Media Enquiries
	For all media enquires regarding the Seventh-day Adventist church please phone 01923 665538 (if an answer phone someone will get back to you) or call our main switchboard 01923 672251or submit a message.

Contact
About the Adventist Media Centre
In Conversation
Submission of Programmes for Broadcast on the Hope Channel
Funding of Programme Production
Programme Downloads
Links

Contact
 

Pastor Victor Hulbert (Director)
Phone: 01923 672251
Send a message.

Mr Wes Kapon (Manager)
Phone: 01923 672251

Mr Kofi Osei-Owusu (New-Media Producer)
Phone: 01923 672251

About the Adventist Media Centre

The Adventist Media Centre (UK), or AMC-UK, is located at the office of the British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Watford, and has been producing video resources for the Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1995. The Centre provides media resorces for the Adventist church including interviews, documentary programmes, promotional videos and various reports for special events.

One of the primary functions of the Media Centre is to produce programmes for the Hope Channel, which is the Adventist Church's international 24-hour satellite television station. Currently the Media Centre is producing a weekly half-hour interview programme entitled "In Conversation" and is working on a new project, "Seeds".

AMC-UK is also the body through which other Adventist entities, churches, organisations, groups or individuals within the UK and Ireland must submit programmes for possible broadcast on the Hope Channel satellite or website. The British Union Conference provides funding for the running of the Hope Channel's satellite services in Europe but does not provide any funding to entities (apart from AMC-UK) for the commissioning of programmes, purchasing of equipment, or other production expenses.
 

Submission of Programmes for Broadcast on the Hope Channel

AMC-UK will consider completed programmes for broadcast and, if these are acceptable in terms of quality and content, will pay for the programmes to be converted from PAL to NTSC and will send them on to the Hope Channel for inclusion in the programme schedule for Hope Channel Europe. Programmes submitted for inclusion should:

• be between 28 and 29, or 58 and 59, minutes in length, in order to fit into the Hope Channel's programme structure.
• convey Adventist values in keeping with the policies of the General Conference.
• be produced in such as way as to provide interest and relevance to a secular audience, where possible.
• be submitted to AMC-UK in either MiniDV, DVCAM, or BetaSP tape format. Other tape formats and DVD disks will not be accepted.
• be complete and in final edited form, with appropriate credits, date, and copyright notice.

Additional notes:

• Tapes will not be returned to the sender and copies may be kept by the Media Centre for archiving purposes.
• Material is accepted on the understanding that the producer has given permission for the programme to be broadcast on any of the Hope Channels, at such times, and for as many times, as the Hope Channel shall decide.
• Producers must ensure that any programmes they submit to AMC-UK are in compliance with the law in relation to copyright, and that any release documents required have been obtained. This is particuarly importnat in connetion with music. The strong recommendation is that only original music that is either public domain or is your own copyright be used in programmes. Please contact AMC-UK if you need guidence in this area.
   

Funding of Programme Production

As stated above AMC-UK does not provide any funding to producers. Potential producers should therefore either fund projects themselves or seek funding from alternative sources. Funding may be available from Conference or Mission sources or, in certain cases, from evangelistic budgets. Areas or local churches may also be willing to use their funds to support worthwhile production projects.

In all cases broad support should be sought and approval gained from the funding bodies before a project is embarked upon. It would also be prudent to liaise with AMC-UK in order to ascertain whether or not a particular programme will be suitable for the Hope Channel.

Even if AMC-UK has given tentative approval for a project, it reserves the right to refuse to pass on the final product to the Hope Channel if it feels that the production has not met the required standards in terms of quality or content.

The final decision as to what is broadcast is of course down to the Hope Channel itself. Even if material is approved and recommended by AMC-UK it is no guarantee that it will be shown.
 

Programme Downloads

All our current TV programme downloads are now available direct from our Hope TV-UK website. These include "In Conversation" and a variety of other programmes, some commissioned especially for the web.

"In Conversation" Series 3 and beyond is now also available as mp3 audio recordings for listening on your mobile device.

We also have a small selection of other Mp3 Audio recordings.

Newbold Diversity Lecture with Pastor Don McFarlane discussing diversity with in the church in the UK and Ireland.
Follow the Bible Sabbath at Newbold Church Centre.
The late David Balderstone, former ADRA-UK transport manager shares why he felt impelled to help those in need in a very special way.
Nancy Van Pelt with tips on developing a sucessful marrage. A 55 minute seminar from the 2008 Stanborough Press Open Day.
Bejing Adventist Church. Richard Daly reports from the Olympics
Happy Birthday Gatwick Airport looking at the special role of chaplains in the world's busyiest single runway airport as it celebrates its 40th birthday in June 2008.
World's worst invention. Can you guess what it is?
Where will you find the world's best read book?
History of the King James Version of the Bible.
Creation debate:
Professor Roy Peacock: 1) A brief History of Eternity, 2) Science and the Bible, 3) Personal testimony of an atheist Scientist.
Testimony from Geologist Elaine Kennedy. 1) Testimony, 2) Data and Interpretation.

LIFEdevelopment Training Video. This 15-minute programme combines matchstick animations with real live footage from LIFEdevelopment events and is aimed at a young audience. It is filmed in DVD quality but has been compressed in DivX format and saved as an 83Mb avi file. You can then play it from your computer in Windows Media Player and it will look just about as good as the original DVD. If you don't already have it you will need to intstall the DivX codec on your computer. You can easily download it from www.divx.com.

Links

Hope Channel - 24-hour Adventist Satellite Television
Adventist World Radio - a worldwide radio transmission network
Adventist Media Centre (Australia) - servicing the media needs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific and around the world
Adventist Communication Network - the satellite media distribution service for the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Adventist Media Productions - the primary electronic media production unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America.
The Media Net - a network for Christians and others who work in media.