K-TV (television)

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K-TV
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TV station ( private law )
Program type Specialized program (religion)
reception DVB-C , DVB-S & IPTV
Start of transmission September 11, 1999
Seat Germany
owner Kephas Foundation non-profit GmbH
executive Director Patrick Gruhn, Johannes Hattler
List of TV channels
Website

K-TV (Kephas-Fernsehen) is a private Catholic television station founded in 1999 by Pastor Hans Buschor . The Kephas Foundation gGmbH in Opfenbach has been the sponsor since 2011 . The managing directors are Patrick Gruhn and Johannes Hattler. Gruhn is the sole shareholder. The station can be received via satellite or cable with a digital receiver and via live stream over the Internet. Today the transmission area extends over the entire German-speaking area and Switzerland as well as all of Europe .

About the transmitter

K-TV emerged from an initiative of Pastor Hans Buschor , was founded in 1999 and was headed by Buschor until his death in 2017. The successor took Pastor Thomas Maria Rimmel , military chaplain Werner Maria Hess and Pastor Paul Schuler . The K in the name K-TV stands for the designation of the apostle Peter as Kefa or Kephas (Aramaic). The purpose of the station is the media proclamation of the Catholic faith, the strengthening of faith and the new evangelization.

It was first broadcast on September 11, 1999 via the Eutelsat satellite system . Some time later, K-TV also became available via cable networks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reception via the Astra satellite system has been possible digitally since November 1st, 2002 and via the Internet since October 2006. The broadcaster has been offering teletext since the end of October 2005. In 2006, an outside broadcast vehicle was expanded for regular live broadcasts of church services from churches and places of pilgrimage. Since September 1, 2006, the program has also been offered as a live stream. Since the start of the IPTV offer also via T-Home and since April 2007 via Internet streaming box .

In 2013, around 35 permanent employees worked at the station. In addition to a steady expansion of the program, according to the broadcaster, a growth in the number of viewers can be observed, which is derived from the increasing number of programs sent out. According to the broadcaster, the financial outlay amounts to around 250,000 euros per month, which is fully covered by donations. The in-house editorial team was dissolved in January 2015 due to an economic and strategic realignment of the station, which wants to obtain content from outside in the future.

K-TV broadcasts 24 hours a day. The individual programs are repeated at different times for a week. At night, repetitions from the previous week's program are shown.

Program content

Children's lesson with Pastor Hans Buschor

The program is based on the teaching of the Catholic Church. The broadcaster broadcasts live all of the Pope's important public appearances, such as the general audience and the Angelus prayer , large festive worship services and church events from the Vatican, as well as World Youth Days and Papal trips.

The program focuses on the transmission of Catholic services and devotions, catechesis of faith , retreats , lectures, reports and documentation. Most of these programs are directed and moderated by clergy of the Catholic Church. The program also includes talk programs, programs on health issues, life support, a children's program and, to a lesser extent, feature films and music programs. Every day, viewers can ask questions on religious topics by phone live in the program Tagesthema .

RomeReports - News from the Vatican has been broadcast monthly since October 2018 . New reports come from the Church and the world, especially from places of pilgrimage such as Fátima , Lourdes or San Giovanni Rotondo . The “Terra Santa News” - news from the Holy Land - has also been new to the program since spring 2019. In addition, a live broadcast with prayer requests from viewers is broadcast once a month.

Services and devotions

In addition to celebratory services and the Angelus prayer from the Vatican, at least one service is held daily from the Immaculata Chapel in Gossau (studio chapel ) and the Wigratzbad prayer center ( Opfenbach ), as well as daily services alternating from the St. Pantaleon Church in Cologne , the light of the Völker Chapel ( Missio-Wien ), the chapel of Kirche in Not in Königstein im Taunus and the pilgrimage church Maria Schutz am Semmering (Lower Austria) .

In addition, numerous devotions and prayers, the rosary and every Thursday and Friday a holy hour of adoration in front of the Most Holy Sacrament of the altar are sent daily . Furthermore, a grace hour of mercy or the way of the cross will be broadcast in the afternoon.

Relationship with the Catholic Church

With a letter dated January 18, 2013 from the Vatican State Secretariat , on behalf of Benedict XVI. the media work of the “Catholic television K-TV” was officially recognized and all “employees and friends and supporters of K-TV” received the apostolic blessing from Pope Benedict XVI. granted. On the occasion of a general audience in December 2012, Pope Benedict XVI congratulated. the then editor-in-chief Martin Lohmann when he took office. Pope Francis received a delegation from K-TV in September 2019 as part of the general audience on the occasion of the station's 20th anniversary.

Subsidiaries

The broadcaster has two subsidiaries in which it holds 100%. On the one hand, CredoMedia GmbH , based in Opfenbach, which previously operated the station's studio in Hürth (near Cologne), but is no longer functional, and Alpina Film GmbH , based in Langenargen on Lake Constance, which does the film productions for the station as well Realized for external clients (other TV stations, company videos, etc.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Catholic television station K-TV celebrates its 20th anniversary - Vatican News. May 27, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c 20 years of Catholic television / K-TV celebrates its anniversary in Schwyz. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Annual report from the managing director to the Board of Trustees of January 10, 2013
  4. ^ Donor brochure from K-TV 2013
  5. ↑ Martin Lohmann no longer editor-in-chief at K-TV. Website of the Catholic internet magazine kath.net, accessed on January 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ Program booklet of the station from January 2013, ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 1, 2013 at k-tv.org
  7. ↑ Light of the People's Chapel | Pontifical Mission Societies Austria. In: Missio. Retrieved on April 5, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Live broadcast Tagesthema on K-TV on January 29, 2013 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  9. ↑ “You are doing a really apostolic service!” - Pope Benedict receives K-TV editor-in-chief Martin Lohmann. Press release BoxID 564231, Kephas Foundation via pressebox.de (United News Network), December 20, 2012
  10. ↑ Catholic television K-TV with Studio Cologne and Credomedia GmbH.  ( 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. Press release from K-TV, website of the station from January 30, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / k-tv.org  
  11. ↑ Registration in the commercial register dated January 29, 2013