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.
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.
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 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. 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)
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)