Total Christian Television

TCT Ministries, Inc.,^[1] doing business as Total Christian Television^[2][3] (a.k.a. TCT;^[3] also commonly referred to as TCT Network^[2]; formerly Tri-State Christian Television) is a religious television network in the United States.

TCT 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.^[4]

It was founded in 1977 as a single Cincinnati television station under the original "Tri-State Christian Television" TCT branding serving the Tri-state area by spouses Garth and Tina Coonce.^[5] Then, from the mid-1980s up until 2007, TCT was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Upon its parting from TBN in 2007, its branding changed to the current "Total Christian Television" TCT branding. 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.

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.^[6] The change came after the Federal Communications Commission lifted its Main Studio Rule, which had required broadcast stations to have a local studio.