A New Television for the Catholic Church Announced by WBBS.ROME -- WBBS WBBS Whole Body Bone Scan s.a., is an international company with its Headquarters in Switzerland. WBBS's aim is to launch new televisions available world wide on Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the through the broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). (ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ) access. WBBS signed a strong partnership with ROMEreport, the International television news agency specializing in the Catholic Church based in Rome. ROMEreport TV will be online next September 1st and available to 400 millions viewers ADSL subscribers, in full screen in a state-of-the- art streaming signal which has no competitors (Narrowstep Technology [R]). This new TV will be the most accessible media world wide to inform all Catholic everywhere about the life of the Church, ROMEreport TV makes available short news reports for free 24/7. Video- On-Demand (VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ) will be on subscription and give access to longer stories, documentaries and film about the Vatican and Rome. Each month, 4 new x 26 minutes magazines and 1 x 52 will be offered, in English and Spanish. In several countries, the audiovisual information offered on the Pope and the Holy See is far below the audience's request. There is practically no coverage in Asia, Africa, Oceania, or in many other nations of Central and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . News and reports on the Pope and the Vatican draw great interest from audiences all over the world. The Catholic Church represents an international point of reference. In the informative spheres, the Vatican represents a landmark perspective on current issues. Not only on strictly religious topics, related to the experience of faith and the life of the church, but also in other issues with worldwide consequences, such as peace and war conflicts, bio-ethics and scientific research, solidarity and the economy. There are over one billion Catholics spread all over our planet which constitute an audience for the news that comes from Rome. Many other people share this interest, whether for religious purposes or simply to take into account that particular point of view in order to try to understand the world around them. ROMEreports accepts the challenge of providing religious information with a high level of quality with standards that equal any other specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. information field. Information on the Catholic Church requires a proximity to the source, knowledge of the institution, professional creativity and technical excellence, as in any other field of information. |
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