NASHVILLE, TENN., July 28, 2015 The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention has partnered with the National Religious Broadcasters to begin broadcast on the NRB Network.
ERLC TV will air Friday nights at 8 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time. The first season of ERLC TV will feature talks from ERLC President Russell Moore and other evangelical leaders such as David Platt, Albert Mohler, JD Greear and Rosaria Butterfield. Future seasons will address topics such as racial reconciliation, life, and human dignity.
Our mission is to equip the church to apply the gospel of the kingdom to moral and ethical issues, said Dan Darling, ERLCs Vice President of communications. This partnership with the NRB network allows us offer our content to people on yet another platform. Surveys show that millions of people regularly tune into religious programming. We are excited to be on the top religious network on DIRECTV.
The NRB Network is available to 45 million U.S. households on DIRECTV channel 378 and select local affiliates. Thousands more stream the channel online, on mobile devices, via Roku streaming players, and on Amazon Fire TV expanding the impact to viewers in countries like Canada, China and the U.K. To learn more about the National Religious Broadcasters channel on DirecTV, visit www.nrbtv.org.
The Southern Baptist Convention is Americas largest Protestant denomination with more than 15.8 million members in over 46,000 churches nationwide. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is the SBCs ethics, religious liberty and public policy agency with offices in Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D.C.