First Baptist Jackson Upgrades to HD Live Production with For-A
First Baptist Church of Jackson in downtown Jackson, Miss.,began broadcasting its Sunday services on a local TV station in the 1950s, but had not significantly upgraded its production facilities since the 1980s. Last summer, the church made the jump to HD production and anchored its redesigned control room with a HVS490 production switcher and MFR-3000 routing switcher from FOR-A Corporation of America.
Today, First Baptist Jackson streams live 1080p video to Facebook Live, YouTube, and its own website, with local 720p replays the following Sunday on WDBD (FOX) and WLOO (MyNetworkTV) in Jackson (DMA#92). “We’ve always tried to use technology to reach others for Christ,” said Michael Bowen, minister of media and communications. “If we wanted to effectively use video for ministry, we were going to have to get current.”…
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For over two decades, Audio Supervisor Jose Gonzales has been responsible for capturing crystal clear sound for various broadcast programs at America’s leading Spanish-language network, Univision. During that time, Gonzales has seen many technological advances, but one thing has remained constant; his use of 
This is a story of a large and thriving church caught in a rapidly-growing, world-wide crisis that no one predicted and no one was truly prepared to meet. Like most churches, Berean has shut its doors temporarily and “the church”, as a congregation of people, is unable to worship in Berean’s auditorium. Yet, this seemingly dark story is actually a story of hope because Berean hasn’t just adapted to the crisis. They’ve put their talented team to work, using modern technology in creative ways to bring “a church dispersed,” as Senior Pastor Bryan Clark described it, back together for streaming worship that feels live while becoming the very personal experience that worship was meant to be. Berean has become a “church in your pocket.”
Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and leading maker of audio plugins for mixing, music production, mastering, sound design, broadcast, post-production and live sound, announces the first products of its new Waves Commercial Audio line: the Waves CA1000 and CA2000 Commercial Audio DSP Engines.
As faith-based organizations had to quickly move online during COVID-19, they sought new tools to extend their ministry. Now, as they begin returning to in-person services, many organizations are realizing that online ministry represents an important extension of their mission that’s here to stay and technology can help manage a safe return to the new ways of worship.
Producing a multi-cam live stream has never been easier. In this webinar, Boxcast will share everything you need to start streaming quality, multi-cam content using BoxCast and a video switcher. You will learn:
