![]() ![]() Programming from that service returned sometime during the week of July 7–12, 2014. įor unknown reasons, WCZU did not air MyNetworkTV programming in late June and early July 2014. The only Bowling Green area cable system that still carried WUXP at the time of WCZU's sign-on was WesternCable, the on-campus cable system in classrooms and residence halls at Western Kentucky University the station was dropped in 2020. Like most of Nashville's other full-power UHF digital stations, WUXP could still be received in parts of the Bowling Green market using an outdoor antenna. ![]() This was because UPN was never fully available from a local station in Bowling Green the only UPN programming that was seen locally from Bowling Green area stations were the first season of Star Trek: Voyager, which aired on WBKO in early 1995, and the Disney's One Too block, which aired on NBC affiliate WNKY (channel 40) during that station's final two years as Bowling Green's original Fox affiliate. Prior to the sign-on of WCZU, the Bowling Green market had to rely on WUXP-TV in Nashville as the default MyNetworkTV affiliation for area that station, which was available on Bowling Green cable systems as early as 1988 (during that station's stint as Fox affiliate WCAY-TV), also served as the default UPN affiliate during that network's existence from January 1995 until UPN's merger with The WB to create The CW in September 2006. With MyNetworkTV finally becoming available locally through WCZU, Ion Television became the last major network or syndication service not available directly from an outlet in Bowling Green Nashville's Ion owned-and-operated station WNPX-TV (originally licensed to Cookeville, now licensed to Franklin) is the default Ion outlet for the market. įrom the time of the station's inception in March 2014, WCZU also had a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV, a sister channel to the Fox network that was created in 2006 to provide an alternative to going independent station to any former UPN and WB affiliate not slated to become an affiliate of fellow-upstart network The CW upon its launch that same year the cable-only "WBWG", which relaunched onto the DT3 subchannel of ABC/Fox dual affiliate WBKO (channel 13) is the area's CW affiliate as part of The CW Plus. It now shares space on the tower with Brownsville-licensed adult hits radio station WKLX. In May 2014, WCZU's transmitter site was relocated to a tower near the Wingfield community in southwestern Edmonson County along KY 1749 (Wingfield Road). It also became the first low-power digital station to sign on in the Bowling Green market. Upon signing on, WCZU became the first station in the Bowling Green market to provide programming from a digital multicast specialty network, since the station began with a primary Antenna TV affiliation, with upstart healthy-lifestyle specialty network Doctor TV Channel (DrTV) being carried on WCZU's second subchannel. Most people did not know the station existed until sometime in either late April or May of that year. WCZU-LD took to the air on March 4, 2014, and was discovered to be on the air no later than April 26, 2014. On December 20, 2013, the station's operator, DTV America, announced the station would go on air in early 2014 as a MyNetworkTV affiliate, with Antenna TV programming surrounding MyNetworkTV's prime time schedule. DrTV Bowling Green logo used on website during WCZU-LD2's tenure as a DrTV affiliate in 2014–2015. WCZU takes to the air WCZU-LD logo used online as a MyNetworkTV/Antenna TV dual outlet. That tower can be seen in various areas of Edmonson County from Windyville to Sweeden as well as the north side of Brownsville, therefore making the structure a familiar landmark to area residents. That tower served as an AT&T long-lines microwave tower from the early 1970s until the mid-2000s as part of the AT&T Long Lines wire, cable, and microwave relay system. Its elected transmitter site was originally located in central Edmonson County, Kentucky, on KY 1365 (Grassland Road) off KY 70 (Morgantown Road) just northwest of Brownsville. ![]() The station was assigned call letters W39CZ-D, but in 2013, they were changed to the current WCZU-LD before the station took to the air, under license to King Forward, Inc. WCZU-LD's application history dates back to February 2010. WCZU-LD's transmitter is located near Wingfield, in unincorporated southwestern Edmonson County along KY 1749. and licensed to its subsidiary DTV America Corporation. WCZU-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with Court TV. ![]()
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