mediageek 3-4-05 download: Christian Broadcasters Trafficking in Low-Power Translator Stations

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net is our guest again to discuss recent findings that Christian broadcasters associated with the Calvary Chapel church have obtained hundreds of low-power FM translator station licenses and are selling them off for tens of thousands of dollars.

On the program, I neglected to mention that its the phenomenally thorough research of REC Networks that tipped John and I to what they call the “translator invasion.” I apologize for the oversight.

You can find background on this story at the following DIYmedia and mediageek posts:

• Moneychangers In the Temple
• God Squads Fall From Grace

• Religious Broadcasting As Franchise Operation
• Something Fishy in Right-Wing-Christian-Translator-land, Grabbing Spectrum away from LPFM, Maybe Profiting from the Venture?
• Calvary Chapel, LPFM and Plausible Deniability
• Calvary Chapel: The Decentralized Christian Clear Channel

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