{"id":470966,"date":"2026-06-10T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:26:09","slug":"brenda-price-named-family-life-radios-new-pm-drive-host-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470966\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Price Named Family Life Radio\u2019s New PM Drive Host. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family Life Radio has named 20-year radio veteran Brenda Price its new afternoon host, starting July 13. Price will be heard on FLR\u2019s network of 36 signals over 11 U.S. states.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Price and a co-host to be named, current afternoon host Sam Kelly will move to middays, which had been handled by Ceci LaBarge since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideradio.com\/free\/shannyn-caldwell-family-life-radio-midday-host-dies-at-55\/article_02ed6e76-cf0a-4491-98e5-7e3825402d96.html\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">passing<\/a> in January of 15-year host Shannyn Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Price hosted afternoons at Media Ministries contemporary Christian \u201c88.7 The Cross\u201d KBMQ Monroe, LA, and earlier handled afternoons on Blue Ridge Broadcasting\u2019s \u201cThe Light FM\u201d WMIT Asheville, NC and middays at Pillar Media \u201cStar 99.1\u201d WAWZ Zarephath, NJ and Educational Media Foundation\u2019s contemporary worship Air1 Radio. She has also worked with Christian FM Media Group, co-hosted mornings on WKRO Daytona Beach, FL and KUSJ Killeen, TX and was newscaster for the syndicated \u201cLex &amp; Terry\u201d morning show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Brenda to the Family Life Radio afternoon team,\u201d FLR Chief Broadcast Officer Adam Biddell says. \u201cHer energy, authenticity and heart for ministry align beautifully with our mission of helping people experience hope through Christ. We are excited for listeners to get to know her and be encouraged by her each afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price adds, \u201cAfter a season of serving, growing and earning a college degree, I\u2019m excited to be returning to Christian radio with Family Life Radio. I love sharing Jesus! That\u2019s my superpower. I love talking about how God shows up in everyday life, and I can\u2019t wait to encourage listeners and remind them that no matter what they\u2019re facing, there is always hope in Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family Life Radio has named 20-year radio veteran Brenda Price its new afternoon host, starting July 13. Price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4975,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-470966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}