I thought you’d be interested in the story about the growing success of AllWorship.com (www.allworship.com), a free Internet radio service offering Contemporary, Praise & Worship and Spanish language Christian music to people around the world. Started by Bill Hardekopf, a former owner of a Christian radio station in Birmingham, AL, AllWorship offers free Christian music, commercial free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over the Internet and via 30 radio station affiliates in more than a dozen states and Canada. Access to the basic quality music stream on the Internet is free; for a suggested contribution of only $40, you can have access to three channels of high-quality digital music for one year.
When AllWorship.com opened on the Internet in March of 2004, none of its founders realized how big it would become. All listeners need is a computer and speakers.
"It doesn't matter if you're in Gadsden or Guyana," Hardekopf says. "Anniston or Africa, we're there." He's not kidding. AllWorship.com has received e-mails from around the world. AllWorship.com also sends out free weekly inspirational e-mails to more than 17,000 subscribers.
"In all honesty, it just started to explode. We now have listeners in 208 different countries," Hardekopf says. "We get more than a half million hits on our music stream each month. If we were on the radio that would make us one of the leading radio stations in the state, but we're not just broadcasting in Alabama. We're all over the world for a fraction of what it costs a terrestrial radio station to operate."
The website is loaded with e-mails from unique locales such as Iraq, Malaysia, South Korea, India, Belgium, Taiwan and Thailand. A man from Saudi Arabia wrote: "In an environment where churches do not exist and Christians are desperate to get The Word and fellowship, you are manna from heaven."
This summer, AllWorship embarked on another way to reach people with wonderful Christian music: a syndicated Sunday morning worship program on terrestrial (regular) radio.
“AllWorship now provides the only live syndicated Christian worship show on Sunday mornings from 9am to noon eastern time. The show is called AllWorship and is hosted by Therese Romano, our program director,” Hardekopf says. “It is syndicated, meaning stations anywhere in the country (commercial and non-commercial, Christian and secular) can pick it up and air it live or on a delayed basis.”
There are several benefits of an AllWorship syndicated radio show, among them:
· Syndicated shows on Sunday morning can be picked up by both Christian and secular stations, meaning AllWorship’s music could plant some additional seeds with many nonbelievers.
· AllWorship expects the syndicated show to increase the listening audience of its flagship ministry, AllWorship.com. Throughout the three-hour show, Therese will be saying something like "If you like what you are hearing this morning, you can hear this music without any commercial breaks any time, every day at AllWorship.com".
· A number of stations are already running our Sunday morning syndicated worship program, including stations that cover St. Louis, Knoxville, Scranton and Jacksonville. We also have a station in Canada and the UK that are running the program.
When AllWorship.com opened on the Internet in March of 2004, none of its founders realized how big it would become. All listeners need is a computer and speakers.
"It doesn't matter if you're in Gadsden or Guyana," Hardekopf says. "Anniston or Africa, we're there." He's not kidding. AllWorship.com has received e-mails from around the world. AllWorship.com also sends out free weekly inspirational e-mails to more than 17,000 subscribers.
"In all honesty, it just started to explode. We now have listeners in 208 different countries," Hardekopf says. "We get more than a half million hits on our music stream each month. If we were on the radio that would make us one of the leading radio stations in the state, but we're not just broadcasting in Alabama. We're all over the world for a fraction of what it costs a terrestrial radio station to operate."
The website is loaded with e-mails from unique locales such as Iraq, Malaysia, South Korea, India, Belgium, Taiwan and Thailand. A man from Saudi Arabia wrote: "In an environment where churches do not exist and Christians are desperate to get The Word and fellowship, you are manna from heaven."
This summer, AllWorship embarked on another way to reach people with wonderful Christian music: a syndicated Sunday morning worship program on terrestrial (regular) radio.
“AllWorship now provides the only live syndicated Christian worship show on Sunday mornings from 9am to noon eastern time. The show is called AllWorship and is hosted by Therese Romano, our program director,” Hardekopf says. “It is syndicated, meaning stations anywhere in the country (commercial and non-commercial, Christian and secular) can pick it up and air it live or on a delayed basis.”
There are several benefits of an AllWorship syndicated radio show, among them:
· Syndicated shows on Sunday morning can be picked up by both Christian and secular stations, meaning AllWorship’s music could plant some additional seeds with many nonbelievers.
· AllWorship expects the syndicated show to increase the listening audience of its flagship ministry, AllWorship.com. Throughout the three-hour show, Therese will be saying something like "If you like what you are hearing this morning, you can hear this music without any commercial breaks any time, every day at AllWorship.com".
· A number of stations are already running our Sunday morning syndicated worship program, including stations that cover St. Louis, Knoxville, Scranton and Jacksonville. We also have a station in Canada and the UK that are running the program.