Tri-State Christian Television, Inc.,
doing business asTCT Network and TCT Ministries, is a
religioustelevision 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 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.