WLCT-TV

WLCT-TV, virtual channel 52 (digital channel 20) is a religious independent television station licensed to Kenner, Louisiana and serves the New Orleans area. It is owned by RJH Media, and serves as their de-facto secondary flagship station. WLCT's studios are located on Howard Avenue in the New Orleans' Central Business District, while its transmitter is located at Magistrate Street in Chalmette, Louisiana.

WYES-TV in Kenner
On August 15, 1973, WYES-TV would launch a satellite feed in Kenner, Louisiana known as WYEX-TV. Both stations were owned by the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation and were affiliates of the member supported PBS network. At the time, WYES-TV had a hard time covering various suburbs and eastern parts of New Orleans, and as such WYEX-TV was launched to help prevent this issue.

However, WYEX-TV's purpose started to lessen as WYES-TV would improve its signal range over time and as such, WYEX-TV started to seem like an afterthought and as such the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation considered plans of selling the station outright to a completely different company.

Becoming RJH Media's second station
On April 19, 1980, the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation would donate WYEX-TV to R.J. Hawkins (who owned KBCP-TV in Dallas). WYEX-TV would become the company's 2nd media property and officially started the foundation of RJH Media (then known as R.J. Hawkins Broadcasting, Inc.)

Soon after the purchase, the station would drop any ties with WYES-TV and change its call-letters to WLCT-TV. Afterwards, the station would acquire multiple syndicated shows and would pick up several programs produced by its new sister station KBCP-TV.