Bishop Olmsted Flips the Switch Initiating Catholic Radio in Arizona
By Ed and Bette Sharpe - Glendale Daily Planet
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(GDP 12/17/09) Phoenix- Immaculate Heart Radio held a 'Radio Station Launching' Event today heralding the arrival of an all catholic radio station serving Phoenix and vicinity.
A large group of people turned out to partake in the launch with Bishop Olmsted ‘flipping the switch’ to turn on the station and begin the station's broadcasts. Listeners can look forward to local programming, including The Bishop’s Hour which will highlight the important work of the Church and laity in the Diocese of Phoenix, and give Bishop Olmsted an opportunity to use the radio to reach his flock.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix with Doug Sherman, Immaculate Heart Radio
founder and president and his son - Photo By Ed Sharpe - Glendale Daily Planet
Earlier this month the Federal Communications Commission granted Immaculate Heart Radio an application to purchase 5,000 watt KXAM AM 1310 from Embee Broadcasting, Inc. The station is licensed to Mesa and the signal reaches the greater Phoenix metropolitan area from that location. The new call letters are KIHP – for Immaculate Heart (Radio) of Phoenix.
“We are very excited to serve the Church in this way by bringing the best Catholic programming from around the country and around the world to Arizona,” said Immaculate Heart Radio president Doug Sherman.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, expressed his appreciation to Immaculate Heart Radio, Mr. Doug Sherman and his associates, for their efforts on behalf of the Catholics of Arizona. “Bringing Catholic Radio to Arizona is a dream come true for many of us. This project is one that I gladly endorse and prayerfully support.”
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix blessed the radio station KIHP and the
attendees at the radio station launching event. - Photo By Ed Sharpe - Glendale Daily Planet
Immaculate Heart Radio was founded in 1997 with its first station, KIHM in Reno, Nevada, and has since grown to include 23 broadcast facilities across California and New Mexico. KSFB AM 1260 in San Francisco is IHR’s largest station in terms of population, followed by KSMH AM 1620 in Sacramento. IHR’s programming is primarily focused on evangelization and catechesis, but devotional hours including the Rosary and Mass, and Catholic news from around the world are also key elements in the broadcast day. Programs that focus on youth and young adults, as well as family and marriage counseling are also very popular.
Sherman stated, “In the past twelve years we have been amazed by hearing from thousands of our listeners who say that Immaculate Heart Radio’s programming has brought them closer to God, deeper into their life of faith, back to the Church and the Sacraments, or into the Church for the first time. We have heard from people who have told us that it has saved or strengthened their marriage, saved their baby, or even saved their life."
"There are several people in seminaries and convents who say that they found their vocation through hearing the Catholic faith broadcast on the air through Immaculate Heart Radio. It is those stories which motivate our staff and supporters to expand into new areas such as Arizona”, Sherman said.
More information is available at http://www.ihradio.org, or by calling 866-77 HEART.
Doug Sherman, Immaculate Heart Radio founder and president
Photo By Ed Sharpe - Glendale Daily Planet
"Mission of Immaculate Heart RadioImmaculate Heart Radio is a lay apostolate dedicated to spreading the knowledge, love and practice of the Roman Catholic Faith by means of radio. Our programming content is therefore primarily catechetical, devotional, and inspirational.
Immaculate Heart Radio exists in response to the call of the Second Vatican Council to the laity to evangelize, and to its call for all members of the Church to use radio to evangelize. Immaculate Heart Radio offers its work in the worldwide effort to fulfill the call of Pope John Paul II for a New Evangelization and a New Springtime for the Church.
Immaculate Heart Radio declares an absolute faithfulness to the Holy Father and the Bishops in union with him. We are bound to accurately and fully transmit the Faith as proposed by the Teaching Authority of the Church. We are specifically bound by the vehicle in which it is proposed for our time, the Catechism of the Catholic Church. We hold everything we broadcast up to the Catechism as its standard. These qualities shape our service to the faithful in the several dioceses in which we broadcast, our obedience to the bishops of those dioceses, and our assistance to local priests and religious.
Immaculate Heart Radio is committed to Sharing the Heart of the Christian Faith in humility, charity, respect and ecumenism; and to draw upon the vast diversity of riches which is the Catholic heritage in order to broadcast something for every believer."
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix accepts a crystal radio tower given by
Doug Sherman, Immaculate Heart Radio founder and president in honor of the days event.
- Photo By Ed Sharpe - Glendale Daily Planet
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Stations: ]Immaculate Heart Radio currently operates now 24 stations (including 11 translators). Each Immaculate Heart Radio station broadcasts authentic Catholic programming 24 hours a day.
Doug Sherman, Immaculate Heart Radio founder and president, his son and Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop accept the hearty congratulations offered by Ed Sharpe Glendale Daily Planet (Far right) , We also spoke a little out Streaming media and the Glendale Daily Planet's operation. - Photo By Bette Sharpe - Glendale Daily Planet
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