Thursday, May 18, 2006

PUBLIC RADIO IN EAST TEXAS

It was a surprise to learn that KTPB, the public radio station sponsored by Kilgore College, is going off the air. I don't know all the reasons and who deserves the blame. Even more surprising is that it will be replaced by a Christian music station. There are already at least a half dozen Christian music stations in East Texas and I would have assumed the market is saturated. What is the need for another Christian music station that will probably be playing the same songs that all the others are playing?

Anyway I heard from sources(!) that most of the people who are calling KTPB expressing disappointment that it is going off the air are people who profess to be Christians. There may be some kind of conspiracy in all this, but it may indicate that some Christians do enjoy listening to something other than Christian pop.

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