About Us

“Rupert Salmon-Black Seventh-day Adventist Television Station Owner” “]On November 17, 2020, Rupert Salmon of the Spokane, Washington area became a trailblazer: He bought the television station operated by the Upper Columbia Conference and thus became one of the few black television station owners and in all likelihood became the first black Seventh-day Adventist station owner.

His journey began in Kingston, Jamaica. He immigrated to the United States in 1972, settling in New Jersey. He found out that he had an interest in computer programming and that is where he made his career-in building and developing computers.

He and his wife were homeschooling their children. It was on a trip to a homeschool seminar in Spokane, Washington that he fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and decided to make the cross country move to Spokane. He became a member of the Spokane Valley SDA Church. His gifts and interests led him to the Audio-Visual (AV) department of that church-a department that he wound up heading.

While working there, someone made the life-altering suggestion that he work with Conference TV-station owned and operated by 7 Spokane are Seventh-day Adventist Churches. About 3 years later became a management consultant for the station.

It was while he was doing consulting for the station that he began to be impressed with what must have first seemed to be an outlandish vision: Instead of simply giving recommendations to others about the best way to fulfill their vision for the station, why not buy the station and institute the vision that the Lord had given him?

Who We Are

Pastor Marlo Fralick, first president and board chairman of He’s Alive Television, said, “We are here to shine the light of God’s love to those who live in darkness.”

This has become our short mission statement. There is nothing more important than finding ways to present the Gospel message in such a way and with variety so that people, young and old, rich and poor, from all ideologies and walks of life, can understand how much God loves them.

He’s Alive Television is undergoing a major change. We have recently moved, after 8 years from our previous location. We have also taken the opportunity to upgrade our studio broadcast equipment at a cost of over $40,000 dollars. Unfortunately just as that process was beginning we were informed by the FCC that our channel 39 frequency has been sold and we will need to move to a new channel sometime in the next 2 years at an estimated cost of about $50,000 dollars. Well to our surprise just as we were completing our location move and upgrade, we have again been informed that the company that bought our frequency wanted to take possession by November 27, 2017.