WTBN-TV

WTBN-TV, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 16), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station licensed to, , United States. The station is owned by the subsidiary of the, which manages TBN-owned stations in Texas, Florida and Massachusetts on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. WTBN's studios are located on Monique Drive in ; it's transmitter is located on Cabot Street in.

The station has been available on cable television providers in the Boston television market since at least the mid-1990s, although Comcast Xfinity (in certain areas of Worcester County) and Verizon FiOS do not carry WTBN-TV but do carry TBN's national feed. WTBN-TV acts as the de facto TBN affiliate for the market.

Background
WTBN-TV signed-on sometime in October 1987. The station was originally based out of a studio in, and then in.

In 2016, WTBN-TV moved it's operations to the former Clara Macy Elementary School in, with the school's gymnasium repurposed as a television studio/soundstage for local & national TBN programming. The building was acquired by the Trinity Broadcasting Network at auction from Bellingham Public Schools in August 2015, and also houses an auxiliary production facility and studio for TBN, a call center for TBN's Prayer Line, and a visitor's center for TBN viewers. FX Design Group was behind the creation of the new modular sets for each local & national TBN show taped at the Bellingham facility.

Local programming
WTBN carries almost all of the TBN network schedule. Locally produced programs that are taped in the station's Bellingham studios include local versions of Praise the Lord, Up with the Son, Joy in Our Town and We Speak Inglés y Español. In addition to religious programming, the station airs educational programming to prepare local students for the General Educational Development (GED) and Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests to fulfill the requirements under their license service.