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42-737: As of February 2015, the channel is available to approximately 67.6 million pay television households (58.1% of households with television) in the United States. The Gospel Music Channel was founded in 2004 by Charles Humbard, the son of televangelist Rex Humbard . It was devoted to gospel music. With Brad Siegel, former president of Turner Broadcasting 's Turner Entertainment Networks, as vice chairman, Humbard launched GMC on October 30, 2004. Gospel Music Channel programmed gospel / Christian music , featuring diverse styles, including traditional and contemporary gospel , Christian rock and pop, southern gospel , and Christian metal . Each weeknight,

84-496: A blend of television and evangelist ) and occasionally termed radio evangelism or teleministry , denotes the utilization of media platforms, notably radio and television, for the marketing of religious messages , particularly Christianity. Televangelists are either official or self-proclaimed ministers who devote a large portion of their ministry to television broadcasting . Some televangelists are also regular pastors or ministers in their own places of worship (often

126-426: A megachurch ), but the majority of their followers come from TV and radio audiences. Others do not have a conventional congregation, and work primarily through television. The term is also used derisively by critics as an insinuation of aggrandizement by such ministers. Televangelism began as a uniquely American phenomenon, resulting from a largely deregulated media where access to television networks and cable TV

168-410: A more regulated media with either general restrictions on access or specific rules regarding religious broadcasting. In such countries, religious programming is typically produced by TV companies (sometimes as a regulatory or public service requirement) rather than private interest groups . The word televangelism is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and it was coined in 1958 as the title of

210-592: A new emoji-based campaign and branding. In June 2019, UPtv acquired reruns of Reba , and premiered it on August 2, 2019. In the winter of 2019, after INSP lost the rights to Little House on the Prairie , this channel picked up the series and began airing episodes in sequence from the pilot movie onwards during several marathon airings in late December. In January, the series settled in for its normal four-episode block run from 8   a.m. to noon ET. Televangelism Televangelism (from televangelist ,

252-548: A number of articles in December 2009 that were highly critical of some televangelists. Someone needs to say this plainly: The faith healers and health-and-wealth preachers who dominate religious television are shameless frauds. Their message is not the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is nothing spiritual or miraculous about their on-stage chicanery. It is all a devious ruse designed to take advantage of desperate people. They are not Godly ministers but greedy impostors who corrupt

294-444: A probe into the finances of six televangelists who preach a " prosperity gospel ". The probe investigated reports of lavish lifestyles by televangelists including fleets of Rolls-Royces , palatial mansions, private jets, and other expensive items purportedly paid for by television viewers who donate due to the ministries' encouragement of offerings. The six that were investigated are: On January 6, 2011, Grassley released his review of

336-542: A television miniseries by the Southern Baptist Convention . Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann have been credited with popularising the word in their 1981 survey Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism . However, the term televangelist was employed by Time magazine already in 1952, when telegenic Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen was referred to as the "first televangelist". Christianity has always emphasized preaching

378-466: Is a radio show that the church still produces weekly; it's heard on WMCA AM570. By 1928, Cadman had a weekly Sunday afternoon radio broadcast on the NBC radio network, his powerful oratory reaching a nationwide audience of five million persons. Aimee Semple McPherson was another pioneering tent-revivalist who soon turned to radio to reach a larger audience. Radio eventually gave her nationwide notoriety in

420-546: Is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB / CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007. Afterwards, Collins played the roles of Dayton King on the ABC television series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the NBC television series Revolution , father of Elizabeth Mitchell 's character, Rachel Matheson. Before 7th Heaven , Collins was known for his roles as Commander Willard Decker in

462-778: Is one of the oldest on the American television scene and was broadcast in 39 languages in 138 countries in 2016. The 1960s and early 1970s, saw television replace radio as the primary home entertainment medium, but also corresponded with a further rise in Evangelical Christianity , particularly through the international television and radio ministry of Billy Graham . Many well-known televangelists began during this period, most notably Oral Roberts , Jimmy Swaggart , Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker , Jerry Falwell , Jesse Duplantis and Pat Robertson. Most developed their own media networks, news exposure, and political influence. In

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504-517: Is open to virtually anyone who can afford it, combined with a large Christian population that is able to provide the necessary funding. It became especially popular among Evangelical Protestant audiences, whether independent or organized around Christian denominations. However, the increasing globalisation of broadcasting has enabled some American televangelists to reach a wider audience through international broadcast networks, including some that are specifically Christian in nature. Some countries have

546-672: The National Religious Broadcasters , was founded in 1944. Although television also began in the 1930s, it was not used for religious purposes until the early 1950s. Jack Wyrtzen and Percy Crawford switched to TV broadcasting in the Spring of 1949. Another television preacher of note was Fulton J. Sheen , who successfully switched to television in 1951 after two decades of popular radio broadcasts and whom Time called "the first 'televangelist'". Sheen would win numerous Emmy Awards for his program that ran from

588-535: The 1920s and 1930s, and she even built one of the earliest Pentecostal megachurches . In the U.S. , the Great Depression of the 1930s saw a resurgence of revival-tent preaching in the Midwest and South , as itinerant traveling preachers drove from town to town, living off donations . Several preachers began radio shows as a result of their popularity. In the 1930s, a famous radio evangelist of

630-573: The 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture and fighter pilot Jake Cutter in the ABC television series Tales of the Gold Monkey . In 2014, his career ended after he confessed to sexual misconduct against multiple minors . Stephen Collins was born on October 1, 1947, in Des Moines, Iowa , to mother Madeleine ( née Robertson) and father Cyrus Stickney Collins, an airline executive. Collins

672-475: The 21st century, some televised church services continue to attract large audiences. In the US, there are Joel Osteen , Joyce Meyer and T. D. Jakes . In Nigeria, there are Enoch Adeboye and Chris Oyakhilome . Trinity Broadcasting Network is the world's largest religious television network. Televangelists frequently draw criticism from other Christian ministers. For example, preacher John MacArthur published

714-598: The Emmy for Best Miniseries. He also played the lead role opposite Lauren Hutton in the television film The Rhinemann Exchange (1977), based on Robert Ludlum's bestselling novel . Collins was above-the-title billed in Loving Couples (1980) with Shirley MacLaine , James Coburn and Susan Sarandon . He co-starred with Diane Keaton in both The First Wives Club (1996) and Because I Said So (2007). He has co-starred with Meredith Baxter in three films, All

756-774: The Giants , The Perfect Summer , and Fireproof . On Christmas Eve and Day , the network airs a Yule Log loop with holiday songs from Contemporary Christian artists. Similar to competing family networks such as INSP and Hallmark Channel , UPtv now programs multiple weeks of family-friendly Christmas movies through the holidays in December. Easter movies also populate the programming schedule through April. The channel continues to air popular syndicated series such as Gilmore Girls , America's Funniest Home Videos , Whose Line Is It Anyway? , and Home Improvement . On December 3, 2014, Up announced its first original scripted series under its new branding Ties That Bind , which

798-621: The President's Men , A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, and Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter , both of which were television films broadcast on CBS in 1992. In the 2010–11 television season, Collins starred in the short-lived ABC series No Ordinary Family . On ABC's Brothers & Sisters , he played a potential love interest for Ron Rifkin 's character Saul Holden . Collins appeared in season eight of The Office playing Andy Bernard 's father in

840-579: The Spoken Word (1929–present), The Lutheran Hour (1930–present), and Charles E. Fuller (1937–1968). Time magazine reported in 1946 that Rev. Ralph Sockman's National Radio Pulpit on NBC received 4,000 letters weekly and Roman Catholic archbishop Fulton J. Sheen received between 3,000 and 6,000 letters weekly. The total radio audience for radio ministers in the U.S. that year was estimated to be 10 million listeners. An association of American Evangelical Protestant religious broadcasters,

882-684: The UK and the CRTC in Canada, with Ofcom having censured both Islam Channel and Peace TV in the past for biased coverage of political events, incitement to illegal acts including marital rape , and homophobia . The Islamic televangelist channel Peace TV is banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. Stephen Collins Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1, 1947)

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924-852: The Word of God for money's sake. They are not real pastors who shepherd the flock of God but hirelings whose only design is to fleece the sheep. Their love of money is glaringly obvious in what they say as well as how they live. They claim to possess great spiritual power, but in reality they are rank materialists and enemies of everything holy. Similarly, Ole Anthony wrote very critically of televangelists in 1994. A proportion of their methods and theology are held by some to be conflicting with Christian doctrine taught in long existing traditionalist congregations. Many televangelists are featured by "discernment ministries" run by other Christians that are concerned about what they perceive as departures from sound Christian doctrine. In 2007, Senator Chuck Grassley opened

966-527: The channel picked up the rerun rights to the Tom Bergeron era of America's Funniest Home Videos . In 2017, the network acquired rights to reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway? , both the Drew Carey run of the past and the current run hosted by Aisha Tyler . Both versions carry content disclaimers depending on episode content. In May 2018, UPtv acquired reruns of Home Improvement ; at around

1008-544: The cult series Tales of the Gold Monkey and his role in Tattingers , as well as guest appearances in The Waltons , Barnaby Jones , Charlie's Angels , and numerous miniseries and television films. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work opposite Ann-Margret in the miniseries The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987), and played John F. Kennedy in the miniseries A Woman Named Jackie (1991), which won

1050-636: The developing world. Shortwave radio stations with a Christian format broadcast worldwide, such as HCJB in Quito , Ecuador , Family Radio 's WYFR , and the Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN) , among others. One of the first ministers to use radio extensively was S. Parkes Cadman , beginning in 1923. In 1923, Calvary Baptist Church in New York City was the first church to operate its own radio station. "Tell It From Calvary"

1092-464: The early 1950s, until the late 1960s. In 1951, producer Dick Ross and Baptist evangelist Billy Graham founded the film production company World Wide Pictures , which would make videos of his preaching and Christian films. After years of radio broadcasting in 1952 Rex Humbard became the first to have a weekly church service broadcast on television. By 1980, the Rex Humbard programs spanned

1134-501: The episode, " Garden Party ". In 2013, Collins began appearing in the NBC series Revolution as Dr. Gene Porter, the leader of the town of Willoughby and father of Rachel Matheson (played by Elizabeth Mitchell ). and in two episodes of Falling Skies in season three. Collins' final guest spots include The Fosters , Devious Maids , and Penance . Stephen Collins was married to Marjorie Weinman from 1970 to 1978. In 1985, he married actress Faye Grant , whom he had met on

1176-468: The first producers of radio programming . Radio broadcasts were seen as a complementary activity to traditional missionaries, enabling vast numbers to be reached at relatively low cost, but also enabling Christianity to be preached in countries where this was illegal and missionaries were banned. The aim of Christian radio was to both convert people to Christianity and to provide teaching and support to believers. These activities continue today, particularly in

1218-530: The globe across 695 stations in 91 languages and to date the largest coverage of any evangelistic program. Oral Roberts 's broadcast by 1957 reached 80% of the possible television audience through 135 of the possible 500 stations. In Uruguay, Channel 4 airs the Roman Catholic Church mass since 1961. Christian Broadcasting Network , the first Christian channel, was founded in 1961, by Baptist Pastor Pat Robertson . Its show The 700 Club ,

1260-631: The gospel to the whole world, taking as inspiration the Great Commission . Historically, this was achieved by sending missionaries , beginning with the Dispersion of the Apostles , and later, after the invention of the printing press , included the distribution of Bibles and religious tracts . Some Christians realized that the rapid uptake of radio beginning in the 1920s, provided a powerful new tool for this task, and they were amongst

1302-720: The longstanding da'i tradition but also draw inspiration from Christian televangelists. Similarly to Christian televangelists, critics have argued that some Islamic televangelists may be too political , especially those pandering to fundamental Islamism including the far-right . Critics also claim that many will make significant amounts of money from their work and therefore may not be motivated by spiritual or charitable causes. Examples of well-known Islamic televangelist TV channels include Muslim Television Ahmadiyya , Islam Channel , ARY Qtv and Peace TV . Some of these channels, but not all, have come under scrutiny from national television or communications regulators such as Ofcom in

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1344-419: The network's lineup featured a different genre of music. In addition to music video blocks, the network began to produce original shows, such as Faith and Fame (artist biographies), Front Row Live (concerts), and America Sings (singing competition). The network aired Gospel and Christian music industry award shows, including The Stellar Awards (urban gospel) and The GMA Dove Awards . The network

1386-405: The period was Roman Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin , whose strongly anti-Communist and antisemitic radio programs reached millions of listeners. Other early Christian radio programs broadcast nationwide in the U.S. beginning in the 1920s–1930s, include (years of radio broadcast shown): Bob Jones, Sr. (1927–1962), Ralph W. Sockman (1928–1962), G. E. Lowman (1930–1965), Music and

1428-462: The same time, reruns of this show also began airing on the Viacom-owned cable network CMT , which at the time had just suspended airing reruns of Roseanne (that show later returned to that network's schedule). At around this same time, UPtv also quietly retired its "We Get Family" slogan on-air. In March 2019, UPtv acquired reruns of The Librarians ; around the same time, they introduced

1470-487: The series had resumed. In September 2015, the network acquired the rights to Gilmore Girls and began to air it in both daily and marathon forms of scheduling, including a full-series marathon on Thanksgiving week 2016 to lead into the series' Netflix revival. It also acquired the repeat rights to NBC 's 2010 drama Parenthood a year after the demise of Viacom 's NickMom , complementing Gilmore Girls , as both series starred actress Lauren Graham . In April 2016,

1512-458: The set of Tales of the Gold Monkey in 1982. Together they have a daughter, Kate, who was born in 1989. They separated in 2012, and, after 30 years of marriage, a final divorce decree was issued in January 2015. Collins is an Episcopalian and a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and has taken part in the advanced TM Yogic Flying technique since 1980. Until October 2014, he

1554-644: The six ministries response to his inquiry. He called for a further congressional review of tax-exemption laws for religious groups. In Islam , the related concept of dawah , which encourages Muslims to go and spread the religion to Non-Muslims similar to the Evangelical tradition of evangelizing, has also given rise to figures who are often described as "Islamic televangelists" who preach using Television and Internet videos like their Evangelical counterparts. Examples include Moez Masoud , Zakir Naik and Amr Khaled , amongst others. These figures may build on

1596-599: The television drama 7th Heaven , due to allegations of child molestation against the series lead actor, Stephen Collins . 7th Heaven briefly returned to UPtv in December 2014; however, it was quickly removed from the schedule. UPtv CEO Charley Humbard explained, "We brought the show back because many viewers expressed they could separate allegations against one actor from the fictional series itself. As it turns out, they cannot." In late May 2015, UPtv resumed weekday airings of two episodes of 7th Heaven , from 5 to 7   p.m. ET; by September 2015, marathon and daily airings of

1638-621: Was a national co-director of the Committee for Stress-Free Schools, which advocates practicing TM in schools and funds TM research. On October 7, 2014, the New York City Police Department began investigating Collins after an audio tape leaked to the media revealed a male voice, purported to be that of Collins, admitting to past sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 14. A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson stated that Collins had been investigated by

1680-857: Was canceled after its first season. Ties That Bind starred Kelli Williams , Jonathan Scarfe , Dion Johnstone, Matreya Scarrwene, Rhys Matthew Bond , Natasha Calis , Mitchell Kummen and guest stars Luke Perry and Jason Priestley . Other original series include Bringing Up Bates and the Canadian import Heartland . UPtv original movies include Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio (starring Kelly McGillis ), The Town That Came A-Courtin' (starring Valerie Harper ), Finding Normal , My Mother's Future Husband , Raising Izzie , and Saving Westbrook High . UPtv original specials include K-LOVE Music City Christmas (hosted by Candace Cameron Bure ). On October 7, 2014, UPtv pulled their airings of repeats of

1722-926: Was raised with his two older brothers in Hastings-on-Hudson , New York, and attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating cum laude . While at Amherst, he played bass guitar in a number of bands. He was also then a singing member of the Amherst College Zumbyes. Stephen Collins is known for his role as Eric Camden in the television drama series 7th Heaven during the series' run from 1996 to 2007 and for his role as Captain Willard Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). His other notable television credits include Jake Cutter in

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1764-451: Was re-branded on June 1, 2013 (the re-branding had been scheduled to occur on September 1, 2013). In the transition before the name-change, in 2010, the channel began carrying popular syndicated series such as Cosby , Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman , and The Waltons , along with Judging Amy . The channel also has aired films such as The Secret Garden , The Trial , and Pay It Forward , as well as Christian movies such as Facing

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