{
  "id": 12412566,
  "title": "Jim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and money scandals, dies at 86",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jim-bakker-minister-who-built-a-televangelism-empire-and-lost-it-from",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T15:27:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PBS NewsHour",
    "slug": "pbs-newshour",
    "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/jim-bakker-minister-who-built-a-televangelism-empire-and-lost-it-from-sex-and-money-scandals-dies-at-86"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "\"The PTL Club,\" which at its peak in the mid-1980s drew 13 million nightly TV viewers, made Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 90s by late-night comedians and parodied on \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Jim Bakker’s PTL Club: How a Christian TV show became a 13-million-viewer media empire",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jim-bakkers-ptl-club-how-a-christian-tv-show-became-a-13-million",
        "published": "2026-10-06T15:39:07.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}