USCCB’s Website Will Feature CatholicTV’s Fr. Robert Reed

During the month of August, Fr. Robert Reed will be featured on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) website, www.usccb.org.

Each day, usccb.org offers a video reflection on the daily Mass readings. This initiative is funded by the Catholic Communications Campaign. Daily reflections are given by priests, religious, and lay people. Fr. Reed will offer video reflections on the Mass readings on the following dates: August 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. To view the reflections visit http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml

Fr. Robert Reed is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and the President of the CatholicTV® Network, Father Reed was born in Boston and currently lives in the historic West End of the city. He was educated at St. John’s Preparatory School and prepared for the priesthood at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Father Reed also studied Broadcast Administration at Boston University's School of Communication.

After having been ordained a Catholic priest in 1985, Father Reed served in parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Boston. He was appointed director of CatholicTV in May, 2005. He works at the national headquarters of the network, the Monsignor Frank McFarland Center in Massachusetts.

More information about Fr. Robert Reed is available at http://www.CatholicTV.com/Father-Robert-Reed.aspx

CatholicTV.com Now Has Over 1000 Catholic Videos Available

Each day, new videos are added onto the website CatholicTV.com and during New Year’s week, the number of videos at CatholicTV.com reached over 1000.

Most of the videos are full-length episodes of Catholic programs produced by CatholicTV. These videos include the Daily Mass, Papal Programming, the live talk show “This is the Day”, the Catholic game show “Wow: The CatholicTV Challenge”, “Catholic Newsbreak”, and many others.

CatholicTV is a non-profit corporation whose primary mission is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Because of this, CatholicTV offers what many networks do not- full-length episodes of its programming free of charge on its website without paid advertising. All videos at CatholicTV.com are viewable in full-screen.

The CatholicTV broadcast streams 24 hours per day at CatholicTV.com and features shows starring nationally-known Catholics such as Fr. Benedict Groeschel and Fr. Robert Barron of Word on Fire.

CatholicTV.com also is an expansive online resource for catechesis. CatholicTV.com has full-length original production videos of teachings on the Discernment of Spirits, a catechetical game show called “Wow: The CatholicTV Challenge”, a show which teaches about Catholic marriage called “The Future Depends on Love”, and much more.

In addition to archived shows and the live streaming video, CatholicTV.com offers blogs, links to podcasts, a sign-up for a free monthly magazine, and more. CatholicTV.com even has an online store which sells everything from DVD’s, to rosaries, books, bibles, statues, and much more. Every dollar spent at CatholicTV.com helps to support CatholicTV which receives no funding from the local Archdiocese and relies largely on private donations.

Denver and Rockford, Illinois Dioceses as Well as Others Add CatholicTV Widget To Their Websites

The CatholicTV widget has been added to Denver’s Archdiocesan website, the Rockford, Illinois Diocesan website, and many other sites as word continues to spread about the widget.

The CatholicTV widget (called CatholicTVjr) is a video player with over 30 different television programs each with as many as 27 full episodes of Catholic programming. The widget can be added to any website. CatholicTV offers a customizable version of this widget for any website at no charge. CatholicTV is a non-profit corporation.

News of the widget immediately intrigued journalists. Stories about CatholicTVjr were written by the Associated Press, the Boston Globe website, and many others.

The CatholicTV widget was originally designed with parish and diocesan websites in mind, but the widget has been added to many different types of sites. Some of the sites which have added the widget include:

Catholic Mountain the Catholic Website For Men www.Catholicmountain.com

The Denver Archdiocese Website http://www.archden.org

The Rockford, IL Diocese Website http://www.rockforddiocese.org/
CatholicMom.com http://new.catholicmom.com/faith/catholic-news/

The Life Teen and Edge Website of Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Rocklin, CA http://edge-sspeter-paul-net.ecatholicchurches.com/index.cfm?load=page&page=936

The Website of Holy Spirit Church in Atlanta, GA http://www.hsccatl.com/CatholicTV.aspx

The Website of Sacred Heart Parish in Middleboro, MA http://www.sacredheart-middleboro.org/news-events.html

The Catholic Blog by Fr. Austin Fleming http://concordpastor.blogspot.com

The Parish Website of St. Mary’s in Winchester, MA http://www.stmary-winchester.org/parish_info-2.html

Archdiocese of Pondicherry in Pondicherry, India: http://www.archdiocesepondicherry.com/catholic.html

More information including how to add the CatholicTV widget CatholicTVjr to any website can be found at www.CatholicTVjr.com.

America’s Holiest Videos? CatholicTV Urges Viewers to Send In Videos

CatholicTV is urging its viewers and website visitors to send videos to CatholicTV for display at CatholicTV.com, and CatholicTV. Submitted videos even have potential to be added to CatholicTV’s new television widget (called CatholicTVjr) which plays CatholicTV’s shows on various websites.

The fastest method of delivering video to CatholicTV is to visit the following URL: http://www.CatholicTV.com/utility/submit-video.aspx and to submit a video of 12MB or less.

Many CatholicTV viewers watch CatholicTV for free at its website which in the past 30 days has had visitors from 135 different countries. Accepted videos will have wide-reaching exposure at CatholicTV.com.

CatholicTV is a nationally-broadcasted television network headquartered near Boston. CatholicTV streams its broadcast simultaneously, 24 hours a day at www.CatholicTV.com

In order for a video to be broadcast on CatholicTV (as opposed to the iCatholic section of CatholicTV.com), the video must be broadcast quality and a DVD can be sent to CatholicTV for review.

Some approved videos can be viewed now by visiting http://www.Catholiclife.tv/

More information on the free CatholicTV widget CatholicTVjr can be found at www.CatholicTVjr.com.

Submitted videos are moderated by CatholicTV and not all videos submitted will be aired or added online.

Amidst Trends of Increasing Online TV Viewership CatholicTV Experiences Surge in Online Viewers

According to an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, the share of online adults who watch videos on video-sharing sites has nearly doubled since 2006. CatholicTV is experiencing a similar trend according to its website analytics which show that online viewership has become increasingly popular. Online viewership at CatholicTV.com from U.S site visitors has increased 20% in the last 6 months and as much 251% from site visitors from other countries such as Germany. In an effort to accommodate this increasing demand for online Catholic television programming, CatholicTV now offers over 700 full-length episodes of various Catholic shows in its archives with full-screen viewing available.

Below are some of the shows which are available at CatholicTV.com either in the archives or accessible via the live, streaming broadcast.

WOW: The CatholicTV Challenge- Catholic game show featuring 3rd graders answering questions about the faith.

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=137

We’ve Got to Talk- Father Dan O’Connell preaches in front of a blue screen with unusual backgrounds. He was once filmed with a superhero costume on with a blue screen of the city in the background.

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=77

The Future Depends on Love- A program on marriage and how married love and life transforms the world.

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=74

Real FaithTV- A show for teens produced by teens which explores everyday issues of morality and faith from a young person’s perspective. Produced by Diocese of Trenton, NJ
http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=60

In Your Faith- explains the Catholic faith simply and offers examples from the perspective of a young person. (Salt and Light Television)

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=105

CatholicTV’s broadcast is viewable 24 hours per day by visiting www.CatholicTV.com and clicking on “Watch CatholicTV Live”.

Young Catholics Make Fun Videos To Teach Faith- L.A. Actor/President Will Be Interviewed on CatholicTV Talk Show

“Why should I have Catholic friends?” and “Why should I go to Mass?” are just a couple of questions which Young Catholic Minute tries to answer in their fun, engaging, and substantial short-videos. Young Catholic Minute (YCM) is a group of young actors and film producers who use catchy videos to evangelize for the Catholic faith. The President of YCM, Eric Johnson, will discuss the ministry during an interview with CatholicTV on October 2nd via SKYPE. The interview will be viewable live at CatholicTV.com and on CatholicTV where available.

One YCM video (shown above) answers the question “Why should I have Catholic friends?” by showing a young man going through darkness until he gets scared by some cob webs, a skeleton, and a “monster” in a closet. The young man then talks about how in horror movies, the characters are usually killed when they go alone. He then explains how just the same, Catholics should not try to “go it alone” in life, but rather should seek “good Catholic friends to make sure they’re heading in the right direction”.

President Eric Johnson is an actor originally from Minnesota, where at the University of Minnesota – Duluth, he came back to the Catholic Church after years as a neo-ChristoPagan and a few years as a cafeteria Catholic. Since then, he has come to cherish the unique and authentic aspects of the Catholic Church.

Also on the show “This is the Day”, will be Anna P. Rae, Founder of ARK ministries. ARK ministries supports speaking engagements, devotional and educational presentations, adult faith formation programs, retreats and other ministries as well. Anna P. Rae was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Anna has worked for thirty years in the Christian education field as a college professor, faith formation coordinator, and school teacher at all grade levels in Scotland and North America.

These guests can be seen on Friday, October 2nd live at 10:30AM (EST) on CatholicTV where available (rebroadcast at 8PM). The show will also be streamed simultaneously at www.CatholicTV.com and will be available on the site’s archives starting Friday night. All videos at the website are viewable in full-screen. Paste this URL into your browser in order to access the “This is the Day” video archives. http://www.CatholicTV.org/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=72