Any old timers remember The 700 Club?

[trof]

Many, MANY moons ago, when we were mostly newbies we had The 700 Club.

When you posts hit 700, you posted your ass off to get OUT of The 700 Club ASAP!

For the youngsters, The 700 Club was Pat Roberts' show on the Christian Broadcast Network.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Who's Pat Roberts? NT

For the youngsters, The 700 Club was Pat Roberts' show on the Christian Broadcast Network.

[trof]

2. Far right televangelist.

See, there is this thing called Google?
It will answer many of your questions.

[lastlib]

4. *Robertson*...

The 700 Club is still on--but now that Pat's gone on to his eternal punishment, many are calling it "the 699 Club"!

[TwilightZone]

7. Pro tip: if you tell someone else to use Google...

it might be a good idea to have the correct info in your post first.

Pat Roberts was a Senator from Kansas.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Yes, I remember that!

I had forgotten, thanks for taking me down memory lane!

[BOSSHOG]

5. I zipped through and out of the 700 club

As quick as possible. The TV evangelists, powdered up grifters. My Poor Old Widowed Grandma scraped by but always found a few bucks to send to Oral Roberts. Made me I’ll.

[Talitha]

6. Never watched it but yes, I remember when it was on.

[hunter]

8. Hello trof, yes I do remember.

I also remember when there were a limited number of cable television channels, 57 of them with nothing on, as the song goes.

Pat Robertson owned a channel and he leased it out to Disney whenever he wasn't pushing his god.

[GAJMac]

9. Trust me

I would have practically killed myself trying to get out of that "club".

[JoseBalow]

10. Do you know why it Robertson named it The 700 Club?

For a Christian Broadcasting Network program, you’d probably expect the number to be biblically based. But, as usual, money’s at the root of it.

CBN was founded in January of 1960 and broadcast its first program October 1, 1961. The network refused commercial advertisements, so by the fall of 1963, CBN conducted its first telethon to raise funds to keep the station alive. Pat Robertson, CBN’s founder, told his viewers that a “club” of 700 contributors, each giving $10 a month, would allow CBN to meet its expenses.

By 1965, the annual CBN telethon had been so successful that Robertson added a new program to the end of his station’s broadcast day: The 700 Club, which followed the telethon’s format of prayer and ministry coupled with telephone response.

Robertson has since used those CBN resources to launch numerous other business ventures including: the Family Channel, designed to distribute “The 700 Club,” which became International Family Entertainment in 1990; Northstar Entertainment; Broadcast Equities; CBN Travel; American Sales Corporation; International Charter Jet; Kalo-Vita; and the Founders Inn and Conference Center.

Today, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., is a multimillion-dollar organization that makes money on everything from hawking higher education to digging diamonds in Zaire.

According to Robertson, his close relationship with God has given him the insider’s scoop on successfully using what he calls “God’s marvelous system of money management.”

https://www.straightdope.com/21342523/why-is-the-700-club-called-that


On the plus side, it did inspire this masterpiece...

[sakabatou]

11. I've heard of it, seen it on TV guides, but never watched it

All I know is that Pat Robertson is scum, and his congregants are mere sheep.

[NJCher]

12. When I was a 12-year old

I was trying to figure out how to make millions. I went to the library to research this on a regular basis.

I came up with 2 plans.

One was to become an arms dealer.

The other was to be a televangelist.