WDNZ-LD

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WDNZ-LD
City Glasgow, Kentucky
Channels
BrandingWDNZ-TV 11
Programming
Subchannels
Ownership
Owner
WNKY, WNKY-LD
History
FoundedFebruary 22, 2011
First air date
October 18, 2019;5 years ago (2019-10-18)
Former call signs
W11DJ-D (2011–2019)
Call sign meaning
Reference to former Daily News ownership
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 185022
Class LD
ERP 3 kW
HAAT 110.7 m (363 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 36°56′39″N86°15′11″W / 36.94417°N 86.25306°W / 36.94417; -86.25306
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WDNZ-LD (channel 11) is a low-power television station licensed to Glasgow, Kentucky, United States, serving the Bowling Green area as an affiliate of The Country Network. It is owned by Marquee Broadcasting alongside dual NBC/CBS affiliate WNKY (channel 40) and Ion Television affiliate WNKY-LD (channel 35). The three stations share studios on Chestnut Street in downtown Bowling Green; WDNZ-LD's transmitter is located near Polkville, Kentucky.

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History

Under Frank Digital ownership

While under original ownership by Frank Digital Broadcasting, the station's first construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission on February 22, 2011, under the callsign W11DJ-D. The station has been silent, but the station would eventually become the market's third low-power television station after WCZU-LD and W14DG-D, the latter of which was initially only on the air for a month in 2016. The station is also the first television station of any kind to be licensed in Glasgow since 2010, when former Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), owned-and-operated translators WKUT-LP and WKUW-LP went off the air due to lack of viewer support; both of them relocated to serve the Louisville and Nashville markets, respectively. The licenses of both WKUT and WKUW were first sold to Budd Broadcasting in 2010, and then to DTV America Corporation in the mid-2010s, and as of 2017, they, along with WCZU, are now owned by Innovate Corp.

Ownership by The Daily News

In 2018, the FCC issued a Special temporary authority license to the then-W11DJ-D's new licensee, News Publishing, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Daily News Broadcasting Company of Bowling Green. The Daily News also owns two radio stations: news/talk AM station WKCT, along with its associated translator W281BV, and classic rock-formatted FM sister station WDNS. The special temporary authority license would allow it to conduct test broadcasts from a former AT&T long-lines microwave tower near Brownsville, with the directional antenna orienting the signal to the south in order to cover the city of Bowling Green proper, and to protect the full-power signal of Louisville's ABC affiliate WHAS-TV, which also broadcasts on channel 11, from co-channel interference. However, the station also has a construction permit to instead transmit from the WDNS radio transmission tower located in southeastern Warren County on Iron Bridge Road just off Kentucky Route 1402 (KY 1402) west of Threeforks. If it begins broadcasting at that location, the projected signal coverage would cover almost all of the Bowling Green media market area, plus central and southern portions of Grayson County (part of the Louisville market), and nearby portions of northern Allen County (part of the Nashville market) located within a few miles from that county's northern boundary. The signal would be oriented west to east, but also have limited coverage to the north to also protect the signal of WHAS-TV.

Sign on and MyNetworkTV affiliation takeover

The station adapted its current WDNZ-LD callsign on October 8, 2019. [2] In June 2019, the Antenna TV network's website listed the station as Bowling Green's upcoming Antenna TV affiliate after WCZU-LD dropped both of its Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV affiliations in favor of the newly resurrected Court TV. [3] It was announced that WDNZ will take over both of WCZU's former main-channel affiliations; MyNetworkTV on its main channel, with its DT2 subchannel carrying the full Antenna TV schedule, and Biz TV on a third subchannel. Along with that information, the station has applied for special temporary authority to temporarily transmit the signal on UHF channel 31 from a small tower behind the WDNS/WKCT/W281BV studios on College Street in downtown Bowling Green while the permanent transmission facility near Threeforks is being built. This could happen after religious independent station WPBM-CD in nearby Scottsville, Kentucky, which originally transmit on channel 31, moves their digital allocation to channel 15 on October 18, 2019.

Upon the station's sign-on, WDNZ initially broadcast four digital subchannels, carrying a mixture of MyNetworkTV, Biz TV and Antenna TV programming on the main channel, with Stadium on DT2, and the full-time schedules of Biz TV and Antenna TV on DT3 and DT4, respectively. In 2020, Biz TV was replaced with The Country Network on the DT3 subchannel. Two other subchannels were launched to provide a visual simulcast of WKCT on a fifth subchannel, displayed as virtual channel 9.30, and Estrella TV on a DT6 subchannel, originally displayed as 12.1, thus making WDNZ the first Bowling Green-based station to offer a Spanish-language network; it was the only Spanish outlet until WBGS-LD (channel 34) became a Telemundo affiliate in 2023.

As of July 5, 2022, the station holds an application to relocate its signal to VHF channel 8. [4]

Sale to Marquee Broadcasting

On February 24, 2023, Daily News Broadcasting sold the station to Marquee Broadcasting, owner of full-power station WNKY and its low-power counterpart. [5] [6] The sale has been approved by the FCC on April 7, 2023. [7]

In 2024, WDNZ dropped its affiliations with Antenna TV, Biz TV and MyNetworkTV after the sale to Marquee was finalized. The Country Network is now on the station's primary subchannel.

Programming

While under operation by the Daily News, WDNZ-LD aired local news programs on weekday mornings and evenings, [8] in addition to the primary programming of its subchannels.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WDNZ-LD [9]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
11.1 720p 16:9 WDNZ-LD The Country Network
11.2 1080i The Nest
11.3 480i Estrella TV

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WDNZ-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Public Attachments DOC" (PDF). docs.fcc.gov. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Rewind TV". Antenna TV. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Nashville DTV News & More". nashvilledtvnews.info. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Nashville DTV News & More". nashvilledtvnews.info. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  6. ↑ "WDNZ TV 11". Bowling Green Daily News . March 1, 2023. Archived from the original on May 17, 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  7. ↑ "WDNZ-LD Application History". FCCdata.org. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
  8. ↑ Negrete, Hayli (March 25, 2020). "WDNZ-TV11 to partner with The Daily News". BroadcastingAlliance.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2024. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
  9. ↑ "WDNZ-LD Bowling Green, KY". RabbitEars.info .
Preceded by MyNetworkTV affiliate for Bowling Green, Kentucky
2019–present		Succeeded by
None (served by WUXP-TV in Nashville)
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