Hillsong Channel


Hillsong Channel is a Christian-based broadcast television network and is a joint venture of the international Sydney-based Hillsong Church, and the American Trinity Broadcasting Network.

History

The network originally launched on January 14, 2002 as The Church Channel, which was devoted primarily to carrying church service programs from various Christian ministries and denominations.
On March 9, 2016, TBN announced a partnership with the Sydney-based international congregation Hillsong Church, that would see The Church Channel will be re-branded as the Hillsong Channel—a network devoted to its ministry, teaching, and worship music. Originally announced to launch on June 15, 2016, the new channel officially launched on June 1, 2016 Some Church Channel programming remains on the schedule in off-peak hours.

Carriage

Hillsong Channel is available over-the-air on digital subchannels of TBN stations, and via select U.S. cable providers, Dish Network, Glorystar and DirecTV, in the UK and Ireland on Sky and in many nations around the world via direct-to-home satellite, such as ABS1 to India and the Middle East, Hot Bird satellite to Europe, and Agila 2 satellite both C-band and Ku-Band signal in Asia and the Philippines. The network also livestreams its programming on its official website, along with TBN's streaming apps.
On June 24, 2016, Hillsong Channel was made available on Apple TV.
On July 24, 2016, a version of the channel launched in Australia on Fetch TV. On September 11, 2016 it was announced at Hillsong Church Services that Hillsong Channel would launch on satellite and cable pay television provider Foxtel on December 16, 2017. 13 October of that year Hillsong Channel was made available in Australia on Foxtel Channel 183.
An over-the-top subscription service, Hillsong Channel Now, launched in November 2017.
In late May 2019, Olympusat, the main provider of TBN's networks to cable providers in the United States, discontinued carriage of the network, thus affecting carriage of Hillsong Channel to those systems.

Programming

Hillsong Channel programs a mix of original programming and outside televangelism, the latter of which is billed as "partner programs".
Hillsong Channel also airs specials documentaries, other worship programming and music programming such as a special around Let There Be Light, along with other Hillsong events and short series.