News Bites for July 20\u2026<\/p>\n
Radio Workflow co-founder Fletcher Ford has launched \u201cALTered<\/a>,\u201d a nationally syndicated one-hour weekly show aimed at introducing listeners to the Christian alternative rock genre. Available on a barter basis, \u201cALTered\u201d is hosted by Ford and produced by Dave Levora, longtime producer of the Planet radio format. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed some of the most talented musicians in rock are creating Christian music, yet many listeners have never heard them,\u201d Ford says.
\n The Society of Professional Journalists has announced the recipients of the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in audio, TV, online or print journalism. Among the audio award winners are Texas Public Radio news\/talk KSTX (89.1) San Antonio\u2019s Camille Phillips for her story, \u201cLGBTQ+ San Antonio teens describe \u2018dehumanizing\u2019 effect of being called their birth names at school,\u201d and Boston University news\/talk WBUR (90.9) Boston\u2019s syndicated \u201cHere & Now\u201d for Robin Young, Karyn Miller-Medzon and Emiko Tamagawa\u2019s report, \u201cAs Dick Van Dyke turns 100, 99-year-old comedian and friend Mel Brooks pays tribute.\u201d The complete list of this year\u2019s SPJ award recipients is available HERE<\/a>.Mike Chandler, Rejoice Networks President and owner of Communication Systems inspirational gospel \u201cRejoice 100.9\u201d WFMI Virginia Beach, VA, has been recognized for his three-decade career in broadcast engineering and gospel media by the Williams Bible Institute and Seminary, which has awarded Chandler an Honorary Doctor of Communication degree. Chandler began his career as an engineer on NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle Program before moving to broadcasting as a corporate engineer for Willis Broadcasting in Virginia Beach and later building Rejoice Networks, which currently distributes programming to more than 120 stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Bites for July 20\u2026 Radio Workflow co-founder Fletcher Ford has launched \u201cALTered,\u201d a nationally syndicated one-hour weekly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,710,61,60,278,43],"class_list":["post-560016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}