Talk:It Is Written

"refreshing new way" is pretty POV. Article needs POV scrutiny

Moved from article
MINISTRY FACTS

• It Is Written can be viewed in approximately 7,000 cities in the United States and 700 cities in Canada. The telecast’s reach extends to at least 140 countries.

• An average of 1.5 million people view the North American telecast each week.

• It Is Written airs in eight of the top 10 Nielsen markets and consistently ranks as one of the top 10 religious programs in the United States.

• In addition to broadcasting on regular network and cable stations, the telecast regularly airs on six satellite networks: TBN, Family Net, Safe TV, Loma Linda Broadcasting, the Hope Channel, and 3ABN (which includes more than 100 low-power stations in the United States).

• It Is Written is produced in nine languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

• It Is Written has an inventory of over 1,100 recorded programs, with at least 36 new broadcasts produced each year.

• It Is Written has received 30 Angel Awards from the Excellence in Media organization for promoting high moral values to the public, with two Gold Angels presented to Pastor George Vandeman.

• Since 2002, the Telly Awards organization has awarded the ministry with nine statuettes—including its top honor, the Silver Telly, in 2006.

• The Aurora Awards presented the ministry with a 2002 Aurora Award in recognition of the ministry’s “New Beginnings” DVD series. In 2005 and 2006, two It Is Written telecasts were also recognized with Aurora Awards.

• The program initially aired in March 1956 on 13 stations with founder Pastor George Vandeman as speaker.

• It Is Written was the first religious telecast to air in color.

• Pastor Mark Finley became speaker/director of It Is Written in 1991. In January 2005, Pastor Finley placed the speaker/director mantle on Pastor Shawn Boonstra.

• It Is Written was the first major Christian ministry to use satellite uplink technology to spread its evangelism messages. During the ministry’s 10-country, three-year “ACTS 2000” effort, more than 3 million people attended at least one downlink location.

• In 2005, Bibleinfo.com and KidsBibleinfo.com became a part of the It Is Written ministry. Bibleinfo.com features hundreds of Bible topics in 17 languages. KidsBibleinfo.com—a new website—contains Bible stories, games and other kid-friendly online resources.

• It Is Written became one of the first Christian television programs to broadcast free video podcasts via iTunes in 2006.

If someone could re-write the above neutrally and not as a series of bullet points then parts of it could go back into the article. Clinkophonist 22:14, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

George Vandeman
I am proposing that George Vandeman be merged into this article. George Vandeman's notability (if he is actually notable) only occurs through It Is Written. It makes more sense to have a section on him in this article and merge the extensive early history in the Vandeman article into this article than to continue to maintain two separate articles that will always largely duplicate each other. 75.192.235.107 (talk) 03:36, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose On its own merits. (Though note that this IP has 5 edits making POINTY delete/move requests against SDA pages). I agree that some of those pages could do with better WP:RS. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

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Article Quality?
This whole page is written like an advertisement for the show. Is this an acceptable style? 75.158.81.181 (talk) 19:29, 6 April 2023 (UTC)