Sentences with phrase «many religious programs»

The airwaves are full of religious programming.

Making religious programming more representative of British society, including other religions and atheists on Thought of the Day and Songs of Praise

Athiests are able to get past the religious programming and brainwashing indoctrination that usually starts in the cradle.

AA is not a religious program.

These broadcasters, who once could not get enough time, have been so effective in their struggle that they now hold a virtual monopoly over air - time used for religious programming, having forced most other religious programs off the air by their cut - throat purchase of time.

Religious programs on television are not a new phenomenon: they have been a part of the schedule since television's first year of operation, just as religious programs were some of the earlier types of broadcasts on radio.

The networks maintained substantial control over the content of religious programming produced under their auspices, and they worked continually to fit the religious perspective into their own particular perspectives.

By 1959, 53 percent of all religious time on television was occupied by programs that purchased their air - time, compared to 47 percent by all other types of religious programs.

Most stations broadcast a certain amount of religious programming as part of their license obligation to operate in the public interest.

The practice of the networks was to produce religious programs, either by making production facilities, technical services and some budget resources available to the religious groups for the production of their own programs, or by using these religious agencies as consultants on their own religious programs.

While in 1959 programs that purchased their air - time accounted for 53 percent of religious air - time, by 1977 they occupied 92 percent of air - time used for religious programs.

Programs that purchase their air - time (primarily evangelical and fundamentalist programs) have come to dominate television's regular religious programming.

Definitions of what constitutes a «religious station» vary significantly, from one owned by an identifiable religious group to one with a specified amount of religious programming,

Though the networks sought to make all religious programming emphasize broad religious truths rather than individual tenets of denominations and to avoid dealing with controversial economic and social issues which were of religious significance, many programs produced by the churches in relation with the networks were critical or prophetic in nature.

However, paid - time programs have virtually eliminated local religious programming, and the pressure they have exerted on the networks through network affiliate stations has caused the networks to reexamine and in some cases reprogram their religious offerings.

Mike Gallagher, who was the Roman Catholic producer for NBC - Catholic programs, criticized the lack of seriousness which characterized the network attitude to religious programs: «I have a rather cynical attitude towards the networks.

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.

And, as Jean - Louis Brindamour, who developed Pyramid Publications» religious program, points out, «The phenomenal growth of sales so far tells us that time and a determined public will eventually force even greater space for such books where they do not yet appear.»

Despite today's inflation, many publishers are expanding their religious programs.

At the same time, churches complain about the children's lack of participation in the religious programs of the parishes.

This mis - perception has led to an un - balanced support for paid - time programs on the basis that they are more effective in their use of television than the earlier religious programs were.

They probably matter a great deal to those who spend money on insurance, treatment, grants, research, prevention, correction, TV ads, education, and religious programs.

As will be seen, the growth of independent UHF stations markedly increased the pressure on other stations to maximize their profitability, even on religious programming.

By relegating the determination of religious programming on television to individual stations, it has placed religious faith into the hands of the economic marketplace, thus giving a distinct advantage to those expressions of religious faith which are economically competitive.

The model for change in relation to religious programming came largely from the growing number of independent UHF stations.

The use of paid - time religious programs offered the opportunity to make a profit on the sale of air - time, particularly on Sunday mornings, which were normally a slow audience period.

There have been many attempts to explain how the paid - time broadcasters have come to dominate the religious programming on television.

The FCC has also avoided ruling on the representativeness of religious programs in relation to particular issues or religious - affiliation patterns in a viewing area.

As will be seen in more detail subsequently, Nielsen figures for 1979 show only five syndicated religious programs that were able to gain equal to or greater than a rating of one.

Broadcast Institute of North America, «Religious Programming on Television: An Analysis of a Sample Week,» New York, 1973, p. 47.

While this regulation has encouraged stations to present some religious programming, as has been noted the FCC through its rulings has largely left the determination of the content of this religious programming to the individual station managers.

The Roman Catholic program, «Insight,» for example, was the third largest - rating religious program in the areas in which it was broadcast.

FCC does not have the authority to force stations to present religious programming, most broadcasters feel that to ignore the FCC's recommendations would be a decided risk at license renewal time.

As has been noted also, the audiences for the paid - time programs tended to be more demonstrative in support of their programs than were the audiences of other religious programs.

Viewers of sustaining - time religious programs have never been as loyal or demonstrative, nor has this aspect of viewing been cultivated.

This change in FCC policy did not have an immediately dramatic effect on the nature of religious programming; however, it effectively changed the structure within which religious programming was to be considered by releasing stations from any regulatory obligation to provide free air - time for the broadcast of religious programs.

A wider national exposure could easily have made it one of the largest - rating religious programs.

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 FCC decision in relation to religious programming provided the structure within which station managers were freed from the obligation of having to distinguish between different expressions of religious faith or the representativeness of religious programming for a particular area.

The mainline cooperative and moderate approach to religious programming also suited the legislative and public - relations needs of the newly emerging medium of television.

The paid - time programs have tended also to be more in harmony with the general interests of the television industry than have other types of religious programs.

They assist the chaplain in the religious program, organize parties and picnics, and in a variety of other ways show the patients that the church and the outside world have not forgotten them.

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.

«The audience for religious programs on television is not an essentially new, or young, or varied audience.

Children should not be subject to religious programming.

On the other hand, 14 per cent claimed that their viewing of religious programs was a «substitute for going to church,» and about 20 per cent said that they watched religious programs on Sundays during church hours.

If we look at the number who tune in one hour of religious programming per week — a more realistic definition of the «regular» viewer — the figures are considerably smaller.

But almost all religious programming is scheduled during fringe or even deep - fringe time, when a figure of 1.4 is more likely.

The regional survey's similar «literalist / charismatic» scale also showed a strong correlation between holding such beliefs and viewing religious programs.

The viewing audience for religious programs is far smaller than has been claimed.