“It was a very different way to grow up. You don’t realize it while you’re doing it. Getting on airplanes, traveling around the world, singing in stadiums. I never knew anything else. At age five I did my first television show, with my dad and sister. We took people on a televised tour of the Holy Land. We also did a live satellite broadcast at Christmas. It was the first time that a live show had aired from there in the U.S. and around the world. We took people on an intimate tour of places where Jesus walked.” That’s not a prominent entertainer talking about the early days of a lifelong career. It’s Charley Humbard (pictured top right), the founder and CEO of UP TV, recalling a childhood spent traveling and working with his father Rex, the first televangelist, during a recent lunch with Jack Myers and me at Michael’s restaurant in New York City. We were joined by Amy Winter (pictured below, center), Executive Vice President and General Manager, UP.
Lunch at Michael’s with UP TV CEO Charley Humbard
