Sentences with phrase «commercial religious programs»

The differences have been noted, for example, between the audience of the dramatic series «Insight» and the audiences of the commercial religious programs that employ a preaching format.

Not exact matches

No other religious program has ever gained such sustained commercial sponsorship and no other religious program has ever drawn the consistently high audience which Sheen attracted during his five - year series.

Though they spend a part of each program soliciting funds for their organizations, the FCC has ruled that paid - time religious programs are not commercial - length programs.

The first religious program was broadcast less than two months after the first licensed commercial station went on the air, when on January 2, l921, station KDKA in Pittsburgh provided a remote broadcast from Calvary Episcopal Church.

Another example is the programs which all three commercial networks have provided to the major faith groups since the beginning of television, based on their historical commitment to providing an opportunity for religious expression in the society.

In both, the professions are vastly overrepresented, although the clergy are very prominent in religious TV while they hardly appear at all in general commercial programs.

Another effect of the growth of paid - time religious programs is the steady increase in the number of stations that now see religion primarily as a commercial venture and for which payment for air - time has become the dominant principle in the broadcasting of religion.

There are several other syndication characteristics in religious programing which indicate that though the commercial emphasis of paid - time religious programs was designed to help them buy their way out of the ghetto, it may have forced them more deeply into it.

The concern expressed is that current religious programs, in accomodating themselves to the demands of commercial television, have lost the essence of the Christian message and have simply become indistinguishable facsimiles of other commercial television programs.

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