91.3 KXCI Tucson, is the 5 hours of xtian programming they have on Sunday mornings. I wouldn't mind a little Black gospel for an hour, but 5 is too much, especially when they give no other religions any airtime whatsoever.

pisses me off.

in Memphis rather than other programming. I missed a lot of shows that were on PBS stations in other markets and I always found that annoying. They also didn't show an episode of 'Nova' about evolution that was on in the middle of the week.

man, that really is bible belt influence!

PBS get most of its money from either foundation grants or local fundraising (with the more recent appearance of commercials that aren't really commercials).

So, it stands to reason that the station will reflect its audience.

That doesn't make the situation suck any less, but the publilck has spoked.

One took over WMCA "Good Guys" semi-rock. It became full time religious.

Anyways, one of my favorite was the Jewish program on Sunday nights. I would sometimes listen when I was driving limo...

It was a call in quiz show. You answered three questions about Talmudic law and if you got all three right, you got a prize. One of the prizes was a certificate for two pieces of Kosher pizza at a pizza shop on Utica Avenue...(I swear this is true.)

Questions focused on stuff like, Is it permitted to eat raisins and Cheerios together?

One guy calls and gets two of the three right.

"Well, thank you for trying. Maybe try again next week."

"What? I get nothing?"

Which really needs one more "K" in its name...a joke I can never resist. Along with good old Bible/family programming, it serves up a steaming pile of right-wing politics.

Like many Xian radio stations, owned by Salem Communications. A name almost as ironic as KKLA.

One of the most obnoxious loudmouths was the former pro baseball player, the late Frank Pastore (died in a 2012 motorcycle accident).

Pastore claimed to be a "former atheist" and repeated that endlessly. Though it sounded more like he just wasn't very religious until he got converted by some Fundies.

Once Pastore had a fit of temporary insanity or something. He opined that whatever else he might think about Barack Obama, the Obamas seemed to be great parents who had raised great kids.

Boy howdy! The station's phone lines burned up. I remember one guy who called in just SCREAMING that the Obamas were not great parents, they were demonic liberal sinners going straight to hell. Along with their kids. Lots of other callers said virtually the same thing.

Pastore seemed downright shocked at the reaction from his "good Xian" listeners. I don't know why. He and all the others of his ilk demonized Obama 24/7, accusing him of everything from General Mopery to Being Kenyan.

"Gee, I don't know what happened! All I did was open this can of gasoline and throw it all over the room. How could I have possibly known some crazy person would strike a match?"

They also broadcast the bloviating gasbags like Rush Limbaugh on FM here, but in the much larger city I moved away from they were on AM, too. It's a small- to medium-sized town in a slightly less-conservative state, so I wasn't expecting there to be even more religious stations here.

I also work with a conservative creationist, which is a special challenge all its own. In the southern US people didn't really talk to me about religion; most people considered it impolite to ask and if anyone did and I told them I wasn't religious that was usually the end of it, but not here. Ugh.

And neither is in my city. (they're both in small cities)

Well, Southern stereotypes are not always true!



(About any Southern stereotype may be witnessed abundantly, north, south, east, or west in rural America.)