New Mormon Radio
David May 21st, 2009
The LDS Church made the following announcement on May 20 regarding a new internet radio service they launched.
We are pleased to announce that the Church has launched an official radio station called the Mormon Channel. The channel originates from Temple Square in Salt Lake City and broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Content for the station comes from the vast audio archives of the Church along with 20 new series created specifically for the station. The Mormon Channel also features programming from various partner organizations, including Deseret Book, Bonneville International, Deseret News, LDS Business College, and the campuses of Brigham Young University.
You can listen to the Mormon Channel live online anytime at radio.lds.org. There are also downloads and podcasts of content available at the same address.
In addition to online delivery, the channel is available on HDRadio in every Bonneville International radio market. Among those markets are Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago, Phoenix, and Seattle. Additionally, you will soon be able to listen via an iPhone application and a Mormon Channel widget. Other distribution options are currently being explored, including satellite radio and other mobile devices.
For LDS Church members who don’t live in areas where traditional Church broadcasts have been made available, this is a great new service and an excellent option for those who don’t have bandwidth which supports the streaming video during General Conference broadcasts.
Jason Lynes, the interaction designer who designed radio.lds.org, has some interesting insights into how the site was created. Believe it or not, he created the current design in a week.
I just wanted to let you know I installed the Mormon Radio widget on my blog - and it got hacked. There’s a weakness in the coding I guess. It redirected my blog to a pornographic site.