Tri-State Christian Television

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]

Tri-State Christian Television (TCT)

Country	United States
Affiliates	See below
History
Launched	May 20, 1977 (May 20, 1977)
Founder	Garth and Tina Coonce
Links
Website	TCT Network Aramaic Broadcast Network
Availability
Terrestrial
Available in select areas	see chart below
Streaming media
Internet Channel 1	TCT-SD
Internet Channel 2	TCT-HD/TCT Family
Internet Channel 3	TCT-SD2 Kids
Internet Channel 4	TCT-SD3/Aramaic Broadcast Network

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.