I helped start the only other Lutheran radio station outside of St. Louis in this country in 1990. It was started with the concept of building a network of Lutheran stations. We used much programming from KFUO, but could not fill our day completely with their programming. Consequently, we used other programming we could get that was not Lutheran, but usually did not present challenges to it. We were owned by the LCMS at first and after a few years, we became independent. From the outset we had challenges. KFUO's identifier was aired over our station. Technology existed even at that time that could automate station breaks at specific times and cut their identifier out so our own could be inserted. This was never used over our 30 years of existence. There were a number of other radio stations that took programming like Issues, Etc. and aired it. However, these non-Lutheran stations would not put up with KFUO identifiers being put on their stations. They would also not put up with radio talk about local St. Louis events. An uplink was installed at the Interantional Center in St. Louis that put KFUO's signal up on a satellite. The footprint of the down signal was all of North America. This was expensive so with low demand for Lutheran programming it was discontinued after a few years. We continued getting KUO programming using the internet as our link. In those days, AM stations like ours could not have remote broadcasting local stations. Only FM could be put up on the satellite so that stations cold be planted all over the country. KFUO's sister FM station broadcast only classical music. Nothing else. That FM station was 100,000 watts and would have covered the St. Louis area very well. Its signal could have been put up on satellite feeding hundreds of local radio stations repeating their Lutheran network. Unfortunately, the FM was sold for millions of dollars as it was an asset in big demand in the St. Louis area. That was the end of the efforts to have a satellite network. Of course, today, a network could be made by using the internet to feed programming to stations. I am very sad that the effort to create a Lutheran radio network was never sufficient to make it successful. KFUO is the oldest continuously operating Christian radio station in the US, but has been passed by many other Christian, non-Lutheran networks. I think Lutherans could have done better.