Baptists Decide Against Selling Cable TV Setup

Southern Baptist officials have reversed themselves and decided not to sell their cable television system, ACTS, after a grass-roots appeal.

Harold Brundige, chairman of the board of trustees of the denomination’s radio and television commission, said changes have been made to reduce major financial problems the American Christian Television System network had acquired since it went on the air in 1984.

A Southern Baptist spokesman said trustees who favored the sale expressed serious concern about $250,000 monthly payments on ACTS debts and lack of financial support within the denomination. The spokesman quoted Brundige as saying it would “take a miracle if ACTS survives. But God is still in the miracle business.”