Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Paul Crouch dies at 79

Paul Crouch, the pioneer of televangelism, died on 29 November at the age of 79. He suffered from heart and other ailments. 

Crouch built Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian television system. 

In the mid-1970s, he started spreading the Gospel from a small TV station in Tustin. He then acquired many more television stations to spread evangelical programming. 

A decade before TBN was born, Pat Robertson had launched the Christian Broadcast Network. But it was Crouch who took the message of God to a much bigger scale and wider global audience. 

The son of a poor missionary, Crouch’s ambition was to have an alternative to secular media. His network of channels, thus, had content that targeted at every evangelical Christian demographic. Programming ranged from Biblical cartoons and soap operas, game shows, physical fitness, religious movies and Christian rock videos. 

Crouch, along with his wife, hosted the nightly talk show ‘Praise the Lord’.

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