Luss Television

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• Luss Television was first broadcast on Tuesday 3rd. October, 2006 at 7 p.m. The programme lasted thirty minutes and was repeated, by popular demand, on the following Saturday at 2 p.m. The first showing was watched by around one hundred and twenty-five computers (estimated at about three hundred people) in Canada, USA, Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Cyprus, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, the United Kingdom.
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• Initially Luss Television transmitted a weekly half-hour programme of news and current events – ‘Taking the Higher Road’ – each Tuesday from 7 to 7.30 p.m. This was a live broadcast, not a download, and was available through the Church web-site at www.lussonline.net. The quality of picture and sound was exceptionally high – about the same as the BBC video pictures on its web-site. More recently, in common with other web-practice, Luss TV has become a down-load programme constantly available from the web-site and, in addition, links are available on the website to enable viewers to watch previous editions of Luss TV (although not in the higher definition enjoyed by those who watch live weddings or live Sunday services). However this change has enabled Luss TV to be available to a wider audience than that reached when it was only available for half an hour each week. Luss TV is watched in more than seventeen countries world-wide.
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• The major purpose of Luss Television is to keep in touch with those who have visited Luss, those who have been married here, or who plan to be married here. Because it is web-based we know that those who tune in to watch are those who really want to know what is going on here and to feel part of it. Our web-site enables people to give us feed-back and to contribute to the process of programme-making.
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• Once the programme has been shown it is repeated on the screen at the cinema within our Heritage Centre (as the B movie before the big feature). Interesting items then find their way onto the display screens around the walls.
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• New technology is constantly providing us with different opportunities of being a Church to the hundreds of thousands of people who visit us each year and we are fortunate to have within our number people with the talents to exploit and use this technology to the full – none more so than Andy Simpson who is in charge of this project.
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• Now our equipment is used to broadcast live our Sunday morning service each week to enable those who have been to visit, or who have a connection with us, to share in our worship. The broadcast service is different from that shared by those in Church in that, during the hymns, instead of pictures of the congregation singing, pictures of Luss taken during that week are placed under the words being sung, providing both the opportunity of taking part and of being reminded of the beauty of this special place. This service is also particularly aimed at Scottish servicemen and women, often serving overseas, to allow them to keep in touch with a Scottish congregation which they can then come and visit when they return home.