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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 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 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 and during papal journeys.
As of 2016, the president of the CatholicTV Network is Bishop Robert P. Reed.
The first program of the Catholic Television Center of the Archdiocese of Boston was produced on January 1, 1955, when Archbishop Richard J. Cushing celebrated a Pontifical Low Mass in studios at 25 Granby Street near Kenmore Square in Boston. From that studio, equipped with three RCA TK31 cameras, the Center produced live and tape-recorded programs, and it purchased time from local commercial television stations to air the Sunday Mass each week.
Live programs were transmitted to the broadcasting stations through a leased-line telephone connection. In 1961 the Catholic Television Centers studios became the temporary home of educational broadcaster WGBH-TV when their studios were destroyed in a fire.
In 1957 the Catholic Television Center acquired a license to operate its own broadcasting station in Boston on channel 38 in the new UHF range of television channels. The Centers station, WIHS-TV, went into service on October 12, 1964, with transmitting facilities on the Prudential Tower in Boston. It was the first full-time Catholic television station globally, employing a general entertainment format and the daily and Sunday Mass. On July 27, 1966, Storer Broadcasting acquired WIHS for $2,276,513.16 and renamed it WSBK-TV.
With funds from the station sale, the Catholic Television Center built an Instructional Television Fixed Service ITFS system for distributing programs to Catholic schools. It continued to produce live broadcasts of the Sunday Mass under the name Boston Catholic Television BCTV. In 1970 BCTV moved into leased studios at 55 Chapel Street in Newton, Massachusetts.
In April 1983, BCTV began offering programs to home viewers several hours a day through its own channel carried by cable television providers, at first in Massachusetts, then elsewhere in New England, and as far away as Montreal, Quebec. In addition to the Sunday Mass broadcast on conventional over-the-air television, weekday Masses were also presented Monday to Friday, originating from a chapel in the Archbishop's residence in Brighton.
In 2006 the channel adopted the brand name CatholicTV and the slogan Americas Catholic Television Network. By 2007 it had entered into a programming exchange agreement with the Canadian channel Salt + Light Television. The channel converted its video format to HDTV on October 13, 2010.
The CatholicTV Network relocated its studios and offices to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 2007.