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The Worship Network, or Worship, is a broadcast television service that provides alternative Christian worship-themed programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The network is based in Nashville, Tennessee, in the USA, and is available in more than 50 countries. The network formerly was broadcast on a digital subchannel of ION Television's owned and operated stations placed after ION Life on a station's digital channel map, usually broadcasting on the -DT4 subchannel. However, ION dropped the network from its stations on January 31, 2010.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20100123203229/http://www.worship.net/article/january-2010-newsletter/〕 == History == The Worship Network was founded in 1992 by Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, co-founder of HSN, who would later begin the PAX TV Network (now ION Television). Paxson, an evangelical Christian since 1985, wanted to "create an atmosphere in the home to inspire and encourage a quiet time to worship God"〔http://worship.net/history.html 〕 and from that vision, The Worship Network was launched. Outlets for the new network increased rapidly. By 1994, there were 50 affiliate stations and The Worship Network had just begun its first European affiliate, in Iceland, and a year later, the number had doubled to 100 affiliates and the network had launched in Asia, in the region of Taiwan. In 1996, the network began satellite broadcasting, via Sky Angel. Coming soon to Dish Network. When the PAX TV network was launched in 1998, The Worship Network provided overnight programming, and in 2005 PAX TV and The Worship Network struck a deal where the network would be carried on a digital subchannel of PAX TV stations 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As of 2006, the network has more than 250 broadcast affiliates, and is available on every inhabited continent. In 2006 the network began producing shows in HD (high definition), although it currently does not broadcast in HD. However, in 2010, The Worship Network was dropped from digital Ion TV-owned-and-operated stations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Worship Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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