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The PTL Club, also known as The Jim and Tammy Show, was a Christian television program that was first hosted by evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, running from 1974 to 1989. The program was later known as PTL Today and as Heritage Today .
James Orsen Bakker (/ ˈ b eɪ k ər /; [1] born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye.
The PTL Television Network, often referred to as simply PTL, [1] is an American evangelical Christian television network originally located in Fort Mill, South Carolina, founded by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in 1974 and dedicated in April 1977.
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker at PTL in 1986. That year, nearly 6 million people visited Heritage USA, the 2,300-acre Christian theme park and retreat center they built in Fort Mill, S.C., just south ...
PTL Satellite Network: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker: 1989: Launched in 1974. Collapsed in the wake of a sex and embezzlement scandal that resulted in Jim Bakker being sentenced to prison. Relaunched as PTL Television Network in 2015. The Worship Network: The Christian Network, Inc. 2013: Launched in 1992.
INSP was founded in 1978 as the PTL Television Network, a religious television network founded by Christian televangelists Jim Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye Bakker. The network was the flagship channel for their daily Christian variety program, The PTL Club. The network later became known as the PTL Satellite Network and finally PTL – The ...
The Bakkers' control of PTL collapsed in 1987 after revelations that $287,000 had been paid from the organization to buy the silence of Jessica Hahn, [15] who claims Jim Bakker raped her. [16] In his 1997 book, I Was Wrong, Jim Bakker disputed Hahn's account, claiming that he was "set up" and that their sex was consensual. [17]
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