Bringing hope direct into people’s homes
Premier reaches people of all ages and stages of life, on air and on digital with increasing numbers accessing content via their Smartphones
Premier ensures its audiences hear from people engaging with the challenges people are facing at this time. We have timely comment on the news making the headlines and reflections from commentators who are applying scripture to daily challenges. The aim is that people connect with God through media: via our three radio stations, magazines and online content in the form of podcasts and newsletters. In addition we have the Premier Lifeline team, who pray for and listen to people in particular need.
We have noticed a significant growth in people downloading our range of Podcasts with 3.3m downloads of ‘Unbelievable?’ and 1.25m of our ‘Ask NT Wright’ programmes. The Unbelievable? YouTube channel also mushroomed with over 45,000 new subscribers, a 50% increase in just 12 months, with over 5 million views and a total of close to 1.5 million hours of view time.
By using the range of digital options available to it, Premier believes the opportunity to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ into people’s homes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are huge!
Key questions that producers, presenters, editors and contributors across all Premier media channels weekly grapple with include:
- What are the spiritual, emotional and physical needs among our audiences and what part can we play in building up more prayerful engagement with international, national and local needs?
- How can we encourage daily Bible reading among our audiences?
- What new technological breakthroughs should we invest in to reach new audiences who need to hear the life-changing message of the gospel?
- What timeless classic hymns and what new contemporary music songs are going to best engage with and encourage our existing and new audiences to worship God?
- What stories are out there to gather and then share with our audiences that will inform, challenge, encourage and resource?
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Key questions that producers, presenters, editors and contributors across all Premier media channels weekly grapple with include:
What are the spiritual, emotional and physical needs among our audiences and what part can we play in building up more prayerful engagement with international, national and local needs?
How can we encourage daily Bible reading among our audiences?
What new technological breakthroughs should we invest in to reach new audiences who need to hear the life-changing message of the gospel?
What timeless classic hymns and what new contemporary music songs are going to best engage with and encourage our existing and new audiences to worship God?
What stories are out there to gather and then share with our audiences that will inform, challenge, encourage and resource?
Whether it is providing resources for Sunday school teachers or Christian youth workers through PremierNexGen, offering a listening ear to the lonely through Premier Lifeline, helping people to worship from home via one of our three radio stations, providing intellectually stimulating discussions through one of our podcasts, getting our audience to engage with ethical issues on social media, or giving free daily scripture based devotionals through one of Premier’s various print or digital offerings – Premier offers hope whatever people are going through.
Dorothy from Worcester writes: ‘ just want to say that for years now, I’ve been tuning into Premier all day, and often during the night, and it’s just so uplifting to hear Christian music and prayer, and the Word read to us and to join in in song. And it changes the whole atmosphere of my home. So many thanks to you all.’