Question: Focus on the Family, worked on by Paul McCusker, was founded in what year?

Al Gross is an American broadcaster, and host of National Countdown Show.  He is President of Signature Media Group, Inc, which syndicates the show.  He is also a voice actor, and radio broadcast consultant.  Gross was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in Ventura, California.  He studied Pastoral Theology at Liberty University (then Lynchburg Baptist College) in 1973 – 74.  As a broadcaster he worked mostly in Southern California in radio including KWIZ AM & FM in Santa Ana, CA, KEZY in Anaheim, CA, and was the first radio station manager at for Calvary Chapel’s KWVE-FM San Clemente, CA.  In 1987 Gross went to Focus on the Family where he was one of the original writers and contributors for Family News in Focus.  At KBRT-AM 740 (Los Angeles) he was co-host of Mornings with Tim and Al with Tim Berends.  Gross and Berends were voted LA’s “Top Jocks” by readers of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (Hearst Newspapers) in 1986.  Later that year, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed “Tim and Al day in Los Angeles” with an official proclamation.  In 1994, Gross moved to Saint Louis where he co-hosted the morning show on KJSL AM 630 for 14 years. <SEP>  He is best known for his work on "Adventures in Odyssey", a nationally syndicated radio drama, and for his work with Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre. Paul McCusker is an American writer and producer.  He has written over 50 books, 21 plays and 4 musicals.  His best known works are the play "Catacombs", the novels "The Mill House" and "Epiphany", and his audio adaptations of C.S. Lewis's works. <SEP> Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is an American Christian conservative organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by psychologist James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  It is active in promoting an interdenominational effort toward its socially conservative views on public policy.  Focus on the Family is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s. <SEP> The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers (1938- 1966) were an early bluegrass band which included such notable "first generation" bluegrass musicians as Ezra Cline, Bobby Osborne, Paul Williams, Melvin Goins, Charlie Cline, Curly Ray Cline, Larry Richardson and for a short time Jimmy Martin.  The group was started by Ezra Cline and Curly Ray Cline and was originally named "Cousin Ezra and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers".  The Clines came from a large family consisting of musically talented people.  Ray and Charlie's father, Charlie, was a talented banjo player and the women in the family, Geraldine and Bobbi, were great singers.  For reasons unknown, Bobbi and Geraldine never joined the band on the road but often joined in at home, especially when notable Country singers, such as Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and Hank Williams, came visiting.  None of them ever had a music lesson yet excelled on every instrument they touched.  Natives of the Gilbert Creek region of southern West Virginia, Cousin Ezra, along with brothers Ireland (Lazy Ned) and Curly Ray Cline, were part of the original Lonesome Pine Fiddlers from about 1938, a group that worked on radio at WHIS Bluefield, West Virginia.  During World War II, Ned was killed in action.  When the Pine Fiddlers resumed regular daily broadcasts, Charlie, who played multiple instruments, joined them on a regular basis.  Charlie returned to the Fiddlers briefly before becoming a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys.  During 1952-1955, Charlie worked off and on with Monroe, recording some 38 songs, all on Decca.  It has been said that he played every instrument at one time or another in the Monroe group except mandolin.  Charlie spent most of 1953 back with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers working at WJR radio in Detroit.  When Ezra brought the band to Pikeville, Kentucky, in November, Charlie rejoined Bill Monroe.  In 1954, Charlie did a session, playing lead guitar, with the Stanley Brothers and also another one on RCA with the Fiddlers, although he was not otherwise working with them at the time.  He also worked briefly as a sideman with the Osborne Brothers, although he did not record with them.  By 1958, Charlie (electric lead guitar) and his wife, Lee (electric bass), had rejoined Ezra and Curly Ray in the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, who were experimenting with a more modern sound and working a TV show in Huntington, West Virginia, in addition to daily radio in Pikeville.  In his later years, Charlie was with the Stanley Brothers.  Curly Ray also played with the Stanley Brothers at a different time as their fiddler.  Curly Ray was one of the best fiddlers in Bluegrass.  This most talented family of musicians were the best, surpassed by none.  Finally, on October 1, 2009, The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers got their due when they were inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame at the Ryman Theater (the original home of the Grand Ole Opry).  Bobby Osborne, Melvin Goins and Paul Williams were there to receive the bands award.  In the crowd of a sold out theater was the son of Ezra Cline, Scotty Ireland Cline, who recalled being in that same theater as a child sitting on stage and watching the Fiddlers play.  (At the time, the Opry had bleachers for family just off stage).  The final act of the evening at the IBMA Awards was the playing of "Pain in my Heart" by Osborne, Goins and Williams along with a Song from the Dillards, who were also inducted the same evening.