Trinity Broadcasting Network

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Trinity Broadcasting Network

• Evangelical Television

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Features

• Media Format
• Themes and Values
• World View

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Media

• Mirrors mainstream broadcasting forms
• News
• Cartoons and Programs for Children
• Health and Fitness
• Cooking
• Feature Films
• Documentaries

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Subversive Media

• Music Videos
• Comic Books
• South Park style animation
• (utilized for teen audiences)

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Traditional Evangelical forms

• Churchminister in church space with real
  audience
• Sermonminister preaching to television audience
  only.

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Themes and Values

• Evangelical Nature
• Goal Spreading gospel of Jesus Christ to a
  global audience using state of the art media
  forms.
• Goal Strategic use of all forms of mass
  communication, the conduct of education that will
  train the young and old to understand how the
  principles of The Kingdom of God relate to those
  spheres of human endeavor that play a dominant
  role in our world (CBN)

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Themes

• Binary
• War-like in tone
• Apocalyptic

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Values

• IMPLIED
• Good v Evil
• Flesh v Spirit
• Life v Death
• Impulse v Control
• Saved v Unsaved
• Christian v Pagan
• Right v Wrong
• TRUTH v Lie(s)

• STATED
• GOD
• COUNTRY
• FAMILY

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Why is this attractive to some?

• Provides simple, black and white answers to
  complex issues and problems in global, diverse,
  pluralistic world community.

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