Alsbach-Hähnlein, Darmstadt / Germany, 19.12.2011/APD: "Adventist World Radio (AWR) and the European Adventist "Hope Channel Radio" have agreed a long-term and closer cooperation", declared Pastor Matthias Müller, director of the "STIMME DER HOFFNUNG" media center in Alsbach-Hähnlein. During a visit to the administrative center of the world church of Seventh-day Adventists in Silver Spring, Maryland / USA, Matthias Müeller met with the President of AWR, Pastor Dowell W. Chow. The agreement was to make the programs of "Hope Channel Radio" accessible to the worldwide audience of AWR, through its international platform. The technical details should be clarified next year.
Adventist World Radio broadcasts in 107 languages via shortwave, FM, medium wave, satellite-radio and Internet. Many programs are also available as audio files that can be downloaded from the Internet (podcasts). The focus of the work of AWR is the short-wave broadcast in 73 languages with programs on the shortwave transmitter Wertachtal and Nauen / Germany, Moosbrunn / Austria, Issoudun / France, Meyerton / South Africa, Talata-Volonondry/Madagaskar, Taipei / Taiwan and Agat / Guam. Hotbird 6 (Europe / North Africa / Middle East), Intelsat 706 (Africa / Europe), VT Communications (Asia / Africa / Europe) and NSS 806 (Latin America / USA). In addition to its headquarters in Silver Spring / USA, AWR also runs programs in North and South America. AWR has its regional offices in Bracknell / England (Europe / Africa), in Batam / Indonesia and in Agat / Guam for the Asian region.
"Hope Channel" 24 hour radio-programs include hourly news, the word for the day, commentary on current events, the youth magazine "GO7", live radio-talk, news reports and world music. The current radio program can also be heard via telephone +49 (0) 6257 5065360. The daily devotional can be heard by calling +49 (0) 931 663,991,973th. "Hope Channel Radio" is also broadcast digitally via the ASTRA satellite. Radio programs are also available through livestream on the www.hopechannel.de website together with certain contributions as podcasts.
