Christianity: Details about 'Rex Humbard'
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Rex Humbard (born on August 13, 1919) is a well-known American television evangelist whose Cathedral of Tomorrow show was shown on over 600 TV stations at the peak of its popularity. Starting in Akron, Ohio, Rex Humbard was one of the first evangelists (1952) to build a ministry that incorporated radio and television programming. Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow church in suburban Cuyahoga Falls was designed specifically to accommodate television equipment, crew, and chorus as well as seating for 5,000 people. Humbard began to build a rotating tower restaurant at his Cathedral of Tomorrow complex, which was also slated to hold a transmission tower for his planned local TV station, WCOT-TV. When Humbard was given the opportunity to go on more radio stations throughout South America to spread Christianity, construction on the restaurant tower ceased. The unfinished tower, which still exists, was purchased by a local businessman and is now used as a cellular phone tower. The rest of Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow complex was purchased by television evangelist Ernest Angley, along with an FCC television broadcasting license which became WBNX-TV.
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