CatholicTV
| CatholicTV Network | |
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| Launched | January 1, 1955 |
| Owned by | iCatholic Media |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Slogan | America's Catholic Television Network |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | 34 Chestnut Street, Watertown, MA |
| Formerly called | Catholic Television Center / WIHS (1955–1964), BCTV (1964–2006) |
| Website | CatholicTV.com |
| Verizon FiOS (New England) | Channel 296 |
| Available on selected cable systems nationwide and many New England systems | Check local listings for channels |
| Streaming media | |
| Digital media receiver | Roku |
| Digital media receiver | Apple TV |
| Digital media receiver | Google TV |
| LIVE HD Stream | CatholicTVLIVE.com |
CatholicTV is a Catholic television network based in Watertown, Massachusetts. It is distributed on cable television systems and broadcast stations in sixteen U.S. states and the US Virgin Islands and via internet television.
CatholicTV broadcasts programming relevant to Catholic viewers, including live religious services, talk shows, devotional programs, educational series, entertainment, and children's programs. The network regularly presents coverage of liturgies and special events at the Vatican and during papal journeys.
As of 2016, the president of the CatholicTV Network is Bishop Robert P. Reed.
The first program of the Catholic Television Center of the Archdiocese of Boston was produced on the morning of January 1, 1955 when Archbishop Richard J. Cushing celebrated a Pontifical Low Mass in studios at 25 Granby Street near Kenmore Square in Boston. From that studio, equipped with three RCA TK31 cameras, the Center produced live and tape-recorded programs, and it purchased time from local commercial television stations to air the Sunday Mass each week. Live programs were transmitted to the broadcasting stations through a leased-line telephone connection. In 1961 the Catholic Television Center's studios became the temporary home of educational broadcaster WGBH-TV when that station's studios were destroyed in a fire.
In 1957 the Catholic Television Center acquired a license to operate its own broadcasting station in Boston on channel 38 in the new UHF range of television channels. It adopted the call sign WIHS, and put WIHS-TV into service on October 12, 1964, with transmitting facilities on the Prudential Tower in Boston. It was the first full-time Catholic television station in the world employing a general entertainment format along with the daily and Sunday Mass. On July 27, 1966, Storer Broadcasting acquired WIHS for $2,276,513.16 and renamed it as WSBK-TV.
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