Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before Instant Celebrities Donna Rice and Oliver North faded from the nation's television screens, network executives were already thinking about bringing them back. After all, it had been clear from the start that their stories are the stuff TV movies are made...
...came to $129 million. PTL is currently run by Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell, 53, who also telecasts weekly services from his own 22,000-member Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va., and operates Liberty University, a 7,500-student institution, and a 1.5 million-subscriber cable system, the Liberty Broadcasting Network. Annual proceeds from Falwell's ministry amount to about $84 million. In Baton Rouge, La., Pentecostal Jimmy Swaggart, 52, has his 4,300-member local church, plus daily and weekly TV shows; he stage-manages elaborate preaching tours in the U.S.and overseas and leads a Bible college. Proceeds from the ministry...
Based in Virginia Beach, Southern Baptist Pat Robertson, 57, formerly presided over a daily talk show (The 700 Club), his Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and a graduate school. (All those activities are now run by subordinates while Robertson campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.) His ministry's activities earn some $183 million annually. In Tulsa, Oral Roberts, 69, a member of the United Methodist Church but Pentecostal in style, oversees daily and weekly television shows and presides over a $500 million complex, including the 4,650-student Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Hospital. Annual budget: some...
Bakker's sense of vision was highly erratic as well as expensive. In 1977 he suddenly announced a push for a worldwide network of missions; months later he abandoned that project and broke ground for what was to become Heritage USA. In 1986 Bakker raised $3 million in the span of a month to erect Kevin's House, an adjacent 14-bedroom home for handicapped children. Today only two youngsters live there, and federal investigators are wondering where the money went. The principal victims were PTL's "Lifetime Partners," an estimated 120,000 heads of households who pledged...
...Network for Native Futures...