The Family Life Network is a

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network, broadcasting on FM stations across

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and

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, as well as northern

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, from

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WCIK (103.1) in

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. It is owned and operated by the Family Life Ministries of

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. FLM is an accredited member of the

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(ECFA). Family Life is a listener-supported outreach with about 95% of its operating revenue coming directly from listeners, participants, and supporting churches. The Family Life Network airs a mix of Christian Contemporary music, presented by local DJs, along with

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programs. National religious leaders heard on the Family Life Network include Jim Daly, Chuck Swindoll,

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, Joni Eareckson Tada, David Jeremiah and John MacArthur. The Family Life Network should not be confused with the unrelated Family Life Radio (also known as International Life Media). Based in

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, it is a different chain of Christian radio stations in the

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and other regions of the U.S.

History

Family Life Ministries was founded in 1957. For most of its first 30 years, FLN operated a single radio station at 103.1 FM in Bath. With the release of Docket 80-90 and the massive expansion of rural and suburban FM radio signals in the late 1980s, Family Life rapidly expanded into a network. It began by acquiring WCID in Friendship, New York (now WCOV). Family Life actively buys and sells stations and translators in its coverage area, a practice that takes advantage of the ministry's status as a non-commercial religious broadcaster. That means it is not subject to

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restrictions on the number of stations it can own in one broadcast region. It has largely avoided the

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band. When presented with a right of first refusal to buy an AM station in Syracuse, it declined. It quickly spun off two other AM stations in Elmira and Salamanca two months after acquiring them in the wake of Waypoint Media's dissolution. All of Family Life's stations begin with call signs WCI, WCO, WCG, WCD or WCE. According to the company's station list, these abbreviations stand for ''Where Christ Is'', ''Where Christ Offers'', ''Where Christ Grants'' and ''With Christ Discover''. Flagship WCIK, for example, represents "Where Christ Is King".

Stations and translators by markets

New York

Binghamton

* WCII - Spencer - 88.5 FM with 17,000 watts. * WCIJ - Unadilla - 88.9 FM with 5,000 watts. * WCEB - Deposit - 94.7 FM with 770 watts. * WCEG -

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- 100.3 FM with 1,600 watts. * WCER - Delhi - 97.5 FM with 6,000 watts. ;Translators

Buffalo

* WCOF - Arcade - 89.5 FM with 1,000 watts. * WCGP - Silver Creek - 89.3 FM with 8,000 watts. * WCOU -

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- 88.3 FM with 11,000 watts. * WBUF-HD2 - Buffalo - 92.9 FM (owned by

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, HD2 channel operated by FLN under a

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) with 76,000 watts. ;Translators

Elmira

* WCDN-FM - Ridgebury, Pennsylvania - 90.3 FM with 4,000 watts. * WCIG - Big Flats - 97.7 FM with 610 watts. * WCIH - Elmira - 94.3 FM with 1,200 watts. * WCIK - Avoca - 103.1 FM with 1,400 watts. (

) * WCIN -

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- 88.3 FM with 250 watts; known formerly as WCDV-FM. ;Translators

Rochester

* WCIY - Canandaigua - 88.9 FM with 680 watts. * WCIP - Clyde - 93.7 FM with 3,800 watts. * WBZA-HD2 - Rochester - 98.9 FM (owned by

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, HD2 channel operated by FLN under a local marketing agreement) *

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- Kendall - 90.7 FM ;Translators

Syracuse

* WCIT-FM - Oneida - 106.3 FM with 1,250 watts. * WCIS-FM - DeRuyter - 105.1 FM with 33,000 watts. * WCIO - Oswego - 96.7 FM with 3,400 watts ;Translators

Western Twin Tiers

* WCGS - Little Valley, New York - 105.9 FM with 7,000 watts. * WCOV-FM - Friendship, New York - 89.1 FM with 7,000 watts. * WCGN - Tidioute, Pennsylvania (formerly WCOT

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) - 90.9 FM with 12,000 watts. * WCOQ –

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– 101.9 FM with 1,000 watts. * WCOP - Eldred, Pennsylvania - 103.9 FM with 1,200 watts. * WCOR-FM – Lewis Run, Pennsylvania – 96.7 FM with 2,850 watts. * WCGB-FM – Franklinville, New York – 91.9 FM

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(originally issued as WCOI Ellicottville). ;Translators

Pennsylvania

Central Pennsylvania

* WCOG-FM - Galeton - 100.7 FM with 7,700 watts. * WCOH - DuBois - 107.3 FM with 18,500 watts. * WCOA-FM - Johnstown 88.5 FM with 10,000 watts. * WCOB - State College 88.3 FM with 1800 watts. * WCOX -

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91.1 FM with 4,000 watts. * WILQ-HD2 - Williamsport - 105.1 FM (owned by Van Michael, HD2 operated by FLN under a local marketing agreement) with 638 watts digital. ;Translators

Erie

* WCGV - Cambridge Springs - 89.9 FM with 25,000 watts. * WCGH - Farmington Township - 106.1 FM with 3,200 watts. * WCGT - Clintonville - 88.7 FM (formerly 89.1 WGIP—Tidioute, acquired from Dove FM in May 2020; further relocations pending) ;Translators

Northeastern Pennsylvania

* WCDH - Shenandoah - 91.5 FM with 1,200 watts. * WCDJ - Tunkhannock - 91.3 FM with 250 watts. * WCDR - Laporte - 90.9 FM with 250 watts. * WCDV-FM - Trout Run - 90.1 FM with 350 watts. ;Translators

References

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