{"id":1807,"date":"2007-09-10T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/uks_first_tv_commercial_for_christianity_is_launched\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:09:00","slug":"uks_first_tv_commercial_for_christianity_is_launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"UK&#39;s First TV Commercial for Christianity is Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s first mainstream TV commercial for Christianity will be broadcast on Channel Four next week.<\/p>\n<p>It will be shown on Wednesday night, September 12, at 10.10pm during &#8216;Brothers and Sisters&#8217;, a drama starring Calista Flockhart.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement will be seen by millions of people across the nation during the next fortnight. As well as being shown on Channel Four, it is also appearing 58 times on the E4 and E4+1 digital channels and on 2,200 cinema screens nationwide for a week, starting today (Friday, September 7).<\/p>\n<p>The commercial will also appear on screens in hundreds of bars nationwide and hundreds of buses in London and Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The 60 second advertisement is for the popular Alpha course now running in 7,000 UK churches of all denominations across the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/mw\/release.do?id=767502\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s first mainstream TV commercial for Christianity will be broadcast on Channel Four next week. It will be shown on Wednesday night, September 12, at 10.10pm during &#8216;Brothers and Sisters&#8217;, a drama starring Calista Flockhart. The advertisement will be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1807\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}