The Word Network is a religious network in the United States

United States

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. It caters to all people including many African American ministries, gospel music

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 and family programming. The Word Network was founded in February 2000 by Franklin Z. Adell. While television station WADL

WADL (TV)

WADL Channel 38 is a full-power, commercially licensed broadcast television station in the Midwestern United States. As an independent television station licensed to the town of Mount Clemens, Michigan, the station serves the entire Detroit metropolitan area. The station also serves most of the...

 in Mt. Clemens

Mount Clemens, Michigan

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/Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

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, Michigan

Michigan

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 is The Word Network's flagship (appearing on a digital subchannel

Digital subchannel

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, and programmed from WADL), the network's satellite uplink system is located at WXYZ-TV

WXYZ-TV

WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...

.

Programming

Programs include:

• Joyce Meyer
  Joyce Meyer
  Joyce Meyer is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker. Meyer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.-Early life:Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in...
  
  : Enjoying Everyday Life
• Rejoice in the Word
• Bishop T.D. Jakes: The Potter's House
• Bishop I.V. Hilliard: Changing Lives Through Faith
• Pastor Paula White
  Paula White
  Paula Michelle White is a Christian author, speaker, and church leader. She is co-founder of Without Walls International Church; a large, influential, non-denominational, charismatic church with two locations in Florida...
  
   Today
• Bobby Jones Presents
• Pastor R.A. Vernon: The Word Church
• Rev. Timothy Flemming: Kingdom Come
• Bishop Charles H Ellis III: from Greater Grace Temple
• Pastor Henry Fernandez
• Pastor Zachery Tims No Limits program
• The Vickie Winans
  Vickie Winans
  Vickie Winans is an American Gospel recording artist.-Biography:The seventh of twelve children, Vickie was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mattie A. Bowman, a housewife, and Aaron Bowman, a father who worked at various times as a laborer, contractor, carpenter and mason...
  
   Show

In addition to broadcasting some of ministries, the network has expanded programming to provided worldwide live coverage of religious conferences, convocations, installations and gospel music events.

See also

• List of United States cable and satellite television networks
• List of United States over-the-air television networks

External links

• Official website