Gene Scott Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Gene Scott is the pastor of Los Angeles University Church, which has more than 15,000 members in the Greater Los Angeles area, and thus is the largest Protestant church in Downtown Los Angeles. He has a PhD from Stanford University in Philosophy of Education, and has written 20 books.Dr. Scott was hired as a consultant to assist the troubled Faith Center Church in Glendale California in the 1970s. At the time, the debt-ridden Faith Center owned three television stations KHOF-TV 30 in San Bernardino, KVOF-TV channel 38 in San Francicso, and WHCT-18 in Hartford CT. In addition the Church also owned KHOF-FM in Los Angeles, CA. Each of the broadcast licenses was for a full-time commercial license, which would have allowed the church to sell airtime if they so desired, i.e. as a separate business activity not related to the church's non-profit status. However, at the time that Dr. Scott arrived on the scene, Faith Center was facing immenent bankruptcy, having inadequate funds to maintain operations.
The board of Faith Center resiged, and Dr. Scott went on the air to try to raise money to save the Faith Broadcasting Network. This would prove to be quite contraversial in the years to come since at that time, that is, in the mid-'70s most cable companies carried only 12 channels - and it was therefore to the great ire of many a television viewer that one of those precious channels appeared to be carrying the same religous broadcast almost 24 hours a day. Some cable companies refused to carry the program, despite the so called must-carry rules of the Federal Communicaions Commission which require regional cable operators to carry all local broadcasters upon request. In some cases, television viewers appealed to local membes of Congress to force their local cable operators to carry Dr. Scott's program, prompting the FCC to investigate at least one now defunct local cable operator for refusing to carry the broadcast, while at the same time a different beaurau of of FCC was trying to have Dr. Scott taken off the air altogether for refusing to turn over the name of every of every person who ever made a donation, the amount of that donation, and what the donation was spent for.