Auction to feature Bakker “PTL” videos

Videotapes of the shows from the “PTL Club” that featured Jim Bakker and his then-wife, the late Tammy Faye Bakker, will be featured at an auction next month, The Charlotte Observer reports. The original tapes _ all 15,000 hours of them — are now controlled by Ben Dyer, president of Gospel Properties and an Atlanta […]

Videotapes of the shows from the “PTL Club” that featured Jim Bakker and his then-wife, the late Tammy Faye Bakker, will be featured at an auction next month, The Charlotte Observer reports.

The original tapes _ all 15,000 hours of them — are now controlled by Ben Dyer, president of Gospel Properties and an Atlanta investment banker.

Dean Becker, vice chairman of Ocean Tomo, a Chicago-based merchant bank that auctions intellectual property, told the paper he plans to auction off the tapes on March 27.


“You put them all on a satellite channel and you wouldn’t have to hit ‘repeat’ for three years,” he said.

The shows aired in the 1970s and 1980s before Jim Bakker’s fall from grace and time in prison over a sex and money scandal. The PTL, or Praise the Lord, ministry collapsed when he was found guilty. He and his wife divorced and she later remarried and became Tammy Faye Messner. She died in 2007 after suffering from colon cancer.

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