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Not to be confused with Family Life Radio.

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

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]

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 International 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

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 or WCD. 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

New York

Binghamton

  • WCII - Spencer - 88.5 FM with 17,000 watts.
  • WCIJ - Unadilla - 88.9 FM with 5,000 watts.
Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W275BC 102.9 FM Chenango Bridge, New York 155934 57 D LMS
W205CB 88.9 FM Cayuga Heights, New York 121884 180 D LMS
W293BE 106.5 FM Norwich, New York 138951 10 D LMS
W250BE 97.9 FM Oneonta, New York 66455 10 D LMS
W283AT 104.5 FM Walton, New York 147210 70 D LMS

Buffalo

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W239BX 95.7 FM Albion, New York 91358 38 D LMS
W291CN 106.1 FM Buffalo, New York 86427 250 D LMS
W263CN 100.5 FM Dunkirk, New York 139451 150 D LMS
W262CQ 100.3 FM Lockport, New York 91099 250 D LMS
W239BA 95.7 FM Niagara Falls, New York 151718 250 D LMS

Elmira

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W293CE 106.5 FM Bath, New York 151639 9 D LMS
W281BA 104.1 FM Corning, New York 89941 10 D LMS
W257AX 99.3 FM Hornell, New York 20652 10 D LMS
W273BI 88.5 FM Watkins Glen, New York 139441 50 D LMS
W230BM 93.9 FM Wellsboro, Pennsylvania 139304 40 D LMS

Rochester

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W220CJ 91.9 FM Penn Yan, New York 90738 10 D LMS
W234AZ 94.7 FM Rochester, New York 156288 250 D LMS

Syracuse

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W252AC 98.3 FM Fairmount, New York 25016 250 D LMS

Western Twin Tiers

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W280EB 103.9 FM Alfred, New York 158291 34 D LMS
W231AH 94.1 FM Olean, New York 85146 44 D LMS
W264AT 100.7 FM Warren, Pennsylvania 141630 250 D LMS
W249ED 97.7 FM Westfield, New York 154509 38 D LMS

Pennsylvania

Central Pennsylvania

  • WCOG-FM - Galeton - 100.7 FM with 7,700 watts.
  • WCOH - DuBois - 107.3 FM with 18,500 watts.
  • WCOA-FM - Johnstown 88.5 FM with 10,000 watts.
  • WCOB - State College 88.3 FM with 1800 watts.
  • WCOX - Bedford 91.1 FM with 4,000 watts.
  • WILQ-HD2 - Williamsport - 105.1 FM (owned by Van Michael, HD2 operated by FLN under a local marketing agreement) with 638 watts digital.
Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W202CK 88.7 FM Butler, Pennsylvania 147791 13 D LMS
W279AB 103.7 FM Clearfield, Pennsylvania 17614 175 D LMS
W272BO 102.3 FM Coudersport, Pennsylvania 139263 10 D LMS
W284BG 104.7 FM Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 150750 250 D LMS
W277BJ 103.3 FM Williamsport, Pennsylvania 156045 250 D LMS

Erie

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W254AJ 98.7 FM Erie, Pennsylvania 78069 250 D LMS
W238BD 95.5 FM Titusville, Pennsylvania 138505 10 D LMS

Northeastern Pennsylvania

Translators
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W255BL 98.9 FM Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 154675 240 D LMS
W228CH 93.5 FM Towanda, Pennsylvania 141461 19 D LMS

References

  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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