly, Chuck Swindoll, Greg Laurie, Joni Eareckson Tada, David Jeremiah and John MacArthur.

The Family Life Network should not be confused with the unrelated Family Life Radio (also known as International Life Media). Based in Tucson, it is 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. 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 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 is not 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 FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W275BC102.9 FM Chenango Bridge, New York 15593457D LMS
W205CB88.9 FM Cayuga Heights, New York 121884180D LMS
W293BE106.5 FM Norwich, New York 13895110D LMS
W250BE97.9 FM Oneonta, New York 6645510D LMS
W283AT104.5 FM Walton, New York 14721070D LMS

Buffalo

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W239BX95.7 FM Albion, New York 9135838D LMS
W291CN106.1 FM Buffalo, New York 86427250D LMS
W263CN100.5 FM Dunkirk, New York 139451150D LMS
W262CQ100.3 FM Lockport, New York 91099250D LMS
W239BA95.7 FM Niagara Falls, New York 151718250D LMS

Elmira

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W293CE106.5 FM Bath, New York 1516399D LMS
W281BA104.1 FM Corning, New York 8994110D LMS
W257AX99.3 FM Hornell, New York 2065210D LMS
W273BI88.5 FM Watkins Glen, New York 13944150D LMS
W230BM93.9 FM Wellsboro, Pennsylvania 13930440D LMS

Rochester

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W220CJ91.9 FM Penn Yan, New York 9073810D LMS
W234AZ94.7 FM Rochester, New York 156288250D LMS

Syracuse

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W252AC98.3 FM Fairmount, New York 25016250D LMS

Western Twin Tiers

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W280EB103.9 FM Alfred, New York 15829134D LMS
W231AH94.1 FM Olean, New York 8514644D LMS
W264AT100.7 FM Warren, Pennsylvania 141630250D LMS
W249ED97.7 FM Westfield, New York 15450938D LMS

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 FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W202CK88.7 FM Butler, Pennsylvania 14779113D LMS
W279AB103.7 FM Clearfield, Pennsylvania 17614175D LMS
W272BO102.3 FM Coudersport, Pennsylvania 13926310D LMS
W284BG104.7 FM Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 150750250D LMS
W277BJ103.3 FM Williamsport, Pennsylvania 156045250D LMS

Erie

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W254AJ98.7 FM Erie, Pennsylvania 78069250D LMS
W238BD95.5 FM Titusville, Pennsylvania 13850510D LMS

Northeastern Pennsylvania

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W255BL98.9 FM Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 154675240D LMS
W228CH93.5 FM Towanda, Pennsylvania 14146119D LMS

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References

  1. ↑ "Financial Accountability - Family Life". www.familylife.org. Retrieved April 21, 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". March 21, 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 January 1, 2024.
  6. ↑ "NERW Year in Review 2020, Part I: The Year in Station Sales". December 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Site of the Week 9/10/2021: Around Northwest Pennsylvania". September 10, 2021.
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