| City | Marion, Illinois |
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| History | |
First air date | August 1981 (43 years ago) (1981-08)[a] |
Former call signs | WDDD-TV (1981–1984) |
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Call sign meaning | Tri-State Christian Television |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 67786 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 228.5 m (750 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°33′26″N89°1′24″W / 37.55722°N 89.02333°W /37.55722; -89.02333 |
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| Website | www |
WTCT (channel 27) is areligioustelevision station licensed toMarion, Illinois, United States, serving thePaducah–Cape Girardeau–Harrisburgtelevision market as theflagship station of the locally basedTri-State Christian Television (TCT) network. WTCT's transmitter is located nearGoreville, Illinois. The national feed of TCT via WTCT is available onDirecTV channel 377.
The station signed on the air in August 1981 asindependent station WDDD-TV. In 1984, its call letters were changed to WTCT. The station carriedbusiness news programming from theFinancial News Network after the late movie each weeknight before sign-off until 1985. It became aTBN 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.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 27.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | 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 |
WTCT shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 27, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17,[3] usingvirtual channel 27.
WTCT previously broadcast onlow-powertranslatorsW54AE (channel 54) in Paducah, Kentucky,KCGI-CA (channel 45) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, andK54CA (channel 54) inSikeston, Missouri; these translators ceased operation around 2010.
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