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Along with Los Angeles-based Correspondents Michael Riley and Jon D. Hull, Dolan spent the past month digging into the finances and organization of Jim Bakker's Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the...
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...
All these entrepreneur-preachers have been hit hard, at least temporarily, by the PTL scandal. Swaggart says that in April and May he ran a $3 million deficit; the June gap was a little over $1 million. In June, Robertson's CBN reported $12 million in lost revenues for the...
The drop in funds has coincided with a decline in the ministries' TV audience. Exact figures on cable viewership are hard to come by, but the falloff of broadcast viewers has been dramatic (see chart). Between February and May, the number of TV households tuning in to Swaggart's weekly...
DESCRIPTION: May 1986 to May 1987; Swaggart (weekly), Schuller, Roberts, Falwell, 700 Club, Swaggart (daily), PTL Club. Does not include cable audience. Illustration of shouting man holding up Bible.