FLIP OF COIN DECIDES WINNER TV NETWORK WILL STAGE EASTER SERVICE AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer It's tails. And the winner Friday was the Trinity Broadcasting Network The Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, is the largest Christian religious television network in the world and is headquartered near Los Angeles in Costa Mesa, California with studios near Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Irving, Texas and near Nashville in . Whether it was luck or divine intervention, the nation's largest Christian television network | Christian Television Network (CTN) is a not-for-profit broadcast television network of small owned-and-operated stations that broadcasts religious programming. It is based in Clearwater, Florida, and the flagship station is WCLF channel 22. on Friday won the first coin toss ever held to determine who will put on the Easter sunrise service Traditional View Sunrise service is a worship service on Easter. It takes the place of the Roman Catholic tradition of the Easter Vigil, and is practiced by mainly Protestant churches. at the Hollywood Bowl. ``The coin did what it did,'' said Trinity program coordinator John Casoria, at whose feet the coin rolled after the toss at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. . ``I didn't have any control of it. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if anybody else did.'' Leaders of the nonprofit Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service Inc., who say their forefathers forefathers npl → antepasados mpl forefathers npl → ancêtres mpl forefathers npl → Vorfahren created the bowl in 1921 and gave it to the county in exchange for permission to use it each Easter morning, said they are considering suing to overturn the county's new drawing-of-lots system. ``I don't think a toss of the coin is justice at all,'' said Norma Foster, president of the board of the sunrise service organization. ``I'm sorry. This is not Las Vegas. ``This is the Hollywood Bowl Easter sunrise service, and it's an 80-year tradition for the people of Los Angeles. All the children go to it, people from hundreds of churches, and Hollywood celebrities have made it what it is today.'' Trinity program coordinator Jay Jones said singer-evangelist Pat Boone and actor Charlton Heston have been invited to speak at the service, which will be broadcast worldwide March 31. ``We would just like to bring honor to our Lord,'' Jones said. ``Obviously, if he has any input into this, whatever the Lord will have we will do.'' Los Angeles County officials decided to settle the matter with a coin toss after a number of organizations requested the venue this year. In a 10-page letter the County Counsel's office sent to Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky on Thursday to give him legal advice on the matter, Principal Deputy County Counsel Helen S. Parker wrote she reviewed the history of the use of the bowl on Easter and concluded a ``drawing of lots'' system was the most fair. Under the system, all applicants must agree the event will be free to the public and abide by the county's rules. If there are more than two applicants, a hat drawing will decide. In the case of only two applicants, a coin toss will decide. In recent years, the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. Association, which leases the Bowl from the county, has been confronted with multiple applicants for the Easter service. ``There has been a long-standing practice of issuing annual approvals for this event without clear written procedures,'' Parker wrote. In 1992, a controversy enveloped en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" one of California's oldest religious celebrations when the Philharmonic accused one of HBESS's leaders of handing over control of the service to Trinity, which broadcast the service to 30 million people on 200 affiliates. Due to Bowl renovations, no Easter services were held in 1993 and from 1995 to 1998. Then Trinity lost its bids to hold services there in 1999, 2000 and 2001 and made allegations concerning the unfairness of the process. ``In both 2000 and 2001, TBN TBN Trinity Broadcasting Network TBN Trombone TBN Total Base Number (oil sampling) TBN To Be Named TBN To Be Nominated TBN Taekwondo Bond Nederland (Netherlands Taekwondo Association) TBN To Be Negotiated informed both the county and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association that, from its perspective, no matter what it did, it never seemed to be able to get an event permit for Easter in time to produce the program,'' wrote Parker, the principal deputy county counsel. Parker researched the tradition of Easter programs at the Bowl and found it dated back to 1921 when a community group, Hollywood Community Sing, needed a larger site for its Easter program. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. After his death the Southern California Symphony Association was formed in 1934 to sponsor the orchestra. , founded in 1919, provided the music. In some years, no Easter services were held because of Bowl renovations, and the decision to grant permission for an Easter program was made on an annual basis. For many years, HBESS was involved in presenting services. Public records indicate it incorporated as a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. in 1943. In 1999, both HBESS and TBN requested permission to use the Bowl, and HBESS was given permission but canceled, citing an inability to raise sufficient funds. HBESS held the services at the Bowl in 2000 and 2001. Parker wrote HBESS has not presented any evidence of a vested and continuing right to be the sole presenter of Easter programs at the Bowl. Parker reviewed the 1924 gift deed granting the Hollywood Bowl to the county and the contemporaneous lease between the grantor An individual who conveys or transfers ownership of property. In real property law, an individual who sells land is known as the grantor. grantor n. , the Community Park and Art Association, and the Hollywood Bowl Association. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: L.A. County official William Jacobs, center, tosses a coin Friday to decide who will produce the Easter sunrise service at the Hollywood Bowl. Trinity Broadcast Network won the toss. Nick Ut/Associated Press |
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