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K-Love jumps into Top 10

However, don't assume that only Evangelicals listen to EMF or K-Love. According to the census, only about 2 million people consider themselves Evangelical Christians. That's less than 1% of the population.
 
semoochie said:
My first thought is to blame evangelicals for Trump. It probably isn't fair but he wouldn't be President without them.
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gr8oldies said:
White Evangelicals are Trump's most loyal supporters, and many will tell you Trump was God's specifically chosen candidate.


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DavidEduardo said:
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The format does not seem to benefit from weather and traffic; people go to the K-Love stations because they are nice to listen too. After all, many of us in programming are questioning the need for traffic and weather at all since most listeners have apps for that that are more complete and more timely and geographically specific.
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And K-Love absolutely could add weather or traffic, especially to their major market stations, if they found out their listeners wanted it. But traffic certainly isn't positive or encouraging!

Not every radio station has to be full-service.
 
CTListener said:
Marx said it more succinctly: opiate of the masses.
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And Marx has been proven wrong on pretty much every other aspect of his theories...
 
CTListener said:
You've got a point there. An opiate doesn't start purges and wars. Religion has and still does.
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That's an old "before polarization" talk radio subject.

I once did that subject and we made a list of the causes of war:

Egotism, nationalism, racism, expansionism, imperialism, religion, and socialism were among the highest ranked causes per LA listeners.

Of course, with Hispanic listeners to talk radio, socialism was named as the greatest cause, a result which reflects the last 5 decades of Latin American history.
 
DavidEduardo said:


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I agree but that wasn't really my point. It's just so difficult to give the whole idea of radio evangelism any slack, when 86% of them are directly responsible for the mess we're in. That being said, it was just mentioned that only about 2% of the population identify as evangelicals, so my concern seems less important that it did when I made the original statement. I will not dwell on it.
 
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