Christian Television Network
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| Type | Television network |
|---|---|
| Branding | Christian Television Network |
| Country | United States |
| Availability | United States, worldwide (not available in all markets or regions) |
Launch date | 1979 |
Official website | http://www.ctnonline.com/ |
Christian Television Network (CTN) is a non-profit broadcast television network of small owned-and-operated stations (O&O) that broadcasts religious programming. It is based in Largo, Florida (with a mailing address of Clearwater), and the flagship station is WCLF channel 22, which signed on the air in the Tampa Bay region in 1979. It is now available on DirecTV channel 376, Dish Network channel 262, and Glorystar channel 117. It was founded by , who is still the president.
Program services[]
CTN operates three channels:
- The main CTN service focuses primarily on televangelism with some alternative medicine infomercials.
- CTNi is also televangelism-based but with all programming in Spanish.
- CTN Lifestyle includes secular syndicated programming (such as Small Town Big Deal, Positively Paula and Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls) along with some Christian talk shows (The 700 Club, AFA Focal Point), movies and Christian-themed entertainment programs.
Stations (by callsign)[]
All stations are owned and operated by CTN unless specified. Stations indicated by two plus signs ("++") are stations that were signed on by CTN or a CTN subsidiary.
CTN's Puerto Rico outlets are owned by Senda Educational Broadcasting, a subsidiary of CTN.
| Call letters | Channel | City and state | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| WCLF ++ | 22 | Clearwater/Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida | flagship station |
| KFXB-TV | 40 | Dubuque/Cedar Rapids/Iowa City/Waterloo, Iowa | Was Fox until 2004 |
| WYBU-CD | 16 | Columbus, Georgia | Formerly WCGT |
| WFGC | 61 | West Palm Beach, Florida | |
| WGNM | 45 | Macon, Georgia | Carried UPN along with CTN until September 2006 |
| WHBR ++ | 33 | Pensacola, Florida/Mobile, Alabama | |
| WHTN | 39 | Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee | |
| WSJN-CD | 20 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | Owned by Senda Educational Broadcasting, operated by CTN |
| WVQS-LD | 50 | Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico | Owned by Senda Educational Broadcasting, operated by CTN |
| WQSJ-CD | 48 | Quebradillas, Puerto Rico | Satellite of WSJN-CD |
| WELU | 34 | Aguadilla, Puerto Rico | Owned by Senda Educational Broadcasting, operated by CTN |
| WUSP-LD | 25 | Ponce, Puerto Rico | Daystar affiliate owned by Senda, operated by CTN |
| WLCN-CD | 18 | Charleston, South Carolina | |
| WRXY-TV ++ | 49 | Fort Myers, Florida | |
| WVLR ++ | 48 | Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| KEEN-CD | 17 | Las Vegas | |
| WVUP-CD ++ | 45 | Tallahassee, Florida | |
| WTJR | 16 | Quincy, Illinois | |
| WHNO | 20 | New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| KNLJ | 25 | Jefferson City, Missouri | |
| WLCF-LD | 45 | Decatur, Illinois | |
| WEPH ++ | 49 | Tupelo, Mississippi | |
| KQCK | 33 | Cheyenne, Wyoming | Owned by Casa Media Partners, LLC, operated by CTN |
| KQDK-CD | 39 | Aurora, Colorado | Owned by Casa Media Partners, LLC, operated by CTN |
| WTNB-CD | 27.1 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | |
| KWHS-LD | 51.1 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
| KWHB | 47.1 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | |
| KHLM-LD | 12.1 | Houston, Texas |
Former affiliates (by callsign)[]
| Call letters | Channel | City and state | Current Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEJC ++ | 20 | Lexington/Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point, North Carolina | Now WCWG, a CW affiliate owned by Hearst Television. |
| WSWS | 66 | Opelika, Alabama / Columbus, Georgia | Now WGBP-TV, a Lx affiliate owned by CNZ Communications, LLC |
| WTGL-TV ++ | 52 | Cocoa / Orlando, Florida | Originally the second station established by CTN; now WHLV-TV, a religious station owned by TBN |
| WIRB | 56 | Melbourne / Orlando, Florida | Owned by CTN from 1996–1997, LMA'd to Paxson Communications (now ION Media Networks); bought by Paxson outright in January 1998; now WOPX, an ION Television affiliate |
| WKID-TV | 51 | Fort Lauderdale / Miami, Florida | Purchased evening airtime in the late-1970s, before the establishment of WCLF;[1] now WSCV, a Telemundo O&O owned by NBCUniversal |
Note[]
Until 2011, Detroit, Michigan-based WLPC-LD also used the CTN and Christian Television Network names, but was never affiliated or associated with this network; that station has since renamed itself as Impact Network.
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