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...Pearl Robertson...
...home to Virginia. While his wife and two children subsisted mainly on donated soybeans, he tried to raise enough capital to buy and equip a defunct TV station in Portsmouth that he hoped to turn into a Christian voice. His first attempt failed, but finally, through gifts and loans, Robertson launched the station, which he christened WYAH, for Yahweh. By 1961 he was on the air with one camera and a 2½-hour program of preaching and country hymns...
After a decade of solely religious programming, in 1971 Robertson also began running secular children's shows and reruns of wholesome sitcoms (Leave It to Beaver, Corner Pyle) that lured a larger audience to stay tuned for the religious shows. Listeners are extremely loyal: most of the network's income -$10.7 million this year-consists of their small contributions. The remainder comes from commercials that are screened for good taste and reliability...
Asking God. Apparently there is a ready audience for the high-powered spiritual fare. "A woman told me that this is all the religion her children get," Robertson says. The invitation to listeners to phone in for prayer helps bring the network 500,000 calls a year and 30,000 professions of faith. Explains Robertson: "We can ask God to heal and he does it. This is just New Testament...
...Robertson's network will soon include stations in Hartford and Boston. Christian Network radio broadcasts for Britain from the Isle of Man began two weeks ago. Soon Robertson hopes to set up a satellite relay station on a hill outside Bethlehem because he believes "this should be a center of God's love for these last days before Christ's Second Coming." As Pentecostalists, he explains, "we at Christian Broadcasting act as though we haven't a lot of time left to bring the word of the Lord to the world...