(NASHVILLE, TN) — CCM Journal, the preeminent voice of the Christian music scene, has been acquired from Salem Media Group by Logan and Amanda Sekulow. Plans for a full model relaunch can be introduced at a later date, nevertheless new content material will start instantly at CCMmagazine.com, YouTube and social media platforms.
The brand new homeowners can be making a community of unique content material with an expansive editorial and digital group, together with streaming video, podcasts and far more.
“CCM has a long time of unimaginable archives and we’re diving in,” says Logan Sekulow. “We grew up on CCM and it’s time to offer correct respect to the historical past of the style and to people who bought us right here.”
Initially based in 1978, the long-lasting music publication was the primary to coin the phrase “CCM” for Up to date Christian Music which had beforehand been identified merely as “Jesus Music.” Because the Up to date Christian Music scene mushroomed right into a billion greenback trade, “Christian music” turned extensively thought to be an precise style, although it included rock, pop, hip-hop, punk, steel and different types of music.
“Salem and the Sekulow household have labored collectively for greater than 30 years,” says David P. Santrella, Chief Govt Officer at Salem Media Group. “As Salem focuses extra on the audiences associated to our Christian Educating and Discuss and our Information Discuss content material, we’re thrilled to place CCM Journal into the palms of a passionate and succesful group that can develop and preserve the integrity of the product.”
“We sit up for partnering with and showcasing Christian media and creators in all kinds,” says Amanda Sekulow. “We consider the longer term may be very brilliant for Christian media. Now we have seen wonderful creators arrive to the scene and CCM Journal will as soon as once more be the premier outlet to showcase how God is shifting in inventive methods. The brand new period begins now.”
About Logan Sekulow:
Logan Sekulow is a dynamic filmmaker, producer, podcaster, and tv/radio host whose inventive imaginative and prescient has left an indelible mark on the leisure trade. His journey started on the iconic youngsters’ community Nickelodeon, the place he honed his abilities earlier than getting into the highlight because the creator and host of the groundbreaking Christian music late-night present, The Logan Present.
His credit as a producer and director embrace the function movies Jingle Smells and As Dreamers Do: The Superb Lifetime of Walt Disney, in addition to the award-winning documentaries Welcome Residence, Dick Van Dyke and God Bless Vegas. He additionally introduced his cinematic experience to the world {of professional} wrestling as a producer of the episodic wrestling sequence, Dojo Professional.
About Amanda Sekulow:
A inventive powerhouse with a profession spanning the music trade, broadcasting, design, and ministry, Amanda Sekulow made waves because the co-creator and co-host of What Girls Binge with Melissa Joan Hart (2022–2024), a wildly profitable podcast that explored popular culture, leisure, and superstar interviews with humor and coronary heart.
Past the mic, Amanda is a former Mrs. Tennessee United States (2011), and a sought-after set designer, illustrator, and inventive advisor, shaping the visible identification of some of popular culture’s largest initiatives. Her work has just lately been featured within the launch movies for Bethany Pleasure Lenz’s Trendy Classic Information and the pro-wrestling sequence Dojo Professional on Amazon Video. She additionally illustrated the kids’s e book Proud to Be an American by Lee Greenwood.
About Salem Media Group, Inc.:
Salem Media Group is America’s main multimedia firm specializing in Christian and conservative content material, with media properties comprising radio, digital media and e book and e-newsletter publishing. Every day Salem serves a loyal and devoted viewers of listeners, readers and viewers numbering within the thousands and thousands nationally. With its distinctive content material focus, Salem supplies compelling audio and video programming, textual content content material, contemporary commentary and related data from a few of the most revered figures throughout the Christian and conservative media panorama. Study extra about Salem Media Group, Inc. at www.salemmedia.com.
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