Pioneering Televangelist Rex Humbard has died at 88

[Ultimajock]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7008423.stm

...when I was in my pre-teens, I lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In
nearby Fond du Lac, there was, for about four years (1968 to 1972), a
one-lung independent TV station on Channel 34, KFIZ-TV. (I worked at
their then-co-owned radio station, KFIZ, in 1990.) Among the staples
of the schedule were off-network reruns ("The Avengers," "Dragnet
1967," "Hogan's Heroes," "Make Room for Daddy," "I Love Lucy," "The
Untouchables"), junk sports (Verne Gagne's AWA "All-Star Wrestling"
and L.A. T-Birds "Roller Game of the Week"), the occasional network
program turned down by the primary affiliates in the Milwaukee and
Green Bay markets (The CBS version of "The Merv Griffin Show"), the
rare first-run syndicated mainstream show (Irv Kupcinet's "Kup's Show"
roundtable talk show from Chicago), the American International
Pictures movie library (more Boris Karloff and Vincent Price than you
ever thought existed), and, on Sunday nights (right after the second
run of that week's "All-Star Wrestling"), Rex Humbard's program...they
just don't make TV schedules like that anymore...

 

[therealjm12]

Many years ago I worked Sunday mornings master control at a TV station that ran his show. I don't remember him ever saying anything mean or hateful, unlike many of the pay to pray TV preachers nowdays and he had a very hot looking daughter!

 

[ixnay]

I hadn't heard much at all from Humbard in quite a while. Had he retired? I may be wrong, but in the late '70s, my HS years, WPHL-17 Philadelphia carried him, or maybe WTAF-29 (now WTXF Fox 29), I forget which. I lived in the Philly market back then.

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