Salem Communications
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radio communications broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher targeting audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values. Salem Communications was founded by Stuart Epperson and Edward Atsinger III and, unlike many Christian broadcasters, is a for-profit corporation. media Communications blackout company specializing in evangelical Christian and conservative political talk radio.
They began with the acquisition of OnePlace.com and SermonSearch.com. Salem s flagship publication, CCM Magazine . Xulon Press is Salem s digital publisher of books targeting the Christian audience. Both founders have served on the Council for National Policy.
The list of Salem s licensees include: Salem Communications syndicates a number of programs in two separate streams: mostly politically conservative secular talk, and Christian talk. This programming is distributed, mainly to Salem-owned stations but also to non-Salem-owned stations, under the banner of the Salem Radio Network. Some programs are fed live.
Salem is the fifth largest U.S. Many stations carry delayed feeds.
Hosts such as Laura Ingraham and Dennis Miller appear on Salem-owned stations. The satellite feed for Salem s general market programming can be heard on the CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks, on CRN3. Salem Web Network has the goal of replicating Salem s leadership position in radio in the digital world. It sold its sports station in Cleveland in December 2006. Many of Salem s stations are licensed to one of a number of subsidiaries, organized by geographical area and media cluster as the company has acquired new stations and their previous licensees.
radio station owner after Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel, and Entercom. They gave $100,000 to the Bush presidential reelection campaign and $780,000 to the 2000 California Defense of Marriage Act (Proposition 22) ballot measure. .
It owns 99 commercial radio stations, 65 of which are in the top 25 markets. They use print-on-demand technologies that store books electronically and print them only as they are ordered.
Also unlike their non-profit counterparts, Salem stations are found on high-powered signals on the commercial radio band spectrum. Salem s CFO approximates that the company s income is as follows: Salem is based at 4880 Santa Rosa Road in Camarillo, California, northwest of Los Angeles in neighboring Ventura County. Salem owns slightly more AM than FM stations, and covers one-third of the U.S population.
Xulon was founded by Christian author and publisher Tom Freling. The founders of Salem Communications support various religious causes. The company focuses on acquiring radio stations with powerful transmitters, unlike most Christian broadcasters who tend to purchase many low-power translators.
In addition to Contemporary Christian music and talk radio, Salem s station formats include oldies, country, and a Spanish music station in Portland, Oregon. Some stations substitute other conservative talk programs from other syndicators.
Salem is a U.S.
