Phil,

I know of the station you are talking about, and it's too bad they are so 
unresponsive.  I thought Christian stations in particular and even radio in 
general was about serving and interacting with listeners.  Not any more, I 
guess.



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>From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Believe It Or Not
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:46:05 -0600
>
>A few years ago, we were visiting different churches.  One particular 
>church
>we decided to visit had a live call in prayer program late on Saturday
>nights.  I really liked the way the pastor conducted himself on the radio 
>so
>we visited several times.  The Lord told me one Sunday, as I was in the
>service, this was not the church he wanted me to be a part of of so I asked
>the Lord why, then, am I hear.  The Lord said, this is the church Trenton,
>that's my oldest son, will join.  A few months later, my son talked to me
>about where he and his girlfriend should go to church.  He had continued
>going to this same church.  I told him what the Lord had told me that one
>Sunday I was there and this man became my son's pastor and even conducted 
>my
>son's wedding.  So, this guy, this same pastor who was on the radio with a
>prayer line Saturday nights, was preaching and in his sermon, he said that
>he was at the station one night and when the live broadcast was over, he 
>was
>walking down the hall to leave the building.  He walked passed an open door
>where one of the night announcers was sitting.  The announcer was on the
>phone, apparently, based upon the conversation, talking to a friend.  The
>pastor said the man was using every four letter word in the book, 
>including,
>he said, the F word.  He was so shocked because he thought this was a
>Christian station.  It is, of course.  He continued walking down the hall
>and then stopped and turned around and walked right into the room where the
>guy still was and told him to get off the phone.  He hung up and the pastor
>burned the hide right off of him and left nothing out.  The announcer, not
>aware anybody had heard him of course, apologized, big repentance there, 
>but
>the pastor told him that if he ever heard anything like that from him 
>again,
>he would go straight to the manager and report him.  A lot of good that
>would have done.  I talked to the manager myself about three years ago.  I
>called and told him I wanted to by, in cash sort of speak, 3,000 dollars
>worth of commercials.  This would have amounted to about 100 commercials.
>At first, when I called, I had to leave a message because he was busy, of
>course, and when he didn't return my call, I left another message.  Days
>passed and no return phone call.  I finally called the office and the lady
>wanted to switch me to the man's voice mail because he was busy.  Hey,
>nobody is that busy to take your 3,000 dollar check up front.  I told the
>lady that the manager didn't think it was important to return customers
>calls and told her I had left two messages over a week and he never called
>back.  You could tell she didn't believe me.  After all, I'm just a
>Christian jerk with a 3,000 dollar check, cash on the barrel head, wanting
>to buy simple commercial time on their station.  Maybe they didn't need the
>money, I don't know.  So, this indignant manager called me back, after the
>secretary told him what I had said.  He was clearly mad when he called and
>told me that he was a very busy man.  I told him I was busy, too, but I was
>interested in buying 3,000 dollars worth of commercials and I would pay up
>front right now.  He asked me a few questions, said they had super high
>standards for advertisers on their station,  what a joke, I've heard some 
>of
>those commercials he was referring to, and he'd send me some application
>forms.  Let me ask you unbiased echurch readers.  Do you think he ever sent
>me the application forms?  Good guess.  This is the same station whose
>announcers don't answer their phones no matter when you call.  Honestly, I
>wonder how they make any money.  Certainly not from me.  How does that
>sound.  Say, maybe the manager is the announcer who plays the music.  I bet
>that's it.  No wonder he is busy.
>
>Phil.