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Russia's first Christian FM radio station went off the air

NEW LIFE RADIO-Moscow, a national Christian radio network in Russia, went off the air today and stopped broadcasting over their two satellite radio channels, due to the breakdown of audio codecs that sends the audio programming from their radio station to the Gosteleradio satellite earth station in Moscow, reports NEW LIFE RADIO.

Immediately, they lost signal from Paris to Tokyo, and unless they can find funding of at least $10,000 for a pair of audio codecs, they will stay off the air. The ABS and Hotbird satellites that NLR broadcasts from has an audience potential of over 100 million households.

New Life Radio was created as Russia's first Christian FM radio station in 1996, and today provides a Christian presence in nearly every community across Russia and the former Soviet Union, via their satellite radio, FM, and Internet channels. The station provides Free air time to Baptist Churches, pastors, and their teaching ministries. NLR is a media support for Baptist ministries across Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union.

Christian Radio for Russia, the non-profit ministry in the USA that administers the New Life network has no contingency funding available to purchase this equipment. "We ask Christians in America to consider helping us with immediate financial aid, so we can get the audio codecs to the radio station in Moscow and get the broadcasts back on the air," it is said in the radio's press release.

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[05/27/2010]

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