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SSPX Podcast

Apostolate Focus: KSMK 98.3 FM Radio in Kansas

SSPX Podcast

SSPX / Angelus Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5680 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

For this bonus episode, we’re speaking with Mr. John Steele, who is the Program Director of KSMK-LP, 98.3 FM in Saint Marys, Kansas. Located on the St. Mary’s Academy campus, and registered to them, it broadcasts traditional Catholic programming 24/7, every day of the year.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the SSPX podcast. A little bit of an extra bonus episode for you today.

0:06.0

We're speaking with the program director of KSMK 98.3 FM. That's Mr. John Steele.

0:13.0

John is the program director that means he's in charge of the radio station that is based on Assumption Chapel in St. Mary's, Kansas, and it is broadcasting throughout the area, a short area,

0:22.6

but he is broadcasting an actual radio signal throughout the area. To our knowledge, the only traditional Catholic radio station that is in existence in the United States,

0:30.6

and it is also available online. So you can tune into that. We'll explain a little bit about how to tune in and a little bit about the history of the radio station, what he hopes to achieve, what the programming is like, and what you can tune into that. We'll explain a little bit about how to tune in and a little bit about the history of the

0:38.3

radio station, what he hopes to achieve, what the programming is like and what you can expect

0:42.0

when you tune into it.

0:43.4

So let's turn right to our interview with John Steele.

0:49.5

Normally we have our priests on and normally we have people of great importance and I'm

0:53.9

already insulting our guest

0:55.9

here today by welcoming Mr. John Steele to the program. Hello. Hello, Mr. Steele. Oh, John, how are you?

1:03.1

Andrew, I'm great. How are you? I'm doing fine. Thank you. And you know what? You and I have never met,

1:08.7

but I feel like we have a kind of a shared connection because of your role with KSMK 98.3 FM out in St. Mary's Kansas.

1:16.5

You are the program director, station manager.

1:18.9

You're kind of the one guy who's managing everything. Is that right?

1:22.9

I guess you could call me like, yeah, Chief Cook and Washer or something like that. Yeah, I try to do

1:30.9

it all. Fantastic. Well, not very successfully sometimes, but I try. We did the best we can. Well,

1:37.4

John, you reached out to me a little bit, a little while ago and said, you know, could we broadcast

1:42.4

the, some of the podcast episodes?

1:45.2

And I said, yeah, of course. And it got me thinking that there's probably a lot of people

1:50.6

in the SSPX and the traditional Catholic world who don't know that KSMK exists, especially

1:56.2

for people who are outside of the St. Mary's, Kansas region. So could you give us a little bit of background

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