Vatican Television Center

Vatican Television Center
Vatican Television Center (VTC)
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Created by Pope John Paul II
Directed by Ugo Moretto
Country of origin Vatican City
Language(s) English Italian French
Production
Location(s)

Via del Pellegrino

00120 Vatican City
Broadcast
Original channel Vatican news services
Audio format MPEG-4 H.264
First shown in 1983
Original airing 1983
External links
Vatican news services

The Vatican Television Center (VTC) is the national broadcaster of the state of Vatican City. Vatican Central Television was first aired in 1983.

Contents

History of the channel

Created in 1983 by Pope John Paul II, the Vatican Television Center is since November 1996, an institution legally associated with the Vatican.

The main services offered by the Vatican Television Center (VTC) are live broadcasts, daily help to others media, creation of television programs and archives stock control.

Organization

Board of directors

Directors
General directors
  • Mgr Ugo Moretto : May 1997 – June 2001
  • P. Federico Lombardi, S.I. : since 11th July 2001
Administrative secretaries
  • Dr Antonio Mandelli : 1988 – 2001
  • Dr Roberto Romolo : since 2001

Missions

VTC’s main goal is the universal expansion of the Catholicism and the diffusion of the Gospel truth by creating television materials and broadcasting images of the Pope and of Vatican activities.

Programs

Programs are mainly base on what happens in Vatican. Daily prayers such as Angelus, general audiences of Wednesdays and various celebrations are broadcast. Pope’s travels around the world are also broadcast. Each year, VTC broadcasts around 130 events in Vatican and covers daily public activities of the holy Pope and its mains activities out of the Vatican.

  • Octava Dies : is a weekly magazine of 25 minutes broadcast in the entire world since Easter 1998. It is also broadcast by Italian catholic television channels and by press agencies such as APTN. It is available in English and Italian in the Vatican’s website (broadcast every Sunday at 12:30 after the Angelus).

Broadcast

Live broadcast are made on the Vatican’s website and by other Italian catholic televisions channels such as Telepace or TV2000, and foreign television channels such as KTO. If asked VTC also gives images to other television channels for events in the Vatican or during Pope’s visits all around the world. In Vatican, it can offer assistance setting up press center and press conference but also with services of special reporters and video and audio help for foreign television channels.

Production

VTC produced many documentaries during the ten years of reign of Pope John Paul II, and of Pope Benedict XVI. It made documentaries on the lives of Pope, on the Vatican city and on the main churches of Catholicism. They were broadcast in English, Spanish, French and in other languages.

Archive center

VTC owns a library of more than 10.000 record, that means 4.000 hours of records and images of Pope John Paul II’s reign since 1984. This library is opened to foreign television channels and to documentaries producers from all around the world. The secretary of VTC is opened from Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m to 1 p.m.

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