Hamilton is also home to two local television stations, WMTY TV 46, Cable Channel 5 and TV8-WATVC.

The True Oldies Channel programming has since moved to a simulcast with WMTY AM 670 and WMTY-FM Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.

In 2009, WMTY made the switch from an analog signal to digital.

Chief Meteorologist Brian Davis has been with WMTY since early 2009 and worked at with WMTY's previous owners at UBN Network prior to coming to WMTY.

The 1960s and early 1970s saw television replace radio as the primary home entertainment medium, but also corresponded with a further rise in evangelical Protestant Christianity, particularly through the international television and radio ministry of Billy Graham.

In the early 1980s, Cleaver became disillusioned with what he saw as the commercial nature of mainstream evangelical Christianity and examined alternatives, including Sun Myung Moon's campus ministry organization CARP, and Mormonism.

At the same period Calamy was an influential evangelical preacher, calling in December 1641 for a preaching ministry throughout England.

Converted to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry.

* Ministry Training Strategy, an Australian based apprenticeship for evangelical Christian ministry

He became an evangelical Christian, working with the Navigators and devoting himself to the ministry.

* "… to form men for the Gospel ministry who shall truly believe, and cordially love, and therefore endeavor to preach, propagate, and defend, in its genuineness, simplicity, and fullness, that system of religious belief and practice which is set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith, Catechisms, and historic Presbyterianism ; and thus to perpetuate and extend the influence of true evangelical piety and Gospel order.

Frisbee was a key figure in the Jesus movement and eyewitness accounts of his ministry documented in the 2007 Emmy-nominated film Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher explain how Frisbee became the charismatic spark igniting the rise of Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard Movement, two worldwide denominations and among the largest evangelical denominations to emerge in the last thirty years.

Voice of Christian Youth America, aka, VCY America, is a traditional, evangelical Christian ministry based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

" The book is still considered required reading in many evangelical college and seminary youth ministry courses. The Refinery at Saddleback Church

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship / USA is an inter-denominational, evangelical Christian, student-led ministry which for the past 70 years has been dedicated to establishing witnessing communities on U. S. college and university campuses.

A simple profession is made at the end of the novitiate and the person officially becomes a member of the Congregation for “ By religious profession, members assume the observance of the three evangelical counsels by public vow, are consecrated to God through the ministry of the Church, and are incorporated into the institute with the rights and duties defined by law .”

D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist who studies the evangelical movement, said “ there is no other organization like the Fellowship, especially among religious groups, in terms of its access or clout among the country ’ s leadership .” He also reported that lawmakers mentioned the Fellowship more than any other organization when asked to name a ministry with the most influence on their faith.

Athletes in Action ( AIA ) is an evangelical Christian sports ministry in the tradition of Muscular Christianity.

* Athletes in Action, an evangelical sports ministry

This began 44 years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance ( C & MA ), a Protestant evangelical denomination ; 33 of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches.

He was instrumental in the merger of the Anglican Central Committee and the Continental society in 1840 to form the Foreign Aid Society which supported evangelical Protestant ministry on the continent of Europe.

CMFOT's founder, Major W. Ian Thomas ( 1914-2007 ), was an evangelical teacher and has often been identified with the Keswick Convention ministry.

A simple profession is made at the end of the novitiate and the person officially becomes a member of the Redemptorists for “ By religious profession, members assume the observance of the three evangelical counsels by public vow, are consecrated to God through the ministry of the Church, and are incorporated into the institute with the rights and duties defined by law .”

Initially CICCU became part of the Student Christian Movement, formed in 1889 ; however, the two organisations clashed in 1910, and CICCU left the SCM in order to provide a specifically evangelical ministry in the University of Cambridge.

Following the war he set up a children's home and Lutheran evangelical ministry.

The Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry ( CARM ) is an evangelical Christian apologetics ministry founded in 1995.

The Willow Creek Association ( WCA ), a 501 ( c ) 3 not-for-profit ministry, is an international, evangelical Christian association of more than 9, 000 member churches from 90 denominations and 45 countries .< ref >

CBE was founded out of concerns over the inability of many women to use their gifts in ministry, several evangelical leaders assembled in 1987 to publish their biblical perspective in a new scholarly journal, Priscilla Papers.

James Orsen " Jim " Bakker ( pronounced " Baker "; born January 2, 1940 ) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, convicted felon, and a former host ( with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker ) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.

McCullough has criticized the evangelical television programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:

After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974 with an ABJ ( bachelor of arts in journalism ) degree in television, Heard travelled to Switzerland to study at L ' Abri under the influential evangelical Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer.

Metter may be best known as the home of " The Sower ", Michael Guido, who has delivered short evangelical PSAs on late-night television nationwide for decades.

*" Don Pulula ", a mild mannered evangelical pastor with a proclivity for mild double entendres ( he modeled his voice after that of Rafael Quiñones Vidal, a Puerto Rican television host ),

Hugh Grant made one of his first television appearances as an evangelical preacher ; Kathy Burke also had a bit part.

He became president of the PTL Christian evangelical television network in 1983, a network typically featuring speakers affiliated with the Pentecostal movement.

The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is an evangelical Christian television broadcasting network in the United States founded by televangelist Pat Robertson.

The Daystar Television Network is an American evangelical Christian television religious broadcasting network headquartered near Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex in Bedford, Texas.

She was a frequent guest on TV shows and had a reputation for being an odd combination of “ former suffragist revolutionary, evangelical Christian and almost stereotypically proper ' English Lady ' who always was in demand as a lecturer ”.

Commonly-cited examples of dog-whistle politics include civil rights-era use of the phrase " forced busing ," used to enable a person to imply opposition to racial integration without them needing to say so explicitly ; the state of Georgia's adoption, in 1956, of a flag visually similar to the Confederate battle flag, itself understood by many to be a dog-whistle for racism ; the phrase " Southern strategy ," used by the Republican Party in the 1960s to describe plans to gain influence in the South by appealing to people's racism ; Ronald Reagan, on the campaign trail in 1980, saying in Mississippi " I believe in states ' rights " ( a sentence the New Statesman later described as " perhaps the archetypal dog-whistle statement "), described as implying Reagan believed that states should be allowed, if they want, to retain racial segregation ; Reagan's use of the term " welfare queens ," said to be designed to rouse racial resentment among white working-class voters against minorities ; a 2008 TV ad for Republican presidential candidate John McCain called " The One ," which observers said dog-whistled to evangelical Christians who believed Obama might be the Antichrist ; a Tea Party spokeswoman saying President Obama " doesn't love America like we do ," thought to be an allusion to Obama's race and to the birth certificate controversy, and Republicans frequently emphasizing Obama's middle name for the same reason ; an aide to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney saying Romney would be a better President than Obama because Romney understood the " shared Anglo-Saxon heritage " of the United States and the United Kingdom ; former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and others, calling Obama " the food stamps president " said to be a way of exploiting stereotypes among racially resentful white voters who see food stamps as unearned giveaways to minorities.

He also worked at a radio station in Hope, a job which he maintains led to his decision to become active in evangelical organizations and politics.

Some evangelical Christian denominations view the station as liberal in orientation, and thus prefer more evangelically oriented operations such as the Crossroads Television System ( CTS ).

Soon after Dr. Will Houghton, president of the Moody Bible Institute ( MBI ) offered Shea a staff position with " duties that included emceeing, interviewing, news-casting, continuity writing, programming, administration, auditioning, and singing " on radio station WMBI, " the powerhouse of evangelical radio ", the first non-commercial Christian radio station in America, which was owned and operated by the Moody Bible Institute originally on its campus in Chicago.