Sexual scandals with prostitutes in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him. He currently owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network. At its height in the 1980s, his telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. and on 78 channels in 104 other countries, and over the Internet. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the U.S. Swaggart’s TV ministry, which began in 1971, has a viewing audience both in the U.S.

Daily programming includes This Week in Louisiana Agriculture and LSU Athletics.Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal evangelist. KPBN airs Louisiana-based programming and sports coverage, plus national programming and sports of interest to Louisiana residents. KPBN-HD is now available on Cox Communications channel 1013, they are also working on their digital signal located on channel 14. Pelican Sports was added to KPBN's second subchannel, and Light TV was added to the fourth subchannel on January 1, 2018. That same year, the station became Jimmy Swaggart's Sonlife TV network flagship station with sports programming moving to the second subchannel. The station chose not to renew its America One affiliation once the network merged with YouToo TV.īeginning in 2017, KPBN dropped its Untamed Sports TV affiliation and now only broadcast programming from The Pursuit Channel outside of local programming. On January 12, 2002, KPBN signed on channel 11, carrying a sports-centered programming lineup with some America One programming. After returning to the air for a brief period of time, the station signed off for good on Decemafter a conflict emerged between the station's owner, Dave Loflin of Gulf Atlantic, and station manager Upfront Partnership, owned by Tony Perkins and Bob Courtney. At this time, KTTE secured a spot on TCI's cable lineup however, the station struggled to stay on the air, as the owners faced eviction in August 2000. īy 1999, WBBR (now WBRL) signed on as a cable-only station, taking the WB affiliation, and channel 11 changed its call letters to KTTE, serving as an independent station on March 31 of that year that focused on local and sports programming. Only cable systems at LSU, Clinton, Jackson, and Watson carried the station. In 1995, WTVK served as Baton Rouge's first WB affiliate with a secondary affiliation with America One, yet the station failed to secure a spot on Baton Rouge's cable lineup and had a broadcast range of only six miles. The station soon changed to channel 11 and was an independent station known as WTVK in 1994, owned by Gulf Atlantic Communications. KPBN started as K07UJ, a translator station for the Woody Jenkins-owned WBTR.

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