Service radio and Site radio

Summer services were broadcast on radios outside the immediate service site for the first time in 1994 at the Tornio summer services. In addiction to the sermons, during the intermissions it broadcast interviews and other programming relating to the services. This gave birth to what is now called Summer Service Radio.

At Valkeala, the service radio broadcasting team involves over 50 people. They include reporters, radio hosts, editors, sound specialists, and secretaries who have spent the last several months preparing their own broadcast assignments. Some of them have been involved in broadcasts from earlier summers. The vast majority of them became familiar with radio broadcasting last summer during the summer services at Sotkamo.

The main purpose of the service radio is to broadcast the sermons from the summer services to all listeners. During the intermissions, listeners may enjoy other radio programming recorded before and during the summer services. The service radio broadcasts recordings will be available through the internet for listening until autumn.

The service radio listening areas vary from year to year. These areas depend on what FM radio frequencies are made available by the regulatory commission. These frequencies will be verified during the spring and will be published on these pages at a later date and in the summer service issue of the Päivämies .newspaper.

The site radio is broadcast for only the service site and adjoining areas. Its broadcast is the same as what is heard through the loudspeakers, without interviews or other programming. Over the same limited area, its different FM radio frequencies will broadcast the simultaneous interpretations of the sermons into the English, Swedish, Russian, and Estonian languages.