{
  "id": 12415092,
  "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",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T15:39:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times - World News",
    "slug": "hindustan-times-world-news",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/jim-bakker-s-ptl-club-how-a-christian-tv-show-became-a-13-million-viewer-media-empire-101791300401518.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Jim Bakker built the PTL Club into a Christian TV empire with 13 million daily viewers before a sex scandal and fraud conviction brought it down.",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-10-06T15:27:38.000Z"
      }
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  "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."
}