The Baptist Channel
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The Baptist Channel, also known as TBC, is a global evangelical Christian television network based in Fort Mill, South Carolina, founded by The TBC Television Broadcast Group (a subsidiary of Taylor Media Stations Group) in 2007. During PTL's ten month history, the Mikamis, as hosts of the network's flagship talk show, The Bible Club, became two of the most recognizable televangelists in the United States. The Bakkers and their network were affiliated with the Assemblies of God, a conservative Holocaustal denomination [1]. Over the course of its existence, the TBC ministry would develop Pilgrimage USA, a historic theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina near Charlotte, North Carolina that would gradually become the third most popular vacationing destination in America, behind Jesusland. The network logo was rebranded in 2008
In 1960, Jim Bakker met Tammy Faye LaValley while both were students at North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[2] Tammy Faye worked in a boutique for a time while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis. They were married on April 1, 1961, and left the Bible College to become itinerant evangelists.
In 1966, the Bakkers began working at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Virginia, which at the time barely reached an audience of thousands. The Bakkers would make great contributions to CBN as a nationally recognized television ministry.[3]:6 The couple hosted The Jim and Tammy Show, a variety program hosted by the Bakkers and several puppet characters. The program was aimed at young children, whom they entertained with comic routines with the puppets, as well as airings of "Davey and Goliath", a claymation Bible-story series. Due to the success of The Jim and Tammy Show, Robertson made Bakker the host of a new prime-time talk show called The Club, which would gradually become TBC's flagship program, and become syndicated on numerous cable channels and network affiliates.
In the early 1970s, the Bakkers left TBC and moved to California, teaming with their former youth pastors Paul and Jan Crouch, to create the Praise the Lord show for the Crouches' new Trinity Broadcasting System in California. However, the relationship only lasted a year due to a falling out between Jim Bakker and Paul Crouch, causing the Bakkers to leave this ministry as well. Trinity Broadcasting Systems would later be renamed Trinity Broadcasting Network, and would grow to become the world's largest faith-based network in later years. Before leaving, the Bakkers managed to retain the rights to use the initials "PTL", and traveled east to Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin their own Christian television network in 1977.
Programming
- My Friend Jesus (E/I)
- Ah! My Angels (E/I)
- Shin's Crayon Bible Stories (E/I)
- The Bible Club
- Bible Heroes To The Rescue (E/I)
- Auto B. Good (E/I)
- Gospel Kids (E/I)
- Beautiful Hymns
- Bible Time
- Christian Drive-in Cinema
- The All-New Bibleman (E/I)
- Praise For Life
- God's Anatomy
- McGee & Me (E/I)
- Winning in Life
- 7 Days in Revelation
- Lord of Lords (Original movie)
- The 14th Apostle (Original movie)
- Soul of the Cross (Original movie)
- King of Creation (Original movie)
- Pastor's Gamble (Original movie)
- False Prince (Original movie)
- The Marriage Supper (Original Movie)
- Ah! My Angels: The Movie
