WUXP-TV (channel 30) is a

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in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with

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. It is owned by

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alongside dual

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/ CW affiliate

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(channel 17); it is also

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affiliate WNAB (channel 58), which Sinclair operates under an

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agreement with Tennessee Broadcasting. The stations share studios on Mainstream Drive along the

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, while WUXP-TV's transmitter is located along

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in Whites Creek.

History

The station first signed on the air on February 18, 1984, as

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WCAY-TV. WCAY-TV was owned by the

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, which had signed on a few stations in other markets. The station maintained a general entertainment format featuring

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and

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, operating from studios located on Peabody Street in downtown Nashville. Along with the other TVX stations, WCAY became a

affiliate on April 5, 1987, as part of a groupwide affiliation deal. Fox affiliated with all of TVX's stations as a condition of affiliating with

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New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

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's Fox affiliates and independent stations. The deal left TVX heavily leveraged. After the 1987 stock market "bump", investors started pulling their funding, forcing TVX to sell some of its underperforming medium-market stations. WCAY and sister station WMKW in Memphis (now

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) were sold to MT Communications. WCAY then changed its call letters to WXMT on September 26, 1989. In 1990, WZTV's owner,

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, who were known for buying its competitors' stronger programming assets, offered to buy WXMT's entire syndicated programming inventory and move most of the shows over to WZTV, alongside programs that were already broadcast on that station. Fox also planned to exercise its option to moving its Nashville area affiliation to WZTV. Originally, WXMT was to switch to a hybrid format of home shopping for 18 hours a day and religious programs for six hours a day, but MT Communications still wanted some programming and entertainment shows on the schedule. The deal was called off early in February. When Fox moved over to WZTV later that month, negotiations resumed and immediately it was decided that WZTV would get only cash programming (including sitcoms, movies, and some of the cartoons), while WXMT would keep barter cartoons, a few barter sitcoms, and some religious shows. The deal took effect later in February 1990. By this time, WXMT's schedule now featured cartoons from 7 to 9 a.m., religious programming from 9 a.m. to noon,

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programming from noon to 4 p.m. and after 9 p.m., and low-rated barter syndicated shows from 4 to 9 p.m. Gradually, more first run talk shows, sitcoms and cartoons were added to WXMT's schedule. By 1994, WXMT was once again running general entertainment programming full-time. On January 16, 1995, the station became an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (

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), and began branding itself as "UPN 30". By then, WZTV was owned by Abry Communications under its branding Sullivan Broadcasting; later that year, WZTV entered into a

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with WXMT. MT Communications sold the station to

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, but WZTV would handle programming responsibilities for the station. The station's call letters were changed to the current WUXP on August 23, 1996, with its on-air branding changing to "UXP30" and later "UPN Nashville" before reverting to "UPN 30" in 2002. In 1998, Sinclair announced its intent to purchase Sullivan outright, the LMA with WUXP was included in the deal. Before it entered into the LMA with WZTV, WXMT had planned to build a state-of-the-art studio facility along the "south loop" of

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in Nashville. For many years, even after the plans had been abandoned, a retaining wall on the site featured a mural reading "Future Home of WXMT-30". The LMA continued after Sinclair acquired Abry. As time went on, cartoons and

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(such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' RoboCop: Alpha Commando'') disappeared from the schedule gradually and more first-run

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and

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s were added. In 2000, Sinclair Broadcast Group bought WUXP outright. On February 22, 2006,

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announced the formation of

, a sister network to Fox that would affiliate with WB and UPN stations that were not named as affiliates of fellow upstart network

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. In February 2006, WUXP, along with most of Sinclair's WB and UPN affiliates, was announced as a charter affiliate of MyNetworkTV. On September 5 of that year, WUXP changed its on-air branding to "My TV 30" and carried the last three weeks of UPN programming outside of prime time during the late night hours. WUXP may carry CW or Fox programming should WNAB or WZTV preempt in the event of a local special or an emergency such as a breaking news story. On September 15, 2014, WUXP went off the air due to technical problems with its transmission tower. No public relations statement or updates had been provided on its website or

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page. On September 18, the signal was restored only to remain broken up and intermittent that day. The signal was completely restored on September 20, 2014.

Subchannel history

WUXP-DT2

As a part of an affiliation agreement involving several Sinclair-owned stations, WUXP began carrying

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on March 23, 2006, However that relationship stopped temporarily (and eventually permanently) on January 1, 2007, in a dispute involving FCC requirements for digital subchannels, which resulted in Sinclair Broadcasting pulling The Tube from all of its stations, including WUXP. Three years later,

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was added on

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30.2 on September 18, 2010. However, it was dropped on August 31, 2012, as part of a groupwide removal of the network on all Sinclair Broadcasting stations. The station launched

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, a movie-oriented network owned by

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on their second digital subchannel on June 28, 2014, as part of a deal with Sinclair that would add 33 markets to the GetTV affiliate roster. The station replaced GetTV with

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in October 2022.

WUXP-DT3

WUXP-DT3 launched on October 27, 2015, with a testing stream of WUXP-DT2. At 4:00 a.m. CT on the morning of

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, 2015, it launched as a charter affiliate of

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Programming

General programming

WUXP clears the entire MyNetworkTV schedule, but since January 2019, the station has aired MyNetworkTV programming from 8 to 10 p.m., one hour later than most other affiliates in the Central Time Zone. Sometimes, the service's programming is delayed even further whenever the stations airs prime-time sports programming such as local high school games. , WUXP's syndicated programming on weekdays includes ''

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'', '' Maury'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. On weekends, the station's programming lineup includes ''The Texas Music Scene'', ''

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'', and '' Funny You Should Ask''. The station airs at least one movie each weekend in syndication. It also airs a few infomercials during the overnight hours. Because WZTV fills the programming schedules for both WUXP and WNAB, during severe weather, WZTV provides its on-screen severe weather ticker bug and crawl for the main channels of all three stations.

Sports programming

Local sports programming

On Friday nights, mainly during high school football season (late August–November), WUXP broadcasts its own coverage of

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games around middle Tennessee, under the banner ''Friday Night Rivals'' beginning the 2014 season. Since September 2014, ''Friday Night Rivals'' is also live streamed online. They were previously broadcast on Thursday nights under the name ''Thursday Night Lights'' until the end of the 2013 season. Halftime reports includes recaps of the first half, as well as a weather segment from

's weather team. Since 2013, the station also broadcasts TSSAA football title games as part of a 3-year agreement with Mann Communications and PlayOn! Sports. In addition, also during football season, WUXP and WZTV both air '' Titans All Access'', a 30-minute game preview show hosted by Titans Radio personality Mike Keith. In January 2015, high school basketball games began broadcasting on WUXP under the title, ''Friday Night Hoops''. In December 2017, WUXP gained rights to air select Belmont Bruins men's basketball games. In February 2018, WUXP-TV was named the local broadcaster of many soccer matches of the

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for at least the 2018 season, including all home games and select road games. In May 2020, Nashville SC announced that WUXP and sister stations

and WNAB will air locally televised games once the season resumes from the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Belmont Basketball and Nashville SC broadcasts on WUXP are produced in-house.

Other sports programming

WUXP has been the long-time home to

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(SEC) football and men's basketball games (including those involving the

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) from Jefferson-Pilot/ Lincoln Financial Sports/

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(previously broadcast by

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in the 1980s and 1990s) from 2002 until 2009,"jpsports.com".Archived from the original
January 14, 2006 via

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. Retrieved July 13, 2014. Editor’s note: Click on the Affiliates tab for the list of stations. and

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-oriented

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from 2009 to 2014. This ended in 2014 because of the inception of the pay TV-only

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. In 2014, WUXP began broadcasting Raycom Sports'

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(ACC) syndication package (branded as

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) after acquiring local rights from

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affiliate

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's second digital subchannel. This includes

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and men's basketball games syndicated through the service, especially those involving the

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, the closest ACC member institution to the area, which became a member in 2014. This ended after the 2018–19 college basketball season with the launch of ESPN's pay TV-only

in August 2019. On August 30, 2014, Sinclair Broadcast Group launched the

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, which has rights to

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football and men's basketball. WUXP began carrying that syndication package from ASN, including the ''Conference USA Showcase'', and sporting events involving the sports programs of the

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, beginning with the 2014 football and 2014–15 basketball season. In addition, the station also aired any

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(OVC) men's basketball games offered through ASN, since four of the OVC's member institutions are within WUXP's coverage area. Since the OVC's league office is based in the south Nashville suburb of Brentwood, WUXP was the unofficial

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of ASN's OVC programming package. OVC Football was added to ASN's portfolio on September 26, 2015, so WUXP broadcast those games also in that season. During the summer months, WUXP also airs certain installments of ASN's '' Minor League Baseball Sunday Showcase''. At some occasions, WZTV would air Raycom's ACC basketball whenever the times conflict with WUXP's broadcasts of

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boys' and girls' high school basketball championship games, which air in late February and early March. WUXP also broadcasts TSSAA high school football championship games that typically take place in November. On some occasions, WUXP-TV also broadcast some non-conference basketball games involving

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's men's basketball team. Since 2011, both WUXP and WZTV are the Nashville-area homes to ''

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'', another syndicated program by Sinclair Broadcasting.

Newscasts

In 1991, WXMT debuted the Nashville market's first prime time newscast at 9 p.m. (predating WZTV's 9 p.m. newscast by six years) through a news share agreement with

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affiliate WSMV-TV (channel 4). The hour-long weeknight newscast, which featured WSMV's anchors and reporting staff, lasted less than two years before it was cancelled and replaced with syndicated programming. After the cancellation of the WSMV-produced newscast in 1993, WUXP would never again air a newscast outside of a minute-long WZTV-produced weather update from 2000 on. On June 5, 2017, WUXP began rebroadcasting WZTV's 9 p.m. newscasts two hours after it begins, at 11 p.m. on weeknights. On March 5, 2018, WZTV began producing a 4 p.m. newscast for WUXP, which now competes with the 4 p.m. newscasts of the Big Three affiliates (WKRN, WSMV, and WTVF).

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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ATSC 3.0

Analog-to-digital conversion

WUXP-TV shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 30, 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. The deadline was moved to June 12, 2009, but WUXP decided to convert on the original deadline. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21.CDBS Print
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, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 30.

Out of market coverage

Bowling Green, Kentucky area

As WCAY-TV, the station was the first to be the default Fox affiliate on

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for the small

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media market from April 1987 until WZTV took the Fox affiliation for Nashville in 1990. From 1990 to 1992, and again from March 2001 to September 2006, WZTV had the title as Bowling Green's default Fox affiliate. ABC affiliate

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now serves as a subchannel-only Fox affiliate for the Bowling Green market today. From 1995 until 2006, WUXP-TV was the default UPN affiliate for Bowling Green throughout that network's eleven-year run, because UPN programming was never available from a local outlet in that area aside from Fox affiliate WKNT's (now NBC primary/

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subchannel-only affiliate

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) carriage of the ''

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'' block. WUXP was also the default MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Bowling Green market since MyNetworkTV launched in September 2006. The station was previously available on cable television in the Bowling Green area until at least 2010. WUXP has lost the title as Bowling Green's default MyNetworkTV affiliate in March 2014, when DTV America Corporation signed on WCZU-LD to serve as an

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affiliate, but also provide MyNetworkTV's prime time programming in its regular time table on weeknights. WUXP could still be easily picked up in some areas of the Bowling Green media market with an over-the-air antenna. The only Bowling Green-market cable system that WUXP remains available on is WesternCable, the on-campus cable system in classrooms and residence halls at

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.Where to Watch US , WKU PBS
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–licensed WDNZ-LD.

Other out-of-market availability

Only two other areas outside the Nashville market can receive WUXP over-the-air and/or cable. Portions of southernmost

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(in the

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market) can pick up the station with an outdoor antenna. In the

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market, WUXP can be picked up with an antenna in portions of

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, including Fayetteville.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wuxp-Tv MyNetworkTV affiliates Quest (American TV network) affiliates Comet (TV network) affiliates Sinclair Broadcast Group UXP-TV Television channels and stations established in 1984 ATSC 3.0 television stations