Vic Eliason

Vic Eliason

Victor "Vic" Eliason (1936-) was born in northern Minnesota, 100 miles northwest of
Duluth. Eliason grew up the son of a lay preacher serving at Swedish Baptist Church. Eliason attended Open Bible College, in Des Moines, Iowa, and was ordained in a non-denominational church, in 1958. [Balmer, Randall Herbert, "Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism" (2004), p.228] He also is a former Iowa Youth for Christ worker, a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree given at the 74th Annual Commencement exercises, at Bob Jones University, [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; May 22, 2001] and a licensed pilot.

After moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1959, he founded what has become today the VCY America Radio Network, a conservative Christian broadcasting ministry, based in Milwaukee. [Balmer, Randall Herbert, "Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism" (2004), p.228]

The ministry currently oversees 15-20 stations mostly across the Upper Midwest, depending on the source, [ [http://www.vcyamerica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=73/ Broadcasting Stations] ] ["Crosstalk" - April 7 2008] not including it's Internet site, a 16-hour a day, seven days a week, television station in Milwaukee, which is WVCY-TV30, began in 1982, [Balmer, Randall Herbert, "Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism" (2004), p.228] as well as several "translator" and "satellator" stations. VCY America also provides programming via satellite to stations around the country. The ministry is 100 percent funded through listeners' and supporters' donations.

Eliason is a prominent on-air personality for the network, with duties including being one of the regular hosts for the network's morning public affairs program, "VCY Today", and for the network's weekday afternoon public affairs program, "Crosstalk," which is taped and rebroadcast every weekday evening and is also replayed at Noon, on Saturday, as "Best of Crosstalk". Eliason also provides the voiceovers for the network’s overnight music program, "Music 'Til Dawn", and at various other spots the network needs a voice.

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*cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism |last=Balmer |first=Randall Herbert |year=2004 |publisher=Baylor University Press |isbn=193279204X |pages=p. 228 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Vjwly0QyeU4C&pg=PA659&dq=isbn:193279204X&sig=lox1RcN2T6A9gALQE40hwrOx4-Q#PPA228,M1

* [http://www.vcyamerica.org/ VCYAmerica]


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