Tri-State Christian Television Explained

Tri-State Christian Television (TCT)
Country:	United States
Affiliates:	See below
Founder:	Garth and Tina Coonce
Website:	TCT Network Aramaic Broadcast Network
Terr Serv 1:	Available in select areas
Terr Chan 1:	see chart below
Online Serv 1:	Internet Channel 1
Online Chan 1:	TCT-SD
Online Serv 2:	Internet Channel 2
Online Chan 2:	TCT-HD/TCT Family
Online Serv 3:	Internet Channel 3
Online Chan 3:	TCT-SD2 Kids
Online Serv 4:	Internet Channel 4
Online Chan 4:	TCT-SD3/Aramaic Broadcast Network

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)
• 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)
• WBNF-CD channel 15.1, Buffalo, New York (repeater of WNYB, now owned by HME Equity Fund II and operating as a Spanish Catholic station)
• 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

• TCT Kids

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leadership TCT Network. 2020-09-18. www.tct.tv.
2. Web site: Channel Lineup Welcome to TCT. 2020-09-18. en-US.
3. Web site: LA FUENTE Trademark - Registration Number 4294271 - Serial Number 85393193 :: Justia Trademarks.
4. Pergament, Alan. WNYB-TV ends local productions, station site is for sale. The Buffalo News. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
5. Web site: TV . 9 June 2019 .