TV & VIDEO - Sept. 1, 1987
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The Christian Broadcasting Network unveiled a new, softer-focus “The 700 Club†show Monday--and the religious network’s chairman, the Rev. Pat Robertson, was nowhere in sight. Instead, the show features Robertson’s son, Tim, as a co-host (he is also CBN’s president), and a new $60,000 set decorated in a Southwestern motif. But CBN is hurting, in spite of the new trimmings: The network laid off 470 employees in June and Robertson pere told viewers at the time that the network projected a $28-million loss by the end of 1987.
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