God’s Radio Station Staying On Air
Praise the Lord! WGTS and its one dozen listeners are not going anywhere. The station at 91.9 FM, owned since ‘46 by Seventh Day Adventists over at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, has been up for sale for some time. The only serious bidder was American Public Media Group, the other public radio conglomerate, which basically owns all the public radio programs that NPR doesn’t. And that’s a lot, people, despite what you’ve heard.
Anyway, APM wanted to turn the D.C. area’s little Christian station into something that was not, well, Christian. Thus SAVE GTS was born. Prayers were answered, the station was yanked off the market, and the college’s endowment will remain paltry. APM has instead offered to slap down $20 mill for a different Christian station down in Miami, which is set to die on Sunday, only to rise again as a classical station.
Well, we’ll always have WETA. But unfortunately commercial-free bluegrass is only for the privileged few.
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9:19 am
I get dizzy if I have to turn my radio dial below 94.7 FM. I can’t take that kind of bending.
9:25 am
I wish the University of Maryland would have bid for and been able to buy the station and then moved WMUC to that frequency. It would be nice to hear in the car a station offering rock, Americana, rap, reggae and more that you can’t hear on your regular non-digital car radio anywhere else on the local dial.
9:48 am
Most radio stations in Metro DC suck.
12:30 pm
Rees, you’re hopelessly out of touch with music, among a thousand other things. Who cares what station you listen to?
No one.
12:10 pm
APMG was simultaneously pursing WMCU along with WGTS. The deal was actually struck BEFORE the Board meeting about WGTS. Rumor had leaked about the sale to APMG as early as Thursday Morning on the 20th. They would have bought both stations.