{"id":104,"date":"2009-02-05T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2009\/02\/05\/gospel-music-channel-presents-world-tv-premiere-of-new-veggietales%c2%ae-dvd\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:37:53","slug":"gospel-music-channel-presents-world-tv-premiere-of-new-veggietales%c2%ae-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2009\/gospel-music-channel-presents-world-tv-premiere-of-new-veggietales%c2%ae-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Music Channel Presents World TV Premiere of New VeggieTales\u00ae DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kidsfirst.org\/images\/blogs\/VeggieTalesCover.jpg\" \/>Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and their VeggieTales\u00ae friends will make their Gospel Music Channel (GMC) television network debut when GMC presents the world television premiere of the new VeggieTales\u00ae DVD, \u201cAbe and the Amazing Promise\u201d on Sat. Feb 7 at 9:00 a.m. ET (Also 10a, 11a, 2p, 3p, 4p.)\u201cAbe and the Amazing Promise\u201d is a Veggie-spun Bible classic that tells the story of Abraham and Sarah and their wait for a promised child.\u00a0 Featuring a lesson in patience, \u201cAbe and the Amazing Promise\u201d showcases popular nationally-syndicated radio host Delilah as the voice of Sarah.\u00a0 Abe and the Amazing Promise also includes the debut of a brand new Silly Song entitled \u201cSneeze If You Need To!\u201d and a snappy new song about patience, \u201cWilling To Wait.\u201dGMC, the nation\u2019s first and only 24\/7 television network devoted to Gospel\/Christian music and programming, will bring VeggieTales\u00ae back in April for a similar two week run leading up to the world television premiere of VeggieTales\u00ae \u201cAn Easter Carol\u201d DVD, in time for Easter 2009.The programming is part of a new agreement between GMC and Big Idea, Inc., a leading faith-based studio and producer of children&#8217;s and family entertainment products, programming, characters and brands, including the popular animated series VeggieTales\u00ae.About Big Idea, Inc.Big Idea, Inc., an entertainment rights group company, is the leading faith-based studio and producer of children&#8217;s and family programming, characters and brands. Since 1993, Big Idea&#8217;s best-selling animated series VeggieTales has sold 52+ million books and 7+ million albums.\u00a0 VeggieTales and Big Idea&#8217;s newest property, \u201c3-2-1 Penguins!,\u201d are in their second season as the top-rated series on NBC Saturday mornings, Telemundo and ION TV via the qubo children&#8217;s programming block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and their VeggieTales\u00ae friends will make their Gospel Music Channel (GMC) television network debut when GMC presents the world television premiere of the new VeggieTales\u00ae DVD, \u201cAbe and the Amazing Promise\u201d on Sat. Feb 7 at 9:00 a.m. ET (Also 10a, 11a, 2p, 3p, 4p.)\u201cAbe and the Amazing Promise\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS5I2-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}