50 Largest Media Ministries in the US

These days, almost all ministries have some media component, Pastors write books. Journalists have podcasts. However, the list below is a list of those ministries whose work is primarily media driven. They include media organizations — such as television and radio networks — as well as “teaching and preaching ministries” whose presence is primarily on radio and television.

For those of you who are fluent in the MinistryWatch 1000 database, this list includes the “Educational Media” and the “Radio/TV Stations” categories.

It is important to note that this list does NOT include a number of for-profit organizations, including the Salem Radio Network and the Bott Radio Network. If Salem was on this list, it would be the number two ministry on the list, just behind the Christian Broadcasting Network. Bott Radio Network is a privately held, for-profit corporation and does not disclose revenue, but it likely has revenue in excess of $100 million, which would put it in the top five on this list.

This is the fourth year we have produced this list, and we have seen some significant movement among media organizations. Five ministries on this year’s list were not on the list last year. These ministries are River Radio Ministries (50), Media Dream/Alkarma TV (48), Third Millenium Ministries (42), Three Angels Broadcasting Network (27), and – making the highest debut on the list – Pulse Outreach (22).

The “biggest mover” on the list (besides Three Angels and Pulse) is KSBJ/Hope Media Group, which jumped from 28 to 17, largely because of a merger with WAY Media.

Four ministries have fallen off this list. They are Hal Lindsey Ministries (last year’s rank: 50), Jack Van Impe Ministries (46), Back to the Bible (48), and Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (15).

Also, MinistryWatch has identified a growing trend among Christian ministries to identify as churches and thereby withhold their Form 990s. Many of these organizations have a significant media presence. Indeed, some of them are primarily media organizations. They include: Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland. They should likely be on this list, but we have no way of accurately evaluating them.

A word about timing: This information comes from the most recent Form 990 available. For most ministries on this list, the most recent year available was 2021 or 2022. For a few ministries, the most recent year is 2020 or older. As we have previously reported, the IRS has a significant backlog of Form 990s they have yet to process. That problem is getting better, but it is not fully solved. To read the complete profile of the ministries, which will identify the most recent year we have financial information available, click on the name of the ministry. That link will take you to the ministry’s profile in the MinistryWatch database.

I do not know of his last comments or hardly any of his at all, aside from exalting the false Catholic church, but a few of his reported comments include:

"You Catholic people, listen to your priests... Thank God for these Catholic leaders." "Pope John Paul II has given me real direction in my life." "He is a giant of the faith,"
"I believe in this book," Van Impe tells the TV audience, holding up his New Catholic Catechism. "The Catholic doctrines are right on..."
"I have read the entire new catechism, 2800 points. And I know what they believe and we misrepresent them so often. I was one of those bigots who used to do it. And the Spirit spoke to me."

”I was going to make this video next year, around February, March. But the Holy Spirit awakened me a few months ago and warned me as to what was coming and that I should warn you. And I'll tell you, this is perhaps the most important video you'll ever receive concerning your own survival and what to do to prepare for what's coming” (Jack Van Impe Presents, September 28, 1998).

"God's Word is beginning to unfold before our eyes. Judgment is about to fall for all of the 'rottenness' that runs rampant in our beloved land. If it does not commence in 1976, I have no doubt that unbelievable calamities will occur before 1980. It could easily be the predicted Tribulation hour" ((What In The World Is Happening?" 1976, p. 37).

Beloved, there's no doubt about it. The revived Roman Empire (or European Community) comes to power January 1, 1993. The panorama of end-time prophecy is unfolding BEFORE OUR VERY EYES! Get ready for a rapid rush of world-changing developments that begin mankind's inescapable march to the end of this age! ... Yes, the Antichrist will emerge very soon now. ... In January 1993, the European Community (E.C.) comes to power, bringing with it a unified global monetary system that lacks just one thing more to really prosper -- a single leader to direct it.

Prophetic texts make it inescapably clear that this person will be the man called the Beast, the eleventh horn, and the Antichrist (see Revelation 13:1, Daniel 7:8, and I John 2:22). PERSONALLY I BELIEVE HE IS ALIVE, WAITING IN THE WINGS, PREPARING TO TAKE CONTROL! [Van Impe's emphasis, RW] ... I am absolutely convinced that we are in the final countdown stages inevitably leading up to that horrendous battle the Bible calls Armageddon. (August 1992, mail brochure)

"Let's figure that out again--1948.5 plus 51.4 equals 1999.9--around September of the year 1999. Now, we are not date-setters! Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not he angels of heaven, but my father only (Matthew 24:36). But wait! Don't say, `No one can know the APPROXIMATE time when Christ will return,' for Jesus also said in verse 33 that we will know when it is near, even at the doors" (January-February 1993 issue of Perhaps Today magazine).

”Now, Nostradamus said that the king of terror would appear November of 1999. I believe Nostradamus knew his bible and knew what the six-day theory was, and so he could put it all together” (Jack Van Impe Presents, October 5, 1998).

[2001] “will see the start of the Great Tribulation. Political chaos, natural disasters, nuclear war and the worldwide rise of Islam will usher in mankind's final hour” (Jan-Feb 1997 issue of Perhaps Today).

(https://www.chrisapproved.com/biblicist/bible/vanimpe.html)

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