Industry News Bits 12-8-17

The Heart Share Group is offering its New Year Kit for listener supported radio stations. The Kit contains pre-written letters for your donor/partners for each month of the year. All you have to do is fill in a story (paragraph) of the impact your station is currently making. Intros, illustrations, scripture verses, etc. are all included.  Available in Word DOC, PDF, or MAC Pages for easy download.

Additionally, there’s 20 Stewardship Spots that will educate your listeners about how to invest their time, talent, and treasure. Email jack@theheartsharegroup.com for details.

National Religious Broadcasters is drawing attention to the censorship of Christian and conservative speech online by tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple by launching a new initiative, Internet Freedom Watch, the association of Christian communicators announced (Dec. 7). In a move applauded by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and a former Federal Communications Commission commissioner, NRB announced a new website – InternetFreedomWatch.org – to document cases of internet censorship, including Twitter’s takedown of an ad by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) in October and Facebook removing Gov. Mike Huckabee’s post supporting Chick-fil-A in 2012. NRB has published a chart with more than 30 instances of internet censorship to illustrate the problem.

Best-selling author and radio talk show host Larry Elder will speak at Proclaim 18, the NRB International Christian Media Convention that will be held February 27-March 2, 2018, in Nashville.

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