Tri-State Christian Television, Inc., doing business as TCT Network and TCT Ministries, is a religious television network in the United States. The network was founded in May 1977 by spouses Garth and Tina Coonce.[1]
TCT Network includes traditional televangelism, talk shows, children-oriented programming such as TCT Kids (used to meet E/I mandates), Southern gospel music, and feature films with Christian themes. TCT has an international service, TCT World, which broadcasts in over 170 countries.[2]
From the mid-1980s to 2007, TCT was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network currently maintains a relationship with the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing that network's flagship program The 700 Club twice daily as well as CBN's nightly newscast.
From 2011[3] to 2013, TCT operated a Spanish-language sub-channel which was available both online and over the air on TCT stations called La Fuente. This subchannel was ultimately discontinued, but reactivated in August 2014 for a simulcast of the Aramaic Broadcast Network (ABN). It was discontinued no later than 2017.
In June 2018, TCT ended local operations at all of its owned-and-operated stations, consolidating all of its stations into a single national feed.[4] The change came after the Federal Communications Commission lifted its Main Studio Rule, which had required broadcast stations to have a local studio.
Television network affiliates
TCT-owned stations
- WFBD channel 48, Destin, Florida / Mobile, Alabama
- WBIH channel 29, Selma / Montgomery, Alabama
- KDOC-TV channel 56, Anaheim / Los Angeles, California
- KTNC-TV channel 42, Concord / San Francisco, California
- KAIL channel 7, Fresno, California
- WIGL-LD channel 38, Athens / Atlanta, Georgia
- WSCG channel 34, Baxley / Savannah, Georgia
- KXTF channel 35, Twin Falls, Idaho
- WTCT channel 27, Marion, Illinois (Flagship station)
- WINM channel 12, Angola, Indiana
- WEIJ-LD channel 38 Fort Wayne, Indiana (repeater of WINM)
- KDMI channel 19, Des Moines, Iowa
- KWKB channel 20, Iowa City, Iowa
- WTLJ channel 54, Muskegon / Grand Rapids, Michigan
- WJGP-LD channel 26, Kalamazoo, Michigan (repeater of WTLJ)
- WAQP channel 49, Saginaw / Flint, Michigan
- KONC channel 7, Alexandria, Minnesota
- KCWV Channel 27, Duluth, Minnesota
- WFXW channel 15, Greenville, Mississippi
- WWJX Channel 23, Jackson, Mississippi
- WNYB channel 26, Jamestown / Buffalo, New York
- WNIB-LD channel 42, Rochester, New York (repeater of WNYB)
- WLXI-TV channel 43, Greensboro, North Carolina
- WRAY-TV channel 30, Wake Forest / Raleigh / Durham, North Carolina
- WRLM channel 47, Canton / Akron / Cleveland, Ohio
- WACP channel 4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Atlantic City, New Jersey
- KTTW channel 7, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- KTTM channel 12 Huron, South Dakota (repeater of KTTW)
- WTWV channel 23, Memphis, Tennessee
- WWTW channel 34, Senatobia, Mississippi
- KPNZ channel 24, Salt Lake City, Utah
- KBCB channel 24, Bellingham, Washington / Vancouver, British Columbia
TCT affiliates
- KZTN-LD channel 20.2, Boise, Idaho (owned by Celebration Praise, LLC)
- WBNF-CD channel 15.1, Buffalo, New York (repeater of WNYB, now owned by HME Equity Fund II)
- WDWO-CD channel 18.4, Detroit, Michigan (owned by HC2 Holdings)
- WLNM-LD channel 27.7, Lansing, Michigan (owned by Gray Television; former O&O repeater of WAQP)
- WILX-TV channel 10.7, Lansing, Michigan (owned by Gray Television)
- K36NN-D channel 38.1, West Plains, Missouri (part-time affiliation; owned by Promised Land Ministries)
- WOCB-CD channel 39.1, Marion, Ohio (owned by Central Ohio Association of Christian Broadcasters)
- WGTB-CD channel 28.1, Charlotte, North Carolina (part-time affiliation, owned by Word of God Broadcasting Network[5])
- KPLE-CD channel 31.1, Killeen, Texas (owned by Killeen Christian Broadcasting Corporation)
Former TCT-owned or affiliated stations
- W23EM-D channel 23.1, Ceiba, Puerto Rico (now translator of WCCV-TV)
- WDYR-CD channel 33, Dyersburg, Tennessee (now defunct)
- WJFB channel 44.6, Lebanon/Nashville, Tennessee (affiliation discontinued on November 11, 2020, after a change in ownership.)
- WMDV-LD channel 44, Danville, Virginia (now an independent station)
See also
References
- ^ "Leadership | TCT Network". www.tct.tv. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ "Channel Lineup | Welcome to TCT". Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ "LA FUENTE Trademark - Registration Number 4294271 - Serial Number 85393193 :: Justia Trademarks".
- ^ Pergament, Alan. WNYB-TV ends local productions, station site is for sale. The Buffalo News. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
- ^ "TV". 9 June 2019.