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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPoRT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 3, NO. 4 4
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NEWS FROM THE PASTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE
Television and Radio Station Update
NOVEMBER 20, 1981
God has recently opened some amazing doors in Europe. During the Feast, Mr.
Armstrong approved purchase of a half-hour time slot made available by
Radio Luxembourg, one of the world's most powerful radio stations with 1.3
million watts of power. This is the same station that carried the broadcast
to Europe beginning in 1953 and which represented a major step forward, as
Mr. Armstrong has said, in fulfilling Matthew 24:14: "And this gospel of
the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations: and then shall the end come."
The cove�age of the station includes all of Great Britain, Scandinavia, The
Netherlands, Belgium, parts of France, Germany (East and West), Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland. The time is 6:30 GMT Sunday even
ing. David Hulme who was in Europe for the Feast was able to coordinate
this buy and heard the first broadcast loud and clear in Britain on November
1. However, when Mr. Armstrong listened to the program in his suite during
the recent London visit the broadcast faded badly four or five times. Mr.
Brown will have to keep his eye on how effective the station is in Britain.
Needless to say the Church is very excited to be able to hear God's Apostle
over the airwaves once again.
An additional opportunity offered by the Radio Luxembourg affiliate tele
vision station will make The WORLD TOMORROW television program available in
Europe for the first time. The television station in Luxembourg reaches a
large portion of Belgium by cable in the French language. A portion of
northern France will be able to receive the program which will be broadcast
with French subtitles. The Television Production Department in Pasadena is
already hard at work on this significant new project, to which Mr.
Armstrong gave his approval about two weeks ago. It is scheduled to be
first broadcast in January, 1982 on Friday evenings at approximately 11
p.m., one of the most popular evenings of the week on television in Belgium.
Mr. Armstrong's special T.V. broadcast following the assassination of
President Sadat has produced 8,430 calls, the largest number of telephone
responses of any program aired this year. This was undoubtedly due to the
topicality of the program as well as the $44,000 newspaper ad campaign
promoting the program in the top 50 U.S. markets. Response to the Sadat
Special shows an 18.5% increase over the previous highest response to a
telecast this year which was 7,133 calls from "Prophecy and the U.S."
We thought you would enjoy sharing some of the more recent media
developments in the U.S. The list on page 2 details the buys and changes we
have been able to make in the media in the past couple of months.