Family & Media
Family & Media
Family & Media aims to represent the interest of its members by taking an
active part in public life through media commentaries in the press, radio
and TV. Part of this is the involvement in media policy issues in
Norway and the European Union.
The Internet Newsletter Nyhetsbrevet is widely quoted in the Norwegian
daily and periodic press. You find us on the Web at
www.fom.no and
www.barnevakten.no
Christian Vision
Christian Vision
is a non-profit charitable company founded in the United Kingdom on biblical
principles by Bob Edmiston in December 1988.
The company has
its head office in West Bromwich, England, just 10km from the city of
Birmingham. Christian Vision has other facilities in the United States, Brazil,
Chile, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, East Timor, India and Australia.
Christian Vision
is committed to bringing people into a relationship with Jesus and has developed
a number of global strategies to achieve this, including "Touch a Billion" –
using Christian broadcasting to introduce listeners to Jesus and "Impact a
Nation" – a series of Mission projects which aim to improve the spiritual
climate of a Nation.
More information
about us and what we do can be found at
www.christianvision.com
3xM
Objective
The
advancement of the proclamation of the Word of God and it’s carry-over
in daily life through television.
Vision
To support
local organizations in Africa, Eurasia and Eastern Europe with
equipment, training, finances and advice to enable them to produce their
own local Christian television programs for their national TV stations.
Foundation
The Bible
as the inspired (infallible) Word of God.
Motivation
We strive
to unite Christians in spreading the essence of the Word of God through
television so that the world will see that we are one, just as Jesus
prayed according to John 17.
For
more information you can visit our website at
www.3xm-online.org
Trans World Radio
Trans World Radio is an international
Christian broadcasting ministry that has been proclaiming the Good News of God's
unfailing love for five decades. From humble beginnings in Tangier, Morocco, TWR
has become the most far-reaching Christian radio network in the world. Each
week, TWR broadcasts Gospel
programmes in more than 180 languages and dialects from 13 super-power
transmitting sites, via more than 2,300 local stations, and by satellite to listeners
in over 160 countries.
An
international staff of around
1,000 co-operate with Christian broadcasters, programme producers, mission
agencies, local churches, and individuals.
The European region of Trans World Radio
includes the Middle East, North Africa, Russia, the CIS,
and Central Asia as well as Europe. To serve this vast and diverse region, TWR
has 6 offices sprinkled across the region. The 87 staff members are almost as
diverse as the region they serve! Nationalities include American, Australian,
Austrian, British, Canadian, Dutch, Egyptian, French, German, Hungarian,
Jordanian, Moroccan, Palestinian, Russian, Slovak, South African, Swedish,
Swiss, and Turkish. The staff works closely with 29 Partner organizations in
29 countries to reach the European region with the living, liberating
message of the Gospel.
For more information,
please click online at:
www.twr.org
United Christian Broadcasters are a Christian charity and one of the UK's
leading Christian media ministries. We aim to broadcast quality
Christian radio programming, on digital satellite, cable and the web, to
provide practical, insightful
Christian Television, encourage people through
The Word For Today /
The Word 4U 2Day and offer prayer support through our
Prayerline.
UCB2GO is our mail order side where we want to offer good quality Christian
resources to help you and the people you know grow with Christ. The latest
addition to the UCB family is
UCB Mobile. Through this we want to be able to encourage people with
scripture and prayer, wherever and whenever they need it.
For more information on UCB, please visit us on the web at
www.ucb.co.uk. EO International This process is served
via a 24-hour Astra radio programme (analogue and digital),
weekly TV broadcasts on about 40 channels (analogue and digital
on Astra as well as by cable) and daily ones on Bibel-TV (Astra
and cable digital.) Two portals to ERF's web presence and its
multifaceted ministries there are:
www.erf.de
and
www.cina.de.
ERF Switzerland ERF Switzerland is
the largest Christian radio and TV organisation in Switzerland with a focus on
faith and society. The purpose of ERF Switzerland is to address the claims of
the Gospel in Radio and TV. These programmes should assist people to discover
faith and to live a life according to scripture. The radio and TV programmes of
ERF are supplied to local and international stations. In Switzerland
approximately 20 stations request radio programmes from ERF on a regular basis.
Short clips, reports and the coverage of current events form parts of the range
of programmes. ERF together with
its partner ALPHAVISION has produced since 1995 a weekly TV programme FENSTER
ZUM SONNTAG on the national Swiss Television SF2. On October 1,
2005 ERF started the first Christian Radio, Life Channel, in the German
speaking part of Switzerland. The new Christian Radio broadcasts a wide range of
different programmes regarding current events and daily topics. The
broadcasts are arranged with programmes true-to-life and cover Short clips,
portraits and talk-programmes as well as music and programmes with a counselling
focus. The target audience are people from the age of 30 years upwards. But also
programmes for children and young people are produced by Life Channel. All programmes
produced according to journalistic rules have the one common objective to
discuss issues of faith in public. Broadcasting
for 43 years ERF was founded in
1959 in Wetzlar (near Frankfurt) Germany, as a German speaking organisation. ERF
Switzerland was founded in 1973. Together with its international partner
organisation TWR (Trans World Radio 9 broadcasts ERF programmes in over 200
languages worldwide. Moreover, ERF
Switzerland supports the humanitarian aid projects “Afrika soll leben” (Africa
challenge). ERF is confessionally and politically neutral. The supporting
constituency is made up of members of the state church and a large variety of
evangelical churches. The necessary funding for the operation of the media work
approximately 5 Million Swiss Franks are made up from donations and legacies.
Established and
attractive Swiss local radio
broadcasters and the national TV channel SF2 appreciate the programmes from ERF.
Although the local radio broadcasters were initially sceptic towards religious
programmes, today they gladly accept the professionally produced programmes in
their broadcast schedule. About 500 programmes are being aired on local stations
annually. It seems that the staff of ERF (36 employees and a lot of freelancers)
is able to produce Christian programmes which are of interest and attract a
broad selection of the Swiss population. For further
information: ERF
Switzerland, Verena Birchler Tel.:
+41 44 953 35 35
Family & Media is one of Europe’s largest listeners and viewers associations
with 25">
Family & Media is one of Europe’s largest listeners and viewers associations
with 25,000 Individual Members and 31 Corporate Members
(churches/missions/denominations). One of the goals of Family & Media is to
promote Christian broadcasting in Norway and around the world. The
association has been instrumental in the development of local FM-radio
and owns part of Kristen Riksradio, a national radio initiative serving
local radios with Christian programming.
Part of Family & Media is also an association for parents: Child Minder (BarneVakten)
with members from different faiths and interest groups.
United Christian Broadcasters Ltd (UCB)
EO and the Public Broadcasting System in The
Netherlands are under pressure.
EO also moves from Channel 2 to Channel 1, which means that we are
going to cooperate with KRO (Roman Catholic) and NRCV (Christian). The profile of the
channel will become more important than the broadcaster's profile, which makes it more
difficult for a public broadcaster to characterize herself. Question is if a broadcaster
is still identifiable (like EO's mission).
At this moment EO cooperates with TROS (a neutral broadcaster) with regard to the daily
programme on current affairs. One of the results of the move to the first channel is that
this cooperation will end and we wil be part of the new (daily) programme on current
affairs Netwerk.
Another change is the centralisation of programme acquisitions. At this moment every
public broadcaster has its own acquisition department. In the (very near) future there
will be only one acquistion department for all public broadcasters. Fortunately EO will
have a special position as we are focusing on positive, Christian programmes and we can't
expect others/non-christians to buy programmes on our behalf without knowing what to look
for.
It is obvious that EO and the other public broadcasters are facing difficult times. The
once so famous public broadcasting system of the Netherlands will undergo a lot of drastic
changes. Within 5 or 10 years it will be totally different from what it used to be for
many, many years.
For further information visit www.eo.nl
International Media Ministries
International Media Ministries (IMM) has recently completed a move from Brussels,
Belgium to Madrid, Spain.
John Merrell, IMM Executive Director said, "We are thrilled with new opportunities
and open doors for IMM as a result of our move. And Madrid is a great media resource
centre. Now that we are located in the Spanish language world, our connection with
Latin and South America is more active. We continue to focus on the things that IMM
has become known for over its rich 21 year history - training students, consulting with
developing nations, providing engineering help, and producing programmes in partnership
with a wide variety of broadcasters. All of this - to establish a global witness of Christ
through media."
IMM is a part of the Assemblies of God World Missions programme. Their new contact
information is:
International Media Ministries
APDO 2001
28801 Alcala de Henares
(Madrid) SPAIN
tel: +34 91 879 3947
info@imm.edu
www.imm.edu
ERF Deutschland
Tel +49 6441 957-0, Fax +49 6441 957-120.
P.O. Box 383
CH-8330 Pfäffikon/ZH
Switzerland
Fax: +41 44 953 35 01
Email:
vbirchler@erf.ch