Launch of UCB Cross Rhythms on own satellite carrier

UCB CROSS RHYTHMS, the youth-orientated sister station to UCB Europe, is to be launched with its own separate satellite carrier in July. Having built up a growing following for its contemporary Christian music programme featuring rock, dance, rap etc on Saturdays and in the early hours of each morning. UCB Cross Rhythms will develop as a satellite station in its own right in July. The launch date will be sometime during the week of the two Cross Rhythms festivals in July at Okehampton, Devon and Dudley. West Midlands.

Said Chris Cole, CEO of Cross Rhythms. "It is courageous of the UCB management to take on the considerable financial commitment in hiring another satellite to provide a dual service for UCB listeners. But they have a long-term vision to impact Britain's youth with the gospel and they recognise that it will take a culturally relevant station, fully conversant with the music that's biting on the street. This is needed to reach Christian youth, some of whom are struggling with many of the structures within the Church. And it's needed also for the unchurched mass who, at the moment, are spiritually dead and seemingly remote from the Church's reach. That time in July is going to be another momentous period for Christian broadcasting in Britain."