New Evangelization Television
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| Launched | 1988 |
| Owned by | DeSales Media Group, a subsidiary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | "It's Good TV" |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | 1712 10th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Formerly called | The Prayer Channel (1988 — December 8, 2008) |
| Website | netny.tv |
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| Cable | |
| Time Warner Cable of New York City | Channel 97 |
| Cablevision of Brooklyn | Channel 30 |
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| netny.tv | Live stream |
New Evangelization Television, or NET, is a Christian-centered cable television channel based in Brooklyn, New York, formerly known as The Prayer Channel. The channel broadcasts news, entertainment, children’s shows, and music, as well as religious programs.
In 1960, six superintendents from the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Brooklyn, Rockville Center, Bridgeport, Newark and Jersey City, as well as the Archdiocese of New York, decided to use television as a means of education within their parochial schools. In 1965, production by the Brooklyn diocese began on educational and religious shows for Catholic schools in the area, under the name Instructional Television Associates (ITA). In 1966, the newly reflagged Catholic Television Network (CTN) began broadcast from Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School in Brooklyn. CTN still produces religious and educational material for schools.
Initially broadcast during excess time on the schedule (after school, on weekends and during summertime), The Prayer Channel was spun off from CTN in 1988. The Prayer Channel was developed via an advisory group of people in church media and diocesan agencies. Also, surveys were conducted within parishes to develop what this new channel would be. It began broadcasting as a daytime channel — either 8 am or 8:30 am until 4 pm or 4:30 pm. Gradually it added weekend daytime, then expanded to 10 pm and then twenty-four hours in 1990. The first programming schedules had a small percentage of in-house programming. Series produced by the channel included Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Sacred Songs and The Rosary.
The channel was seen on all four cable systems serving New York City at the time, with Cablevision being the fourth to add the channel in late 1989. By 1989, it was available to 125,000 people and broadcast seven days a week from Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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