SCOBA agency to launch 24 hour internet radio

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL [SCOBA] — Technology is rapidly changing the way Americans listen to the radio. This year 58% of US homes with internet access have high speed internet, either DSL or Cable and a growing number of Americans are listening to web based radio.

The audience for internet radio increase 50% this past year with 12% of Americans 12 years of age or older listening to internet radio. The fact is internet radio is developing faster than FM radio did when it was introduced just 30 years ago.

This is why Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) is launching The Ark, a 24 hour a day internet radio outreach designed to be a listening alternative for you and your family. The Ark will be a fully functioning media resource for Orthodox Christians to provide positive, uplifting contemporary Orthodox Christian music and more. The Ark will also be a wonderful teaching resource to share with the growing internet media listeners the rich theology and beautiful worship of Orthodox Christianity. The Ark will launch its 24 hour ministry Sunday, January 21, 2007 on http://www.receive.org. This is also Share The Light Sunday all across the nation in all our Orthodox Christian parishes, a Sunday established by SCOBA hierarchs to call the faithful to support the media ministry work of OCN.

Programming on The Ark will focus on Orthodox Christian contemporary music by Orthodox artists and feature OCN’s premier syndicated radio program, Come Receive The Light. Additional teaching ministry programming is being developed.

OCN is committed to using media to being an effective support to the ministry of the local parish. Because of this commitment, The Ark will also be a customizable ministry tool for local parishes. Every parish that becomes a Share The Light Parish in 2007 will receive a customized version of The Ark for its home page.

The Ark is the second media ministry product produced by OCN. Its first was the nationally syndicated half hour program Come Receive The Light. To learn more about OCN, visit www.receive.org.

OCN is a commissioned agency of SCOBA, the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas.