About a quarter of the population of the United States is Catholic. Yet, most people have limited to no Catholic programming offered in their cable and satellite TV packages (anywhere from 0-2 channels). I am extremely thankful for the channels that we do have, but because I’ve seen how effective they’ve been, I’m excited to have many, many more.
We get hundreds of channels on BASIC cable these days. 90% of them are terrible and completely useless. Why is it that there are hardly any Catholic TV stations? Probably because many of us haven’t requested them yet. And we probably haven’t requested them yet because we haven’t known what to request or haven’t been motivated to request them.
CatholicTV is trying to change that. And they’ve got me motivated to help.
When I first saw the quality of their programming, I was baffled as to why I hadn’t heard of them before and why they weren’t in every basic cable package. Especially because CatholicTV is available to carriers free-of-charge! That’s right, your cable or satellite provider can carry CatholicTV for free, you just need to let them know you want it.
That’s why CatholicTV has started a recent campaign to get a lot of digital signatures to support the spread of their programming. All you have to do is go here and fill out the short form to show your support. It takes less than a minute and it will be one of the most well-spent minutes of your day.
Another thing I love about CatholicTV is that, aside from offering some really great programs for Catholics, they have also done a great job of integrating it all with other new media experiences. They have an active blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, a YouTube channel, an iPhone app, 3D TV and even an embeddable video widget called CatholicTVjr (below):
Don’t forget to go show your support!
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Matthew—I’ve done as you asked. Filled in the form and submitted it. And, will ask my Address Book to do the same.
Hopefully, CatholicTV will be as exciting as you make it out to be. Can’t wait to get it.
The current Catholic offerings on Radio and TV are so absymal that I wonder whether there are any Catholics in America at all with any sort of media skills at all. However, I do ENJOY the Mass, whether from Rome or home. Then, I tune out.
Very fortunate here in southern Michigan to have E.W.T.N. on TV and Ava Maria radio. Wer’e getting what wev’e been craving to hear from the pulpit, it’s the real deal, that’s why it’s growing…........
In Rockford, Illinois, we have no less than 4 Protestant radio stations but no Catholic radio at all except from Chicago which has such poor reception we may as well not have it. This is not right.
I just signed up and sent the address to me 267 contacts: www.CatholicTVeverywhere.com
Most current television programming is completely useless. Reality shows,
some talk shows that enjoy profanity, home shopping shows, “judge” shows
all over the place, etc., etc. The Catholic/Christian family needs good
solid Christian programming more than ever. Deliver and they will watch—
and you won’t have to worry what your children and family are being exposed to.
I just want to be a member in catholic media group.
to be able to gain more knowledge about catholic.
Dear Johncams, take a look at CatholicTV on Sky Angel or CatholicTV.com you’ll find great catechetical shows beautiful reflections from priests and lay people all over. If we support CatholicTV like Matt mentions in his article perhaps we can get it on cable in our areas.
We need catholic tv. We have a large active catholic youth group that needs more information and knowledge about our faith. Please provide us with this channel !
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