THE NIELSEN COMPANY ADDS SOAR RADIO TO NATIONAL NIELSEN BDS GOSPEL PANEL
SOAR Is The First Gospel Internet Station
To Be Monitored By Nielsen BDS
ROCKFORD, IL-��SOAR Radio made history this week when The Nielsen�Company��officially added it as the�first gospel internet radio station on the official Nielsen BDS Gospel National�Airplay��panel. “We are all excited�at the credibility this classification brings our station,” says CEO/Founder�Justin Djuane Francis. “We’ve been working on this for a while so I’m really�excited that it has now come to fruition.” The Nielsen Broadcast Data System�(BDS) monitors airplay detections of songs and provides the data that Billboard�Magazine uses for its various charts.
“We are so thrilled to welcome SOAR Radio into the�Nielsen home. It will be the first to set the tone for many gospel internet�radio stations to come,” says Andrew Forsyth, Nielsen Operations Consultant. SOAR�Radio is only the sixteenth internet radio station that Nielsen monitors in the�entire�world.
SOAR Radio was established on August 1, 2014 in Rockford,�IL. The 24/7 station is the leading source of inspirational and gospel music in�the Rockford area and the MidWest region. SOAR Radio has hosted more than twenty�talk shows and music programs.
Currently, SOAR Radio is the�home of the “JD�Morning Show,” which highlights news topics, inspirational dialogue, new gospel�music and hot topics of the hour. It is hosted by Justin Djuane Francis and�area personalities. “Happy Times” and “Reach out and Touch the Hem of His�Garment,” as well as “Radiant Life” have�been fan favorites since the station’s�beginnings. More recently, SOAR has added new shows, such as “Dr.
Williams�Live,” “W.I.N.” and a daytime show live from New York hosted by Bro. Ron called�”Kingdom Fly Radio.” On Saturdays, SOAR Radio highlights�the best in Soul and R&B with DJ�Rated AG.
“Justin is a trailblazer and has shown that persistence�and hard work pays off,” says Bill Carpenter, CEO of Capital Entertainment, a�company that has provided public relations consultation to Tyscot Records, Time�Life Music, Warner Bros. Records, Sony Legacy and the Capitol Christian Music�Group.
Justin Djuane Francis has been active in the gospel arena�since the age of thirteen. At the age of 18, he wrote and placed his first commercial�recording with New Haven Records artist Joshua’s Troop. It led to a five-song�publishing deal with SONY BMG.
Since then, Justin has written songs for�a�variety of gospel artists such as Virtue, Darwin Hobbs, Amber Bullock, Damita�Haddon, Lowell Pye, and L. Spenser Smith. SOAR Radio can be heard across the�internet directly at soarradio.com or by downloading the Soar Radio app from�mobile devices.