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The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is a Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 broadcasting network in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Its headquarters and main studios are in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads Hampton Roads area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay....
.

CBN was founded by televangelist
Televangelism

Televangelism is the use of television to communicate the Christianity faith. The word is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and was coined by Time magazine....
 Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice , the Christian Broadcasting Network , the Christian Coalition of America, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing Internation...
 in 1961 using a religious variety program format that has been successfully used in religious broadcasting ever since. One of the mainstays of the network is The 700 Club
The 700 Club

The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing on cable's ABC Family and in syndication throughout the United States and Canada....
, the longest-running program in the variety format.






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The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is a Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 broadcasting network in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Its headquarters and main studios are in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads Hampton Roads area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay....
.

CBN was founded by televangelist
Televangelism

Televangelism is the use of television to communicate the Christianity faith. The word is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and was coined by Time magazine....
 Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice , the Christian Broadcasting Network , the Christian Coalition of America, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing Internation...
 in 1961 using a religious variety program format that has been successfully used in religious broadcasting ever since. One of the mainstays of the network is The 700 Club
The 700 Club

The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing on cable's ABC Family and in syndication throughout the United States and Canada....
, the longest-running program in the variety format. The network's journalistic branch, CBN News, produces religious news programs such as CBN NewsWatch and Christian World News, and also airs a special hour of prime-time election coverage hosted by Robertson during presidential and mid-term elections in the United States, seen on ABC Family
ABC Family

ABC Family is an United States cable television television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company ....
. The half-hour talk-show Living the Life, hosted by 700 Club co-host Terry Meeuwsen, is also seen on ABC Family.

CBN manages Operation Blessing, an international relief and missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 effort, and has has international programming, producing local programs including Solusi in Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 and From Heart to Heart in Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
; CBN India produces five weekly series. There are versions of the The 700 Club aimed at Latin American (Club 700 Hoy) and British audiences (The 700 Club With Paul and Fiona) . CBN has broadcast programs in over 70 languages.

Originally a complete cable television network, which launched on April 29, 1977, CBN was later renamed The Family Channel, which was later sold to Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
 and known as the " Fox Family Channel. Fox later sold it to Disney, which renamed it ABC Family
ABC Family

ABC Family is an United States cable television television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company ....
. CBN is now a production company
Production company

Production company refers to a company responsible for the development and physical production of performing arts, film, radio or a television program....
 for The 700 Club, and the other syndicated
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 shows CBN NewsWatch, Christian World News, Living the Life, and One Cubed. CBN and Regent University
Regent University

Regent University is a private university coeducational interdenominational Christian university located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Virginia, United States....
 jointly produced the film First Landing. The current news director is Rob Allman.

Some of CBN's programs are also aired on Sky Angel
Sky Angel

Sky Angel U.S. LLC. describes itself as a "Christian-owned and operated multi-channel television service specializing in Christian and family-friendly TV and radio programming."...
, Trinity Broadcasting Network
Trinity Broadcasting Network

The Trinity Broadcasting Network is the United States' largest Religious broadcasting#Television Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, it also has studios in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida....
, Cornerstone Television
Cornerstone Television

The Cornerstone TeleVision Network is a small religious Broadcasting and satellite television network based in Wall, Pennsylvania, United States....
, FamilyNet
FamilyNet

FamilyNet is a television network based in Atlanta, Georgia . FamilyNet is often considered a "trusted" entertainment television network for families....
, LeSEA Broadcasting
LeSEA

LeSEA Broadcasting , also known as World Harvest Television, is an United States Christian television network with over 40 affiliate stations in a number of United States markets, on the Fixed Service Satellite Galaxy 16 C band transponder 15, and on satellite overseas....
 and Middle East Television
Middle East Television

Middle East Television is a Christian-based satellite television broadcasting network located in Limassol, Cyprus. Programming on METV includes a mixture of Christian programming, plus non-religious entertainment programs like The Red Green Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Lone Ranger and National Football League Football....
 (which was founded and owned by CBN, until sold in the early 2000s to LeSEA
LeSEA

LeSEA Broadcasting , also known as World Harvest Television, is an United States Christian television network with over 40 affiliate stations in a number of United States markets, on the Fixed Service Satellite Galaxy 16 C band transponder 15, and on satellite overseas....
), all Evangelical Christian
Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism is a Protestantism Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s.Most adherents consider its key characteristics to be: a belief in the need for personal conversion ; some expression of the gospel in effort; a high regard for Biblical authority; and an emphasis on the death and resurrection of Jesus....
 networks.

Former broadcast stations

At one time, CBN owned a number of broadcast television stations, including the following:
  • WANX, Atlanta
    Atlanta, Georgia

    Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
     (now CBS affiliate WGCL
    WGCL-TV

    WGCL-TV is the Columbia Broadcasting System television station serving the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia area. Its city of license is Atlanta, Georgia and the station is owned by Meredith Corporation....
    )
  • WXNE-TV, Boston
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
     (now Fox
    Fox Broadcasting Company

    The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
     affiliate WFXT
    WFXT

    WFXT, channel 25, is the Fox Network owned-and-operated station in Boston, Massachusetts. This station covers the greater Boston area, as well as southern New Hampshire, with a transmitter located in Needham, Massachusetts....
    )
  • KXTX, Dallas/Fort Worth
    Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

    The Dallas, Texas?Fort Worth, Texas?Arlington, Texas metropolitan area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S....
     (now a Telemundo
    Telemundo

    Telemundo is a Spanish language United States television network. Launched in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Angel Ramos in 1954, it is the second-largest Spanish language content producer in the world....
     affiliate)
  • KTBN, Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles

    Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
     Metropolitian Area, California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
     (later became the Trinity Broadcasting Network
    Trinity Broadcasting Network

    The Trinity Broadcasting Network is the United States' largest Religious broadcasting#Television Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, it also has studios in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida....
    )
  • WYAH-TV, Norfolk
    Norfolk, Virginia

    Norfolk is an independent city in the Virginia in the United States. With a population of 234,403 as of the United States Census 2000, it is Virginia's second-largest incorporated city....
     (now CW
    The CW Television Network

    The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-07 United States network television schedule....
     affiliate WGNT
    WGNT

    WGNT, channel 27, is CW Television Network-owned and operated station for the Norfolk, Virginia-Virginia Beach, Virginia-Newport News, Virginia television market....
    )
  • WVRN
    WVRN

    WVRN Channel 63 was a television station in the Richmond, Virginia television market. It was on the air from 1983 to September 1988, first as a religious station, then a general entertainment independent station....
    , Richmond, Virginia
    Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....
     (now defunct)


From 1969 to 1982 CBN owned a simulcast network of five FM radio stations
Rural Radio Network

The Rural Radio Network was an interconnected group of six commercial FM broadcasting stations spread across upstate New York and operated from Ithaca, New York -- the first all-radio, no-wireline network in the world....
 in upstate New York originally set up in 1948 by a farming cooperative as the Rural Radio Network
Rural Radio Network

The Rural Radio Network was an interconnected group of six commercial FM broadcasting stations spread across upstate New York and operated from Ithaca, New York -- the first all-radio, no-wireline network in the world....
, known as CBN Northeast. This station group was split up following CBN's sale of the licenses to separate owners.

CBN Programs

  • The 700 Club
    The 700 Club

    The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing on cable's ABC Family and in syndication throughout the United States and Canada....
     is a news/magazine television program transmitted daily since 1966—one of the longest runs of any program—with Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, and Gordon Robertson. Broadcasts information and interviews to an average daily audience of one million viewers, both on cable and through syndication.
  • CBN NewsWatch is produced by CBN News, is a half-hour daily news program reporting national and international news from a conservative, Christian perspective. Broadcast nationally on several Christian cable and satellite outlets.
  • Christian World News is a half-hour weekly conservative news program, produced by CBN News. Broadcast nationally on the Trinity Broadcasting Network
    Trinity Broadcasting Network

    The Trinity Broadcasting Network is the United States' largest Religious broadcasting#Television Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, it also has studios in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida....
    .
  • Club 700 Hoy is a half hour Spanish-language weekly television program broadcast throughout Latin America, and in the United States on the US Hispanic network, Azteca America. Produced in a magazine style format. It is a morning show about popular opinion on current issues, and claims to provide answers to life's problems. It presents interviews, informative features, and reality stories about people, places, and music.
  • Living the Life is a magazine-style talk show for women, with interviews, stories, and information on health, relationships, faith, parenting, home, gardening, cooking and other topics.
  • One Cubed International is a program about youth culture, action sports, and music videos. It claims a mission statement "to reach this generation to express the unconditional love and salvation that God freely offered to everyone in this world. In everything that is One Cubed, we want to bring glory to God, never compromising and never settling, and always striving to be used by Him to the best of our abilities".
  • One Cubed USA is a program about youth culture, action sports, and music videos.


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