The Family Life Network is a Christian radio network simulcasting via FM stations across

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and

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, as well as northern

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from flagship station WCIK. It is owned and operated by the larger Family Life Ministries of Bath, New York. Founded in 1957, FLM is an accredited member of the

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(ECFA). Family Life is a listener-supported outreach with about 95% of its operating revenue coming directly from listeners, participants, and supporting churches. The Family Life Network should not be confused with the unrelated Family Life Communications (also known as Family Life Radio), a chain of similar radio stations in

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and the southwest.

History

For most of its first 30 years of existence, Family Life Ministries operated a single FM radio station, Bath's WCIK. With the release of Docket 80-90 and the massive expansion of rural and suburban FM radio signals in the late 1980s, Family Life rapidly expanded into a network, beginning with WCID in

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(now WCOV). Family Life maintains an active presence in buying and selling stations and translators in its coverage area, a practice that takes advantage of the ministry's status as a religious broadcaster and its exemption from caps on the number of stations it can own in one broadcast area. It has largely avoided

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; when presented with a right of first refusal to buy an AM station in Syracuse, it declined, and it quickly spun off two others in Elmira and Salamanca two months after acquiring them in the wake of Waypoint Media's dissolution. All of Family Life's stations begin with call signs WCI, WCO, WCG or WCD. According to the company's station list, these abbreviations stand for ''Where Christ Is'', ''Where Christ Offers'', ''Where Christ Grants'' and ''With Christ Discover''. Flagship WCIK, for example, represents "Where Christ Is King."

Stations and Translators by Markets

New York

Binghamton

* WCII - Spencer - 88.5 FM with 17,000 watts. * WCIJ - Unadilla - 88.9 FM with 5,000 watts. ;Translators

Buffalo

* WCOF - Arcade - 89.5 FM with 1,000 watts. * WCOM-FM - Silver Creek - 89.3 FM with 8,000 watts. * WCOU -

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- 88.3 FM with 11,000 watts. * WBUF-HD2 - Buffalo - 92.9 FM (owned by

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, HD2 channel operated by FLN under a

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) with 76,000 watts. ;Translators

Elmira

* WCIG - Big Flats - 97.7 FM 610 watts. * WCIH - Ridgebury, Pennsylvania - 90.3 FM with 4,000 watts. * WCIK - Avoca - 103.1 FM with 1,400 watts. (

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) * WCIN -

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- 88.3 FM with 250 watts. ;Translators

Rochester

* WCIY - Canandaigua - 88.9 FM with 680 watts. * WCIP - Clyde - 93.7 FM with 3,800 watts. * WBZA-HD2 -

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- 98.9 FM (owned by Audacy, Inc., HD2 channel operated by FLN under a local marketing agreement) * WGCC - Batavia - 90.7 FM with 880 watts. (Purchase from Genesee Community College pending) ;Translators

Syracuse

* WCIT-FM - Oneida - 106.3 FM with 1,250 watts. * WCIS-FM - DeRuyter - 105.1 FM with 33,000 watts. * WCIO - Oswego - 96.7 FM with 3,400 watts ;Translators

Western Twin Tiers

* WCGS -

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- 105.9 FM with 7,000 watts. * WCOV-FM -

- 89.1 FM with 7,000 watts. * WCOT - Tidioute, Pennsylvania (formerly Jamestown, New York) - 90.9 FM with 12,000 watts. * WCOI -

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- 91.9 FM with 4,200. (

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) * WCOQ –

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– 101.9 FM with 1,000 watts. * WCOP - Eldred, Pennsylvania - 103.9 FM with 1,200 watts. * WCOR-FM – Bradford, Pennsylvania – 96.7 FM with 420 watts. ;Translators

Pennsylvania

Central Pennsylvania

* WCOG-FM - Galeton - 100.7 FM with 7,700 watts. * WCOH - DuBois - 107.3 FM with 18,500 watts. * WCOA-FM - Johnstown 88.5 FM with 10,000 watts. * WCOB -

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88.3 FM with 1800 watts. * WCOX -

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91.1 FM with 4,000 watts. * WILQ-HD2 - Williamsport - 105.1 FM (owned by Van Michael, HD2 operated by FLN under a local marketing agreement) with 638 watts digital. ;Translators

Erie

* WCGV -

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- 89.9 FM with 25,000 watts. *

WCGM WCGM (102.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to serve Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, the station operates as an affiliate of Family Life Network, and primarily plays contemporary Christian music, with some Christian ...

- Wattsburg - 102.7 FM with 3,500 watts. * WCGH - Farmington Township - 106.1 FM with 3,200 watts. * WCGT - Clintonville - 88.7 FM (formerly 89.1 WGIP—Tidioute, acquired from Dove FM in May 2020; further relocations pending) ;Translators

Northeastern Pennsylvania

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- Shenandoah - 91.5 FM with 1,200 watts. * WCDJ -

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- 91.3 FM with 250 watts. * WCDR - Laporte - 90.9 FM with 250 watts. * WCDV-FM - Trout Run - 90.1 FM with 350 watts. ;Translators

References

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