Industry News Bits 4-12-18

At KKSP/Little Rock ((3.3 The Fish) Steve Marston has officially moved to full time PD of KKSP. Previously Steve was Operations Manager of the 3 station cluster now Russ McKinney is in that position.

KPRD/Hays, KS air personality Chandler Kitchen has accepted an offer to join KPNO/Norfolk, NE (The Praise Network) as Operations Manager starting in June. Chandler says he will also host the morning show on sister station KGRD/Orhard (Good News Radio).

The International Harvesters for Christ/Harvesters Media Group (HMG) has a May 31st hearing with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission on a application it has filed for a licence to open a Christian radio station in Kelowna in British Columbia, with a translator in Kamloops. n its application, the group proposes programming from 6 a.m. to midnight, including religious-teaching programs — which would take up about five hours a day — and Christian music. News, weather and local-event promotions would also be part of daily programming.

New online music station Christianbeats.us has been launched by owner Les Durrant.  Les says, “Our primary focus is independent artists and because of this we play all genres of Christian Music from Contemporary Pop, Country, Electronic (EDM) to Rock, Rap and more! Our goal is to be a bridge from secular music to Christian music. We also have a daily morning show with artist interviews and guests.”

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