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Family Life Network

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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]

Family Life Network
TypeRadio network
Country
United States
BrandingFamily Life
Ownership
OwnerFamily Life Ministries, Inc.
Links
Websitehttp://www.familylife.org/

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 Intentional 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

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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, WCD or WCE. 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

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New York

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Binghamton

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  • WCII - Spencer - 88.5 FM with 17,000 watts.
  • WCIJ - Unadilla - 88.9 FM with 5,000 watts.
  • WCEB - Deposit - 94.7 FM with 770 watts.
  • WCEG - Delhi - 100.3 FM with 1,600 watts.
  • WCER - Delhi - 97.5 FM with 6,000 watts.
Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W275BC 102.9 FMChenango Bridge, New York15593457DLMS
W205CB 88.9 FMCayuga Heights, New York121884180DLMS
W293BE 106.5 FMNorwich, New York13895110DLMS
W250BE 97.9 FMOneonta, New York6645510DLMS
W283AT 104.5 FMWalton, New York14721070DLMS

Buffalo

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W239BX 95.7 FMAlbion, New York9135838DLMS
W291CN 106.1 FMBuffalo, New York86427250DLMS
W263CN 100.5 FMDunkirk, New York139451150DLMS
W262CQ 100.3 FMLockport, New York91099250DLMS
W239BA 95.7 FMNiagara Falls, New York151718250DLMS

Elmira

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W293CE 106.5 FMBath, New York1516399DLMS
W281BA 104.1 FMCorning, New York8994110DLMS
W257AX 99.3 FMHornell, New York2065210DLMS
W273BI 88.5 FMWatkins Glen, New York13944150DLMS
W230BM 93.9 FMWellsboro, Pennsylvania13930440DLMS

Rochester

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W220CJ 91.9 FMPenn Yan, New York9073810DLMS
W234AZ 94.7 FMRochester, New York156288250DLMS

Syracuse

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W252AC 98.3 FMFairmount, New York25016250DLMS

Western Twin Tiers

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W280EB 103.9 FMAlfred, New York15829134DLMS
W231AH 94.1 FMOlean, New York8514644DLMS
W264AT 100.7 FMWarren, Pennsylvania141630250DLMS
W249ED 97.7 FMWestfield, New York15450938DLMS

Pennsylvania

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Central Pennsylvania

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W202CK 88.7 FMButler, Pennsylvania14779113DLMS
W279AB 103.7 FMClearfield, Pennsylvania17614175DLMS
W272BO 102.3 FMCoudersport, Pennsylvania13926310DLMS
W284BG 104.7 FMLewisburg, Pennsylvania150750250DLMS
W277BJ 103.3 FMWilliamsport, Pennsylvania156045250DLMS

Erie

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W254AJ 98.7 FMErie, Pennsylvania78069250DLMS
W238BD 95.5 FMTitusville, Pennsylvania13850510DLMS

Northeastern Pennsylvania

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Translators
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)ClassFCC info
W255BL 98.9 FMBloomsburg, Pennsylvania154675240DLMS
W228CH 93.5 FMTowanda, Pennsylvania14146119DLMS

References

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  1. ↑ "Financial Accountability - Family Life". www.familylife.org. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  2. ↑ Site of the Week 7/9/2021: Wellsville and Alfred, NY. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  3. ↑ "WSEN, Sunny 102 combining into one 'super' radio station". March 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Deal digest: EMF makes buys a Tulsa FM
  5. ↑ "FM Query Results". FM Query Broadcast Station Search (Database search result; 1 record returned). Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
  6. ↑ "NERW Year in Review 2020, Part I: The Year in Station Sales". December 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Site of the Week 9/10/2021: Around Northwest Pennsylvania". September 10, 2021.
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