1980 To The Present
In 1979, The 700 Club moved its studios from WYAH's facilities in Portsmouth into CBN's then-new campus in neighboring Virginia Beach, where the program continues to originate. During the 1980s the show evolved into more of a magazine-like format, with news/opinion and lifestyle segments interspersed with interviews.
Even after CBN sold its group of terrestrial stations later in the decade, The 700 Club continued to air on CBN Cable as well as many commercial secular stations and Christian stations nationally. CBN was rebranded as The Family Channel in 1988. The Family Channel was packaged as part of a sale of International Family Entertainment to News Corporation and television producer Haim Saban in 1998. The channel was renamed Fox Family Channel, but only three years later Fox Family was sold to the Walt Disney Company and was subsequently rebranded ABC Family. The 700 Club now airs on ABC Family thrice daily, part of a contractual obligation originally made as part of the Family Channel's sale to News Corporation. For the last several years, the first airing of the show in the morning (only) has been preceded by a half hour show called 700 Club Interactive, which utilizes internet user generated videos and comments by viewers of the show.
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