WLXI (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, serving the Piedmont Triad area as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). WLXI shares a transmitter on Sauratown Mountain with the Triad's PBS North Carolina satellite, WUNL-TV.[1] Programs are fed to the transmitter from the TCT studio center in Marion, Illinois; WLXI maintained studios on Patterson Street in Greensboro until TCT ended local operations nationally in June 2018.[2]
WLXI went on the air in 1984 and originally aired music videos. This lasted for under 18 months until a new owner who vehemently objected to the music video format converted the station to all-Christian programming in the summer of 1985. The station was sold to national Christian broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network soon afterward. Four years later, current owner TCT bought the station and retained it as a TBN affiliate for almost two decades before switching to its own religious programming.
History
UHF channel 61 was first assigned to Greensboro in the 1960s, but no application was made for it until 1979, when Consolidated Broadcasting Corporation filed with the