Industry News Bits 5-20-19

KTLF/Colorado Springs (Light Praise) moves their technical support person Josh Hopkins to the General Manager position. Josh replaces Robyn Sedgwick who exited last month after 5 ½ years to join KCME/Colorado Springs.

WAY FM is purchasing WUEV/Evansville ( 91.5 FM) from the University of Evansville. WUEV first hit the air waves as WEVC in 1950 when UE was known as Evansville College.  The sale is pending FCC approval and could take three months. The university will continue to operate the station. WUEV is a 6100 KW B1 non-comm.

Salem Radio Network’s nationally-syndicated radio program The Eric Metaxas Radio Show will soon also be seen on TV. The Trinity Broadcasting Network will air a half-hour best-of program Fridays at 6:00 p.m. ET beginning May 17 and will be repeated every Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET. “TBN has proven to be a great partner in this unique venture,” said Salem Broadcast President Dave Santrella. “We are delighted to see this show develop into a regular weekend program seen all across the country on the TBN cable platform.” Metaxas has been hosting his radio show for SRN since 2015, and in November of 2018 moved the radio show to TBN’s Manhattan studios. Metaxas will continue to do his daily radio program on over 300 SRN affiliates. 

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