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Cleveland: WBNX's preacher-owner rocked by scandal

mvcg66b3r

mvcg66b3r

From the Akron Beacon Journal:

Ernest Angley’s Grace Cathedral rocked by accusations involving abortions and vasectomies

Depending whom you ask, one of two things is happening at the big Cuyahoga Falls church run by legendary television evangelist Ernest Angley:

• The devil himself has infiltrated the church, and Angley, who is a prophet of God, has been working tirelessly to fight him off.

• Angley’s church is a dangerous cult where pregnant women are encouraged to have abortions, childless men are encouraged to have vasectomies and Angley — who preaches vehemently against the “sin” of homosexuality — is himself a gay man who personally examines the genitals of the male parishioners before and after their surgeries. They also say he turns a blind eye to sexual abuse by other members of his church.
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http://www.ohio.com/cmlink/1.531094?print=1

Ernest Angley Ministries is the parent of Winston Broadcast Network, which owns Cleveland's CW affiliate WBNX. On tvnewstalk.net, some are suggesting Angley sell the station if the scandal gets worse, or even cash it out at the spectrum auction.
http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/11429-out-and-about/page-102#entry122344
 
Don't send anyone to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Once you have seen your seven free articles, you have to change computers to ever see anything in that paper again. No, it's not seven free articles per month. That's your lifetime limit.

Oh, sure, they're trying to claim it's a problem they just can't solve.
 
From tyrannical bastard on tvnewstalk.net:

The final installment of the Akron Beacon Journal's 6 part expose on the Ernest Angley ministry ran in today's paper:
http://www.ohio.com/news/local/erne...-labor-again-after-feds-said-to-stop-1.533069

From forced vasectomies, abortions, brainwashing, molestation, alienation, talking about the massive expense of running a 747, and now, one of their subsidiaries forcing employees to be "volunteers"...it doesn't paint a pretty picture for the future of WBNX as a TV station, especially if these allegations are true.

One of these "volunteers" claimed to work for WBNX, where he wasn't paid at all. Those who were paid were paid at minimum wage and only paid for 40 hours a week, while being forced to clock out "on time" and forced to "volunteer" another 10 hours a week in lieu of being properly compensated for overtime.

And this wasn't the first time they've been caught doing this. Back in 1999, after a dispute with two "volunteers" at the buffet where one stabbed the other to death, the labor issue was brought to light, "resolved", and when the feds stopped looking, they went back to doing things the way they've been done.

If some of these allegations in this article are true, and they've been fudging timecards and even EEO reports, then WBNX is in deep, deep, trouble.

Could employee issues like these be grounds for the FCC to revoke their license? Essentially, WBNX and the Cathedral Buffet are for-profit enterprises that keep the Ernest Angley Ministry alive (along with all of the suckers who send in a check every month!) Perhaps this place is so screwed up, that no one wants to buy this station and why it remains as one of the last stand-alone CW affiliates in the country outside of the top 10 markets.
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Think we should add WBNX to the cursed stations list?
 
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mvcg66b3r said:
Think we should add WBNX to the cursed stations list?
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Good God NO!!!!!! The cursed stations list is far more cursed than any station. All lists of "cursed" things are themselves cursed worse than anything on them!
 
First off, the whole "cursed" thing is all-subjective to begin with...not everything bad that happens is "cursed". It's like that old expression..."s*** happens".

As far as WBNX is concerned...I see one or two things happening--either it becomes duopoly bait for one of Cleveland's legacy Big Three or it gets sold-off to one of the spectrum speculators.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
First off, the whole "cursed" thing is all-subjective to begin with...not everything bad that happens is "cursed". It's like that old expression..."s*** happens".
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The whole cursed thing in this forum is too damn many threads of nothing but lists include the word "cursed" in their titles. It has made, in this forum, "cursed" a synonym for "another damn thread of lists". In other venues, that's not the case.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
First off, the whole "cursed" thing is all-subjective to begin with...not everything bad that happens is "cursed". It's like that old expression..."s*** happens".

As far as WBNX is concerned...I see one or two things happening--either it becomes duopoly bait for one of Cleveland's legacy Big Three or it gets sold-off to one of the spectrum speculators.
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And it basically makes lunch meat out of WUAB's 'infomercials, garbage talk shows and MyNet' schedule (though the middle one is mainly since WBNX doesn't take tabloid shows outside of tolerating Cunningham from the CW). Definitely not cursed, and with Scripps in purchase mode they could duopolize with WEWS (only option since Gannett doesn't do CW and no news efficiencies exist with WJW/Trib) rather easily.
 
It keeps getting worse for Ernest Angley.

Buffet owned by televangelist Ernest Angley faces Labor Department lawsuit alleging low wages, 'oppressive child labor'

A buffet and banquet hall owned by Ernest Angley is drawing ire from the U.S. Labor Department, which contends in a lawsuit that the Cuyahoga Falls televangelist paid illegally low wages and engaged in a practice of "oppressive child labor."

The lawsuit, filed this month in federal court, claims that Angley, head of Grace Cathedral, and Cathedral Buffet on State Road, paid more than 200 employees less than $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, starting in November 2012. In fact, some of the employees were treated as volunteers and were paid nothing, the suit contends.

When employees worked overtime, they were not properly compensated for their time, the suit says. The business also did not keep accurate payroll documentation, it states.

Finally, the suit says the buffet employed children between the ages of 14 and 16 and violated laws stating that children cannot work more than three hours on a school day, work past 7 p.m. or work more than eight hours on a non-school day.

A chart attached to the lawsuit shows that the Labor Department is asking for $207,974.93 in back wages for the employees, plus the same amount in damages. It is also asking for an injunction to bar Angley and the buffet from further violating labor laws.
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http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2015/08/buffet_owned_by_ernest_angley.html
 
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