This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir marks the 84th anniversary of the first broadcast of its weekly Music and the Spoken Word program.
Music and the Spoken Word has become the world’s longest continuously running network broadcast. It is broadcast over 2,000 radio and TV stations and cable systems.
- Lloyd Newell Tabernacle
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir providing music to the General Conference
- MTC Tour June 2013
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir YouTube Channel
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The program airs each Sunday at 6am on New Zealand’s Prime Television.
Previous to the first radio broadcast, the choir sang at church conferences.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always had a standing choir, from the earliest days in Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois to the headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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