Salt + Light Television

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Salt + Light Television Télévision Sel + Lumière
Launched	July 2003
Owned by	Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Website	saltandlighttv.org seletlumieretv.org
Availability
Satellite
Bell ExpressVu	Channel 654
Cable
Rogers Cable	Channel 395
Vidéotron	Channel 242
EastLink	Channel 356
Cogeco	Channel 185
Mountain Cablevision	Channel 387

Salt + Light Television (French: Télévision Sel + Lumière) is a Canadian category 2 digital cable specialty channel. Launched in July 2003, it is the first Catholic national television channel in Canada.

Owned by the not-for-profit Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation and based in Toronto, Ontario, Salt + Light Television is supported by St. Joseph Communications, which is the largest privately owned communications company in Canada. Both St. Joseph and Salt + Light were founded by businessman Gaetano Gagliano.

The name of the station derives itself from the theme of WYD 2002, "You are the salt of the earth... you are the light of the world" (Matthew 5:13-14). The National Director of WYD 2002, Fr. Thomas Rosica, is the Chief Executive Officer of Salt + Light Television. The station also employs people both in front of, and behind, the camera.

Programs range from daily news and current events to special features and films. Most programming falls into one of five categories:

• National and international stories of Catholic Action and Social Justice
• Stories of Catholic Communities
• Learning and Faith Development
• Prayer, Devotion and Meditation
• Catholic liturgy, including daily Mass and Vatican ceremonies

The channel provides programming in several languages including English, French and Italian, with more multilingual programming planned in the future.

Salt + Light Television has been endorsed by national and international Catholic leaders and organizations, including the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Vatican Television Center, and many departments of the Vatican.

[edit] On-air hosts include

• Mary Rose Bacani
• Kris Dmytrenko
• Matthew Harrison
• Gillian Kantor
• Sebastien Lacroix
• Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre
• Pedro Guevara Mann
• David Naglieri
• Michele Nuzzo

[edit] See also

• Fr. Thomas Rosica
• World Youth Day 2002
• Salt and Light metaphor
• Eternal Word Television Network

[edit] External links

• Official Salt + Light website
• Official Sel + Lumière website (in French)

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