ERF Media (Switzerland)

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ERF Medien is a Swiss specialist editorial team in the field of Faith and Society. As a media company, it produces TV and radio reports for Germany and abroad on topics related to the Christian faith. They serve Swiss and international radio and television stations and operate Radio Life Channel . ERF Medien is organized in the legal form of an association . Since May 26, 2003 it has been recorded in the Zurich commercial register under the name “ERF Switzerland”, later “ERF Medien”.

The publication organ Life Channel Magazin, formerly «antenne», appears monthly and provides information on programs and topics.

It is financed through donations, bequests, sponsoring, advertising and publishing revenues. ERF Medien Switzerland began in 2016 7.3 million Swiss francs to. The issues included u. a. Obligations in the worldwide radio aid projects and partnerships of 540,000 francs annually.

Programs

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ERF Medien has been running the first Swiss Christian radio program, Radio Life Channel, since October 1, 2005 . The program can be received as a live stream and an archive of 12,000 audio and video contributions is available for retrieval. ERF Medien has been running the Life Channel Talk since November 2018. Life stories, discussions and conversations without music interruption around the clock via streaming and podcast .

In addition, around 500 articles and programs by ERF Medien are broadcast annually in private Swiss radio stations. Since September 1995, the half-hour television program Fenster zum Sonntag has been on the air on SRF two . ERF Medien produce a FENSTER ZUM SONNTAG-Talk every 14 days . The TV programs reach an average of over 60,000 viewers every weekend and are also available on the Internet. “Window to Sunday” is a joint project by ERF Medien Pfäffikon ZH and Alphavision AG in Wangen.

ERF Medien has been present on the Internet since 1996. In cooperation with the partner organization ERF Medien (Germany) , an IPTV television offer is available.

Together with the partner organization Trans World Radio (TWR), ERF Medien broadcasts programs worldwide in over 230 languages ​​and dialects. In addition, around 400 German-language programs are produced every year for the international programs of the partner organization ERF Germany . International ERF programs can be heard via DAB + (D), Astra 1C satellite , but also FM stations in South Tyrol and Austria .

ERF Medien take part in the financing and support of the aid projects "Woman of Hope" and "Africa should live"

history

The ERF Germany has its history in Switzerland. The trigger for this Christian radio was an international conference of Youth for Christ 1948 in Beatenberg with the participation of Billy Graham , Bill Bright and Hermann Schulte on the topic of the Christian mission for Europe. Paul E. Freed was also a conference participant.

“Europe has some significant focal points for Gospel work. Beatenberg in Switzerland is one of them. "

- Paul E. Freed : Good news, we announce to the people.

The "International Evangelization Society" founded by Freed on February 11, 1952, began broadcasting Christian programs for Spain on February 22, 1954 from the then internationally administered city of Tangier . From June 1956 a German department was set up in the new mission society. In the fall of 1956 Tangier came back to Morocco , whose government wanted to nationalize all radio stations by the end of 1959. Under very difficult economic conditions, a contract was signed with Radio Monte Carlo on September 19, 1959 for the purchase of airtime. The mission society was now called Trans World Radio . On September 20, 1959, German radio work began in the premises of Hermann Schulte's publishing house in Wetzlar (now Gerth Medien ), which was founded in 1949 . Hermann Schulte began Christian radio work on Radio Luxemburg as early as 1957. On October 19, 1959, the German support association "Evangeliums-Rundfunk" was founded in Wetzlar. The eight founders included Paul E. Freed, Gertrud Wasserzug (Bible School Beatenberg), the publisher Hermann Schulte and the evangelist Anton Schulte . From April 1960, Horst Marquardt , who later became head of the company for many years, worked with the company. From February 5, 1961 on, Christian programs were broadcast every quarter and half hour in German and, through Trans World Radio, in other European languages. Very soon the audience in Germany, Switzerland and Austria grew together to become a friendly audience. From May 1968 there was a Swiss branch of the ERF, and in 1972 an office. The Swiss Association of Gospel Broadcasting was founded in 1973. Work first took place in Herrliberg , then in Pfäffikon ZH .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of ERF Medien in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zh.powernet.ch  
  2. ↑ ERF Medien Schweiz, 2016 annual accounts
  3. ↑ Horst Marquardt: My story with the Evangeliums-Rundfunk. Wait - miracles - waves. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2002, ISBN 3-7751-3817-X , p. 44.
  4. ↑ Paul E. Freed: Good news we announce to the people. Trans World Radio. 4th edition. Schulte, Wetzlar 1972, ISBN 3-87739-208-3 , p. 70.
  5. ↑ Paul E. Freed: Good news we announce to the people. Trans World Radio. 4th edition. Schulte, Wetzlar 1972, ISBN 3-87739-208-3 , p. 70.
  6. ↑ Hanni Lützenbürger: ... but God's word is not bound. Gospel Broadcasting Mission and Service. ERF, Wetzlar 1977, pp. 7-13 and 17.
  7. ↑ Horst Marquardt: My story with the Evangeliums-Rundfunk. Wait - miracles - waves. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2002, ISBN 3-7751-3817-X , p. 50.
  8. ↑ Hanni Lützenbürger: ... but God's word is not bound. Gospel Broadcasting Mission and Service. ERF, Wetzlar 1977, pp. 18, 22-23
  9. ↑ Hanni Lützenbürger: ... but God's word is not bound. Gospel Broadcasting Mission and Service. ERF, Wetzlar 1977, pp. 41 and 51-52.
  10. ↑ Hanni Lützenbürger: ... but God's word is not bound. Gospel Broadcasting Mission and Service. ERF, Wetzlar 1977, p. 157.