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The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is an American Christian-oriented religious television network and production company. Founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, its headquarters and main studios are based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ==Background== CBN was founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in 1961, using a religious variety program format that has been successfully used in religious broadcasting ever since. One of the company's mainstays is ''The 700 Club'', the longest-running program in the variety format. The network's journalistic branch, CBN News, provides news updates to ''The 700 Club'' and produces religious news programs such as ''CBN NewsWatch'' and ''Christian World News''; it also produces a special hour-long block of prime time election coverage hosted by Robertson during American presidential and mid-term elections, airing on ABC Family, which also carries ''The 700 Club'' and the half-hour talk show ''700 Club Interactive''. CBN also operates online channels on its website, such as the CBN News Channel.〔David John Marley. Pat Robertson: An American Life. ISBN 978-0-7425-5295-1.〕 CBN Asia manages Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI), an international relief and missionary effort, and has international programming, producing local programs including ''Solusi'' in Indonesia and ''From Heart to Heart'' in Thailand; CBN India produces three shows, a daily Hindi program ''Ek Nayee Zindagi'', a bi-weekly Telugu program ''Nireekshana'' and an award-winning weekly Bengali program ''Samadhan''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nrb.org/news_room/articles/recipients-of-the-2014-nrb-media-awards-announced/ )〕 The company also produces versions of ''The 700 Club'' aimed at Latin American (''Club 700 Hoy'') and British audiences (''The 700 Club With Paul and Fiona''). CBN has broadcast programs in over 70 languages. On April 29, 1977, CBN launched a religious cable network, the CBN Satellite Service. The channel was later revamped as the CBN Cable Network in 1981, and began incorporating secular programming alongside religious content. In August 1988, it rebranded as The CBN Family Channel (later dropping the "CBN" name outright in September 1990), before selling it to International Family Entertainment (owned by Robertson's son, Timothy) two years later as the network became too profitable for CBN to maintain its nonprofit status. IFE later sold it to News Corporation in 1997 (rebranding it as the Fox Family Channel in August 1998), which later sold it to The Walt Disney Company in 2001 (and rebranding it as ABC Family). The terms of the sale to International Family Entertainment stipulated that the channel continue carrying two CBN programs, including ''The 700 Club'', and maintain the word "Family" in the channel's name in perpetuity. CBN now serves mainly as a production company for ''The 700 Club'', and four other syndicated shows: ''CBN NewsWatch'', ''Christian World News'', ''700 Club Interactive'' and ''The Brody File'', a news-analysis program hosted by political journalist David Brody. CBN and Regent University jointly produced the film ''First Landing''.〔(First Landing the Movie - 400th Anniversary of Jamestown, Virginia ). Retrieved February 2, 2013.〕 Some of CBN's programs also air on Sky Angel, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Cornerstone Television, FamilyNet, LeSEA Broadcasting and Middle East Television (which was founded and owned by CBN, until it was sold to LeSEA in the early 2000s), all of which are Evangelical Christian networks. The secular commercial stations that continue to air ''The 700 Club'' in syndication (along with ABC Family) air CBN's annual telethon during the last week of January. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Broadcasting Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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