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KIFR (TV)
KIFR (channel 49) is a religious television station in Visalia, California, United States, serving the Fresno area. The station is owned by Vita Broadcasting. KIFR's studios are located on North Fresno Street near San Joaquin Memorial High School and the Hammond, Fresno County, California, Hammond district just north of downtown Fresno, and its transmitter is located on Blue Ridge in rural Tulare County. Prior to its current ownership, channel 49 (as KNXT) was a Catholic television station for the Central Valley. History In 1985, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an application by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno—which learned of the channel a week before the deadline to file—to build a new non-commercial educational television station on the channel 49 allocation in Visalia, beating out a bid from the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the Tulare County board of education. Construction of the transmitter on Blue Ridge proved to be a test of sensitivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNXT-LD
KNXT-LD (channel 53) is a television station licensed to Visalia, California, United States, serving the Fresno area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by My Central Valley, LLC. Despite KNXT-LD legally holding a low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power license, it transmits using the full-power spectrum of KIFR (TV), KIFR (channel 49) through a channel sharing agreement, from an antenna on Blue Ridge in rural northwestern Tulare County. History The station was started as K57HZ, originally licensed to Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield and transmitting on channel 57, on April 28, 2000, by Cocola Broadcasting. Cocola sold the station to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, which owned regional Catholic station KNXT (channel 49), in 2007 for $1.4 million. It then moved to channel 38 and became a broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators, translator of KNXT, which also appeared on Bakersfield cable systems. In 2020, the diocese shut down KNXT owing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owned-and-operated Station
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an network affiliate, affiliate, which is independently owned and carries network programming by contract. The concept of an O&O is clearly defined in the United States and Canada (and to some extent, several other countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Argentina and Japan), where network-owned stations had historically been the exception rather than the rule. In such places, broadcasting licenses are generally issued on a local (rather than national) basis, and there is (or was) some sort of regulatory mechanism in place to prevent any company (including a broadcasting network) from owning stations in every market in the country. In other parts of the world (France, Italy, Spain, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) many television networks were gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass (liturgy)
Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term ''Mass'' is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in many Lutheran churches, as well as in some Anglican churches, and on rare occasion by other Protestant churches. Other Christian denominations may employ terms such as '' Divine Service'' or '' worship service'' (and often just "service"), rather than the word ''Mass''. For the celebration of the Eucharist in Eastern Christianity, including Eastern Catholic Churches, other terms such as ''Divine Liturgy'', ''Holy Qurbana'', ''Holy Qurobo'' and ''Badarak'' (or ''Patarag'') are typically used instead. Etymology The English noun ''Mass'' is derived from the Middle Latin . The Latin word was adopted in Old English as (via a Vulgar Latin form ), and was sometimes glossed as ''sendnes'' (i.e. 'a sending, dismission'). The Latin term itself w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eternal Word Television Network
The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic programming. It is the largest Catholic television network in America, and is purported to be "the world's largest religious media network", (and according to the network itself) reaching 425 million people in 160 countries, with 11 networks. The network was originally founded by Mother Angelica , in 1980 and began broadcasting on 15 August 1981 from a garage studio at the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale, Alabama, which Mother Angelica founded in 1962. She hosted her own show, ''Mother Angelica Live'', until health issues led to her retirement in September 2001. As of 2017, Michael P. Warsaw, who is a consultant to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communications, leads EWTN. In addition to its television network, EWTN owns the '' National Catholic Register'' newspaper, which it acquired in January 2011, and Catholic News Agency. The net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor of Saint Peter, upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Vincent Brennan
Joseph Vincent Brennan (born March 20, 1954) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Fresno since 2019. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2019. Biography Early life Joseph Brennan was born on March 20, 1954, in Van Nuys, California. Deciding to become a priest, he entered Saint John's Seminary in Camarillo, California. Brennan received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1976 and a Bachelor of Theology degree in 1980 from Saint John's. Priesthood Brennan was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles by Cardinal Timothy Manning on June 21, 1980. After his 1980 ordination, Brennan served as associate pastor at three parishes in Southern California: * Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles (1980 to 1983) * St. Linus in Norwalk (1983 to 1987) * Cathedral of St. Vibiana (1987 to 1991) Brennan left St. Vibiana in 1991 to serve as a past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KVHF-LD
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of California. Full-power stations VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel. Defunct full-power stations *Channel 8: KMBY-TV - ABC/CBS/ DuM/NBC - Monterey (8/17/1953-2/2/1955; shared time with KSBW-TV) *Channel 16: KKOG-TV - Ind. - Ventura (12/14/1968-9/13/1969) *Channel 18: KCHU - Ind - San Bernardino (8/1/1962-6/25/1964) *Channel 21: KDAS - Ind. - Hanford/Fresno (2/27/1962-12/22/1964) *Channel 21: KSJV-TV - Ind. - Hanford/Fresno (2/10/1966-5/13/1966) *Channel 27: KVVG - Ind. - Tulare/Fresno (11/16/1953-8/6/1957) *Channel 28: KTHE - ETV - Los Angeles (8/3/1953-9/10/1954) *Channel 30: KHOF-TV - Ind. - Glendale (10/12/1969-5/23/1983) *Channel 32: KSAN-TV - Ind. - San Francisco (3/9/1954-6/21/1958 and 2/16/1966-3/1968) *Channel 32: KNEW-TV - Ind. - San Francisco (7/1/1968-4/15/1971) *Channel 32: KQEC - PBS - San Francisco (6/28/197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CatholicTV
The CatholicTV Network, commonly known as CatholicTV, is a Catholic television network based in Watertown, Massachusetts. CatholicTV first launched locally in Boston in 1955, making it the oldest Catholic television network in the United States. Today, it is distributed on cable television systems, internet television, and terrestrial television, broadcast stations in sixteen U.S. states and the U.S. Virgin Islands and now worldwide. CatholicTV broadcasts programming relevant to Catholic viewers, including live Catholic liturgy, religious services, talk shows, devotional programs, educational series, entertainment, and children's programs. The network regularly presents coverage of liturgies and special events at the Vatican City, Vatican and during Papal travel, papal journeys. As of 2016, the president of the CatholicTV Network is Bishop Robert P. Reed. History The first program of the Catholic Television Center of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Archdiocese of Bost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Arts Showcase
Classic Arts Showcase (CAS) is a television channel in the United States promoting the fine arts. The television program content includes prepared media and recorded live performances. It is a 24-hour non-commercial satellite channel broadcasting a mix of various classic arts including animation, architectural art, ballet, chamber, choral music, dance, folk art, museum art, musical theatre, opera, orchestral, recital, solo instrumental, solo vocal, and theatrical play, as well as classic film and archival documentaries. Description Self-described on its web site as "Classical MTV", the channel features renowned artists, both professional and amateur, as well as many rare and independent performances and videos. An 8-hour mix of video clips is prepared weekly and broadcast three times daily. Text displayed on the screen provides details about the recording, and encourages viewers to gain inspiration and "...go out and feast from the buffet of arts available in your community." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EWTN
The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic programming. It is the largest Catholic television network in America, and is purported to be "the world's largest religious media network", (and according to the network itself) reaching 425 million people in 160 countries, with 11 networks. The network was originally founded by Mother Angelica , in 1980 and began broadcasting on 15 August 1981 from a garage studio at the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale, Alabama, which Mother Angelica founded in 1962. She hosted her own show, ''Mother Angelica Live'', until health issues led to her retirement in September 2001. As of 2017, Michael P. Warsaw, who is a consultant to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communications, leads EWTN. In addition to its television network, EWTN owns the '' National Catholic Register'' newspaper, which it acquired in January 2011, and Catholic News Agency. The net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
