NationMaster - Encyclopedia: CatholicTV

CatholicTV is a television and on-line provider that broadcasts and distributes Catholic religious programming, via cable, satellite and the Internet. The aim of CatholicTV is to connect "people of faith". Through what it considers relevant, inspiring and prayerful programming, the station's mission is to educate, teaching the wisdom of god in the Catholic tradition, endeavoring to move people of all ages, cultures and attitudes toward the fullness of life. Religious is a term with both a technical definition and folk use. ... A cable is two or more wires or optical fibers bound together, typically in a common protective jacket or sheath. ... A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ...

Catholic Television in Boston (CatholicTV) was born on the morning of January 1, 1955 when Archbishop Richard J. Cushing celebrated a Pontifical Low Mass in the new Catholic Television studios on Granby Street in Boston. Since that morning, CatholicTV has offered the Mass, live on Sunday and weekdays and a wide variety of Catholic educational and inspirational programming. This includes live talk shows such as "This Is The Day," the daily Rosary, the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Benediction, catachetical programs, music shows, entertainment/variety shows, youth and children's programming. CatholicTV of Boston is also associated with Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV) and provides live coverage of world Catholic events from the Vatican such as the death of Pope John Paul II and the election and journeys of Pope Benedict XVI and more. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Until the changes brought in following the Second Vatican Council, a Low Mass or Missa Lecta was one said by a priest alone, with the assistance of one or two servers. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... A benediction is a short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually after a church worship service. ... Official papal image of John Paul II. His Holiness Pope John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtyła (born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland), is the current Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: ; born April 16, 1927 as Joseph Alois Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany) is the 265th reigning pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. ...

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Broadcast television in the Boston market (Nielsen DMA #5)
WGBH 2 (PBS) - WBZ 4 (CBS) - WCVB 5 (ABC) - WHDH 7 (NBC) - WFXT 25 (Fox) - WHDN 26 (DW) - WUNI 27 (UNI) - WTMU 32 / WNEU 60 (TEL) - WSBK 38 (UPN/Ind.) WGBX 44 (PBS) - WWDP 46 (ShopNBC) - WYDN 48 (DS) - WLVI 56 (The WB/The CW) (The Tube on DT2) - WMFP 62 (S@H/JTV) - WUTF 66 (TFU) - WBPX 68 (i) Terrestrial television (also known as over-the-air, OTA, or broadcast television) is the traditional method of television broadcast signal delivery, by radio waves transmitted through open space, usually carrying unencrypted signals. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... WGBH is an established public television and public radio broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... WBZ-TV, CBS 4, is the CBS television owned-and-operated station serving the Boston, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire television markets. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... WCVB-TV is the ABC affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... WHDH-TV has been the NBC affiliate in the Boston, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire television markets since January 2, 1995. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... WFXT, channel 25, is an owned-and-operated station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... WHDN-LP is a digital, low-power television station in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasting locally on UHF channel 26. ... This article is about the German international broadcaster. ... WUNI, channel 27, is the Univision television affiliate for the Greater Boston market. ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... WTMU-LP is a LPTV station serving the Boston market. ... WNEU is a television station serving the Boston market, but licenced to Merrimack, New Hampshire. ... Telemundo is a U.S. television network based in Hialeah, Florida. ... WSBK-TV, channel 38, is the Boston, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire UPN affiliate. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. ... An independent station is a television station that is not affiliated with any network. ... WGBH is an established public television and public radio broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... WWDP is a television station in the Boston market. ... ShopNBC is a cable shopping network, owned by NBC Universal. ... WYDN is a television station in the Boston market. ... DayStar is a evangelical Christian satellite network and production company. ... WLVI-TV (WB 56) is The WB television affiliate serving Boston, Massachusetts. ... The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ... The CW Television Network, or more casually The CW, is a new television network in the United States set to launch for the 2006-07 television season. ... The Tube Music Network is a music video network carried on select digital television subchannels and digital cable systems. ... WMFP is a television station in the Boston market. ... The Shop at Home Network, more commonly known as just Shop at Home, is a television network in the United States that has been owned by The E.W. Scripps Company since 2002. ... Jewelry Television is an American broadcast television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. ... WUTF-TV is a television station in the Boston market. ... Telefutura is a Spanish-language television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida. ... WBPX, channel 68, is the i television station owned by Paxson Communications, serving the Boston market. ... The correct title of this article is i (TV network). ...
Local and regional cable television channels
CN8 - NECN - NESN - FSN New England - Boston Catholic Television - CatholicTV - TV3 Medford

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