13 Facts About WZTV

WZTV is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW.

WZTV soon got some competition in the form of Murfreesboro-based WFYZ, which took to the air in 1983.

In 1988, Multimedia sold WZTV to Act III Broadcasting, who had a reputation for buying its competitors' stronger programming inventory.

WZTV-DT2 was initially a standard definition simulcast of the main channel from its 2008 launch until the subchannel was temporarily deleted in 2010.

On September 20,2021, WZTV-DT2 became Nashville's affiliate of The CW, moving the former schedule of WNAB's primary 58.

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On January 1,2016, WZTV-DT3 launched as the station's third digital subchannel, and became an affiliate of Tribune Broadcasting-owned Antenna TV, thus stripping the affiliation with WRTN-LD3.

WZTV was the television home of Nashville Sounds baseball from 1982 to 1992.

On July 7,1997, WZTV premiered a half-hour prime time newscast called Fox News at 9 that aired Sunday through Friday evenings and was produced by ABC affiliate WKRN-TV through a news share agreement, as a result of a demand from Fox that its affiliates air local newscasts.

In 2004, WZTV began incorporating national news and sports, and local weather segments from Sinclair's News Central division into its newscast, which were based at the company's headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland; the station retained anchors and reporters to provide local news stories for the broadcasts.

On September 11,2011, WZTV became the third station in the Nashville market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.

WZTV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on February 17,2009, which was intended to be the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.

Since the Bowling Green, Kentucky media market didn't have a Fox affiliate of its own, WZTV was the default Fox affiliate for that area on cable from 1990 to January 1992, when WKNT became that market's first Fox affiliate.

From 1979 to sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s, WZTV was carried on certain cable systems in the Huntsville, Alabama market along with Nashville's big three stations .