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Revelation TV

Revelation TV is a UK Christian television channel started by Howard (an ex-Jehovah's Witness) and Lesley Conder in 2003; the channel broadcasts on Freesat channel 692, Sky channel 581, and on Freeview HD channel 113.

Criticism

Broadcasts on health issues have revealed a divergence between presenters with fairly mainstream views, and a conflicting strand.[1]

Meanwhile, Revelation TV has been under fire from regulators Ofcom with regards to their views about homosexuality after complaints from gay rights campaigners and members of the public. Ofcom has warned Revelation TV that they must in future be fair and express all points of view when approaching this subject, or they face mandatory sanctions.[1]

The channels have also been the target of pranks by viewers, including a recent incident where a Genesis TV presenter read off a message from a prankster who calls himself 'Raepmykipz', which claimed to be a story of salvation, but was merely an adaptation of the theme tune of the American sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." The presenter then went to another message from the same person consisting of the plot of "Star Wars". A posting of the prank on YouTube went viral and has been viewed over 850,000 times.[2]

Spanish broadcasting

As of 2012 Revelation TV has now a permanent television studio base in Spain. An underground car park space was converted into a new state-of-the art television studio, where a large amount of programmes now transmits from there, e.g. Voice in the Wilderness, Late Show, Q & A show etc. On the Building the Foundation programme in April 2012, Howard Conder announced that Revelation TV will have to move out of their current New Malden studio by the end of June 2012, as the owner wants to demolish the studio buildings and build apartments and houses. Howard also announced on the programme that they will open up a much smaller studio in the London area from the summer of 2012 where some Revelation TV shows will be made from, but the majority of transmissions will now come from Spain. General administration tasks of the channel has also been handed over to a separate company.[3][third-party source needed]

Fundraising

Formerly, channels like Revelation TV which operate from the UK were unable to ask for funds on-air, due to OfCom restrictions. With the lifting of these restrictions, this is no longer the case and Revelation TV can now ask for funds on air.[4][5]

Genesis TV

Another channel, Genesis TV, was formally broadcast on Sky channel 592. It used to play much of the same content from RMusicTV, and a music show, The One to One Show, produced and hosted by Presenter and Gospel Personality, Michael Owusu. The channel made international news headlines in 2010 when a prankster whose YouTube name is 'Raepmykipz', tricked the presenter to read out the opening lyrics to the 1970s/'80's sitcom- Diff'rent Strokes,[6][unreliable source?] followed by an e-mail containing the plot details from Star Wars and referring to a Nigerian man named Ben Kenobi who had battled with dark forces.[citation needed]

On 22 March 2010, Genesis TV allowed a debate between the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin and the leader of the Christian Party, George Hargreaves, as the two were competing against each other for the Barking constituency in the 2010 General election.[7][third-party source needed] Genesis TV was closed down and merged with Revelation TV on 1 April 2010. Revelation TV later moved to Sky channel 581 after the slot was given up by GOD TV.

Justin Peters controversy

On 10 February 2010, Justin Peters, an American evangelist[8] was interviewed live on Revelation TV. Peters is an outspoken critic of the Word of Faith movement and, during the interview, mentioned several prominent proponents of this doctrine by name such as Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar and Kenneth Copeland. The programme was taken off-air before its scheduled end time, due to concerns that making accusations against specific individuals who were not present breached Ofcom rules on fairness. Lesley Conder criticised Peters the following morning,[9] but the Streisand effect ensured that the incident received widespread publicity.[10][11]

Channel merger

On 10 March 2010, the station issued an announcement that two channels, Genesis TV and Revelation TV, would be merging into a single channel, to be called Revelation TV, with effect from 1 April 2010.[12][third-party source needed]

Departure of Jacob Prasch

On 1 December 2011 evangelist and preacher Jacob Prasch announced on his website that he had left Revelation TV after the channel began broadcasting a weekly Jesse Duplantis show.[13] Duplantis is a well-known Word of Faith preacher. In light of Prasch leaving the station a number of other presenters and preachers also left, including Bob Mitchell,[14] and The Prophetic Witness Movement.[15]

Freeview HD

From July 2012 Revealtion TV has been available on Freeview HD channel 113. It is not available on standard Freeview or older Freeview HD TVs and boxes.

References

  1. ^ a b "The show is like a coffee morning in slow motion". Guardian Newspaper. Retrieved on 2009-05-08.
  2. ^ Moore, Matthew (12 February 2010). "Christian TV presenter reads out Star Wars plot as story of salvation". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  3. ^ http://www.revelationtv.com/news/article/revelation_tv_is_on_the_move/
  4. ^ "Television evangelists given blessing to pass collection plate round viewers". Times Online. Article dated 2007-01-22. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
  5. ^ "The Lord will provide... we hope". The Telegraph Newspaper. Retrieved on 2009-05-08.
  6. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd9W1Z3HIkA&lr=1&feature=results_video
  7. ^ http://www.revelationtv.com/news.php?newsid=925e10b2-871f-102d-bde7-00219bfb
  8. ^ http://www.justinpeters.org
  9. ^ http://www.archive.org/details/RevelationTvsLesleyCondorRebukesJustinPeters-11thFebruary2010
  10. ^ http://www.purposedrivel.com/2010/02/justin-peters-rebuked-by-revelation-tv.html
  11. ^ http://realchristianity.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/justin-peters-wrong-to-name-names-on-revelation-tv/
  12. ^ http://www.revelationtv.com/news.php?newsid=573c9cde-7da0-102d-bde7-00219bfb
  13. ^ http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/author/prasch/jacob-prasch-and-revelation-tv
  14. ^ http://bob-mitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/statement-from-bob-mitchell-regarding.html
  15. ^ http://propheticwitnessnewportbranch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/national-pwmi-pulls-out-of-revelation.html
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