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Rick Wiles

TruNews Host

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. 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, he 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 DirectTV, 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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  • 1999
    Ministry Launched
  • 1999
    First Broadcast

    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.

  • 2004
    Name Becomes TruNews

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