Christian Television Leader Trinity Broadcasting Network Announces Broadcast Partnership With Finland's Premier Faith Channel, Alfa TV

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Christian Television Leader Trinity Broadcasting Network Announces

Broadcast Partnership With Finland's Premier Faith Channel, Alfa TV

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trinity

Broadcasting Network, the world's largest Christian television

network, announced that it has reached a partnership agreement with

Alfa TV, Finland's premier Christian network. Under the new

affiliation, TBN will provide Alfa TV with a number of its most

popular programs, including TBN's flagship music and talk show "Praise

the Lord," its long-running "Behind the Scenes" program, and several

of TBN's key ministry programs. Alfa TV also plans to add programming

from TBN's Smile of a Child kids network and its JUCE channel for

teens and young adults.

Alfa TV founder Hannu Haukka noted that the Finnish Christian network

reaches 85 percent of all households across Finland via its

terrestrial signal, and some 660,000 households in the greater

Helsinki area through cable television. Additionally, there are plans

to extend Alfa TV's reach throughout Scandinavia through satellite.

"We are excited to add TBN's strong faith-and-family programming

presence to Alfa TV's broadcast outreach," said Mr. Haukka. "There is

a great spiritual hunger across Finland and Scandinavia, and with

TBN's partnership we are reaching out to fill that void."

TBN Vice President Matthew Crouch welcomed Alfa TV as the newest

member of the Trinity Broadcasting Family of Networks. "Beginning with

one small station in Southern California in 1973, TBN now covers every

inhabited continent with entertaining and inspiring faith-and-family

programming 24 hours a day," he said. "Our partnership with Alfa TV

means that millions of viewers throughout Finland - and ultimately

across Scandinavia - will have access to the life-changing programming

that has been the hallmark of TBN for over forty years."

About the Trinity Broadcasting Family of Networks

With 26 networks and growing worldwide, the Trinity Broadcasting

Family of Networks is the world's largest faith-and-family television

group, airing a broad range of church and ministry programming,

Christian music, family friendly movies, children's programming, and

shows for teens and young adults 24 hours a day to every inhabited

continent via 87 satellites and over 20,000 television and cable

affiliates. In addition, TBN's most popular global networks are

available on computers, smart phones, and other mobile devices, and

over 24,000 hours of entertaining and inspiring On-Demand programming

is accessible via TBN's innovative online network, iTBN.org . To find

out more about the Trinity Broadcasting Family of Networks, log on to

www.tbn.org.

Media Contact Colby May, E-Mail: cmay@tbn.org; Tel: 972-313-9500

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