Sentences with phrase «religious programs reached»

The research indicates that after a decade of steady growth, audience sizes for most major paid - time religious programs reached a plateau in 1977 and have been fluctuating since then.

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According to experts, Trump's executive order would strengthen religious exemptions under federal laws and programs, but it wouldn't have the reach to quell debates over Christian - owned businesses refusing to serve same - sex weddings.

After conducting a review of its faith based programming, the network said it wants to raise its game across all religious output, reach as many people as possible and portray the diversity of beliefs and society.

Again, the growth in the combined audience for syndicated religious programs appears to have reached a peak in 1977 and has been fluctuating

While the broadcast evangelists envisage television as a God - given tool by which to reach «the world» with their message, research on religious television programs indicates that the actual audience of most religious programs is highly segmented and that those who watch usually do so for very specific reasons.

(The two studies by Dennis and Robinson parallel each other to a large extent and reach similar conclusions with regard to the audiences of religious programs in these locations and in this period.)

One interesting observation to be gained from these figures is that the paid - time religious programs had reached the peak of their influence, numerically at least, almost three years before most public attention was given to them in the election year of 1980.

Evangelical programs derive their raison d'etre from their intent to spread the gospel to those who are beyond the current reach of the church, yet their syndication patterns reflect the practice of aiming for those areas of the country already high in church attendance and religious interest.

In spite of this dominant use now being made of religious programs by church people, the paid - time broadcasters still maintain that the dominant intention of their programs is evangelism (i.e., reaching outsiders).

The plateau reached in 1977 and the demographic characteristics of the audience attained at this point provide a different picture and a different perspective: that paid - time religious programming on television is not a universal model of religious faith for the future but is primarily a specialized programming service for a specialized audience.

Central to an understanding of what will be the future of religious television in America is the fact noted in the research on audience sizes: that the audiences for paid - time religious programs as a whole reached a plateau around the year 1977.

From the present perspective, however, the audience patterns for the past decade are indicative of growth to the point of market saturation (i.e., it appears that in 1977 the paid - time religious broadcasters reached the peak of their growth with the audience segment they can reach with their present program formats and contents).

While it is possible to reach a greater unchurched audience by modifying the religious content of programs, the objectives of such programming must be suitably modified also.

This pilot project builds on the Science for Seminaries project by fostering a science program in rabbinic education, thereby broadening the scope of religious communities reached by the project.