On July 7th of 2004 the first "God Knows" program started it's weekly broadcast in Russian. It reaches a potential audience of 35.2 million people. With the professional help of CNL, a Russian "Intro" for the program was created. The English audio was transcribed and sent to Kazakhstan. At CNL it was translated and "dubbed" into Russian. This time consuming process is done weekly.
The programs are broadcast on the satelite HOT BIRD™. It's footprint represents one of the largest potential audiences in the world, more than 35.2 million satellite and cable homes, the vast majority of them via the five HOT BIRD™ satellites at 13° E.
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CNL extends its broadcasting zone
Maxim Maximov will begin broadcasting CNL from a THIRD SATELLITE, confirming a well-known fact that CNL is the largest Christian Russian-speaking television channel. After the collapse of the USSR God gave Maxim Maximov the task to begin Christian broadcasting on cable networks in Kazakhstan. In 2000, after several years of successful broadcasting on the largest cable network in the capital city of Kazakhstan, Christian TV in the Russian language was launched for the first time on satellite.
Now Russian-language Christian TV is available in any country above the equator. The history of CNL is a history of Christian TV, with six years of successfully preaching the Gospel through television. It is a time of transformation and change.
