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Start a church TV channel, far beyond Sunday morning.

Stream the service live, put years of sermons on a schedule, and give the congregation a channel that is always on. Run by one volunteer with a browser, live the same day.

Step by step

How to start a church TV channel

A church that records its services already owns everything a channel needs. What is missing is only the broadcast, and that part is now a browser tab.

  1. Bring the archive out of the drawer

    Years of recorded sermons, worship nights, and studies go into the channel library. Tag them by series and speaker so the guide reads like a TV listing, not a file dump.

  2. Schedule the week

    Sunday services as recurring live slots, the midweek study in its place, teaching series in the daytime, and worship loops carrying the overnight. Build it once; it repeats.

  3. Go live from the sanctuary

    A laptop with OBS or a small encoder sends the service over RTMP or SRT. If the building connection drops mid-sermon, the channel falls back to the schedule and rejoins when it returns.

  4. Give the congregation one link

    Web player, phones, casting to the TV for homebound members, and simultaneous multistream to social. The programme guide publishes itself and unfurls when shared in the group chat.

The broadcast week

What runs on a church channel.

The service is the heartbeat. The archive, worship, and teaching fill the week around it.

Sunday live

The service, on the air

Sunday morning is a recurring live slot, and a second service or an evening gathering drops in beside it. Lower thirds carry the speaker and passage, and the channel hands back to scheduled programming when the benediction ends.

Sermons

The archive becomes the schedule

A decade of preaching is a programming library most broadcasters would envy. Series run in order in fixed slots, standalone messages fill the gaps, and the guide tells viewers what is coming this week.

Worship

Music that carries the night

Worship sets and music blocks hold the overnight and early hours, so the channel is a companion at 3am, not a test pattern. Loops keep it going without anyone scheduling every hour by hand.

Teaching

Studies, youth, and seasons

The midweek Bible study gets its slot, youth content gets the Saturday morning strip, and Advent or Easter seasons get their own grids, built ahead in the browser and switched in when the season arrives.

The details

What it takes, in practice

Starting a church TV channel takes a media library, a weekly schedule built in a browser, and one encoder in the sanctuary for the live service. Playout, graphics, the programme guide, and worldwide delivery run in the cloud on the Cloud Playout plans, from $254 per month with unlimited viewers, and a church with recordings ready can be on air the same day.

Why a channel, when YouTube exists

Keep YouTube; the channel multistreams there anyway. But an algorithmic feed decides for itself when your congregation sees you, and it surrounds the sermon with whatever keeps people scrolling. A channel is a place: always on, in the guide, castable to the TV where the older half of the congregation actually watches. One is rented attention, the other is an address the church owns.

The members who cannot be in the building

Every congregation carries members who are homebound, hospitalized, travelling, or moved away. For them the channel is not a convenience, it is the service. Casting support means a family member sets up the TV once, and the analytics map quietly shows the ministry where its scattered members actually are.

Costs stay flat, ads stay optional

Delivery is never metered, so Easter attendance costs the same as an ordinary Tuesday. Ad breaks exist only where you place markers, and most church channels place none. The same engine serves every tradition: see the faith broadcasting overview, or the guides for Islamic, gurdwara, and Hindu temple channels.

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Questions

Church channels, answered.

How much does it cost to start a church TV channel?

Plans start at $254 per month billed yearly, which for most churches lands well under the sound-desk budget. Viewers and delivery are unlimited on every plan, there is no contract, and the first purchase has a 7-day money-back guarantee.

Do we need a media team to run it?

One volunteer with a browser can run the channel. The schedule repeats itself with recurring blocks, gaps auto-fill from the library, and the only hands-on moment is starting the encoder before the live service.

What happens if the internet drops during the service?

The channel falls back to your schedule or slate automatically and rejoins the live feed the moment the connection returns. The congregation watching at home sees a clean transition, and the channel itself never goes down with the building.

Can homebound members watch on a television?

Yes, and they are usually the audience that matters most. The channel plays in a web player and casts to the living-room TV via Chromecast and AirPlay, so a family member can set it up once and it works like any other channel.

Can we still stream to YouTube and Facebook?

Yes, simultaneously. The live service multistreams to social platforms while your own channel keeps broadcasting with its graphics, guide, and archive programming. You keep the reach without handing the whole ministry to an algorithm.

Do we have to run ads?

No. Ad breaks exist only where you place markers, and most church channels place none. The channel simply plays clean, around the clock.

Can services be subtitled or translated?

Automatic subtitles are available on higher plans, and the Studio plan can translate and dub programming, which multilingual congregations use to serve both the founding generation and their kids in one channel.

How do we fill a whole week of programming?

Count what you already have: years of recorded sermons, worship nights, Bible studies, and conference sessions. A weekly grid with recurring blocks, worship loops overnight, and auto-fill for gaps turns that shelf of recordings into a channel that never goes dark.

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