Immaculate Heart Radio joins Vegas airwaves
Las Vegas will become the latest city to add the Catholic Immaculate Heart Radio to its listening options.
Bishop Joseph A. Pepe of the Diocese of Las Vegas will flip the switch that starts the commercial-free KNIH-AM (970) broadcasting in the valley. The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. today in Anderson Hall of Guardian Angel Cathedral, 336 Cathedral Way.
“Monsignor Ben Franzinelli has been praying for 15 years for Immaculate Heart Radio to come to Las Vegas, and the lesson to be learned here is look what can happen when you have a 92-year-old priest praying for you,” said Doug Sherman, founder of Immaculate Heart Radio.
The station will carry programs such as Patrick Coffin’s “Catholic Answers Live,” Patrick Madrid’s “Right Here, Right Now” and Al Kresta’s “Kresta in the Afternoon.”
Immaculate Heart Radio started in 1997 in a warehouse in Reno and has since grown to 28 stations in the western United States that air Catholic content 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Start-up costs of the nonprofit stations are initially funded by local Catholic communities. Each outlet then becomes fully listener-supported within two years of going on the air.