WTCE-TV

WTCE-TV

Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach, Florida United States
City	Fort Pierce, Florida
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 21
Programming
Affiliations	21.1: TBN 21.2: TBN Inspire 21.3: Smile 21.4: Enlace 21.5: Positiv
Ownership
Owner	Community Educational Television (Trinity Broadcasting Network) (Jacksonville Educators Broadcasting, Inc.)
History
First air date	May 9, 1990 (31 years ago) (1990-05-09)
Former call signs	WTCE (1990–2005)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 21 (UHF, 1990–2007) Digital: 38 (UHF, 2007–2019)
Call sign meaning	Treasure Coast Educational Television
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	29715
ERP	730 kW
HAAT	297 m (974 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	27°1′32″N 80°10′41.9″W / 27.02556°N 80.178306°W / 27.02556; -80.178306
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS

WTCE-TV, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 18), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station licensed to Fort Pierce, Florida, United States, serving the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. The station is owned by the Houston-based Community Educational Television subsidiary of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which manages TBN-owned stations in Florida and Texas on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. WTCE-TV's studios are located on North 25th Street (Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) in Fort Pierce, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated southeastern Martin County (southwest of Hobe Sound).

History[]

WTCE-TV commenced broadcast in 1990; an earlier television station in the area that also used to broadcast on channel 21, WIRK-TV in West Palm Beach, was in operation from 1953 to 1956.^[1]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on WTCE-TV
• WTCE Page on TBN's website

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