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...pure chance, the Bakker scandal -- involving sex, greed and ministerial rivalries -- has coincided with a controversy swirling about another televangelist. The Rev. Oral Roberts, operator of a TV ministry, university and medical center in Tulsa, had broadcast that God would "call Oral Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio...
Whatever the fallout for American politics, the showy world of born-again broadcasting has surely been shaken. Falwell has gained a new audience but - finds himself saddled with additional responsibilities at a time when his own ministries have run into fiscal problems. A long-running battle with the city of Lynchburg, Va., to win property-tax exemption for his Liberty University is not yet won. Just a year ago Falwell had to lay off 225 employees at his Lynchburg offices because of high university expenses. His broadcast, the Old Time Gospel Hour, was temporarily canceled last week by cable superstation...
Once upon a time, when television was young, there was a network known as DuMont. It was the home of Jackie Gleason and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, and it broadcast the famous Army-McCarthy hearings in their entirety in 1954. But in 1955 it went out of business, and ever since, TV visionaries have dreamed of creating another commercial network to challenge the Big Three. A few half- hearted attempts have been made, but none have succeeded...
...remarked. Through tumultuous financial ups and downs, the boyish-looking 47- year-old preacher has become a powerful czar of Christian entertainment. His enterprises encompass the PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) network, carried by cable TV to 13.5 million homes; a daily television talk show, broadcast on 178 stations; and the 2,300-acre Heritage USA at Fort Mill, S.C., America's splashiest Gospel-theme amusement park, which was visited by more than 6 million people last year. His projects, which also include a lavish hotel and various charities, employ 2,000 people, and had receipts...
Tonight's Harvard-North Dakota NCAA men's hockey semifinal game will be broadcast live over WHRB (95.3 fm). Radio coverage from Joe Louis Arena in Detroit will begin at 7:30 p.m. ESPN, the sports cable network, will also carry the game live, beginning...