UPDATED: Televangelist Pat Robertson, ex-presidential candidate and founder of Regent University, dies at 93
was also the founder and chairman of International Family Entertainment, whose Family Channel cable TV channel was sold to News Corp. in 1997, which in turn sold the network to ABC, operating as the ABC Family cable network.
He hosted a daily Christian talk show, “The 700 Club,” for 55 years, stepping down in 2021. The show captured a substantial U.S. and international audience, featuring commentary on the day’s news, political and social trends, and interviews with those who said a personal relationship with Jesus Christ had changed their lives.
The program was marked by Mr. Robertson’s periodic pronouncements on various events as being related to God’s judgments and by frequent interruptions as hosts prayed for viewers and those wishing to make a Christian commitment. Historian Paul Matzko said in 2021 that Mr. Robertson’s broadcasts represented “a large group of religious conservatives who were alienated from what was changing about society in the 1960s and ‘70s, who didn’t feel represented and what they saw and heard on the airwaves, who felt alienated from America’s governing and social institutions. And he spoke to them.”
Marion Gordon “Pat” Robertson was born March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Virginia, the son of A. Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill Robertson. His father represented a Virginia district for 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and then served 20 years in the U.S. Senate representing the commonwealth.
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