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" If you wanted to , you could immerse yourself 24 hours a day in religious programming in nearly every radio market in the country or with cable television or with satellite TV , " said Quentin J. Schultze , author of Televangelism in America : The Business of Popular Religion and a professor of communication at Calvin College , an evangelical liberal-arts school in Grand Rapids , Mich. That same month , SDA officials and Islamic leaders criticized several public TV stations for not broadcasting enough religious programming during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan . According to Virginia , the states should have broad latitude to institute religious programming in the state prisons , without federal government intervention like RLUIPA . This study found also that stations which provided only free air-time for religious programs tended to broadcast more religious programs during the week of the survey than did stations which sold air-time for programs ( an average of 6.08 programs per station compared to 4.51 programs per station ) . We do offer a religious program for 3-year olds , but it is not part of the Religious Education Program . They organize various religious programs during their school years as well as during their vacations . The hold mainline broadcasters had on religious programming in the 1950s and early 1960s was taken out of their hands through the growing commercialization of religious air-time . For example , televangelism differs significantly from the airing of a Catholic Mass in content , purpose , and impact , and is not representative of religious programming in general . Subject : Temporary amendment of the rules is necessary in order to immediately clarify Department policies regarding inmate religious exercise and activities , and religious programming in Department of Corrections facilities , consistent with applicable legal standards . Producers of religious programs within churches have consistently had to fight to convince church hierarchies of the value of mass-media communication .