Sentences with phrase «religious needs of the audiences»

We have been unwilling to place our financial need ahead of the religious needs of the audiences we serve.

Not exact matches

It is not stipulated that the proper exercise of your religious rights means that they need to occur in public in front of an audience.

We need to understand the religious significance of the miracle accounts to their original audience so that we do not lose sight of the point of these passages.

(44) In commenting on these correlations, Buddenbaurn noted that the religious television audience reports quite different needs from those of the general television audience, Television viewing as a whole has been found to be most useful in satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of loneliness.

It is apparent that much more research is needed before the size of the total audience of religious programs and its breakdown into categories of programs can be accurately evaluated.

The objectives of the religious television program need to be spoiled out first in terms of what audience it hopes to target.

First, one needs to look at the dominant characteristics of the religious television audience: most viewers are people who are already active church members.

In evaluating the influence religious television has or may have on its audience and society, one needs to be aware, therefore, of the perspective from which the subject is being viewed.

While in most audiences of religious programs there is a percentage of people who are unchurched or who indicate little interest in religion in general, it needs to be noted that this percentage is consistently small.

One is that because of the active part played by people in the audience in seeking out gratifying communications to meet their personal and social needs, the dominant uses being made of a religious program may be quite different from the stated aims of the program itself.