Pastor and televangelist Joel Osteen has partnered with Roku to launch a free ad-supported streaming tv (FAST) channel. The channel, known as The Joel Osteen Community, debuted Wednesday on the Roku Channel, together with Roku units, Roku-enabled TVs and the Roku Channel web site.
The Joel Osteen Community can even be out there on iOS and Android units, Amazon Fireplace TV, Samsung TVs, Google TV and different Android TV working system units.
“I am excited to see our content material change into a part of The Roku Channel’s distinctive free streaming service,” Osteen stated in a press release. “This partnership opens up fantastic methods to achieve extra folks searching for hope and inspiration. The Roku Channel has confirmed itself to be a pioneer in tv know-how, and I look ahead to seeing the outcomes of this nice alternative.”
FAST company acTVe, run by CEO Geoff Clark, is accountable for the administration of The Joel Osteen Community. The corporate additionally helps FAST channels, together with Documentary+, Surfer, Powder, Transworld Skateboarding, Snowboarder, Nearly Friday and BikeMag.
In response to the channel’s description, “The Joel Osteen Community affords long-time and new viewers the chance to get pleasure from a wealth of content material, together with Osteen’s famend weekly sermons, unique sequence that deal with on a regular basis points, and Lakewood Church Fusion Particular occasions of religion and music”.
Osteen broadcasts usually by numerous packages from his Lakewood church in Houston. The brand new community will characteristic content material from Osteen’s programming library, together with unique way of life sequence, weekly stay occasions, music experiences and Osteen’s weekly e-newsletter.
