Media vision

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Media Vision eV
purpose Evangelism in the media
Chair: Jürgen single
David Wessler
Establishment date: 1984
Seat : Heidenheim an der Brenz
Website: www.media-vision.tv

Media Vision is an evangelical media company based in Heidenheim an der Brenz and an office in Hamburg . The production company for audiovisual media is organized as an association with the aim of spreading Christian beliefs via radio and television, as well as organizing advanced training courses for media professionals in the field of Christian preaching. The association was founded in 1984 and produced its own television programs. a. in Eureka TV and supported congregations of the Pentecostal movement in founding local radio stations, such as B. Radio milestones . The running costs are covered by donations.

history

The Medienwerk was originally founded in 1984 in Langen ( Offenbach district ) with around 80 individuals, 20 Christian organizations, free churches and Protestant communities as an association, which itself - but only from 1999 - belongs as a member of the Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden (BfP). The media work began with television broadcasts on Eureka TV in the style of American televangelists , making it one of the television pioneers of German television evangelism. The program included charismatic speakers who gave stimulating speeches in the style of American Pentecostal preachers until they were exhausted and thus became the driving force behind the missionary programs. Among them were Reinhard Bonnke, known as a miracle healer, and Wolfgang Wegert , whose congregation and missionary organization Arche also belonged to the Pentecostal movement. Bands and Christian pop singers also appeared, as did Gerhard Klemm , who was released from the Whitsun Association for media work, with his talk show A fulfilled life. At that time, the club held 25 percent of the votes in Eureka. This form of paid program takeover was new in Germany and only known from programs from abroad such as Super Channel (later NBC Europe ).

When the station was rededicated to Pro7 with a new program at the beginning of January 1989 , broadcasting was ended and the organizer had to find new ways of distributing programs. In the meantime, some local cooperation partners have been founded with congregations of the Pentecostal movement, such as Radio Milestones, which has been producing journalistic radio broadcasts with Christian topics under the name Media Vision - Studio Nürnberg (later also founded as an association with a new name) under its own license since 1987 . Airtime on the Eureka successor station Pro7 was contested in court, but the airtime was waived due to the high fees that are common for advertising broadcasts.

Further partnerships were concluded with various regional and national broadcasters, including to Russia; In 1999, on the occasion of the solar eclipse on August 11th, a commissioned production for the television magazine Report on the subject of end times was won.

In 2001, Media Vision became a one percent shareholder in the support foundation of Bibel TV . In the following year, Medienwerk was a founding member of the Evangelical Television Academy in Braunschweig and supported the Christian Radio Munich as a founding member .

There are worldwide contacts to Crossroads Christian Company Inc. (CCCI) in Toronto and to the European branch of Assemblies of God , the Pentecostal church of Jimmy Swaggart , whose sermons up to Swaggart's "Fall of Man" were also broadcast synchronized on Eureka. The program partners also included Living Gospel, today christliches-fernsehen.info (Christian Media Germany eV)

Current media exposure

Media Vision has been known since 2003 for the new composition and synchronization of the television program Fenster zum Sonntag, which is produced in Swiss German, and is therefore the German program partner of Alphavision and ERF Medien and through them it is connected to the Christian TV Foundation . The program will be broadcast on Bibel TV, on whose behalf additional contributions were produced at least temporarily outside of the program.

The other activities in the production and training area are predominantly organized within the framework of partnerships.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Story of Media Vision. media-vision.tv, accessed on January 22, 2019
  2. ↑ Company entry at branchenbuch.meinestadt.de, accessed on January 22, 2019
  3. ^ TV Ministries. media-vision.tv, accessed on January 22, 2019