Entertainment programming that aired on the channel during this period included various classic television series (consisting of classic sitcoms from the 1950s and westerns from the 1950s and 1960s such as My Little Margie, Wagon Train, The Virginian and Bachelor Father), reruns of game shows, older movies, and some family-oriented drama series. At that time of the name change, it was concurrently repositioned as an advertiser-supported 'family-friendly' entertainment network, although the channel continued to offer religious programs that occupied about a third of its daily schedule. On September 1, 1981, the channel was relaunched as the CBN Cable Network. The CBN Satellite Service grew its subscriber base to 10.9 million households by May 1981. As a result, a few televangelists began to produce stripped programs to air on the network each weekday. The offerings on the CBN Satellite Service during its early years included CBN's flagship news/talk show, The 700 Club (which aired three times per day every Monday through Friday in the late-morning and at night), along with programs from many notable and lesser-known television evangelists. Initially, the network offered only religious programs aimed at a Christian audience. When the channel launched on April 29, 1977, it became the first basic cable channel to be transmitted via satellite from its launch and, effectively, the first national basic cable-originated network.

The network was founded by Pat Robertson as the CBN Satellite Service (CBN Satellite Network), an arm of his television ministry, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). This article details the network's existence from its founding by the Christian Broadcasting Network to its current ownership by The Walt Disney Company, which renamed the network to Freeform on January 12, 2016. American cable and satellite television network Freeform was originally launched as the CBN Satellite Service on Apand has gone through 4 different owners and 6 different name changes during its history.

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