WTCE-TV

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 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).

WTCE-TV

Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach, Florida United States
City	Fort Pierce, Florida
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 21 (PSIP)
Programming
Affiliations	21.1: TBN (O&O) 21.2: Hillsong Channel 21.3: Smile 21.4: Enlace 21.5: Positiv
Ownership
Owner	Community Educational Television (a subsidiary of Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc.) (Jacksonville Educators Broadcasting, Inc.)
History
First air date	May 9, 1990 (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	W-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
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS

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]

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
21.1	720p	16:9	TBN HD	Main TBN programming
21.2			Hillsng	Hillsong Channel
21.3	480i	4:3	SMILE	Smile
21.4			Enlace	Enlace
21.5		16:9	Positiv	Positiv

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

WTCE-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on that date. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 38.[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 21.

References

1. rogersimmons.com: "West Palm Beach TV Station Ads"
2. RabbitEars TV Query for WTCE
3. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

External links

• WTCE in the FCC's TV station database
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WTCE-TV
• WTCE Page on TBN's website