What happened to the Christian Science Monitor stations?
 

I know the network shut down in 1997. But what happened to the SW
stations that carried Monitor Radio? Who bought them?

Also, what were the old call letters - damned if I can remember - if
these stations' new owners changed call signs?

Thanks

Stephanie Weil
New York City, NY

What happened to the Christian Science Monitor stations?
 

If you search around the FCC website, you can often find filings from
stations that no longer are licensed. That is, the FCC maintains the
old correspondence. I often find the records for companies that are
still operating but don't bother to stay licensed.

I liked Monitor Radio. I know zip about the Christian Scientists, but I
thought their news was more fair and balanced than you know who!

Stephanie Weil wrote:
I know the network shut down in 1997. But what happened to the SW
stations that carried Monitor Radio? Who bought them?

Also, what were the old call letters - damned if I can remember - if
these stations' new owners changed call signs?

Thanks

Stephanie Weil
New York City, NY

What happened to the Christian Science Monitor stations?
 

The 3 stations owned by the Mother Church we WCSN in Scott's
Corner's, Maine, WSHB in Cypress Creek, South Carolina, and KHBI on
Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands. WCSN was put up for sale by
the Church in August 1993, and eventually sold to Prophecy Countdown, a
Florida-based Seventh Day Adventist ministry not affiliated with the
mainstream SDA's in early 1995. The SDA's operated the station under
the call letters WVHA, and changed the station location to
Greenbush,Maine. When the SDA's were late on the loan payments and the
electric bill, the power was shut off and the lender foreclosed on the
station. Ultimately, the station was sold to LeSea broadcasting of
South Bend, Indiana. KHBI was sold in the summer of 1998 to the US
government, primarily for Radio Free Asia transmissions to Asia.
Finally, WSHB was sold to LeSea 2 years ago,replacing their original
station, WHRI, in Nobelsville,Indiana. I hope that some of you
remember my reports about the CS stations and Monitor Radio that were
broadcast on Glenn Hauser's " World Of Radio."

What happened to the Christian Science Monitor stations?
 

So from the World Harvest Radio website, I gather that WSHB has changed
call letters to WHRI.

There's also WHRA in Greenbush, Maine. I wonder if that's the old
WCSN, and they just changed call letters AND city of licence.

Wonder what happened to the original WHRI in Nobelsville, Indiana?

I think that most of the times I tuned in Monitor Radio as a kid, it
was WSHB. I was even able to listen to it inside a hospital, while
visiting my grandmother who was in for some surgery.

--
Stephanie Weil
New York CIty, NY