Last year, it started the Monitor Channel, its own 24-hour cable station.

In 1992, the church shut its cable venture, the Monitor Channel, causing hundreds of layoffs.

However, in that year the Monitor Channel left the air, which left the station with reruns of the network's programming.

More than $200 million has been invested in the Monitor Channel since 1986, Mr. Westberg said.

The board said the cable service, known as the Monitor Channel, would stop broadcasting its news and public service programs on June 28.

In 1992, the board shut down an ill-fated television venture, the Monitor Channel, which sustained losses estimated at $300 million.

Until recently she was a television news producer for the Monitor Channel in Boston.

The Monitor Channel went off the air in June 1992.

In May 1991 it founded the Monitor Channel, a 24-hour current affairs cable channel, which closed with heavy losses after 13 months.

Many church members felt that the board had sacrificed principle for money to satisfy the needs of its growing empire, particularly the Monitor Channel.