Affiliations TCT (2007–present) | ||
Channels Digital: 17 (UHF)
Virtual: 27 (PSIP) Subchannels 27.1/.2 TCT
27.3 TCT Family/TCT Kids Owner Tri-State Christian Television, Inc. First air date August 1981; 35 years ago (1981-08) Call letters' meaning Tri-State
Christian
Television | ||
WTCT is the flagship station of the Tri-State Christian Television religious television network, broadcasting locally on channel 27 in Marion, Illinois. WTCT also broadcasts locally on digital channel 17. The national feed of TCT via WTCT is available nationwide on DirecTV channel 377.
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Overview
WTCT previously broadcast on repeaters in Paducah, Kentucky on W54AE, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on channel 45, KCGI-CA, and in Sikeston, Missouri on K54CA; these repeaters ceased operation around 2010.
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WTCT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 27, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 27.