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The 700 Club
The on-air personalities of The 700 Club
Genre	Religious broadcasting
Starring	Pat Robertson Terry Meeuwsen Lee Webb
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Location	Virginia Beach, Virginia
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Fox Family Channel (1998-2001) ABC Family (2001-Present)
Original run	April 1966 – Present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing on cable's ABC Family and in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon Robertson, two of which (one male and one female) will host on any given day. Lee Webb serves as the CBN News anchorman. Previous co-hosts over the years included Ben Kinchlow (1975-88, 1992-96), Sheila Walsh (1988-92), Danuta Rylko Soderman (1983-87), and Lisa Ryan. Tim Robertson served as host for a year from 1987-88 along with Kinchlow and Susan Howard while his father ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in the 1988 campaign. Image File history File links Circle-question. ... Image File history File links 700club. ... Religious broadcasting is broadcasting religious organizations, usually with a religious message. ... Marion Gordon Pat Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. ... Terry Meeuwsen, the Miss America winner in 1973, is a television host with the Christian Broadcasting Network. ... Lee Webb is the anchor of The 700 Club, the flagship program of The Christian Broadcasting Network. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Location in the Commonwealth o Virginia. ... ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... The year 1966 in television involved some significant events. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is, as its name implies, a Christian television broadcasting network in the United States. ... ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. ... Marion Gordon Pat Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. ... Terry Meeuwsen, the Miss America winner in 1973, is a television host with the Christian Broadcasting Network. ... See Gordon P. Robertson. ... Lee Webb is the anchor of The 700 Club, the flagship program of The Christian Broadcasting Network. ... The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is a Christian television broadcasting network in the United States. ... Ben Kinchlow is an African-American evangelist best known for being co-host of the 700 Club from 1975 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1996. ... Sheila Walsh, D.Min. ... For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ...

The show presents news stories from Robertson's religious and political perspective, often relating stories to passages from the Bible which are generally followed by commentary from the hosts. Celebrities and other guests are interviewed about religious views. The news segments frequently emphasize eschatology. The style of news reporting on the show has been criticized by many as unfairly biased, allegedly framing stories in a manner said to reflect Robertson's views. This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... For the book by Pope Benedict XVI, see Eschatology (book). ...

The 700 Club strongly supports Israel, especially in its disagreements with the Palestinians and the U.N. Among its frequent Jewish guests are Michael Medved and Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who share its conservative Judeo-Christian beliefs. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Daniel Lapin is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the president and founder of Toward Tradition, a group that promotes stronger ties and friendship between traditional conservative Jews and Christians. ... Judeo-Christian (or Judaeo-Christian) is a term used to describe the body of concepts and values which are thought to be held in common by Judaism and Christianity, and typically considered (sometimes along with classical Greco-Roman civilization) a fundamental basis for Western legal codes and moral values. ...

Religious lifestyle issues are presented with a distinct Pentecostal/charismatic flavor. Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was an ordained minister with that denomination from 1961 until he surrendered his credentials in 1987 to prepare for his failed presidential bid in 1988.^{[citation needed]} The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... The charismatic movement began with the adoption of certain Pentecostal beliefs—specifically what are known as the biblical charisms of Christianity: speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc. ... The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

History

In 1961, Robertson bought the license for WTOV, channel 27 in Portsmouth, Virginia. It had gone off the air five years earlier due to poor viewership (the call letters now belonged to WTOV-TV Channel 9 in Steubenville, Ohio, an NBC affiliate). The station returned in October as WYAH, broadcasting twelve hours of Christian programming to the Hampton Roads market each day. Map Political Statistics Founded 1752 County Independent city Mayor Dr. James W. Holley III Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 120. ... WTOV-TV, channel 9, is the NBC affiliate for the Wheeling, West Virginia/Steubenville, Ohio television market. ... Nickname: The City of Murals Location within the state of Ohio Country United States State Ohio County Jefferson Mayor Dominic Mucci (D) Area    - City (Land) 26. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...

In 1962, the station suffered financially and almost closed. To keep the station on the air, WYAH decided to produce a special telethon edition of the show. For the telethon, Robertson set a goal of 700 members each contributing $10 a month, which was enough to support the station. Robertson referred to these members as the '700 Club' and the name stuck. The telethon was successful and is still held annually.

Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker started on the channel in 1964 as hosts of a children's show, Come On Over, which evolved into a talk show. The couple left WYAH in 1972 to join the Trinity Broadcasting Network where they developed the PTL Club. Some staffers at the station responded by destroying Bakker's sets and puppets before he left.[1] Robertson adopted the talk show format developed by Bakker (though without the puppets) and transformed the 700 Club from a nightly religious themed telethon to a religious talk show. James Orsen Bakker (born January 2, 1939, in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program. ... Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (born March 7, 1942) is the former wife of televangelist and later convicted felon Jim Bakker. ... The Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, is the largest Christian religious television network in the world and is headquartered near Los Angeles in Costa Mesa, California with studios near Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Irving, Texas and near Nashville in Hendersonville, Tennessee. ... The 2005 Telethon on Seven Perth. ...

WYAH 27 was renamed the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), its content similar to a general entertainment station, but with many religious shows, including The 700 Club which aired three times a day. During the 1970s CBN acquired other stations. These stations were sold separately in the 1980s. During this period The 700 Club aired on CBN which became a syndicated cable TV station.

The 700 Club now airs on ABC Family, part of a contractual obligation originally made when Robertson's "Family Channel" (another cable TV station) was sold to Fox Broadcasting Company [2] [3]. ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ...

International versions of The 700 Club are Club 700 Hoy, broadcast in Latin America, and The 700 Club With Paul and Fiona, in Great Britain. Begun in October 2004, the latter is co-hosted by Paul Jones and Fiona Hendley Jones.

700 Club Asia

An Asian edition of the show, The 700 Club Asia, originally premiered in the Philippines in the mid-1990s on GMA 7. It was originally produced and hosted by Pat Robertson's son, Gordon Robertson, and co-hosted by broadcaster Mari Kaimo, and Philippine TV personality Coney Reyes. Global Media Arts (GMA) Network, Incorporated, a Philippine multi-media conglomerate, is a television network in the Philippines. ... See Gordon P. Robertson. ... Mari is a veteran host and anchor. ... Coney Reyes (born Constancia Angeline Nubla in 1954) is a Philippine film/TV actress, television host and producer. ...

In 1998, Reyes took over as host and producer of the show, with Tricia Amper Jimenez as co-host. When Reyes left the show in 2000 for medical reasons, it was retooled as The Club, hosted by Jimenez, Peter Kairuz and Carla Martinez.

In 2001, the show reverted to its old format and moved to ABS-CBN, where it aired on its sister station, Studio 23. Kairuz remained as host with veteran singer Maria "Dulce" Llemado and TV personality Chat Silayan, who later died of cancer. Categories: Corporation stubs | Philippines | Television networks ... Studio 23 is the UHF television network is owned and operated by ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. ...

In 2006, the show moved to GMA's sister station, QTV 11. Kairuz still hosts the show, with Reyes returning to co-host. The show also features Kata Inocencio, Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan and Felichi Pangilinan-Buizon. Quality TeleVision (QTV) is a television network of GMA Network, Inc. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

The show had been criticized, along with other Filipino church groups and organizations for meddling in political affairs specifically during the 1998 Presidential Election, where it openly showed its support for Lakas UNDP-UCMD candidate Jose De Venecia. In the end, his opponent, PWP candidate Joseph Estrada, came out to win. Judiciary Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno Court of Appeals · Sandiganbayan Court of Tax Appeals · Ombudsman Elections Commission on Elections 2007 | 2004 | 2001 | 1998 1995 | 1992 | 1987 | 1986 | All Foreign relations Human rights Other countries Politics Portal      The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, also more popularly known as simply Lakas or... Jose de Venecia, Jr. ... Judiciary Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno Court of Appeals · Sandiganbayan Court of Tax Appeals · Ombudsman Elections Commission on Elections 2007 | 2004 | 2001 | 1998 1995 | 1992 | 1986 | All Foreign relations Human rights Other countries â€¢ Politics Portal      The Partido ng Masang Pilipino (Party of the Filipino Masses) is a populist political... Joseph Ejercito Estrada, more popularly known as Erap (born Jose Marcelo Ejercito on April 19, 1937), is a popular former film actor in the Philippines and was the 13th President of the Philippines from June 30, 1998 to January 20, 2001. ...

Controversy

The 700 Club has occasionally been the subject of controversy due to political statements made on the show by Pat Robertson (see Robertson's page for a more in-depth discussion of controversies that surround him). ^{[citation needed]} Marion Gordon Pat Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. ...

Often, controversy centers around subjects of homosexuality, religion and politics. The LGBT community has expressed concern over the comments made on his show, fearing that it will invoke a violent reaction from potentially unstable individuals. ^{[citation needed]} The initialism LGBT is used to refer collectively to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...

Another point of concern has been the show's support for supposed "medical miracles."^[1]

References

External links

• The 700 Club at Trinity Broadcasting Network