WZXZ-CD, virtual channel 36 (

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channel 20), is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to

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, United States. The station is owned by the L4 Media Group.

History

The station originally signed on as an

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of The Box. Following The Box's acquisition by

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in 2001, it began carrying programming from

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. In 2005, Viacom sold WZXZ to L4 Media Group. From 2004 to late summer of 2006, WZXZ carried the Spanish music video channel Mas Musica, now known as

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. However, when Mas Musica became MTV Tr3́s, WZXZ resumed simulcast of MTV2 for a short period of time, rather than picking up MTV Tr3́s, for unknown reasons. For some part of later 2006, it had shown a repeated loop of a religious

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. This was the last actual programming shown on the channel. For most of 2007, the station was broadcasting nothing but the screensaver from a DVD player, accompanied by an outdated severe weather warning crawl across the screen. Most recently, sometime around the start of January 2008, the station was transmitting a

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overlay. This is presumably due to no station ID being displayed per FCC requirements for some time (aside from when the EAS-triggered warnings would occasionally be scrolled). As of September 2008, the station started airing Caribevision, a Spanish television network based out of Miami and New York City. On August 13, 2012, WZXZ-CA began broadcasting América Tevé programming after America CV folded. The station switched to Soul of the South Network in 2014. On August 12, 2014, L4 Media Group reached a deal to sell WZXZ-CA to OTA Broadcasting, a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital; the deal was not filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) until November. The station was licensed for digital operation on May 26, 2015, changing its call sign to WZXZ-CD.

References

External links

* ZXZ-CD Television channels and stations established in 1989 ZXZ YTA TV affiliates {{Florida-tv-station-stub