Since the beginnings of commercial radio, evangelical Christians have recognized the effectiveness of the broadcast media as a vehicle for disseminating their faith. By enabling them to reach new audiences as well as committed believers, broadcasting...

Televangelism is the use of television to communicate the Christian faith. The word is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and was coined by Time magazine. [1] A televangelist (from television and evangelist) is a person, often a minister, who...

The first time was on television, when I was eight or nine. It was when my mother was sleeping in, on Sunday mornings, and I would get up early and go to the television set in my mother's study and flip through the channels,...

The Rev. Rex Humbard, 88, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Sept. 21 at a hospital near his home in Lantana, Fla. The cause of death was not disclosed. ...

Alice GhostleyLOS ANGELES (AP) _ Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was 81.Ghostley died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer...

The Rev. Rex Humbard, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Friday a family spokeswoman said. He was 88. Humbard died of natural causes at a South Florida hospital near his Lantana...