Air 1

Not to be confused with Air One.
Air1
Type Radio network
Country United States
Availability National, through radio stations and translators
Slogan "Positive Hits"
Owner Educational Media Foundation
Launch date
 1986
Webcast Listen Live
iHeartRadio
Official website
 air1.com

Air1 is a contemporary hit radio (CHR) Christian radio network in the United States, playing Contemporary Christian music. It is operated by the non-profit Educational Media Foundation and is syndicated on dozens of stations across 42 states[1] in cities including San Bernardino, San Diego, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Seattle-Tacoma, Portland, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Kansas City, Virginia Beach-Norfolk, Burlington, Jacksonville and portions of Los Angeles.

History

In 1986, KLRD began broadcasting Christian music from Yucaipa, California, and went by the on-air moniker K-LORD. In 1994, KXRD was started as a sister station to KLRD.[2] In 1995, K-LORD changed their name to "Air 1" and began broadcasting via satellite from St. Helens, Oregon. In 1999, Air 1 joined with EMF Broadcasting (the former name of KLA1 Foundation), and finally in 2002, it moved its headquarters to Rocklin, California. Air 1 makes use of broadcast translators to spread the signal across much of the country. As of November 2011, the network lists 90 full powered radio stations and 125 translators of various power levels reaching 40 states.

Air1 and its sister network, K-LOVE, are also available as Internet streams through the iHeartRadio website and mobile/console apps.

On-air staff

Current staff

The current on-air staff of Air1 includes Eric Calhoun and Heather Shelly in the morning,[3] Mandy Young in the late morning and early afternoon, Rahny Taylor in the afternoon, Josh Ashton in the evenings, and Cari Kates overnight.

The network's program director is Randy Chase with Cari Kates as the Assistant Program Director.

Former staff

Board and financial information

Air1 is governed by the Educational Media Foundation, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit ministry. No individual owns any stock in the corporation, which is held for charitable purposes. The Board of Directors at large serve without compensation for rotating four-year terms, and a person with supervisory accounting experience holds one of the board positions.[18]

In addition, EMF is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). Founded by Billy Graham, the ECFA oversees EMF's financial affairs, ethics and reporting standards.

EMF is recognized by Charity Navigator with a Four Star rating, the highest given to charities. In addition, EMF is audited yearly by an independent accounting firm, ensuring accuracy and completeness of its books and records.

Charity Navigator also reports K-LOVE's CEO Mike Novak's compensation was $463,420, including bonuses, in 2010.

Air 1 stations are licensed as NCE (non-commercial educational license) radio stations. Air 1's funding is provided by donations. The majority of donations are made during seasonal pledge drives (usually in the spring and in the fall).

Programming

Takeover

Since 2003, Air 1 listeners can vote on their favorite songs in a process called Takeover.[7] The program was formerly known as Mixology and the Air 1 Music Lab.[8] Listeners register at www.air1.com/mix and receive periodic e-mails surveying their opinions of current songs. Each song is rated from a scale of 1 to 5 and listeners indicate how often they would like to hear the song played. Air 1 then compiles the data collected and produces a weekly top song chart where listeners can hear a sample of the song, obtain its lyrics, or click a link to buy it online.

Takeover [9] is an interactive media space where Air 1 listeners tune-in and log-on every week night to Air1.com[10] (11pm-2am Eastern and 8-11pm Pacific) to vote for the next song to be played on the radio, recommend new songs to be added to the potential play list. Most listeners who interact on the media page login with their Facebook accounts. Logging-in with a Facebook account gives the user greater value for their activity on the media page when they vote for the next song to be played on the radio.

To vote for a song on Takeover,[9] one simply has to click on the red or green arrows beside a song title. The green arrow facing upward indicates the ascension of a song up the play list. The red arrow facing downward indicates the descension of a song down the play list. The song at the top of the play list is the next song to be played on the radio. All those who voted for the song appear as a string of Facebook pictures at the top of the media page. On the right side of the page is a search bar that allows listeners to search for songs that they would like to recommend to be added to the play list. If a song cannot be found with the search bar, an option is given to the user to message the DJ. The regular host for Takeover [9] is Ashton. From 11pm-2am Eastern and 8-11pm Pacific, Takeover can be streamed from Air 1.com.[11]

Air 1 yearly produces a top countdown from all of the top songs from that year. Past top songs have been:

These songs stay in rotation for occasional airplay on Air 1.

News

Air1 also airs a 30-minute, in-depth news report called Closer Look, once a week at 6:00pm PT, followed by local public affairs programming specific to each individual station. The Closer Look segment are made available as "click-able" reports on the news[12] portion of the www.air1.com website. Many of their daily news reports are available online the network's news page.

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of Air1 Stations
  2. ↑ http://air1.com/About/Story.aspx
  3. ↑ NEWS: AIR1 Announces Eric & Heather as the New Co-Hosts for the AIR1 Morning Show Beginning April 14
  4. ↑ "Blogs: Sean Copeland".
  5. ↑ "The Morning Show with Bill and Coppelia".
  6. ↑ "Stations". BrantHansen.com.
  7. ↑ Air 1 Music Lab
  8. ↑ Air 1 Music Lab
  9. 1 2 3 http://www.air1.com/music/vote.aspx
  10. ↑ http://www.air1.com/
  11. ↑ http://www.air1.com/listen/
  12. ↑ http://www.air1.com/NewsWeather/CloserLook.aspx

External links

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