Christian Broadcasting Network

== Operations ==
One of the company's mainstays is ''[[The 700 Club]]'', which uses a religious variety program that mixes sermons, interviews, and religious music (such as hymns and gospel).<ref name=":0" /> The name refers to a fundraising drive where Robertson successfully sought 700 viewers willing to contribute $10 a month to sustain the station.<ref name=":0" /> ''The 700 Club'' is the longest-running program in the variety format.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 700 Club {{!}} TCT Network |url=http://www.tct.tv/watch-tct/watch-live/tct-family/the-700-club |access-date=May 3, 2019 |website=www.tct.tv}}</ref> Initially focused on devotional content, ''The 700 Club'' became increasingly political in the late 1970s, adding news segments.<ref name=":0" />

Today, CBN News provides news updates to ''The 700 Club'' and produces religious news  and political opinion commentary programs such as ''CBN NewsWatch'' and ''Christian World News''; it also produces a special hour-long block of [[prime time]] election coverage hosted by Robertson during American presidential and mid-term elections, airing on [[Freeform (TV channel)|Freeform]], which also carries ''The 700 Club'' and the half-hour talk show ''700 Club Interactive''. CBN also operates the CBN News Channel.<ref>David John Marley. Pat Robertson: An American Life. {{ISBN|978-0-7425-5295-1}}.</ref>{{page needed|date=January 2021}} The company also produces a version of ''The 700 Club'' aimed at Spanish speaking Americans (''Club 700 Hoy'').

[[CBN Asia]] manages [[Operation Blessing]] International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI), an international relief and [[missionary]] effort, and has international programming, producing local programs including ''Solusi'' in Indonesia and ''From Heart to Heart'' in Thailand.

CBN India produces three shows, a daily [[Hindi]] program ''Ek Nayee Zindagi'', a bi-weekly [[Telugu language|Telugu]] program ''Nireekshana'' and an award-winning weekly [[Bengali language|Bengali]] program ''Samadhan''.<ref>{{cite web |title=NRB :: Recipients of the 2014 NRB Media Awards Announced! |url=http://nrb.org/news_room/articles/recipients-of-the-2014-nrb-media-awards-announced/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192404/http://nrb.org/news_room/articles/recipients-of-the-2014-nrb-media-awards-announced/ |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |access-date=January 2, 2014 |publisher=NRB}}</ref>

CBN has broadcast programs in over 70 languages.

CBN now serves mainly as a [[production company]] for ''The 700 Club'', and four other [[broadcast syndication|syndicated]] shows: ''CBN NewsWatch'', ''Christian World News'', ''700 Club Interactive'' and ''The Brody File'', a news-analysis program hosted by one-time political journalist David Brody.

Some of CBN's programs also air on the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]], [[Cornerstone Television]], [[FamilyNet]], [[Lester Sumrall|LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation]], [[Tri-State Christian Television|TCT]] and [[Middle East Television]], all of which are [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical Christian]] networks. The secular commercial stations that continue to air ''The 700 Club'' in syndication (along with Freeform) air CBN's annual telethon during the last week of January.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

The [[Charity Navigator]] gave CBN a 3-star overall rating, a 3-star financial rating and a 2-star accountability and transparency rating.<ref>[https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3498 The Christian Broadcasting Network] - Charity Navigator</ref>