TV & VIDEO - Jan. 8, 1990

Paul Crouch Quits: The founder and president of Tustin-based Trinity Broadcasting Network has resigned from the National Religious Broadcasters, citing “trumped-up charges” against his television ministry. Paul Crouch, who founded the religious network in 1974, was the subject of an inquiry by the NRB ethics committee, which investigated complaints about his business practices and the treatment of Trinity employees. Complaints against Crouch included allegations of sex and age discrimination, a “hostile takeover” of a station in New York and unfair practices against union employees at Trinity’s flagship station, KTBN Channel 40 in Tustin. The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), a voluntary association of 1,100 evangelical Christian broadcasters aimed at maintaining high standards in broadcast evangelism, found no “sufficient documentation accompanying the complaints to warrant actions such as termination.”