This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A broadcast work entry records a specific radio or television program, network or production built around explicitly religious content, a sermon broadcast, a devotional program or a full religious network, distinct from a screen work in being produced primarily for ongoing transmission to a listening or viewing audience rather than as a single film or television production. Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe's study of televangelism treats this broadcast religious phenomenon as a real institutional force in its own right, with its own economics, its own audience relationship and its own political consequence.
An entry records a broadcast work's founding, who created it and under what religious or institutional sponsorship, its format, and the scale and character of its audience where that is documented, since religious broadcasting ranges from a small local devotional program to a network reaching millions, and an entry records that scale as a specific, checkable fact rather than an impression.
Some broadcast works recorded here have drawn public controversy over their finances or their claims, and the entry records that scrutiny as a documented part of the work's own history, distinct from and alongside its religious content and its stated devotional purpose.