WCFCTV38 Archives - Tim Frakes Productions https://frakesproductions.com/tag/wcfctv38/ My WordPress Blog Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:14:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago https://frakesproductions.com/2019/09/12/live-in-three-states-the-story-of-wcfc-tv-38-chicago/ https://frakesproductions.com/2019/09/12/live-in-three-states-the-story-of-wcfc-tv-38-chicago/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:14:12 +0000 http://www.frakesproductions.com/?p=10371 Here is my latest documentary. Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago The summer of 1983, I was a 22 year old college intern standing behind an RCA TK-760 plumbicon three tube color broadcast studio camera in a tiny studio (known as the two-car garage) on the 44th floor of Chicago’s Kemper […]

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Here is my latest documentary.
Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago
The summer of 1983, I was a 22 year old college intern standing behind an RCA TK-760 plumbicon three tube color broadcast studio camera in a tiny studio (known as the two-car garage) on the 44th floor of Chicago’s Kemper Building at 20 North Wacker Drive.

WCFC-TV38 was in some ways, a typical television station. Cameras, studio, set’s, lights, video tape machines, a master control, offices. But in other ways it was different. The call letters, W-C-F-C stood for “Winning Chicagoland for Christ.” At the time, TV-38 was the largest, independent Christian television station in America and part of an emerging trend that saw the rise and public fall of famous televangelists like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert, the emergence of the religious right on the conservative political landscape, and a mainstreaming of the American Pentecostal movement.

TV-38 also nurtured a grass-roots ecumenical movement that crossed ecclesiastical, racial and economic barriers that had divided Christians in Chicago for decades.

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