The Old-Time Gospel Hour
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox television The Old-Time Gospel Hour was a ministry radio and television program broadcast from Thomas Road Baptist Church hosted by minister Jerry Falwell featuring the church's Sunday service.<ref name="auto"/> Started in 1956<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> by Jerry Falwell, The Old-Time Gospel Hour gained a national following on radio and television.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series was a major revenue source for Falwell, bringing in more than $90 million during the early 1980s.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The show's popularity continued through the 1990s, during which time it was still broadcast on hundreds of stations across the country.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The television show ended after Falwell died in 2007. His son, Jonathan Falwell, became the primary minister featured in the Sunday services<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and eventually folded the show into the church's online video library and livestream website called Thomas Road On Demand.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In popular culture
Bono of the band U2 mentions The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the 1988 live version of the song "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the album Rattle and Hum. Toward the end of the song, there is a spoken section where he says "...and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues, and a preacher on the Old-Time Gospel Hour stealing money from the sick and the old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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