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Written: 12/26/2006 
Author: AGM
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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."
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if i were living in Nashville, i would be very very mad. you don't fix what isn't broke.
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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?
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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.
As to the new Solid Gospel format of P&W music, this only follows the trend that many of our Christian churches have followed. Big screens to render the hymnal and Bible obsolete, express services that cater to "christianettes" wanting "sermonettes" so that they can get about their business on "The Lords Day", and 7/11(seven lines repeated 11 times each) praise and worship choruses. We have abandoned the traditional service, and hymals of time honored, tried and true, Gospel, convention, and southern gospel music that calls Jesus by name and proclaims salvation by the power of the blood through faith and obedience.
Keeping this in mind, "popular" is what is determined by a populous or population. My fear is that we are going to be hearing more and more of this as time passes. God bless Bill Gaither! He has more than done his part to preserve the Southern Gospel music we love so dearly. My thought is that maybe we can help his/OUR cause by beginning to take back traditional gospel & southern gospel music in the church instead of allowing "alternative" music render it totally obsolete. -
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.
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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.
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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.
I would ask that you please reconsider this move. -
Before I can give a legitimate comment, someone needs to define Sunday morning worship music.
As old as I am, sometimes I don't know what Southern Gospel Music is. -
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.
On my future business trips to the area I will be glad for XM Radio as I travel thru Nashville heading East.
This news is sickening at heart!!! -
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.
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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?
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