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[CTListener]

I believe due to the Pat Robertson ownership they couldn't run an episode of McHale's Navy where the Captain's crew dressed up as ghosts to scare someone--apparently
they didn't like the ghost part (some kind of Christian belief?). Robertson built up a huge empire (PTL Club) in Virginia Beach VA and it included Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
I believe, though they left to start their own 700 Club.

The Bakkers kept the PTL Club name. Robertson's operation became the 700 Club.

You're right about Robertson and ghosts. I remember channel flipping and coming across Pat denouncing Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon." He showed a picture of Stevie Nicks and remarked how pretty she was (lusting in his heart?), then said good Christians shouldn't listen to the song because "she's singing about a WITCH!"

 

[nowradioguy]

Perhaps, it is a sign of my age but I grew up with TV/Radio simulcasts. Even remember as a very little kid hearing the Jack Benny show simulcast from his TV broadcast. The long forgotten Arthur Godrey's morning show was also simulcast. Think it is a good idea. I have Sirius Radio in my car and I get CNN,MSNBC and Fox simulcast on the radio.

Fundamentally, I like TV audio on radio.

I remember Godfrey's broadcasts from my younger days in Providence, RI. Back then (late 1950s), WPRO-AM/-FM were affiliated with CBS Radio, and co-owned WPRO-TV was with CBS Television.

Godfrey wore headphones, and my impression was/is that his RADIO program was simulcast on TV, which is not necessarily the same as "TV audio on radio".

I never did fully understand though, how, when he had to cut away to the local affiliates, Godfrey would intone, "This is the CBS Radio Network", but simultaneously - or so it seemed - the TV audio came over as "This is the CBS Television Network". I'm guessing one of these IDs was probably prerecorded, and a board operator for either the radio or the TV network just hit the playback button at exactly the right time.