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Sounds of the Spirit

American Christian radio network

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7564956 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sounds of the Spirit (S.O.S. Radio) is a network of 28 non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations and FM translators in the Western United States broadcasting a Contemporary Christian music format. The stations and network are owned by Faith Communications, a non-profit corporation.

Faith Communications has offices and studios on South 6th Street off East Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas. In addition to music, the network also carries several national Christian talk and teaching programs: Focus on the Family, Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll and In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley.

Stations

Sounds of the Spirit is a network of seven radio stations and 21 FM translators. The network's flagship station is 90.5 KSOS in Las Vegas.

Full-powered stations

Translators

In addition to its full-powered stations, Sounds of the Spirit is relayed by an additional 21 translators.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sounds of the Spirit” is american Christian radio network. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sounds, Spirit and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 136-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sounds, Spirit and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sounds of the Spirit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.