Pat Robertson steps down from The 700 Club
Pat Robertson, who turned a tiny Virginia television station into a global religious broadcasting network, is stepping down after a half century running The 700 Club on daily TV, the Christian Broadcasting Network announced on October 1.
Robertson, 91, said in a statement that he had hosted the network’s flagship program for the last time and that his son Gordon Robertson would immediately take over.
Robertson’s CBN started broadcasting on October 1, 1961, after he bought a bankrupt television station in Portsmouth, Virginia. The 700 Club began production in 1966.