R.I.P.: Triinty Broadcasting Network Co-Founder Paul Crouch, 1934-2013

[vjm]

I have only taken a quick look at TBN over the last few days and was surprised that there is no mention of Paul's passing. I would have expected either a graphic with his photo and 1934-2013 or a scrolling banner at the screen bottom that might include messages from the viewers but nothing. I did see a banner to invite everyone to their Holy Land Experience in Orlando.
(Since I only looked quickly while running up or down the channels, I might have missed something that they did.)

TBN ran numerous crawls on Saturday when he died, and they'll run a special retrospective of his life Sunday night and Monday evening on all of the TBN networks.

 

[TVCOOL]

How is TBN doing these days?

 

[K.M. Richards]

That list was WAY bigger when all those LPTVs and class A stations were on the air with TBN. As I recall, they would have IDs in morse code every once in a while. (And does anyone remember IDs in morse code on the TV?)

The vast majority of the TBN-owned low power stations (78 in all) were sold to Luken Communications in 2010 and now run one or more of the Luken national channels -- Retro, PB&J, Heartland, Tuff, etc.

Unfortunately, I never heard a morse code station ID as I have always lived in an area without translators. I always thought that was one of the more interesting provisions in the FCC Rules.

 

[ContinuousWave]

Can you imagine them IDing visually in Morse?? (it would be legal!) Egads!!!

 

[CTListener]

Is TBN's KTBN still on shortwave? That's the station that started out as KUSW, the Rock of the West, from Utah before being sold to Trinity and going religious.

 

[JRH]

Is TBN's KTBN still on shortwave? That's the station that started out as KUSW, the Rock of the West, from Utah before being sold to Trinity and going religious.

No, they shut that down several years ago. When it did operate, it seemed to be entirely TV audio, including "call the number at the bottom of your screen." Some other religious broadcaster bought the shortwave transmitter and moved it to wherever they were located.