Broadcast, transit information for Mormon general conference

The 180th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be held in the Conference Center this weekend.

The Saturday general sessions will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The general priesthood meeting will be held that day in the Conference Center at 6 p.m. Sunday sessions will begin at 9:30 a.m. (the meeting includes the broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word") and 2 p.m. Tickets are required for admission to all sessions in the Conference Center. To obtain tickets, church members may contact their local priesthood leaders.

Admission to the Conference Center is limited to those ages 8 or older for general sessions and 12 years and older for the priesthood session.

The Utah Transit Authority will offer expanded TRAX service for conference. However, there is no FrontRunner service on Sunday.

TRAX trains will leave Sandy Civic Center for downtown Salt Lake City every 10 minutes from 8 to 9:20 a.m., 12:20 to 1 p.m., and from 4:20 to 5 p.m.

Saturday FrontRunner service runs every 60 minutes, departing Ogden at 46 minutes after the hour. TRAX trains depart Salt Lake Central Station for Temple Square every 10 minutes. Northbound FrontRunner trains depart Salt Lake Central at 27 minutes after the hour.

On Sunday, TRAX trains will leave Sandy Civic Center for downtown Salt Lake City every 20 minutes beginning at 8 a.m. Trains will depart Murray Central for downtown every 10 minutes between 8:02 a.m. and 9:12 a.m. There also will be trains running every 10 minutes from Sandy Civic Center to downtown between 12:20 p.m. and 1 p.m.

Early service will be provided on the University line with two additional trips departing Medical Center to City Center at 7:58 a.m. and 8:18 a.m. Regular service from Medical Center will begin at 9:23 a.m.

All four general sessions will be broadcast live on KSL-TV Ch. 5 and on cable/satellite channel BYU-TV. KBYU Ch. 11 will repeat the morning sessions at noon and the afternoon sessions at 4 p.m. both days. KSL Radio (AM-1160/FM-102.7) will air all four general sessions live.

In addition, KBYU Ch. 11 will repeat the morning sessions at noon and the afternoon sessions at 4 p.m. both days.

KVNU (AM-610), Logan; KSUB/KSSD (AM-590), Cedar City; KMTI (AM-630), Manti; KSVR (AM-980), Richfield; KDXU (AM-890), St. George; and KVEL (AM-920), Vernal, also will air the four conference sessions live on the radio.

On the Web, live Internet video streams will be available on www.lds.org in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and American Sign Language.

Go to www.bonneville.info and click on "General Conference" for a complete list of TV, radio or satellite reception options for all 50 states, Canada and Bermuda.

KSL-TV Ch. 5 will broadcast some special programs for general conference weekend. They include:

 Saturday, April 3: "Labor of Love," noon-1 p.m.; "World Report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," 1-2 p.m.; "Stories From the Life of Porter Rockwell" (4-4:30p.m.; and "Faith to Move Mountains" (4:30-5 p.m.)

 Sunday, April 4: "Seeds of Faith: The Saints of the Kingdom of Cambodia" (noon-1 p.m.); "Larry Miller: Driven to Do Good" (1-1:30 p.m.); "Footprints of Faith" (1:30-2 p.m.); "The Holy Land: An Easter Walk With Truman Madsen" (4-5 p.m.)