Using today’s digital satellite technology and interfacing with your local computer, CHRSN is able to ID your station between every song, and offer local breakaways each hour for your local station commercials, PSAs, and underwriting, as well as local news and weather reports, and community information. We never say "WAY-FM" on your station. Instead we brand your station between every single song. As a matter of fact, your listeners will think that CHRSN announcers are living right in their hometown!

CHRSN is transmitted via satellite to a receiver at your location which then interfaces with your local automation system. Once your equipment is set up correctly, you’ll be able to seamlessly integrate local programming elements into the network programming to provide a professional sounding local radio station.

We don’t sell radio equipment, but we can help you find it.

• -A Dish
• -LNB
• -Comstream satellite receiver
• -Local computer automation system

Your satellite dish must be Ku-band rated, and be 2 degree compliant to lock onto the signal. We recommend a 1.8m size for most all locations, although stations closer to the "center of the footprint" of the satellite can use a 1.2m dish. A sample of the needed equipment can be found at www.satcomresources.com which is a preferred supplier of equipment for our network. A "PLL" type LNB's rated for Ku-band with a minimum stability of 100Khz is the next piece of equipment, and finally, you must have a Comstream ABR series satellite receiver - either the Model 200, 202, or 202a. The signal will travel to the sky back down to you, through your LNB, and dish, to your receiver, where it then goes out on the airwaves all the while talking to your local computer automation system.

Your dish will be pointed at AMC-1 (formerly called GE-1) Ku satellite (located at 103 degrees W) and with the PLL LNB in the Horizontal Polarization. We recommend a local satellite service be used to site your dish, since they usually have expertise in finding the various satellite locations. If you have access to a spectrum analyzer, you can look for the beacon on AMC-1 at 1226.5 Mhz (H)