RenewFM is a network of
Christian radio
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stations in
New England
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, broadcasting
Christian music
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and
Christian talk and teaching
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programs.
History
RenewFM's first station,
WRYP, began broadcasting in 2006.
Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010
', Broadcasting & Cable
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, 2010. p. D-277. Retrieved December 6, 2020. In 2009, Horizon Christian Fellowship sold two translators in South Dakota and Iowa to Saga Broadcasting for $35,000. In 2010, Horizon Christian Fellowship purchased
WFGL and
WJWT from
Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa for $300,000. The same year, Horizon Christian Fellowship sold two translators in North Dakota to Leighton Enterprises for $50,000 and a translator in Texas to World Radio Link for $10,000.
In 2021, Horizon Christian Fellowship purchased AM 1000
WCMX from City United Church for $12,000, and became RenewFM's first Spanish-language station. In 2023, Horizon Christian Fellowship purchased a construction permit for a new FM station at 97.3 MHz in
Orange, Massachusetts
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, for $173,000, and also purchased WSJQ in
Pascoag, Rhode Island, which it had been operating as a RenewFM affiliate since 2020. Also in 2023, Horizon Christian Fellowship was awarded a construction permit for a new FM station in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, after the FCC found that its competing applicant, Radio Sharon Foundation, had engaged in misrepresentations in its application.
Stations
Originally airing on WRYP, RenewFM is heard on 11 full-powered stations in
Massachusetts
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,
New Hampshire
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and
Rhode Island
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, as well as 4 translators.
Stations
RenewFM. Accessed October 19, 2013
Full-powered stations
Notes:
Translators
References
External links
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