The amount of subsequent research conducted on religious television in America has been relatively small in comparison to the large number of people and agencies which have been
producing religious programs over the past 35 years.
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.
When the Broadcast Institute of North America surveyed religious programming in the country in 1971, they found that stations which had begun to sell time for religious programs averaged fewer network and locally
produced religious programs than did those stations which did not sell time for religious programming.
The increases in the audience for the paid - time religious programs in the early 1970s initially affected locally
produced religious programs.
Not exact matches
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.
Local
programs, mostly sustaining - time
programs,
produced by local television stations either independently or in association with local
religious groups or churches.
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.
First, they
produce programs in the media which, in the midst of the secular worldview and its power, try to illumine the human condition, to ask meaningful
religious questions, to rediscover
religious truths, and to make a beginning toward creating a new
religious vocabulary which can have meaning and power for the multitudes.
(The second study to employ an experimental laboratory method to study specific attitudinal change
produced by
religious television
programs.)
Religious television
programs therefore can be divided into two main groups: sustaining - time
programs, where the network or local station meets all or part of the costs of
producing and broadcasting the
program; and paid - time
programs, where the broadcaster himself meets all the costs of
producing and broadcasting the
program, mainly by raising money from viewers.
While the service was
produced specifically to celebrate a particular occasion in American cultural life, it was consistent with many other services and
programs presented on American
religious television.
The Nielsen Company, for example, each November
produces a «Report on Syndicated
Program Audiences» which lists not only audience sizes for the various syndicated
religious programs, but also age and sex variables, national and DMA ratings, and syndication information.
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religious radio and television
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produced by the Members of the Church of God
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religious radio and television
program in the Philippines
produced by the Members of the Church of God Ang Dating Daan.
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religious radio and television
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produced by the Members of the Church of God International.
Ang Dating Daan is a
religious radio and television
program in the Philippines
produced by the Members of the Church of God International.
Religious organizations and other associations of zealots could
produce their own version of such a non-destructive, open - source, censorship
program — but I would be very surprised, since its code would inevitably reveal the illogical foundation of their creeds.