Father Peter Karam has died at the age of 83. He was ordained into the priesthood in 1967 and across more than three decades was providing a weekly Sunday night program on 2LM plus daily 60 second Thought of the Days.
Greg Cary who worked with Karam said on Facebook:
“Peter was a wonderful man and I remember my time with him at 2LM in the late 70s fondly. He was an outstanding broadcaster and a trailblazer in how he related religion and his faith to the wider community.”
A requiem mass will be held in Ballina on Saturday June 14 followed by private interment.
The passing of Fr Karam and his involvement in education and media reminds me particularly that there is a lack of religious and spiritual programs on mainstream radio.
https://www.lisjclism.catholic.edu.au/enewsletter?nid=72
While community radio stations offer religious services for their particular cultural and denomination mainstream radio stations are lacking religious shows.
Sure in Sydney is served by The Rev Bill Crews on 2GB on Sunday evenings.
However one presenter is not enough. A few years back, Sydney radio had a number of religious presenters.
2UW and 2SM had Fr Jim McLaren, 2CH had The Rev. Roger Bush, 2GB had Fr Peter, 2KA had Fr Luke.
For a while, religious programming was replaced by psychic readings and numerology.
Then that disappeared.
What ever hapoened to religious programming on mainstream radio?
You may belong to a particular cultural and religious group but live out of reach of the community broadcaster's area, let alone if coverage is streamed online.
My thoughts.
Anthony, Strathfield South, in the land of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation.