Career
in 1959 Eliason and his wife, Freda (born 13 February 1935), moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1960 Eliason became interim director of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin chapter of Youth for Christ. In May 1961 Eliason went on the air with Voice of Christian Youth, a 30-minute youth-oriented radio show over WBON-FM in Milwaukee. Soon after the ministry had expanded to a full broadcast day, resulting in 1970 in Eliason purchasing WBON for $315,000 and renaming it WVCY. In 1976 Eliason started Crosstalk, a radio talk show with himself as host.
Eliason founded Voice of Christian Youth, later renamed the VCY America Radio Network, a conservative Christian broadcasting ministry, based in Milwaukee. VCY currently oversees 15-20 stations mostly across the Upper Midwest, depending on the source, not including its Internet site, a 24-hour a day, seven days a week, television station in Milwaukee, which is WVCY-TV30, began in 1982, 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. He also sits in on various days for the network's nationally broadcast weekday afternoon public affairs program, Crosstalk, which is taped and rebroadcast every weekday evening; one of those broadcasts is also replayed at noon (CDT) on Saturday as Best of Crosstalk. Eliason also provides the voiceovers for the network's overnight music program, Music 'Til Dawn, which features "mostly conservative, ministry-oriented inspirational music", where tunes are interspersed with verses from the Bible and life-affirming comments.
In 1978 Eliason established the Voice of Christian Youth school, a private Christian K-12 School at 3434 W. Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee. In the early 1990s, the Voice of Christian Youth School merged with Faith Christian Academy and the name of the school was formally changed to Badger State Baptist School, and was relocated to 1170 W. Windlake Ave, Milwaukee.
In 1983 Eliason started WVCY-TV on Channel 30 in Milwaukee. In September 1994 the WVCY-TV board rejected a purchase offer of $10 million from CBS.
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