Daystar (TV network)
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| Type | Religious broadcasting |
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| Country | United States |
| Availability | National (broadcast, cable, satellite); Worldwide (satellite) |
| Owner | Word of God Fellowship |
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Key people
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Marcus Lamb (founder, president, CEO) Joni Lamb (vice-president, executive producer) |
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Launch date
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December 31, 1997 |
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Official website
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www.daystar.com |
Daystar is an American evangelical Christian-based religious broadcast television network that is owned by the Word of God Fellowship, founded by Marcus Lamb in 1993. Daystar is headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Bedford, Texas.
In 1993, when Marcus Lamb and the Word of God Fellowship Ministry purchased KMPX (Channel 29), a formerly defunct UHF station in Dallas, Texas, broadcasting Christian programming. Lamb is a Georgia native who first began preaching at age 15, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Lee College (now Lee University), in Baytown, Texas, at age 19. In 1982, he married Joni Trammel, and together they began to travel the United States, preaching in churches, conventions, and crusades.
In 1984, they moved to Montgomery, Alabama to launch a television station. In less than a year, WMCF-TV (Channel 45) became the first full-power Christian television station in the state. The Lambs built the station for the next five years, and sold it in 1990 to the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). They moved to Dallas, Texas, where, in 1993, the Lambs launched their first station in the Dallas market. They ran channel 29 for three years. Then, in 1996, with a large contribution from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, the Lambs purchased a station in Colorado, officially turning their television ministry into a network. In August 1997, the small staff moved into a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) facility that included production studios; Daystar was officially launched on December 31, 1997.
Since 1993, Daystar facilities tripled in size, and its broadcast signal reached 200 countries and 670 million households globally. In 2010, Daystar became the first full-time Christian network to build a television station in Israel.
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