Directions from the Airport to the hotel are as follows:

Note:  The Staybridge is behind the strip mall between Petco and the Dollar Tree.

Directions from the Hotel to EMF offices:

 Turn left out of the strip mall parking lot.  At the corner of Lonetree & West Oaks (there is a green church on the corner) – turn right.  Continue on West Oaks past Sunset and you will find our offices ¼ block down on the left.  Enter the middle doors of the building on the right.

 As one of America’s top motivational speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include AllState, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, ING, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tyson Foods to name a few. Pat is also the author of over 80 books, his most recent title being The Difference You Make: Changing Your World Through the Impact of Your Influence.

Christian Music Broadcasters has re-vamped the entry procedure for the 2013 Station of the Year competition. Stations will no longer need to put together an elaborate written entry and submit it for judging. All written information will now simply be entered into an on-line “form” on the CMB website. cmbonline.org No more pictures, no more elaborate layouts, just a written record of what your station has done in the past year in the areas of ratings, community involvement, new media and industry leadership. Audio portions of each entry will be uploaded directly to our website. Simply CLICK HERE and follow the step by step instructions.

 Eligibility dates for the 2013 awards will be May 1, 2012 thru April 30, 2013. Stations wishing to enter the 2013 competition will only be allowed to submit airchecks, ratings information and station activities which took place between those dates. Stations wishing to enter the competition must submit their entries by June 14, 2013.

 Voted on by a panel of judges within the radio industry, the Christian Music Broadcasters Radio Station Of The Year Awards are presented to stations which show outstanding achievement in on-air presentation, community service, ratings, new media and industry leadership. One award is given in each of four market categories – Major, Large, Medium and Small. The 2013 Christian Music Broadcasters Radio Station Of The Year Awards will be presented Wednesday evening at the CMB Networking dinner to be held at Momentum 2013, September 4-7 at the Disney Yacht & Beach Convention Center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Details regarding eligibility requirements for entering the 2013 Christian Music Broadcasters Radio Station Of The Year Awards, as well as air-checks and entries from last year’s winners, are available on the CMB website – cmbonline.org. At the newly designed site, you will also find a complete list of past winners, as well as tips for entering the competition and benefits of entering.

Kyle Fenton, Awards Chairman

Christian Music Broadcasters

503-563-5295

awards@cmbonline.org

CMB is dedicated to empowering, training and raising the next generation of radio broadcasters and we need YOUR help!

It is CMB’s desire for college students to learn from the best at Momentum 2013. In taking that relationship further, we’re looking for a few professionals that would be willing to be a mentor to a college student during the week. We know (and remember) that it is very intimidating to be in a place where everyone seems to know each other. Your involvement will be meeting with them once or twice during the week, introducing them to a few of your colleagues that would make sense for what path the student is interested in and giving them a few tips throughout the week.

If you’re interested in investing in the future of Christian radio broadcasting by being a MOMENTUM MENTOR, then CLICK HERE for more information on how to get connected!

Here are a few examples of the power of giving back to the future of CMB!

Brittany Whatley
Promotions Director, KSBJ/Houston

“When I was just getting in to the Christian radio industry I paid my own way to go to GMA. I’m so thankful that Theresa Ross (91.7/The Promise) took me under her wing and introduced me to her friends and colleagues. I feel it’s my turn to pay it forward and help young broadcasters on their journey… because let’s face it, they could be my boss in a few years!”

Charles Van Dyke
Director of National Promotions, Tooth & Nail/BEC Records

“John Butler at Curb Records took the time to invest in me by introducing me to most of the people I now know at numerous Christian radio events. The time he took with me is now something I want to give to others as I know what it’s like being the new face in the room.” 

 Cari Kates
Assistant Program Director, Air1

“My academic advisor agreed to send me to GMA when I was in college. Not knowing anything or anyone, I prayed for a friend. I met Jeff Cruz (PD at WMHK/Columbia, SC) and his wife right away and they welcomed me with open arms. That began a friendship…which turned into an internship later that year…which turned into my first job out of college…which has turned into a career.  Jeff has been there through it all. And it started with a simple prayer.” 

Christian Music Broadcasters is thrilled to announce Pat Williams as a confirmed speaker for Momentum 2013! CMB members listening in earlier today for the monthly teleconference heard it first! Pat Williams is a basketball Hall-of-Famer, currently serving as co-founder and senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic.

 As one of America’s top motivational speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include AllState, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, ING, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tyson Foods to name a few. Pat is also the author of over 80 books, his most recent title being The Difference You Make: Changing Your World Through the Impact of Your Influence.

 Pat Williams will be the final session of Momentum 2013, Saturday September 7th sending off attendees encouraged and equipped! You don’t want to miss it! So plan on staying through Noon on Saturday, you won’t regret it!

CLICK HERE for info on 2013 CMB membership! *Gold Membership includes Momentum registration and Summit registrations. Momentum 2013 is September 4-7 at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Convention Center in Lake Buena Vista, FL. CLICK HERE for Momentum 2013 registration! Current pricing: Silver Members/$399, Non-members/$549, Spouse/$299

Make plans and register today! Arrive early or stay late and make it a family get-away! Hotel rates are $159 a night! Book your hotel HERE! Friday Night Of Joy ticket included with each full conference registration! Friday night fast passes for the first 500 registrations! Thanks to PlayMPE for once again providing session audio files for attendees based on speaker approval. Click HERE for Momentum FAQ.

What’s the difference, you ask? Simple: Promotions is about US, Engagement is about THEM. 

Traditional promotions are created to get the station noticed – get the call letters out, create visibility, let the community know who you are… basically it’s a “push” approach.

Engagement, on the other hand, is about building a real relationship with your listeners. This is more of a “pull” approach – in other words, drawing her in to you and your station, as opposed to pushing your station out to her.

Yes, engagement is harder and it takes longer. But its effects are greater and they last longer.

When I was at KTIS, the perception was that I hated contests. Not true! I just didn’t like contests where the main purpose was to acquire new names or satisfy an agreement with a label or a sponsor. Those are great OUTCOMES, but they’re not great DRIVERS. Will you get a lot of calls or website “hits” for a contest? Sure! Are those folks engaged? Not really…

Should you quit doing contests altogether? No! But I’d challenge you to try “tweaking” them to make them less about the prize – or reevaluate what the “prize” really is!

A great example is a contest that KTIS was doing several years ago called The Family Name Game. Each day, a different name was shared on the morning show. If you had a child with that name, you were encouraged to call in, and if your story was played you won a CD. We decided we’d tweak the contest, and just quit giving away the CDs. (Not a popular decision with the on-air folks…)

You know what we found? The listener didn’t miss the CD at all! Why? Because that wasn’t the real prize. The REAL prize was the opportunity to brag about their kid on the air – after which, we’d send them an MP3 of the clip as a keepsake. Were those listeners engaged? You bet! And guess what? When they shared the clip with other family members, they were actually PROMOTING KTIS. Win-win.

I challenge you to evaluate your “promotions” and see if they can’t be tweaked in order to go deeper with your listener. I also invite you to download the free handout “Moving from Promotions to Engagement” on my website.

Morgan Wood – Consultant and CMB 2013 Gold Member

Leslie Whatley has nearly 25 years experience working with global leaders and leadership teams in dynamic, high growth environments.

Prior to founding People and Change Consulting, Leslie spent over a decade with “Big Four” professional services firms (Ernst & Young, LLC, Coopers & Lybrand, LLC), where she served as the national “people” leader for market-leading outsourcing and process improvement business lines. In addition, she served on a team responsible for coaching global leaders of high growth, high potential business lines. In these roles, she was responsible for establishing competitive, people-focused practices to accelerate successful transitions and integration of cultures.

In 2000, Leslie founded People and Change Consulting, LLC with the mission of helping leaders and organizations develop people, improve performance, and achieve results. Her core areas of focus include helping clients drive intentional shifts in strategy and culture, coaching and developing leadership effectiveness, and implementing Talent Management strategies that are aligned to desired business results.

Over her career, Leslie’s approach has been guided by the belief that under the right conditions, people thrive on high expectations and accountability. She has worked with leaders and leadership teams during times of large-scale change to accelerate the transformation process, make change stick, and create high performing cultures with positive accountability.

Leslie’s clients have been for-profit and non-profit organizations in a wide variety of industries. Her high-profile clients have included Time Warner, Staples, US Bank, Sacramento County Office of Education (Reading Lions Center), Scholastic, Teichert Construction, BMC Software, AECOM (Davis Langdon), EMF Broadcasting (K-LOVE/Air1), Alta California Regional Center, and Burr Pilger Mayer, LLC.

Leslie holds a Master’s degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco and a BA degree from the University of California, San Diego.

People and Change Consulting, LLC is a Halogen Software partner and an authorized distributor of DISC. Consultants are certified in DISC, MBTI, the Leadership Circle Profile, and Leadership Culture Survey.

 In an effort to super serve our members, CMB is pleased to offer opportunities for our members to further engage at our focused Momentum Summit events. The Rocklin Leadership Momentum Summit is our fourth and final summit event to be held June 20th, 8:30AM – 4:30PM at the KLOVE/Air1 offices in Rocklin, Ca.

 Confirmed Rocklin Leadership Momentum Summit speakers are Focus on the Family President and CEO, Jim Daly.  We’ll also hear from Ray Johnston, President of Thriving Churches International. Both speakers will be delivering messages for attendees surrounding leadership strategies, tactics and sharing personal experiences that have led or contributed to their own personal leadership platforms and opportunities.

Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame-honored daily broadcast, heard by more than 2.9 million listeners a week on more than 1,000 radio stations across the U.S. Within his second year behind the microphone, the show was honored as 2012 Program of the Year by the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB).

Ray Johnston is the President of Thriving Churches International. He is a twenty-five year veteran of both youth and adult ministry. Ray has served in churches in Duarte, CA and Marin County, CA. He was the Chairman of the Department of Youth Ministry at North Park College and adjunct professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, IL. He is the founding Pastor of Bayside Church in Granite Bay.

 For details, pricing, registration and hotel link for the Rocklin Leadership Momentum Summit -Click HERE!

CMB Support Contact INFO:

CMB Executive Director, Chris Lemke chris@cmbonline.org

Sponsorships / Events, contact Michelle Younkman, CMB Event Manager at michelle@cmbonline.org

Memberships / Registrations, contact Lori Cline, CMB Member Services Manager at lori@cmbonline.org

Many think the future of radio is the digital dashboard in a car. Some think it’s an app, an FM radio cell phone chip or a website where you can skip songs. It’s not radio OR digital. It’s radio AND digital!

As radio personalities, we need more of a holistic approach. The digital dashboard is just one piece of the pie. I don’t think radio transmitters are going away anytime soon, but we do need to pay attention to the way tablet & smartphone use has boomed. Tablets & mobile can be additional distribution channels for our show. Digital can enhance what we do on the radio! We can re-purpose our audio pretty easily. Let’s brainstorm & innovate around that. Let’s look for ways to use digital and radio to connect listeners with God and with other Christians. Let’s set our own course as a CCM industry rather than simply follow what Clear Channel, Cumulus & CBS are doing with digital. Sure we’re going to use their tools when they help enhance our company’s vision, but we don’t have the same mission they do. Let’s build a strategy that’s really centered around our love for our listeners.

I want to reach more people with the Gospel & the hope Jesus provides. I’m consistently looking for more distribution & connection options that will help our radio station reach people where they already are… and look forward to where they are going.

I think Christian radio has a competitive advantage right now. We actually have a mission behind what we are doing. Our mission trumps ad dollars, sales clients and ratings. The heart behind Christian radio is to reflect Jesus and help listeners connect with him. For most mainstream companies, generating a profit is the sole reason the radio station exists. With that said, our format really is about creating genuine content, personally connecting with listeners and building/facilitating community.

Christian radio is naturally more listener focused than any other format because of the mission behind it. Let’s think about how to use technology to make that relationship even deeper.

 Scott Herrold is the Program Director & Morning Show Host for SOS Radio. (It’s a network of 35+ radio stations.) He was named one of Radio’s Best Program Directors by Radio Ink this year. He’s worked in both Christian & mainstream radio and he’s one of the founders of www.CreativeCardio.com. Edison Media Research also listed Scott as one of Radio’s 30 Under 30 Shining stars two different times.

Connect with Scott@CreativeCardio.com

*Scott moderates the CMB DJ Forum!
The DJ forum is a place for CCM radio personalities to share ideas, talk about challenges and discuss strategy for their shows. We love it when you post topic ideas that worked on your show. We love it when you ask questions. We love it when you share articles that challenge other radio personalities to step up their game. We live in a changing world. Social media & mobile devices are challenging the way we connect & interact with listeners. They are giving us new opportunities to make our shows 3 dimensional. We hope you’ll join the DJ forum and be part of the discussion! Sign up for the DJ forum HERE today.

 Ray is author of four books: What It It’s True, Developing Student Leaders, Developing Spiritual Growth in Junior Highers, Help, I’m a Sunday School Teacher: 50 Ways to Make Sunday School Come Alive. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, leadership training events, national conferences and family camps.

 He is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary. Ray and his wife Carol currently live in Granite Bay. They have four children, Mark, Scott, Leslie and Christy.

You want to know Krista Coutts: she has put the sizzle in the Bay Area’s radio promotion and sales for the last 25 years. Her radio love started with the KFRC Top 40 Countdown; now, this radio veteran has worked almost every format, served every demo, and has led successful teams with her savvy managerial style. As integrated sales manager and promotion specialist for CBS Radio in San Francisco, Krista handles the 4 top rated area radio stations: KCBS All News 740 AM/106.9 FM, Alice @ 97.3 FM, 997NOW FM, and LIVE 105.3 FM. She also synergizes with all other CBS platforms, including television, outdoor, digital, and experiential marketing. Outside projects include numerous church and community events. Her latest honor? Working on the grand re-opening of the Bay Bridge Campaign.

 By Tom Krattenmaker:

Evangelical group has woken up to the downside of culture wars and getting back to basics.

“We’ve said we hate the sin and love the sinner,” the evangelical speaker said <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/us/focus-on-the-family-transforms-its-message.html?_r=0> to an auditorium of university students and professors. “But … sometimes we hated the sinner, too, and that’s not the Gospel.”

The man making this astonishing admission? Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, the faith-and-family organization based in Colorado Springs that has been riling secular progressives, including yours truly, for many years.

That Daly would let his guard down like this tells you a lot about the change breaking out in evangelical America. It also explains why I brought not just questions but an olive branch as well when I journeyed to Focus on the Family as part of the research for my new book. One good turn does deserve another.

Under the decades-long leadership of James Dobson <http://www.focusonthefamily.com/about_us/james-dobson.aspx> , the group became a catalyst for the Christian right political movement <http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/10/news/la-pn-focus-family-jim-daly-20121109> and took center stage in the culture wars. “Anti-woman,” <http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2010/02/02/focus-family-funding-extremism-millions-dollars-a-time/> “anti-choice” and “anti-gay” <http://msmagazine.com/blog/2011/07/09/toms-joins-forces-with-anti-gay-anti-choice-group/> are the terms often marshaled in liberal discourse today oftentimes when the organization is mentioned. Those plus that ultimate pariah designator: “hate group.” <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/23/978492/-Hate-group-Focus-on-the-Family-admits-defeat-on-gay-marriage>

But the more I have learned about “Focus 2.0 <http://community.focusonthefamily.com/b/jim-daly/archive/2011/07/08/guest-blog-fotf-featured-in-christianity-today.aspx> ,” as some call it, and the more I’ve heard about the changed tone and different emphases coming out of Colorado Springs in the new Daly era, the more I’ve complicated my opinion of the group.

Joining forces

Like many evangelicals, the group has woken up to the downside of the culture war politics and is getting back to basics — which means, in Focus’ case, serving families in the name of Jesus. In addition to de-emphasizing Christian right politics, Daly is reaching out to people who thought they had permanent places on the organization’s enemies list. He publicly credited President Obama for being a good father <http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/06/16/new-focus-on-the-family-chief-wants-more-families-like-obamas> and husband, and he has stood with Christian leaders of varied stripes in calling for humane immigration reform <http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/conservative-ministry-immigration-reform.html> .

I was impressed to learn of Daly and a progressive publisher in Colorado Springs joining forces <http://www.fox21news.com/news/story.aspx?id=772453#.UWb4MqLvuSp> to put on a benefit concert for those whose homes were destroyed in the Waldo Canyon wildfire. I was touched when I learned of the hospitality Focus extended to Soulforce when this gay-rights advocacy organization from Texas came calling last year as part of its Equality Rides <http://www.soulforce.org/> tour — an encounter that ended in hugs and mutual promises to speak of one another in more respectful terms.

Daly’s acknowledgment of fault evokes a wider and welcome development on the evangelical landscape. As these groups steer themselves out of the culture wars, “new evangelicals” are making disarming confessions and apologies. They are repenting of ungenerous rhetoric about their political and cultural rivals, and saying “sorry” for being part of a movement that seemed to care more about enhancing their power and prerogatives than loving their fellow citizens as their savior taught.

Wrong to criticize

Sure, I had some hard questions for Daly when I traveled to Colorado Springs, most having to do with his organization’s continued opposition to gay rights. <http://www.npr.org/2013/03/24/175173113/for-evangelical-leader-gay-marriage-outside-of-gods-design> But, moved by the confessions I’ve been hearing from Daly and many of his fellow evangelicals, I came with some admissions of my own to make.

It was wrong, I said, that many on my side of the political/cultural tracks continued to demonize the organization as all bad and only bad. Same for the way many progressive activists define Focus on the Family as an anti-gay “hate group,” even though the widely respected Southern Poverty Law Center says the group does not deserve <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=CO> that damning designation. Reducing Focus on the Family to these negative labels, I told Daly, “is wrong and unfair. I would not want to be subjected to that, and I’m sure you don’t.”

I disagree with their position on gay marriage and many other issues. Yet I contend that the good being done by Focus on the Family is still good. And while I hope for the day when the group stands up for marriage equality, I can appreciate the steps it has taken to treat gay people and their allies with a new respect.

My call to progressives and seculars: In our understanding of evangelical America, it’s time for an exercise in disaggregation. Not all evangelicals are the same; not everything they do, and believe, is harmful nonsense. Many of the organizations and people we stereotype are changing. And those confessions and apologies we’re hearing? They sound pretty good. Count me as one who is willing to accept them — and reciprocate.

Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland-based writer specializing in religion in public life and author of the new book The Evangelicals You Don’t Know.

Calvary Chapel was named by Church Growth Magazine as one of the fastest growing churches in the nation, ranking eighth in size.  Starting from a home fellowship of just four people, Pastor Bob has received an invaluable education in what God can do when given full reign in the hearts and lives of God’s church.

At the age of 24, Bob left an executive position in the music industry to serve as an associate pastor with Calvary Chapel of Las Vegas.  In 1985, he and his wife, Diane, moved to South Florida and began Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale.  Bob enjoys mining God’s Word and discovering relevant ways to communicate timeless truths to our modern day and age.

Through the media ministry, Pastor Bob’s messages are heard nationally on The Active Word via radio and television. Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale also outreaches in over 80 different ministries from foster care to missions, from benevolence to nursing homes, and from local broadcasting to national radio station outreaches.

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