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overview
This page considers the US Salem Communications radio
broadcasting and publishing group.
It covers -
introduction
Salem Communications (based in Camarillo, California)
operates 104 radio stations - 61 of them in the top-25
US markets - and has minor magazine and printing interests.
It also syndicates programming, reportedly broadcast by
over 2,000 US stations (most low-powered and resolutely
parochial).
Salem is a for-profit "Christian broadcaster",
with an emphasis on music and talk radio with a right
wing and protestant flavour. The group is controlled by
co-founders Edward Atsinger and brother-in-law Stuart
Epperson (1939- ). Both are graduates of the fundamentalist
Bob Jones University. Epperson was the unsuccessful Republican
nominee for the fifth Congressional district of North
Carolina in 1984 and 1986.
holdings
Apart from its broadcast and syndication operations, Salem's
interests include several religious magazines (usually
tied closely to its broadcasting) such as CCM Magazine
and Youthworker Journal, religious and right-wing
websites such as OnePlace.com and Townhall.com, and on-demand
publisher Xulon Press.
A more detailed indication of the group's interests is
here.
The group has churned through several stations, with the
chronology at the end of this profile illustrating acquisitions,
sales and swaps of stations/licences.
Studies
There are no major studies of Salem Communications.
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