any stations in your area running the 700 Club telethon?

[nomadcowatbk]

KWCH in Wichita is running the whole thing the Sunday after next

 

[Mario500]

WFNA-TV, the CW Television Network affiliate for the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market, was set to broadcast the telethon from 4:00 p.m. (Central time) until shortly before 7:00 p.m., according to the TV programming guides from TitanTV and Zap2it.

 

[azumanga]

KWCH in Wichita is running the whole thing the Sunday after next

No doubt fans of college basketball and golf on CBS won't be happy, as they will be bumped for six solid hours of Pat Robertson.

Reminds me in the past when WGTU in Traverse City ran the telethon in its entirety every year -- bumping ABC's telecasts of NBA basketball. But despite complaints from sports fans, the station refused to back down. After WGTU was sold a few years back, "The 700 Club" and its telethon moved to Fox affiliate WFQX, but in this case, they usually have nothing to pre-empt, as it's just local programming on Fox affiliates. WFQX should be proud of themselves nevertheless for being the only Michigan station carrying the telethon -- even the religious stations are backing off.

Any other ABC stations bumping NBA for Pat?

 

[nomadcowatbk]

KWCH in Wichita is running the whole thing the Sunday after next

No doubt fans of college basketball and golf on CBS won't be happy, as they will be bumped for six solid hours of Pat Robertson.

Reminds me in the past when WGTU in Traverse City ran the telethon in its entirety every year -- bumping ABC's telecasts of NBA basketball. But despite complaints from sports fans, the station refused to back down. After WGTU was sold a few years back, "The 700 Club" and its telethon moved to Fox affiliate WFQX, but in this case, they usually have nothing to pre-empt, as it's just local programming on Fox affiliates. WFQX should be proud of themselves nevertheless for being the only Michigan station carrying the telethon -- even the religious stations are backing off.

Any other ABC stations bumping NBA for Pat?

They may be moving sports programming to sister Netlet station, they're bumping college basketball and golf on CBS off to the sister CW station in Wichita, does Pat Robert$on extra to get on Big 4 stations in the Bible Belt or small conservative markets? In Kansas City, on the edge of the bible belt, the MYTV station KSMO 62 (sister station of KCTV 5 CBS) runs the 700 M-F but the telethon is not their schedule, not like they'd have anything to pre-empt.

 

[Joe_Capitano]

Seattle: KONG/16.1 3-5 PM, presumably on tape delay.

 

[azumanga]

ABC Family, as it is in previous years, is duly obligated by eternal contract to show the entire telethon twice, 12 Noon to 12 Midnight ET. Also per contract, Pat Robertson commands all cable viewers to watch, and agree with, every second of it, and stay tuned for the paid programming that follows.

By the way, WTTA in Tampa Bay will air three hours of the shyster festival on a delay, 9PM to 12 Midnight. Both it and religious broadcaster WCLF carry 700 weekdays, though WCLF has declined to carry the telethon.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

actually, KWCH is only airing the first 3 hours, golf will be on after that

 

[Mario500]

ABC Family, as it is in previous years, is duly obligated by eternal contract to show the entire telethon twice, 12 Noon to 12 Midnight ET. Also per contract, Pat Robertson commands all cable viewers to watch, and agree with, every second of it, and stay tuned for the paid programming that follows.

By the way, WTTA in Tampa Bay will air three hours of the shyster festival on a delay, 9PM to 12 Midnight. Both it and religious broadcaster WCLF carry 700 weekdays, though WCLF has declined to carry the telethon.

I found your prejudiced description of the contract tough to believe, especially the part about the command for cable TV viewers. Could you provide any proof supporting your description?

 

[nathannah]

It looks like nobody is carrying it in Milwaukee this year. WVTV, which carried the 700 for years, ended doing so this year for the scratch-heavy EP Daily and one of the 2,291 repeats of Cheaters on weekdays, and the only other station in town which does carry religious content not off a distant bird, WVCY, only carries CBN newscasts and is about as strict a religious broadcaster as you can get (no financial appeals beyond books and basic support, lots of choral programming, and programming off FamilyNet from years ago). They don't do telethons, not even for local programming.

 

[FightingIrish]

Why on earth would any station run a telethon for that crooked bastard Pat Robertson? If it is for a worthwhile cause, couldn't he just open up a few of his diamond mines and take it out of there?

 

[azumanga]

ABC Family, as it is in previous years, is duly obligated by eternal contract to show the entire telethon twice, 12 Noon to 12 Midnight ET. Also per contract, Pat Robertson commands all cable viewers to watch, and agree with, every second of it, and stay tuned for the paid programming that follows.

I found your prejudiced description of the contract tough to believe, especially the part about the command for cable TV viewers. Could you provide any proof supporting your description?

That was sarcasm. Also, it is known at least in legend that ABC Family (and its predecessor, Fox Family) is obligated to include "The 700 Club" and its telethon in its schedule in perpetuity, as a condition that stemmed from Fox's purchase of Robertson's "The Family Channel" in the late-1990s. Considering those terms and Robertson's attitude, we should have a right to pick on him.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Why on earth would any station run a telethon for that crooked bastard Pat Robertson? If it is for a worthwhile cause, couldn't he just open up a few of his diamond mines and take it out of there?

He's paying them, the 700 Club is actually a paid infomercial

 

[mescutia]

ABC Family, as it is in previous years, is duly obligated by eternal contract to show the entire telethon twice, 12 Noon to 12 Midnight ET. Also per contract, Pat Robertson commands all cable viewers to watch, and agree with, every second of it, and stay tuned for the paid programming that follows.

I found your prejudiced description of the contract tough to believe, especially the part about the command for cable TV viewers. Could you provide any proof supporting your description?

That was sarcasm. Also, it is known at least in legend that ABC Family (and its predecessor, Fox Family) is obligated to include "The 700 Club" and its telethon in its schedule in perpetuity, as a condition that stemmed from Fox's purchase of Robertson's "The Family Channel" in the late-1990s. Considering those terms and Robertson's attitude, we should have a right to pick on him.

Besides, if it was true, he'd have enough trouble getting Christians to agree with everything said, let alone other viewers. A lot of Christians (myself included) think he should retire and go far, far away.

 

[azumanga]

Why on earth would any station run a telethon for that crooked bastard Pat Robertson? If it is for a worthwhile cause, couldn't he just open up a few of his diamond mines and take it out of there?

He's paying them, the 700 Club is actually a paid infomercial

And he'll be getting his money back from the pledges.

 

[harrisburgpatv]

ABC Family, as it is in previous years, is duly obligated by eternal contract to show the entire telethon twice, 12 Noon to 12 Midnight ET. Also per contract, Pat Robertson commands all cable viewers to watch, and agree with, every second of it, and stay tuned for the paid programming that follows.

I found your prejudiced description of the contract tough to believe, especially the part about the command for cable TV viewers. Could you provide any proof supporting your description?

That was sarcasm. Also, it is known at least in legend that ABC Family (and its predecessor, Fox Family) is obligated to include "The 700 Club" and its telethon in its schedule in perpetuity, as a condition that stemmed from Fox's purchase of Robertson's "The Family Channel" in the late-1990s. Considering those terms and Robertson's attitude, we should have a right to pick on him.

Don't mind that weirdo and all his gobbledygook. I've seen it on other internet forums from him too...

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

I still believe contracts can be broken. ABC Family should not be hamstrung by this old man. He needs to leave the stage pronto and free the channel from his bondage. Let ABC choose to sell time to him and not the other way around. Of course, if "Pat" really wanted to control his programming he would have never sold the Family Channel in the first place.

What about this happening: Disney selling ABC Family's current space to CBN, and then moving ABC Family's programming -- sans The 700 Club -- to what is now SoapNet? Could that work?

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Why on earth would any station run a telethon for that crooked bastard Pat Robertson? If it is for a worthwhile cause, couldn't he just open up a few of his diamond mines and take it out of there?

He's paying them, the 700 Club is actually a paid infomercial

And he'll be getting his money back from the pledges.

do a lot of them come from Wichita?

 

[nomadcowatbk]

I still believe contracts can be broken. ABC Family should not be hamstrung by this old man. He needs to leave the stage pronto and free the channel from his bondage. Let ABC choose to sell time to him and not the other way around. Of course, if "Pat" really wanted to control his programming he would have never sold the Family Channel in the first place.

What about this happening: Disney selling ABC Family's current space to CBN, and then moving ABC Family's programming -- sans The 700 Club -- to what is now SoapNet? Could that work?

the value of the Family Channel, then Fox Family, not ABC Family, was it's channel placement

 

[Mario500]

ABC Family, as it is in previous years, is duly obligated by eternal contract to show the entire telethon twice, 12 Noon to 12 Midnight ET. Also per contract, Pat Robertson commands all cable viewers to watch, and agree with, every second of it, and stay tuned for the paid programming that follows.

I found your prejudiced description of the contract tough to believe, especially the part about the command for cable TV viewers. Could you provide any proof supporting your description?

That was sarcasm. Also, it is known at least in legend that ABC Family (and its predecessor, Fox Family) is obligated to include "The 700 Club" and its telethon in its schedule in perpetuity, as a condition that stemmed from Fox's purchase of Robertson's "The Family Channel" in the late-1990s. Considering those terms and Robertson's attitude, we should have a right to pick on him.

Don't mind that weirdo and all his gobbledygook. I've seen it on other internet forums from him too...

Who were you referencing?

 

[nathannah]

I still believe contracts can be broken. ABC Family should not be hamstrung by this old man. He needs to leave the stage pronto and free the channel from his bondage. Let ABC choose to sell time to him and not the other way around. Of course, if "Pat" really wanted to control his programming he would have never sold the Family Channel in the first place.

What about this happening: Disney selling ABC Family's current space to CBN, and then moving ABC Family's programming -- sans The 700 Club -- to what is now SoapNet? Could that work?

The only out at this point is waiting a few more years until the quiet sign off of ABC Family's analog feed, and then they can do what they want. From what I have read in the past, since the HD feed is just a whole other channel in technicality, it really isn't under the Robertson covenant, but just for simplicity's sake is a simulcast now, including the 700. Now that ABC/Disney is getting many of their programming agreements for the next ten years firmed up on many providers, once they take off the analog/4:3 'original' feed when HD penetration reaches a certain number (this probably counts both actual HD homes and homes using HD cable/sat boxes in analog 4:3 mode), Disney is free to let the 700/CBN go and grab those hours for themselves.

As for Soapnet; forget it. Soapnet isn't even in many of the new ABC/Disney cable carriage agreements and is probably gone by the end of 2014 at the latest.