Re: USA Radio Network

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabrielmass.com>
To: "BRI" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: USA Radio Network

> I first heard them about 20 years ago providing hourly news for WEZE.
> Based on the choice of topics, I figured they were a service for
> religious radio stations.  That seems to be the case, since USA Radio is
> part of an informal consortium of several Christian-oriented networks
> that transmit using the same satellite system, as indicated here:
>
> http://www.salemmusicnetwork.com/tech/unity4000/crcmembers.shtml
>
> --RC

You are correct.  They are primarily on Christian stations.  When I worked
at WOXO, which is a country station, the station was a USA affiliate because
the AMs ran some of the religious programming on the network but we also ran
three minutes of the USA Radio Network news each hour.  I was even
occasionally embarrassed coming on after their newscasts knowing that many
of the stations listeners would not be happy with the overtly biased
coverage.  I think the owner ran the newscasts because they were free.  I
ran hundreds of their newscasts, and while slanted, I never heard them in
the newscasts urge political action as was apparently done recently.  I as
said, from what I have heard, they are a rightwing radio version of
journalism practiced by publications like the Phoenix and the Village Voice.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine