Daystar President Joni Lamb Dies at 65 After Back Injury Complications
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Updated · The New York Times · May 12
Daystar President Joni Lamb Dies at 65 After Back Injury Complications
13 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 12
Joni Lamb, the co-founder and president of Daystar Television Network, died Thursday at 65, with the broadcaster citing serious health matters worsened by a recent back injury.
Daystar grew from the Christian station she built with husband Marcus Lamb into a global televangelism platform, reaching more than 200 countries by 2010.
The couple began broadcasting in Alabama in 1985 after an early religious calling, then launched Daystar in Texas in 1997 and expanded to 24 U.S. stations within a few years.
Her death closes a chapter for one of the most prominent families in Christian television, whose network became the second-largest Christian broadcaster after Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Will Joni Lamb be remembered as a Christian media pioneer or for the family scandals of her final years?
With its matriarch gone and son ousted, who now controls the Daystar television empire and its massive fortune?