Effective immediately Solid Gospel 105.1 Nashville will no longer be playing southern gospel music. Their new format will be Sunday morning worship music - 24 hours a day. In addition they will be known as Life 105.1. Salem Music Network leaves the following note to their southern gospel listeners:
"To those of you who've enjoyed southern gospel on 105.1 over the years, we thank you for your support. You can still hear our Solid Gospel network on your computer at http://www.solidgospel.com . You also can hear our Solid Gospel 105 on Nashville's east side on 104.9fm. Plus, Southern Gospel music can be heard on 1030am out of White Bluff, TN."
Author: AGM
| Author's Website: http://absolutelygospel.com/
Written: 12/26/2006
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Category: News & Scoops
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if i were living in Nashville, i would be very very mad. you don't fix what isn't broke.
What a disappointment. Any time we have had business in Nashville or were just passing through, we always flip back & forth between 104.9 & 105.1. It was always a treat to hear southern gospel as we passed through the city. Now, with just the one option, as you go through Nashville you will be more limited on how much SG you can hear. How can a switch to Sunday morning worship music be a financially viable option for them? Because P&W is more popular than SG?
That's too bad to see yet another SG station fall by the wayside. We are experiencing the same issue here in Abilene, Texas. I cannot comment as to the "why" regarding Solid Gospels decision, but would only assume that it's simply a matter of profit. Our station here in Abilene, Gospel 90.5 FM, was sold to a secular format for a rather large profit. After all in the end...it's all about the money, right? This unfortunatly, is what our world, both secular and now Christian, has come to.
I am sad and very disappointed about this. 105.1 was a very important part of my daily life. I have listentened to the new format and find nothing wrong at all, but I love Southern Gospel and always will. As a SG artist myself, I find this very disturbing and even upsetting.
What a discouraging turn of events! I have listened to Solid Gospel since it first started here in Nashville. All I can say at this point is THANK GOD for XM radio and Enlighten 34. They play great music and have started incorporating interviews from various artists.
The news that Southern Gospel has been removed from yet another station hurts. As I travel through Tennessee with my family we turn to 105.1 or 104.9 as soon as it begins to come in and listen to it as far as we can. At home I listen to it on the internet. While I certainly appreciate the Sunday morning worship style which we use in my church too, I long for good Southern Gospel music which we do not have here in Southern Indiana.
Before I can give a legitimate comment, someone needs to define Sunday morning worship music.
What a SHAME! Another SGM station falls to the God of Money!!! Here in CA we have been raped of SGM for decades in preferance to Contemporary Christian, both in our stations and our churches. It hurts deeply that in the heart of Nashville such would occur.
It was quite a shock to me to when I learned my programming was now Praise and Worship. I need my Southern Gospel to keep me lifted up and my spirits hight. Last night, I went and subscribed to XM radio just for enLighten channel 34.
Looks like Solid Gospel needs to change their name. They are little by little moving away from Gospel to other forms of music. TOO BAD!! A big dis-service to their many long time listners and supporters. Wonder if the trend will carry over into the publication side?
Hold on guys, it's just one station that they have changed, and that one is still Gospel music. There are other forms of Gospel music than SGM.
I don't know of any radio station that takes their faithful listeners into consideration before changing formats.
Deon Unthank
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Shame on the programing team. Southern Gospel has been the rock of worship for so many. Praise and Worship is just another wave of the contemporary push all over this country. It started in California and has swept across this nation. So many churches have split their services... One being contemporary and the other they call traditional.And Nashville of all places falling to this wave. All I can say is, PLEASE RECONSIDER! You have the roots of Southern Gospel and now you fold and become the sidekick of the 'love of money'! At least try for a blend to please all types of music lovers.
I know exactly how you feel. Our SG station was sold to Catholic talk almost 3 years ago. You never quit missing the music. I thank God for XM radio and Enlighten 34. I can hear great music anywhere I am now. My sister is one of the listeners losing this station, and she is already looking for another station. Unfortunately there are less stations as time goes by.
As the 1st tenor for Debt Free Gospel Quartet and a Southern Gospel songwriter, of course, I am deeply disturbed by this move. But, not surprised, certainly. As our world grows closer to the coming of our Lord we will continue to see good gospel music being abandoned for 7/11 music. On behalf of Debt Free I want to thank you, our fans, for supporting this music we all love and for supporting our group as we travel in this ministry. We will keep putting out the music... you can count on it! And remember...never forget..."God isn't through giving new Southern Gospel Music yet!"
Do you think that when we describe P&W music with such derogatory things as 7/11 music we encourage the fans of that genre to speak very kindly of us?
Really, I love this SGM genre as much as anyone, but
tearing another genre down accomplishes nothing but ill-will toward us.
Deon Unthank
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Deon,
I'm wondering if the remaining station has gone in for a POWER increase so that they might cover the area both stations served in the past? If so, that would temper my concern.
Tony Partigianoni
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Pure SGM & Quartet-Style Singing
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This may not be the proper place for this question,but all of you seem to be southern gospel music lovers...Can anyone tell me of a good church in the Nashville area with a good southern gospel music program? Nothing wrong with traditional or CCM...SG is just what we are used to. Thanks for any input.
I miss the southern gospel music. I listened to it everyday. I have two or three Praise and Worship stations that I could have listened to, but I love Southern Gospel. It's a shame is has changed.
I don't live in your area, and this probably won't even matter to you in considering my opinion, but this is one of the Greatest dis-services you can do to all of your faithful friends and listeners over the past however many years you have broadcast Good Southern Gospel music. I can't get any good stations anywhere in or around Az. to play any Southern Gospel at all. I have talked with different station managers to propose even a Good compromised mix,
Please inform me of your stations final decision when you receive your feedback from your listeners.
how disappointing, I can not say how this station was a blessing to me and now to know that it will not be here leaves me with an empty feeling in my heart. What if we did a fund raiser would this help bring what we love back
Apparently you haven't listened to 105.1 in a long time. For some time now, 105.1 has been Southern Gospel again. Phillip Chambers, who frequents the sight fairly often, is one of the new owners.
Check them out again, they are solidly SGM.
Deon Unthank
SoGospelNews.com
My Blog
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still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs - Author Unknown
we need good southern gospel music
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