Vic Eliason
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Vic Eliason, born in northern Minnesota, is a former Iowa Youth for Christ worker, an ordained minister, a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Bob Jones University[citation needed] and a licensed pilot. He is the head of and one of the founders of the VCY America Radio Network, a conservative Christian broadcast ministry, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The ministry currently oversees 15-20 stations mostly across the upper midwest, depending on the source,[1][2] not including it's Internet site, a 16-hour a day, seven days a week, television station in Milwaukee, which is WVCY-TV30, as well as several "translator" and "satellator" stations. VCY America also provides programming via satellite to stations around the country. The ministry is 100% supported through listeners' donations.
Eliason is a prominent on-air personality for the network, with duties including being one of the regular hosts for the network's morning public affairs program, VCY Today, and for the network's weekday afternoon public affairs program, Crosstalk, which is taped and rebroadcast every weekday evening and is also replayed at Noon, on Saturday, as Best of Crosstalk. Eliason also provides the voiceovers for the stations’ nighttime music program, Music 'Til Dawn.
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- ^ Broadcast Stations
- ^ Crosstalk - April 7, 2008
- Balmer, Randall Herbert (2004). Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Baylor University Press, p. 228. ISBN 193279204X.