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Article: Asia Catholics linked by TV, news service. (Thai-Sky television service will augment UCAN, Union of Catholic Asian News, an E-mail, mail, fax and phone service)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 25, 1996
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The day after Christmas, an E-mail from a professional broadcast colleague in Thailand to Jesuit Fr. Jerry Martinson said, simply, "We have a problem."
The problem quickly turned to opportunity when the Catholic church in Thailand decided to accept an offer from Thai Sky Television Co. for a free satellite TV channel. The problem that made church officials hesitate at first, said Martinson, was "they didn't know how they would feed the monster. How do you fill 24 hours a day for 20 years -- which is what the offer was -- with programming?"
They think they've found an answer, and the TV channel late in the summer joined other technology ...