Up to 100,000 can hear Conference on the Internet (LDS General Conference clicks into cyberspace)
Deseret News 24Sep99 N1
By Carrie A. Moore: Deseret News religion editor

The new LDS Church-owned Internet services company MStar.Net will broadcast the Church's upcoming General Conference to up to 100,000 listeners via Real Audio on the World Wide Web. The company has set up a new internet domain, http://www.generalconference.com, which will broadcast tomorrow's General Relief Society meeting as well as all four sessions of General Conference. The company said the popularity of the limited feeds provided in the past by BYU and by KSL Radio urged them to provide the service.

The company will provide General Conference in up to 12 languages in addition to English: Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tongan, Samoan, Navajo, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and German will all be available. Arrangements to provide the feeds were only finished about 10 days ago.

The GeneralConference.com website currently has a survey which will attempt to gauge the popularity of different languages and demand on the service. The broadcast of the General Relief Society meeting, in English only, will serve as a test for the system.

The site also has a list of other Broadcast options for Conference, including a list of the Television Stations carrying Conference. However, the file containing the list of U.S. Television stations carrying Conference is marred because of its excessive size - more than 1 megabyte.