Moody Broadcasting Network Increases Internet Capacity Through National Deal With Barnabas Road Media

Moody Broadcasting Network Increases Internet Capacity Through National Deal With Barnabas Road Media

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Barnabas Road Media, Inc. today announced it has been selected by The Moody Broadcasting Network (MBN) to provide Internet hosting service for nearly a dozen Moody radio stations throughout the United States.

The announcement means that MBN stations will now be able to provide live, streaming audio of Moody programming to their more than one million listeners in the U.S. and around the world.

As the broadcast arm of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, MBN (http://www.mbn.org/ ) selected Barnabas Road Media because of its strong Internet presence and capability to integrate throughout the Moody Broadcasting Network of stations.

"Once we realized we had exceeded our ability to provide streaming services, our research brought to light many companies willing to care for our service. It was Barnabas Road Media though that shared our values in making the message of the Gospel of Christ available to the masses while at the same time providing a very economical pricing structure to accommodate the needs of our owned and operated stations," said Phil Shappard, broadcast technology manager at Moody Bible Institute.

Barnabas Road Media will be the sole streaming media provider to the 11 Moody-owned stations in the country. The cities and stations included in the agreement are:

WMBI, Chicago MBN, Chicago WCRF, Cleveland WDLM, East Moline, Ill. WGNB, Zeeland, Mich. WGNR, Anderson, Ind. WKES, Lakeland, Fla. WMBV, Dixon's Mills, Ala. WMBW, Chattanooga, Tenn. WRMB, Boynton Beach, Fla. KMBI, Spokane, Wash.

According to Paul Gathard, president of Barnabas Road Media, Moody's ever- growing Internet audience has become so large that Internet streaming capacity and bandwidth expense were becoming audience-limiting restraints.

"The Moody Broadcasting Network simply needed to find a streaming media service that could deliver high quality streaming radio broadcasts for a substantially lower cost," added Gathard.

Founded in Indianapolis in 2004, Barnabas Road Media (BRM) provides broadcast radio stations a means of overcoming the restraining forces that have kept many radio stations from becoming successful on the Internet. BRM features a product line indicative of this concept called the Zero-G product portfolio. Zero-G is a term used to describe the absence of gravity or in the case of the BRM products, bandwidth and listener limits. For more information, visit Barnabas Road Media's Web site at http://www.barnabasroad.com/ .

Source: Barnabas Road Media, Inc.

CONTACT: Charlie McAtee of Coles Public Relations, +1-317-571-0051, or mcatee@colespr.com

Web site: http://www.barnabasroad.com/ http://www.mbn.org/

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