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Christian radio network in New York state and Pennsylvania
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]
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
Buffalo
- Translators
Elmira
- Translators
Rochester
- Translators
Syracuse
- Translators
Western Twin Tiers
- 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 WCOT Jamestown, 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 FM construction permit (originally issued as WCOI Ellicottville).
- Translators
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
Erie
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Northeastern Pennsylvania
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