THE Islamic State appears to be preparing a 24-hour TV channel to broadcast its jihadist message.

It could take the extremists’ already varied media tactics to the next level.

The new TV channel, “The Islamic Caliphate Broadcast”, would reportedly broadcast round-the-clock news and a weekly show called Time to Recruit, focused on recruiting new jihadists.

IS members are vocal in spreading propaganda on Twitter, Facebook, blogging site Tumblr, forums and even their own websites. The radical organisation has a video series, on YouTube and other content-sharing sites,as well as an English-language print magazine and an FM radio station, which broadcasts from Mosul in northern Iraq.

A television station would extend its reach to an even greater audience, with the channel expected to show a video series by British captive John Cantlie, a former war photographer who has been consistently used to address Westerners and the media.

He has previously appeared in several lecture-like videos released by Al-Furqan, the media arm of IS, in which he purports to reveal “the truth” about the militant group.

Two teasers for the channel, in Arabic, were published this week on a IS online forum, according to Vocativ.

The teasers linked to the site KhilafaLive.info, where the channel was apparently going to be broadcast, but that web address has now been removed.

The channel is likely to still be in the works, and could even be used for sharing the jihadists’ sick execution videos, which have so far been spread primarily using social media.

It is one more avenue for IS to spread its dangerous message.