Jim Bakker
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James Orsen Bakker is an American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Heritage USA sign in 2007. The site is now mostly demolished.
The set of The Jim Bakker Show in Blue Eye, Missouri
Televangelism
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Televangelism and occasionally termed radio evangelism or teleministry, denotes the utilization of media platforms, notably radio and television, for the marketing of religious messages, particularly Christianity.
Brazilian TV ad for the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
S. Parkes Cadman, one of the first ministers to use radio, beginning in 1923
Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the first televangelist.
Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network.