Salt + Light Television

Salt + Light Television is a Canadian multi-lingual Category B television channel owned by the not-for-profit Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation and based in Toronto, Ontario. The channel broadcasts faith-based programming for Roman Catholics, which includes televised daily Mass, documentaries, live event coverage and talk shows. Programs are primarily broadcast in English, along with French (under the brand Sel + Lumière Média), Italian and Chinese languages.

Salt + Light Television
Salt + Light Television logo
CountryCanada
Broadcast areaNational
Worldwide
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario
Programming
Picture format1080i (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerSalt and Light Catholic Media Foundation
History
LaunchedJuly 2003 (2003-07)
Links
Websiteslmedia.org

The name of the station derives itself from the theme of World Youth Day 2002, "You are the salt of the earth... you are the light of the world," part of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:13-14). The National Director of WYD 2002, Fr. Thomas Rosica, was the chief executive officer of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation. Fr. Alan J. Fogarty, S.J., has been appointed chief executive officer effective August 1, 2020.

History
The logo used during French programming, Télévision Sel + Lumière

In November 2001, Paolo Canciani (later forming Canbo Broadcasting to operate the future channel) was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch Inner Peace Television Network, described as "a national ethnic Category 2 specialty television service devoted to providing religious programming from the single point-of-view of the Roman Catholic faith. The service will target Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Filipino, English, and French-speaking audiences. In addition to religious programming, the service will offer a limited amount of programming dealing with social and humanitarian issues."[1]

Prior to the channel's launch, in 2002, ownership and control of the channel was transferred to a consortium, majority owned by St. Joseph Printing Limited.[2]

The channel launched in July 2003 as Salt + Light Television and was quickly spun-off as a non-profit company under the ownership of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, a newly formed charitable organization ran by a board of directors, two of which were from the Gagliano family, who in turn controlled St. Joseph Printing Limited.[3] Upon launch, the channel initially aired programming in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese; which has since changed to its current language list. In addition to television, Salt + Light publishes a magazine.

On June 1, 2017, the channel announced that it would be launching a high definition (HD) feed on June 4, 2017, initially with Telus Optik TV.[4] Gabriel Chow, the developer of the GCatholic.org, is a contributor (primarily Chinese language) to the channel.[5][6][7]

Salt + Light TV logo 2013-2020

See also

References
  1. "Inner Peace Television Network". CRTC. November 9, 2001. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  2. "Transfer of effective control". CRTC. July 15, 2002. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  3. "Inner Peace Television Network - Acquisition of assets". CRTC. November 17, 2003. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  4. "Canada's Catholic Television Network Launches High Definition Channel". Salt + Light Media Blog. June 1, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  5. "Blog: Gabriel Chow". Salt + Light Television. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  6. "Archives for Gabriel Chow" (in Traditional Chinese). Salt + Light Television. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  7. "GCatholic.org provides extensive info regarding the Roman Catholic institution including Documents". Call to Action. October 23, 2020. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. GCatholic.org (formerly Giga-Catholic Information) is a non-profit website aimed at providing comprehensive and useful information of the Universal Catholic Church for all Catholics in the world. The site is maintained and owned by Gabriel Chow, who resides in Toronto, Canada
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