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EWTN HD Launches on Comcast in Richmond Area
    RICHMOND– EWTN Global Catholic Network is pleased to announce that its new high definition network is now available to Comcast Digital TV customers in the Richmond area, including the City of Richmond as well as Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa and Powhatan Counties. EWTN HD is available on Comcast’s Digital Starter channel 799 in these areas.

` “We are proud to say that we are the only Catholic television network available in this format,” said EWTN President and CEO Michael P. Warsaw.

EWTN has been serving Catholics, the largest faith group in the United States, using every form of technology for 28 years. The Faith never looked so good! EWTN Global Catholic Network is available in over 160 million television households in more than 140 countries and territories. With its direct broadcast satellite television and radio services, AM & FM radio networks, worldwide short-wave radio station, Internet website www.ewtn.com and publishing arm, EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world.

History of programming

EWTN's Founder, Mother Angelica

In its early history, EWTN broadcast Catholic-produced programming from a wide variety of Catholic sources. This ranged from Catholic charismatic programming such as Fr. Michael Manning, to shows focusing on social reform and social justice, such as Christopher Closeup, to doctrinal teaching shows hosted by various priests and bishops.
In the early 1990s, EWTN began producing more of its own shows. This marked a distinctive conservative shift in the network's overall orientation, with programs featuring topics on social reform and justice gradually being phased out and replaced with general doctrinal teaching and discussion programs. This shift was apparent in the daily televised Masses, which, in 1992, began incorporating Latin into the liturgy and gradually no longer featuring contemporary music. Some non televised masses are in all English. On Christmas Eve 1993, Mother Angelica and the nuns of her order reverted to traditional habits.
EWTN has programs discussing non-Catholic beliefs from the Catholic perspective, such as The Journey Home. Guests are generally former Protestants or "cradle Catholics" who left the Catholic faith and later returned. Former adherents of non-Christian faiths such as Judaism and former atheists have occasionally appeared.
Sunday Night Live with Fr. Benedict Groeschel (who has worked with EWTN since their beginning) hosts religious discussions. Viewers' questions can be answered from both a spiritual and a psychological perspective; in addition to being a priest, Fr. Groeschel is also a trained psychologist. As of March 2011, due to format changes, the program has been renamed "Sunday Night Prime."
EWTN HD, a high definition simulcast of EWTN, became available to affiliates on December 8, 2009. Network CEO Michael P. Warsaw said "We chose to launch HD in December so we could bring our viewers all the beautiful images of the Christmas season using the most advanced technology. We are proud to say that we are the only Catholic television network available in this format."^[6] The HD feed first became available to Comcast customers in Richmond, VA and vicinity on May 11, 2010.^[7]
Often, EWTN airs special programming: coverage of the deaths of popes; papal conclaves, elections, inaugurations and visits; Easter, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day Masses; the installations of bishops, archbishops, and cardinals; and World Youth Day.

TV católica investe em programação secular para enfrentar TVs evangélicas

março 1, 2011 Por (nome do autor) inforgospel.com · Deixe um Comentário
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Menos missas e mais entretenimento. Criada há cinco anos para enfrentar o crescimento dos evangélicos, a TV Aparecida, da Igreja Católica, tem investido em uma programação laica como estratégia para se diferenciar de emissoras irmãs, como a Canção Nova, e atingir um público maior.
A grade do canal, no início totalmente religiosa, hoje exibe programas como o “Brasil Off-Road”, para fãs de esportes radicais, e o “Sabor de Vida”, com dicas de

Imagem do programa "Brasil Off Road", da TV Aparecida

gastronomia e saúde.
A TV é administrada pelo Santuário Nacional de Aparecida (a 180 km de São Paulo).
A emissora passou ainda a exibir desenhos e filmes. O último pacote comprado inclui títulos como “O Pianista” e “Oliver Twist”, do cineasta Roman Polanski, além do brasileiro “Amor & Cia”, estrelado por Patrícia Pillar, Marco Nannini e Alexandre Borges.
“O que nos define é a programação religiosa. Mas nós não queremos ser uma TV piegas. Nós somos diferentes em relação às outras TVs católicas porque nós temos uma programação diferenciada. Nós ousamos falar a quem não quer nos ouvir”, diz o reitor do Santuário Nacional, padre Darci Nicioli.
Segundo ele, a emissora quer falar “com todos os segmentos da igreja” e “dialogar com a sociedade”. E, apesar de não veicular só conteúdo religioso, sua programação “é permeada de maneira muito sutil pelos valores do evangelho”.
A Aparecida é transmitida para todo o Brasil por parabólica e em 174 cidades pela TV aberta e paga. Neste ano, inaugura a sua transmissão digital para toda a Grande São Paulo (investimento de cerca de R$ 6 milhões).

Fonte: Folha – post inforgospel.com.br