 "The 700 Club" would become the flagship program of CBN, which expanded from its original Hampton Roads station to include outlets in Atlanta and Dallas–Fort Worth by 1973.Beginning in 1972, "The 700 Club" was launched in a dozen test markets, including then-independent station WRET-TV in Charlotte.When then-station owner Ted Turner dropped the show from his station in 1974, Turner approached Bakker about buying two hours a day on his Charlotte station, which Bakker accepted.