Late in the afternoon on March 28, 2010, a severe thunderstorm packing strong winds blew down trees causing damage to its transmission building (which houses a 2,000-foot (610 m) tall tower that is used by WJZY and three FM radio outlets (WNKS 95.1; WIBT 96.1, now WHQC; and WPEG 97.9) that is owned by CBC Real Estate, Incorporated. 21. [3] It was originally owned by Metro-Crescent Communications, a locally based group that included then-Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt and longtime Charlotte broadcasters Bob Hilker and Bill Rollins. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Abernethy felt that "when you're not being held by an existing show, it's much easier to do things differently." [18][19][20] To launch the station, Fox chose a regional branding of "Fox 46 Carolinas" to acknowledge WJZY's primary coverage area of 22 counties in North and South Carolina rather than its number, along with giving it distance from any confusion with WCCB's branding of "Fox Charlotte".[21]. The station became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) when the network launched on January 16, 1995. On May 9, 2013, Fox Television Stations, the Fox network's owned-and-operated television station group, took control of WJZY and WMYT-TV from Capitol Broadcasting Company. Indeed, Fox Television Stations president Jack Abernathy said that Fox had set its sights on buying a station in Charlotte specifically because it was an NFC market. 6Predecessor company of LIN Media. On November 5, 2019, Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation announced that WJZY and WMYT-TV would be acquired by Nexstar Media Group for $45 million in a deal concurrent with Fox's purchase of KCPQ and KZJO in Seattle and WITI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Nexstar. [29], On September 6, 2012, WJZY announced it was adding This TV on digital channel 46.3 on September 17, moving The Country Network to a new subchannel. Telemundo affiliates: KKEY-LP | KTAB-DT2 [13] The FCC granted its approval of the sale on March 11, and the deal was consummated on April 17. Prior to April 2011, WJZY had broadcast a standard-definition simulcast of the station's main channel on its second digital subchannel. ©2020 FOX Television Stations, Milwaukee Co. homicide numbers exceed all-time record of 174 set in 1993, Justice Clarence Thomas administers Supreme Court oath to Amy Coney Barrett at White House, NASA, SpaceX target Nov. 14 for manned Crew-1 mission to ISS, Silver Alert for New Berlin man last seen in Franklin, Fast-moving wildfire forces evacuation of over 90,000 in Southern California, COVID-19 testing capacity more than triples in Waukesha County, Wisconsin issues statement amid reports QB Graham Mertz tests positive, Effort to recall Gov. As part of the SAFER Act,[38] WJZY kept its analog signal on the air until July 6 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters. From WMYT, Sonlife moved from 55.3 to 46.3, Buzzr from 55.2 to 46.7, and Light TV from 55.4 to 46.8. Logo for third digital subchannel (January-September 2012). [43], With Fox's purchase of the WJZY/WMYT duopoly, Fox built a standalone news department for WJZY. Content is available under $1 unless otherwise noted. A new website ("myfoxcarolinas.com") and Facebook page were established for the station in June 2013; upon its launch, the station's new website only contained advertising for the station and Fox primetime programs. Horizontal version seen on promos and ads. On September 29, 2016, 46.4 was reactivated with the addition of Ion Television; prior to then, Charlotte was the largest market in the United States that never had an owned-and-operated station or affiliate of Ion, though WAXN-TV (channel 64) carried select programs from the network (then known as Pax TV) from 1998 to 2000. In 2011, WJZY brought back its The CW 46 branding and adopted the "46" that would be used to this day, then the logo was ended on May 8, 2013 before the switch. On March 2, 2015, the station's name was changed to Fox 46 Charlotte. The station began transmitting its network programming in high definition with the launch of its digital signal in September 2002. Fox affiliates: KARD-TV | KCIT1 | KDVR/KFCT | KFQX1 | KFTA-TV | KFXK-TV/KFXL-TV3 | KHON-TV/KHAW-TV/KAII-TV | KHMT1 | KJTL1 | KLJB1 | KLRT-TV1 | KMSS-TV1 | KPEJ1 | KRBK | KRQE-DT2/KBIM-DT2/KREZ-DT2 | KSWB-TV | KTMJ-CD | KTVI | KTXL | KWKT-TV | KXRM-TV | WDAF-TV | WDKY-TV | WFFF-TV | WFXP1 | WFXR | WFXV | WGHP | WGMB | WJKT | WJW | WJZY | WLAX/WEUX | WNAC-TV7 | WNTZ-TV | WQRF-TV | WVBT | WVNS-DT2 | WXIN | WXXA-TV4 | WYFX-LD | WYZZ-TV2 WJZY, virtual channel 46 (UHF digital channel 25), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States that is licensed to Belmont. However, WCCB's affiliation contract with Fox did not run out until July 1. Thus, WJZY-DT2 now maps to 55.1 and carries WMYT's MyNetworkTV programming, with other modifications to the channel map, with Movies! A solution came with the sign-on of WFVT (channel 55, later WWWB and now WMYT-TV) in September 1994. See also: Nexstar station logos, Cable networks: Cooking Channel9 | Food Network9 | WGN America, Digital assets:Blockdot | Inergize Digital | Lakana | LIN Digital | Zap2it (TV by the Numbers) | Yashi, Defunct/Former: CLTV | The WB | Tribune Publishing | Tribune Media Services | Tribune Entertainment | Grant/Tribune Productions | Teletrib | Career Builder | Topix | Metromix | Gracenote | Tribune Studios, Predecessors:Quorum Broadcasting | Grant Broadcasting | Newport Television | Communications Corporation of America | Media General (Park Communications | Spartan Communications | Young Broadcasting | LIN Media | Sunrise Television Corporation6 | New Vision Television6) | West Virginia Media | Tribune Media (Tribune Broadcasting | Local TV | Renaissance Broadcasting). 4Owned by Shield Media, LLC, Nexstar operates this station through an SSA, sale to Mission Broadcasting pending FCC approval. Until then, Fox Television Stations ran WJZY as a CW affiliate, an irony considering that The CW passed over Fox's UPN affiliates – which later served as MyNetworkTV's core station group – for charter affiliations in key markets (in favor of stations owned by CBS and Tribune), when the network's launch was announced in January 2006. [17] Charlotte had been the third-largest NFC market (behind the Bay Area and Seattle), and the only one in the Eastern Time Zone, where the local Fox station was not owned by the network. He starts immediately and will report to Doug Davis, senior VP and regional manager at Nexstar. [43] WJZY soft-launched its news operation on December 18, 2013, in the form of live webcasts nightly (except on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day) through December 31, airing concurrently with the WBTV-produced 10:00 p.m. news on channel 46. From May 1994 to June 1995, and again from September 2003 to April 8, 2012, CBS affiliate WBTV produced a nightly 10:00 p.m. newscast for WJZY through separate news share agreements; in the intervening period, the newscast aired on PBS member station WTVI. CW affiliates: KASN1 | KCLO-DT2 | KDAF | KGCW | KGET-DT2 | KHON-DT2/KHAW-DT2/KAII-DT2 | KIAH | KNVA5 | KPLR-TV | KRCW-TV | KTKA-DT35 | KTLA | KUCW | KWBQ/KRWB-TV7 | KWGN-TV | KXMB-DT2/KXMC-DT2/KXMD-DT2/KXMA-DT2 | KXTU-LD | WBDT5 | WBRL-CD | WCBD-DT2 | WDCW | WFNA | WHDF | WJTV-DT2 | WLAJ-DT26 | WNAC-DT2 | WNCT-DT2 | WNLO | WNOL-TV | WSAV-DT2 | WTVW1 | WWCW | WWLP-DT2/WFXQ-CD2 | WWTI-DT2 | WYCW WJZY became a UPN affiliate upon its launch on January 11, 1995. That would make FOX6 a Fox owned-and-operated television station.As part of the deal, Nexstar is also purchasing from Fox, the Charlotte FOX Affiliate WJZY and MyNetworkTV Affiliate WMYT.The transactions are subject to FCC approval and other customary approvals, and is expected to close in the first half of calendar year 2020.According to the 2019 Nielsen DMA Rankings, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin DMA is ranked as the 35th largest U.S. television market. Alternate version with "Cable 8" moniker. [22][23], On November 5, 2019, Fox Corporation announced that WJZY and WMYT-TV would be acquired by Nexstar Media Group for $45 million in a deal concurrent with Fox's purchase of KCPQ and KZJO in Seattle and WITI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Nexstar. [4] The station was originally licensed with the callsign WMHU, but prior to the station's official debut, the calls were changed to WJZY in November 1986. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. Starting in the mid-1990s, the station added more talk and reality shows, and shifted away from incorporating classic sitcoms and movies on its schedule. On-air logo used during the syndicated programming (2015-present), Screenshot from January 19, 2020 with station identification and syndication logo. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The transition from The CW to Fox began soon after Fox took control of the station in April 2013. In the meantime, WBTV's 10:00 p.m. production returned to WJZY from WMYT when channel 46 officially joined Fox on July 1, 2013. WJZY affiliated with The CW upon the network's debut on September 18, 2006. 9Joint venture with Discovery, Inc., in which Nexstar owns 31% while Discovery owns the remaining 69%. WOGX in Ocala/Gainesville, Florida is based in a smaller market, but operates as a semi-satellite of WOFL in Orlando and is counted as part of that station for regulatory purposes. That includes cable systems within the adjacent Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point market, the Asheville market in North Carolina and South Carolina, the Columbia market in South Carolina, and the Tri-Cities market in Tennessee and Virginia.[39]. WJZY signed on in 1987 as an independent station. [49][50] Despite having the highly-viewed Fox primetime lineup as its lead-in, the station continued to lose viewers at 10:00 p.m. to WAXN and WCCB, and according to Nielsen ratings, the station's morning news was in fifth place among Charlotte stations, and airings of The People's Court on sister station WMYT had slightly better ratings than WJZY's evening news. Nexstar divests WITI FOX6 Milwaukee, sells station to Fox Television Stations. 8Currently a repeater for WWLP. The station's CW-era Website became a bare-bones "ghost site" soon afterward, when Capitol Broadcasting employees stopped updating it. The station spent most of the spring testing its transmitter by airing movies that were presented without commercial interruption. [40] It was simulcast by both stations for one week, before syndicated reruns of Law & Order: Criminal Intent replaced the simulcast on WJZY on April 16, 2012. In 2009, the station changed its branding to "Charlotte's WJZY" in an effort to brand itself as a more local station.

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