National Christian Network

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The National Christian Network was a short lived satellite TV network that aired mostly syndicated Christian television programming in the early 1980's. NCN as it was known, was noteworthy for the fact that it shared the same satellite transponder with the Playboy channel. This caused a great deal of trouble for NCN, not because they shared the same transponder at different times of the day, but rather because NCN attempted to sell satellite time to Christian programmers who were led to believe (falsely) that every cable company that was carrying Playboy was also carrying NCN, which was not the case. In fact most cable operators carried the Playboy feed only during the hours that Playboy was transmitting programming, and they blacked out the NCN portion.

NCN continues it's operation today with a number of FM radio stations in Florida and Louisiana, and an AM radio station in central Florida.