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| Founded | 1983 byPope John Paul II |
| Headquarters | Vatican City |
| Owner | Holy See |
Key people | Stefano D'Agostini, Director |
Former names | Centro Televisivo Vaticano (1983–2017) |
Vatican Media, formerlyCentro Televisivo Vaticano (lit. 'Vatican Television Centre') from 1983 to 2017, is thenational broadcaster of theHoly See. It first aired in 1983 and is based inVatican City.
Created in 1983 byPope John Paul II, Vatican Media has been legally associated withVatican City since November 1996. Its main goal is the universal expansion ofCatholicism by creating television content and broadcasting images of thepope and of Vatican activities.
Programs are mainly based on what happens in the Vatican. Daily prayers such asAngelus, general audiences on Wednesdays, and various celebrations are broadcast. The pope's travels around the world are also broadcast. Each year, it broadcasts around 130 events in the Vatican and covers daily public activities of the pope, as well as his main activities outside the Vatican.
Octava Dies is a weekly magazine of 25 minutes, broadcast in the entire world sinceEaster 1998. It is also broadcast by Italian Catholic television channels and by press agencies such as APTN. It is available in English and Italian on the Vatican's website (broadcast every Sunday at 12:30 after theAngelus).
Live broadcasts are made on the Vatican's website and by other Italian Catholic television channels such asTelepace orTV2000, and foreign television channels such asEWTN andKTO. The Vatican does not have its own television station.
Vatican Media provides images to other television channels of events in the Vatican itself or papal activities around the world. Within Vatican City, it assists in organizing press centers and press conferences, and it also provides for special reporters and audio-video services for foreign television channels. "It conducts around 130 live broadcasts per annum, produces documentaries, creates a weekly magazine program calledOctava Dies that is distributed internationally, and serves as an archival facility for all of its footage. On Sundays, the station usesIntelsat to broadcast the pope'sAngelus to the United States."[1]
Vatican Media produced many documentaries during the reigns of Pope John Paul II andPope Benedict XVI. It made documentaries on the lives of the popes, on the Vatican City, and on the main churches of Catholicism. They were mainly broadcast in Italian but also in English, Spanish, French and other languages.
Vatican Media owns a library of more than 10,000 recordings, amounting to 4,000 hours of recordings and images of Pope John Paul II's reign since 1984. This library is open to foreign television channels and documentary producers from throughout the world. The Vatican Media Center is open Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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