2017 was a bonanza year for Irish-based Mass streaming service Church Service TV (CSTV), with the number of parishes using the service increasing by 30%.
The Bray, Co. Wicklow-based service live-streamed 59,888 scheduled events from 108 different locations over 2017, reaching some 15 million viewers from 205 countries over the course of the year.
CSTV’s biggest overall audience of the year was on Christmas Eve, when about 110,000 people across the world logged on to watch parish services, according to CSTV CEO Tony Bolger.
More than 12,000 people logged on to www.churchservices.tv to view the Christmas Eve and Day Masses at Belfast’s Clonard Monastery, for example, with almost 5,700 people viewing Christmas Eve and Day Masses at Limerick’s Glenstal Abbey.