(TRUNEWS) Celebrating the launch of its eighteenth year of ministry, TRUNEWS host Rick Wiles reflects on the past, and offers listeners, viewers and faithful supporters a glimpse into the struggles of the previous years, and renewed vision and purpose for the future.
TRUNEWS is the world’s leading news source that reports, analyzes, and comments on global events and trends with a conservative, orthodox Christian worldview. The vision is to build a global news network that provides a credible source for world news, events, and trends while giving respect and honor to Christians of all major denominations – Evangelical, Orthodox, Anglican, Catholic, and Protestant.
May 24, 2016 marks the start of the 18th year of broadcast ministry for TRUNEWS with host Rick Wiles
As a ministry, TRUNEWS believes Christians need and deserve their own global news network to keep the worldwide Church informed, and to offer Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian bigotry of the mainstream news media. The ministry was launched by Rick Wiles in September 1998 in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas. During the first nine months, Rick traveled across America speaking to audiences about the moral decline of the USA and its eventual consequences. In particular, he warned of an economic collapse and war on American soil if the nation continued to rebel against God’s commandments. He appeared as a guest on numerous radio and TV programs. A Dallas/Ft. Worth radio station suggested he start a radio program. The first broadcast was on May 24, 1999. The original name was ‘America’s Hope’. The message was simple: Jesus Christ is America’s only hope. The following is sample audio from that first week of broadcasting in Dallas, Texas in May, 1999:
BECOMING ‘TRUNEWS’
As Rick honed his skills as a “citizen reporter,” the radio program quickly became known for its coverage of important news not heard on mainstream news channels – and for Rick’s in-depth interviews of important newsmakers. The program was briefly titled ‘America’s Hope’, and then ‘American Freedom News’. In time, it became obvious that Rick Wiles was the best source available for ‘true news’. The program’s name was changed to TRUNEWS in 2004. The rest is history. Today, people around the world faithfully tune-in to TRUNEWS every weeknight for news, information, and inspiration that they can’t find anywhere else.
Like David vs. Goliath, Rick Wiles is a citizen reporter who decided to take on the Big News Media. Starting with a $7,500 donation in May 1999 to launch the first radio program, Rick’s faith in God and steadfast determination has overseen the growth and development of TRUNEWS into an internationally recognized source of credible news and information in a world where nothing seems to make sense anymore.
Prior to the start of the current broadcast ministry, Rick’s professional career was in media marketing and advertising sales. Throughout his early years, God’s hand silently guided him to be in employed in the latest new media. While in his early 20’s, Rick’s first media job was with a new FM radio station in the days when AM was still king.
In 1980, Wiles blazed a path as a pioneer in local cable television advertising when CNN and ESPN were new start-up channels on cable TV. As a sales manager, he launched one of the first cable advertising interconnects in the nation. He was hired in 1984 by the Christian Broadcasting Network as the first National Cable Marketing Manager for the new CBN Cable Network which later became the Family Channel. In 1995, Paul F. Crouch hired Rick as the Marketing Director for Trinity Broadcasting Network where Rick repositioned the TBN brand inside the cable industry – and played an important role in negotiating the early contracts to launch TBN on DirecTV, DISH, and the former PrimeStar DBS systems. Rick resigned from TBN in September 1998 after receiving a dramatic call from God to full-time ministry.
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