God's story, your life.

Unfolding short stories.

I studied journalism in college, and after working for a little while at a newspaper, I decided,

well, that wasn't for me.

I wanted something with a little more variety. And I saw how

the radio and TV guys were covering three or four, five, six stories a day. And the newspaper

guys were just doing one a day. And I thought, well, maybe broadcast journalism would be something

for me. Now, this was in the 70s, kind of the mid to late 70s. And Watergate had just happened, and I decided I wanted to be a journalist, and I was going to be the next Woodward and Bernstein, you know, and exposed government corruption.

So I finished my degree in journalism, and I got a job at a radio station, a local AM radio station in our community.

This would have been 1977, and I was the news

director, and I did that for a while. I went on to an all-news radio station in Wilmington, Delaware,

and ended up then at a CBS affiliate TV station in Maryland doing television news for four years.

But there was just something about that that was missing.

And I had become a Christian when I was a teenager at an event called Explos 72 in Dallas, Texas.

And I think I was by this point in my career after three or four years in radio,

realizing that what was missing was the faith element in this.

And I just started dreaming about owning one day, owning and operating a Christian radio station.

Now, at that time, Christian radio stations didn't sound like most of them sound today.

They weren't music intensive and they just block programming,

a lot of talk, a lot of preaching, and targeted a more older demographic. And in my head,

I was hearing an all-music contemporary Christian radio station. And back in the late 80s and the

90s, when I was dreaming about this, there weren't very many of them in the country.

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