WTCT

WTCT (channel 27) is a religious television station licensed to Marion, Illinois, United States, serving the Paducah–Cape Girardeau–Harrisburg television market as the flagship station of the locally based Total Christian Television (TCT) network. WTCT's transmitter is located near Goreville, Illinois. The national feed of TCT via WTCT is available on DirecTV channel 377.

History The station signed on the air in August 1981 as independent station WDDD-TV. In 1984, its call letters were changed to WTCT. The station carried business news programming from the Financial News Network after the late movie each weeknight before sign-off until 1985. It became a TBN station in 1986 along with a few independent stations that switched to the religious network during that year. In 2007, the TCT network permanently dropped all TBN programming.

Technical information Subchannels The station's signal is multiplexed: +Subchannels of WTCT Channel Res. Short name Programming 27.1 1080i WTCT HD TCT 27.2 480i SBN Sonlife 27.3 Positiv Positiv 27.4 LAFF Laff 27.5 StartTV Start TV 27.6 StoryTV Story Television 27.7 Quest Quest 27.8 BuzzrTV Buzzr 27.9 OANPLUS One America Plus 27.10 ShopLC Shop LC 27.11 WEST WEST

Analog-to-digital conversion WTCT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 27, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17, using virtual channel 27.

Former translators WTCT previously broadcast on low-power translators W54AE (channel 54) in Paducah, Kentucky, KCGI-CA (channel 45) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and K54CA (channel 54) in Sikeston, Missouri; these translators ceased operation around 2010.

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External links Tri-State Christian Television