This data base contains over 2800 commercial and non-commercial religious radio stations in the USA and its possessions.  Because of simulcasts, there are about 2,700 records in this file and about 1740 unique addresses. We guarantee this list can be run on your system. If you have any difficulties installing it, call us at 763-522-6256 or 800-759-4561. If you received a file called "REL.TEX," it is an ASCII comma-delimited file. If you received a file called "REL.DBF," it is a dBase file. If you received an Excel file you can skip the next paragraph.

PLEASE REVIEW THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR DATABASE IF YOU NEED TO IMPORT THIS FILE. For most applications you'll begin by downloading our file to your hard drive. Be sure to note which folder (or directory) you download our file to. Then open your data base program. If you have a menu, it probably has a choice marked something like: "CREATE A NEW FILE" or "OPEN A NEW FILE," or "RETRIEVE A FILE." If so, select this option. At some point, there may be an option asking for the SOURCE of the new file, or allowing you to IMPORT data. You may need to enter the number and type of fields in each record (43.) We've made a notation in brackets [ ] to show you how many characters to allow per field. Depending on your data base, you may need to structure ZIP and ZIP+4 as character fields so the data base doesn't delete any zeros at the beginning of an entry. The field lengths are in brackets [ ].

Effective 3/1/10, we removed four fields, renamed one and expanded the size of several others.  Changes are in red.
There are 43 fields for each record. They are: 

Name         Type   Length  Decimals  Description 

COMPANY        Character  23       0 Call Letters
ADDRESS         Character  40       0
CITY                  Character  21       0
STATE               Character  2         0
ZIP                    Character  10       0 Includes PLUS 4 code
FORMAT           Character  50       0 Station's format i.e. Country, News/Talk, etc. See full list below. (Expanded from 21)
NOTES              Character  80      0 Includes info on duplicates. More details below.
SIZE                  Numeric    6       1 Arbitron MSA markets used for 1-291. More details below.
MARKET           Character  42      0 NEW: The actual name of the market, i.e. Chicago IL
POWER            Numeric    8        0 Power or the highest power output if simulcast
FREQ                Character  17      0 Frequency
PHONE             Character  25      0 New area codes now corrected bi-monthly
FAX                  Character  13       0 N= non-dedicated fax line  E= E-FAX which may be in different area code
SATELLITE       Character  17       0 Full-time satellite or automated. DG=Dial Global (Changed from AUTO)
RANK               Numeric    2        0 This field has been deleted.
CDATE             Date       8          0 This field has been deleted.
PHONE            Character  25      0
CHANGE          Character  13      0 This field has been deleted. 
SHARE             Numeric    4        1 This field has been deleted.
NUMBER          Numeric    5        0 Never-changing serial number used as a key field
DPBC               Character  2        0 Delivery Point for bar-coding
EMAIL              Character  50      0 A general email address. More details below. Expanded from 42
GM                  Character  25       0 General Manager's name
EMAILGM        Character  50       0 The Email address of the General Manager  Expanded from 42
PD                   Character  25       0 Program Director's name
EMAILPD         Character  50       0 The Email address of the Program Director  Expanded from 42
SM                  Character  25        0 Sales Manager's name
EMAILSM         Character  50       0 The Email address of the Sales Manager  Expanded from 42
CE                   Character  25       0 Chief Engineer's name
EMAILCE         Character  50       0 The Email address of the Chief Engineer  If the station is using a contract engineer and has no engineer onsite, this field will be blank  Expanded from 42
ND                   Character  25       0 News Director's name
EMAILND         Character  50       0 The Email address of the News Director  Expanded from 42
MD                  Character  25       0  The name of the Music Director
EMAILMD        Character  50       0  The Email address of the Music Director  Expanded from 42
OWNER           Character  42      0 The company that owns, controls or is about to buy the station.
WEBSITE        Character  50       0  Expanded from 42
COUNTY          Character  42      0  The county the station's address is in
LONGITUDE     Numeric    6        2  Degrees/Minutes for the mailing address
LATITUDE        Numeric    7        2  Degrees/Minutes for the mailing address
DISTRICT         Character  2        0  Congressional District
TIME                Numeric    2       0  Time Zone in hours behind Greenwich time
OPS*               Character  25      0 Operations Director's name
EMAILOPS*     Character  50      0 The Email address of the Operations Director Expanded from 42
PRD*               Character  25      0  Production Director's name
EMAILPRD*     Character  50      0  The Email address of the Production Director Expanded from 42
PRM*              Character  25       0  The name of the Promotion Director
EMAILPRM*    Character  50       0  The Email address of the Promotion Director Expanded from 42
HD*                Character     1      0  An "X" in this field indicates the station is broadcasting in HD. More details below.
* Fields marked with an asterisk are still in development.

MARKET SIZE INFO

For the first 291 markets, Arbitron MSA (Metro Survey Area) rankings are used. The market size of a small percent of stations are marked end with ".5." This indicates they are not Arbitron rated markets. If the size ends in ".1," it means its market size is tied with another market. Many market sizes are listed as "444" or "555." "444" means the market has between 25,000-50,000 people in it. "555" means that the market is known to contain less than 25,000 people. Arbitron market sizes DO CHANGE. If you've saved a search or filter using specific size numbers, be sure to confirm that you're getting the same markets when you re-use the filter.

If several stations are at the same address with the same General Manager, but are not simulcast, we create a separate record for each station and we mark the second station as a "DUPE" and the third station as "DUPE3," etc. This is entered in the notes category. However, because this file contains only religious stations, you should ignore the "dupe" designation. Some Christian stations are part of a chain of stations that may include secular formats. Because those formats have been removed from this list a station marked "dupe" on this list may or may not be the only one at that address. In some cases, there are a large number of dupes at lone address. For example, in the zip code 38803 there are 90 dupes owned by American Family. You do not want to mail them 90 envelopes! In zip code 95765 there are over 200 stations owned by Educational Media Foundation.

We also keep various notes here, including info on format and call letter changes. Most of the codes and info (other than "DUPE") will be of no use to you, but if you are curious about a specific note, please let us know. We also keep a station's previous call letters here.

Here at RADIO MALL headquarters, this data base is a living, breathing thing. Like a small baby, it needs to be changed and fed quite often. We make hundreds of changes every month just in the ADDRESS, CALL LETTER and FORMAT categories. The accuracy of this data deteriorates rapidly over time. If you mail to this list the week you get it, you should get fewer than 1% returns. If you mail to this same list (without updating it) 12 months from now, you'll probably be looking at 7% returns. The format accuracy will be even less and many of the call letters will be wrong. We've priced our updates so they will usually cost you less than the wasted postage, printing and address correction fees you will pay for using the wrong addresses. And you'll save hours of data entry time, too. We suggest you obtain an update before each large mailing (but never more than one a month.) If you plan on updating the info yourself, be sure every piece you mail contains an "CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED" endorsement. The fine folks at the postal service's mailing requirement's department will be glad to explain the different needs for First Class and bulk mailings. For example, if you mail by bulk mail without this endorsement, and the address is wrong, they will throw your piece in the garbage. We mail over 50,000 pieces every year using our own lists. We spend hundreds of dollars on address corrections, and it keeps our lists accurate. In summary, whether you purchase our updates, or do it yourself, it REALLY MUST BE DONE!

FAX AND EMAIL ADDRESSES 

Please note that you should remove all duplicate FAX and E-mail addresses prior to using this file for those purposes. There are hundreds of stations that share the same FAX line with their sister stations. In some cases one FAX number is shared by 10 or 12 stations and you do not want to send them 12 copies of the same FAX. If you are unsure how to remove them with your software, call us within 30 days of your purchase and we will create customized files for an extra $50. Unsolicited FAX advertising may be contrary to FCC law and other laws. Press releases are currently legal. Also note that there can be duplicate e-mail addresses within one station.  At smaller stations, one person often wears several hats. If the GM is also the SM and PD, that e-mail address will appear 3 times in one record. If it's a cluster of 5 stations, that e-mail address will appear 15 times. We do not recommend sending 15 e-mail messages to the same e-mail address! Be sure to use blind carboning (BCC) on all e-mail! If you're not sure what this means, please call us! We are not lawyers, but our understanding of the CAN-SPAM act is that all unsolicited e-mail ads must comply with the following:
1: You must provide a valid return e-mail address.
2. The subject line of your e-mail must be honest. If it's and ad, please make that clear in the subject line.
3. Your physical mailing address must appear in the e-mail.
4. You must provide an easy way for the person to be removed from your e-mail list.  We believe the following statement would suffice:

To be removed from our e-mail list, simply reply to this e-mail with the word "REMOVE" in the subject line. 

HD RADIO
Many stations are now broadcasting high-definition digital content. If a station is broadcasting in HD, there will be an "X" in the HD field. If they are merely simulcasting their existing analog signal, there will still be an "X" in the HD field to indicate this but their call letters will appear without the HD designation. If they have a secondary channel with different programming, that station is listed separately and noted as KQRS FM HD-2 (for example) or in the case of a third channel, KTLK FM HD-3 (for example). 

WE'RE CASS CERTIFIED!!! 

If you need the CASS certification sheet, send us your FAX number and we'll get it to you. If you plan on bar-coding your mail, you'll still need special software to do so. You or your mailing house will also have to sort the mail according to the latest postal regulations. The reward is that you can mail to this list at reduced postage rates if you jump through a few more hoops. We reluctantly recommend MyMailList™ and Postage Saver available through www.amazon.com.  It doesn't do everything we'd like it to, but it's the least expensive solution out there (under $50), and makes the mail easy to sort. We're using a $2000 a year program (Mailer's+4 800-800-MAIL) which also updates area codes 6 times a year. 

LIMITATIONS OF USE

This list is (C) Copyright 2010, The Radio Mall. Your company and its legal subsidiaries may have unlimited in-house use of this list. It is not copy-protected and you may duplicate it for your company's own use. You may not sell, rent, loan, or otherwise furnish it to other entities. It may NOT be used to promote other companies in any way. In the event of personnel changes, the rights to use this list will be restricted to the individual or company that originally made payment for the list, unless a company provides proof that they reimbursed a former employee for the list. The data may not be reproduced for resale in any form or posted to a web site or FTP site.. This data is "seeded" with the addresses of Radio Mall agents to ensure that the list is not being illegally reproduced. If you have any questions about these restrictions, please write us at: 2412 Unity Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55422.

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