WDNZ-LD (channel 11), branded on air as WDNZ-TV 11, is a low-powered

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primary

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and secondary BizTV/

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- affiliated

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serving

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, United States that is

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. The station is owned by the Daily News Broadcasting Company, alongside radio stations WKCT and WDNS. The owners of the station holds the license for the television station as News Television, LLC.Digital TV Market Listing for WDNZ-LD
/ref> The television and radio stations share studios located at the Daily News building on College Street in downtown Bowling Green. WDNZ's transmitter is located behind the studio.

History

Under Frank Digital ownership

Under original ownership by Frank Digital Broadcasting, the station’s first construction permit was issued by the

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on February 22, 2011 under the callsign W11DJ-D. The station has been silent, but the station could be the market’s third low-powered television station after

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and W14DG-D, the latter of which was initially only on the air for a month in 2016. The station would also be the first television station of any kind to be licensed in Glasgow since 2010, when former

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(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

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and

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markets, respectively. The licenses of both WKUT and WKUW were first sold to Budd Broadcasting in 2010, and then to

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in the mid-2010s, and as of 2017, they, along with WCZU, are now owned by

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New ownership

In 2018, the FCC issued a

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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

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. The Daily News also owns two

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s: news/talk AM station WKCT, along with its associated translator W281BV, and

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-formatted FM sister station WDNS. The special temporary authority license would allow it to conduct test broadcasts from a former

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long-lines microwave tower near Brownsville, with the directional antenna orienting the signal to the south to not only cover the city of Bowling Green proper, but also to protect the full-power signal of Louisville’s

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affiliate

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, 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

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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. 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

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. 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

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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

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station

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in nearby

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, 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

and

programming on the main channel, with

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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

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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

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on a DT6 subchannel, displayed as 12.1, thus making WDNZ the first Bowling Green station to offer a

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network. As of July 5, 2022, the station holds an application to relocate its signal to VHF channel 8."WKUW and Bowling Green News"
''Nashville DTV News & More''. July 5, 2022. Retrieved November 30, 2022.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

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