And, of course, general TV is far more pervasive
than religious TV.
In this sense, general television, far more
than religious TV, is the church's real competitor.
Not exact matches
(11) see for example, William Kuhns, The Electronic Gospel, New York: Herder and Herder, 1969; George Gerbner with Kathleen Connoly, «Television as New Religion,» New Catholic World, April / May 1978: 52 - 56; Gregor Goethals, The
TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar, Boston: Beacon Press, 1981; Peter Horsfield, «Larger
Than Life:
Religious Functions of Television.»
Nobody will even know who Tebow is in a few years after everyone realizes he is just a 3rd rate football player that will never amount to anything other
than pandering to the sheep that eat up all the
religious hopla just like they do when it's spewed from the scam artists on
TV who end up getting caught with trannys and smoking meth.
During the 12 year period from l970 to l981, the NBC -
TV series of
religious specials had an average Nielsen rating of 2.31 or an average audience of slightly more
than 3 million persons for each program.
He also showed from the Nielsen statistics that those who subscribe to cable
TV are actually less likely to view
religious programs
than those without cable.4.
The world of
religious TV has even more ailments and personal problems
than general
TV.
But its popularity is more indicative that it has become just a part of
TV «s entertainment package with a
religious gloss
than that it is the good news of the Christian faith.