Pat Robertson’s CBN Celebrates 50 Years of Broadcasting

This weekend, the Christian Broadcasting Network will mark their 50th anniversary of its first television broadcast.

A celebration is planned starting at 11 a.m. Saturday at the CBN campus in Virginia Beach.

Among the free festivities include concerts, a rock climbing wall, a petting zoo, train rides and an antique car show.

Gov. Bob McDonnell and CBN founder Pat Robertson will speak Saturday night and a fireworks display will cap the celebration.

The network took to the air on Oct. 1, 1961, operating out of a bare-bones studio in Portsmouth.