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TTPBA honours legacy of gospel radio pioneer, Margaret Elcock

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1476 days ago
20210705
Family Focus Broadcasting Network CEO, Margaret Elcock.

Family Focus Broadcasting Network CEO, Margaret Elcock.

The Trinidad & To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) has paid trib­ute to the late Mar­garet El­cock, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of I.S.A.A.C. 98.1 FM the Promise and the Fam­i­ly Fo­cus Broad­cast­ing Net­work, fol­low­ing her pass­ing over the week­end.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment, the TTP­BA ob­serves that Mar­garet El­cock was a vi­sion­ary and a pi­o­neer, who changed the land­scape of lo­cal broad­cast­ing.

The full text of the TTP­BA state­ment, fol­lows…

 

PRESS RE­LEASE BY THE TRINIDAD & TO­BA­GO PUB­LISH­ERS & BROAD­CAST­ERS AS­SO­CI­A­TION: MRS. MAR­GARET EL­COCK

 

The Board and Mem­bers of the Trinidad & To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) ex­tend their heart­felt con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, loved ones and the ISAAC 98.1 FM fra­ter­ni­ty, on the pass­ing of gospel ra­dio pi­o­neer, Mrs. Mar­garet El­cock.

We ho­n­our her mem­o­ry as she en­vi­sioned and es­tab­lished, in 2002, the first twen­ty-four-hour gospel sta­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Led by the de­sire to do much more than host one ra­dio pro­gramme (Sounds Glo­ri­ous on 95.1 FM), she brought in­to be­ing I.S.A.A.C 98.1 FM the Promise. By 2012, it had be­come the “sec­ond most lis­tened to sta­tion among the na­tion’s thir­ty-eight ra­dio fre­quen­cies, and num­ber one on Sat­ur­days and Sun­days”.

On May 03, 2016, (World Press Free­dom Day) the TTP­BA ho­n­oured Mrs. El­cock with its Award for Me­dia Ex­cel­lence for her:

“Out­stand­ing and pi­o­neer­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the de­vel­op­ment of ra­dio in Trinidad and To­ba­go, be­com­ing the first fe­male own­er and CEO of a ra­dio sta­tion, es­tab­lish­ing the first twen­ty-four-hour gospel sta­tion, and be­ing the dri­ving force be­hind pro­grammes de­signed to counter the neg­a­tives in our so­ci­ety, shap­ing, re­build­ing and pro­mot­ing fam­i­ly life via the me­dia”.

May she rest in the ever­last­ing arms of her heav­en­ly Fa­ther.


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