KBCB (channel 24) is a religious television station in Bellingham, Washington, United States, owned and operated by Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's studios are located on Meridian Street in Bellingham, and its transmitter is located near Mount Constitution on Orcas Island. History The station signed on as KEGA on February 10, 1989. It gained its current call-sign on October 2, 1989. From its sign-on until 2006, KBCB aired a mix of Independent/ImaginAsian programming targeted towards the Vancouver area and southwestern British Columbia, Canada, in addition to news from European international broadcasters until the early 2000s decade, bearing the name World Television to reflect the international mix of programming carried on the station. In 2006, the station converted to an affiliation with ShopNBC. The network became ShopHQ in 2013. KBCB added the Estrella TV network as a multicast channel on August 1, 2011. KBCB's affiliation with Estrella ended on April 24, 2014. Abandoned sale to Fox Television Stations On September 19, 2014, Venture Technologies Group reached an agreement to sell the station to Fox Television Stations for $10 million; the purchase was submitted for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval on October 3. The purchase came amid speculation that Fox was interested in having an owned-and-operated station in the home market of the Seattle Seahawks football team, whose games primarily air on Fox as members of the National Football Conference. Fox had reportedly threatened to not renew KCPQ's affiliation when its affiliation agreement ended in January 2015, while the broadcaster had made similar transactions in other NFC markets, such as purchasing the network affiliate serving the San Francisco Bay Area, where the 49ers play, as well as a station in Charlotte, North Carolina, home to the Carolina Panthers. On October 17, 2014, Fox announced that it had reached a deal to maintain its affiliation with KCPQ through July 2018—agreeing to a reverse compensation arrangement. Following this development, Fox's application to acquire KBCB was dismissed by the FCC on November 20, 2014. On March 3, 2020, Fox completed its purchase of KCPQ and sister station KZJO after coming to terms with the stations' new owner, Nexstar Media Group, which had acquired KCPQ via its purchase of Tribune Media. On January 1, 2015, KBCB replaced its affiliation of ShopHQ with that of the Sonlife Broadcasting Network. In March, the SD simulcast on 24.2 was replaced by Jewelry TV. Home shopping channel QVC was