Sentences with phrase «religious television viewers»

It does reveal that religious television viewers are more generous contributors than non-viewers.

And the households of religious television viewers are often made up of older or single persons.

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Reuters: Preacher alarms many Egyptians with calls for Islamist vice police Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hisham el - Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police.

This means that television is itself becoming a kind of religion, shaping the faith and values of many people in the nation, and providing an alternate worldview to the old reality, and to the old religious view based on that reality, for millions of viewers.

It places great emphasis on the overt experiential and emotional aspects of religious faith, making it more appealing and engaging to television viewers than other more mystical or conceptual expressions of Christianity.

For most heavy viewers of religious television, watching is both an expression of belief and an act of protest against the world of general television.

The study boldly suggests that «commercial television viewing may supply or supplant (or both) some religious satisfactions and thus lessen the importance of religion for its heavy viewers» (p. 10).

Heavy viewers of religious television are more likely than light viewers to describe themselves as conservative, to oppose a nuclear freeze, and to favor tougher laws against pornography.

When heavy viewers were asked whether watching religious television had changed their involvement in the local church, 7 % said it had, and 3 % said it had decreased their involvement.

To get around this problem with religious TV viewers, the Annenberg researchers went to several previous months of Arbitron television viewers «diaries, looked up the actual programs watched by day, hour and channel in the TV Guide, and thereby identified «confirmed viewing» — in other words, what people really watched.

The Annenberg report boldly suggests that «commercial television viewing may supply or supplant (or both) some religious satisfactions and thus lessen the importance of religion for its heavy viewers.

(2) Buddenbaum, in 1979, found that regular viewers of religious television programs are twice as likely to be female as male.

In Onondaga County in 1971 Solt found that 18 percent of all regular listeners or viewers of religious radio and television programs were people who claimed they rarely or never went to church.

While the evangelical and fundamentalist broadcasters have been successful in raising money, in building large organizations and support services, in utilizing new technologies, and in providing sophisticated religious programming for evangelical viewers, they have not demonstrated any greater capacity or ability to get their message across to the larger television population.

Because of the strong dynamic of defense mechanisms, the major effect of religious television programs will be one of reinforcement of existing attitudes that most viewers would hold in harmony with the broadcaster.

A review of the research suggests that the most effective uses of television in relation to those outside the normal reach of the Christian faith lie within the areas of imparting information about religious issues or organizations, the suggestion of religious questions for consideration by the viewer as applicable to his or her life, and the maintenance of a positive image in relation to general or specific religious issues or organizations.

When applied to religious television, we might predict that religious television programs will have their greatest effect on a viewer when the viewer is aroused because of a particular need; when the recommended action on the religious program becomes salient to the person because of a lack of other options within their repertoire; when the action is perceived as being a realistic and rewarding solution to the need; when the viewer has experienced favorable consequences as a result of the action in the past; and when the program presents options for action that the viewer has opportunity to perform.

(5) Solt, in a study of religious program audience in a New York county, found significant differences occurring at age 44, (6) while Buddenbaum found that frequent viewers of religious television were most likely to be over the age of 62, while those who never watch are more likely to be under age 34.

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

interest, further discrimination is possible: not all religiously interested people are viewers of religious television programs.

Viewers are more likely to associate the Christian viewpoint with the paid - time religious stance seen on television, especially in situations where the viewer lacks other points of reference.

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.

The available research indicates that religious television programs demonstrate little ability to stimulate formation of a relationship between viewers and a church where a previous relationship did not exist.

Chapter 10 will cover research of the following issues: Do religious television programs effect attitudinal and behavioral changes in viewers?

It has been noted already that religious television viewing increases significantly with age and that older viewers demonstrate an increased interest in serious content on television, especially news and public - affairs programming, as compensation for losses of more social sources of information and engagement.

Viewers are more likely to express influences of religious programs in actions which are proximate to the television screen, such as contacting or subscribing to a religious broadcast organization rather than through the more distant option of initiating a relationship with a neighborhood church.

When a consummatory role is sought from religious television, such as in seeking a faith commitment from viewers, the medium exerts strong pressures on how the matter is to be «closed,» and essential elements of the Christian faith which can not be communicated en masse by television are necessarily excluded.

«Honestly, for the world's greatest actor he has the worst taste in television,» Anderson said, explaining that there was a several month period in which Lewis was a religious viewer and advocate for Discovery Channel's survival reality series Naked And Afraid.