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Pat Robertson steps down after 50 years running ‘700 Club’

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according to the Wrap.“My replacement will be my very capable son, Gordon, who will take over as full-time host of the program,” he added of his 63-year-old son, who has been the show’s co-host and executive producer for the past two decades.

Robertson began hosting “The 700 Club” in 1966, six years after founding CBN. The program’s name was inspired by a 1963 telethon Robertson hosted in which he asked 700 viewers to pledge $10 a month to the network.

Since Robertson started CBN in a small Virginia television station, it has grown into an international religious network. “The 700 Club” is its flagship program.“CBN was the first Christian television network established in the United States,” boasts its website.

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