Air1 Worship Music

What does this mean to you? And you will tell them the story of God's grace in your life.

Dad, why do you worship the way you worship? Why do tears fall down your face? Why do you serve in the house of the Lord? Why are we in church every time the doors are open? Why do you give? Why do you serve? Why do you love God? Why do you read that Bible? Why do we always have to have Air One on in the car? What is up with us, Dad? Baby, we weren't always free.

We were slaves in Egypt.

And we were wandering in the wilderness.

I'm, I'm not saying they're the best songs in the world, but every once in a while, if you were to put it on the touch tunes at the bar, I'd be like, this rips a little bit.

But yeah, growing up, it was like, we had to listen to a lot of like Air One, K-Love, whatever your Christian radio station was.

But my mom would throw on country sometimes and my dad was a big Motown guy.

So I'd listen to The Temptations.

I was in the Village in Pa- in the, in the Village in the Palisades.

So I was like, Air1 was out my window- Wow ... and I'm like, "Are you kidding me?" But it was, like, bougie.

Wow.

And I'm like, "This is, like, my dream." I felt like I was living in Martha's Vineyard, but I'm like, "This is literally my dream come true," okay? So, um, I call my team, or, you know, I message them and on Slack, and I'm like, "Okay, we're not working before 10:00.

Right.

And then it kept going, kept going, kept going.

So I go outside on what, the back balcony, and then I look down over at Air1, right? [laughs] And there's all these people up with their phones, and I look- Wow ...

and the mountains are right there, and they, uh, the mountains are on fire.

And Bill, let me just add this.

Here in the States, those listeners who are familiar with the call letters or the, the logo K-Love and Air1, those are religious orient- Christian religion i- in specific, and they're financed on a nonprofit model where they have fund drives for, for those two.

They are almost single-handedly behind the uptick in the graph that Bill just mentioned for FM non-commercial, which since about 2024, hearkening also back to 2022, an increase.

And they are an innovative model for funding, in this case non-commercial FM radio, around a particular theme.

About 10 years ago, we got approached by some people who run two radio station networks.

The group's called EMF, and they run K-LOVE Radio and Access, uh, Air1 Radio in this country.

About 14 million listeners together every single week will listen to one of these two radio stations from California to New York City.

And they said, "Would you please take your sermons and try and get them down to one minute?" And I said, "Dear God, how in the...

[laughs]

If you're feeling a little bit more charismatic, Air1.

Come on, somebody.

Is Air1 still out there? All right.

[laughs]

Feeling a little bit more Baptist, K-Love, you know? Like, whatever your, your, your thing is.

Yeah.

Contemporary Christian music, whatever is safe for the whole family and played on Air One or K-Love or something like that.

Right.

Or whatever their church sings.