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WNTZ-TV is the Fox affiliate television station for the Alexandria, Louisiana Designated Market Area (DMA). It is licensed to Natchez, Mississippi, which is in actuality part of the Jackson, Mississippi DMA. The station also has a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group. WNTZ's base of operation is located on Parliament Drive in Alexandria, and its main transmitter is located in Frogmore, Louisiana, with two translator transmitters in Alexandria and Leesville, Louisiana. WNTZ's master control operation was co-located in Lafayette, Louisiana with sister station operations of KADN-TV and KLAF-LD from 1991 until July 2015, when it was moved to the Baton Rouge, Louisiana sister operations of WVLA-TV, WGMB-TV, WBRL-CD and KZUP-CD. WNTZ broadcasts a digital signal on channel 49.1 (Frogmore), 47.1 (Alexandria), and 51.1 (Leesville), but retranslates to channel 48.1, via PSIP. == Unique station characteristics == WNTZ's broadcasting is a loosely defined "network" of one main transmitter and two translator transmitters that serve residents in three television markets – Alexandria (the DMA that gets officially rated by Nielsen Media Research); the southernmost portion of the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas market (where the station's main transmitter tower is located); and the westernmost portion of the Jackson market (the location of Natchez, the station's Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s city of license). WNTZ manages its operation from rented office space on Parliament Drive in Alexandria. Delta Media Corporation, owners of WNTZ at the time, moved administrative, sales and marketing operations in 1991 to Pineville, Louisiana, in order to have its main base of operation within the footprint of the Alexandria DMA. Later in 1996, Delta Media purchased office space and moved operations to Jackson Street in Alexandria's Garden District, with the intent to move the station's broadcast capability from its sister station, KADN in Lafayette, to the newly purchased building. Even as administrative, sales, and marketing moved to Alexandria, broadcasting WNTZ's signal from the building never materialized, as Delta Media sold the station's operation in 1997 to White Knight Broadcasting (transferred ten years later to parent company Communications Corporation of America). In an unusual situation, the office space in Alexandria remained in control of Delta Media. White Knight paid monthly rent to Delta Media to remain in the building until 2007, when the WNTZ operation moved a third time to rented space along Parliament Drive in the Noles-Frye building, a local real estate agency. WNTZ was launched in 1985 from its original studios located at 26 Colonel John Pitchford Parkway in Natchez, Mississippi, by the Perkins family of Natchez, the station's first owner. Since Natchez is the official FCC city of license, Delta Media maintained a satellite office within the studios in Natchez, even though the station began shifting its focus to the Alexandria market in 1991, and removed or sold all non-essential broadcasting equipment from the studio. Similar to the operations occurring in Alexandria, Delta Media, then later White Knight and Communications Corporation of America, paid monthly rent for use of the original studio to the building's owners. The Natchez location was used for WNTZ sales operations until 2011, then held the station's special projects and social media staff until the station was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting Group. Nexstar management officially closed the Natchez studio on May 27, 2015, with no formal announcement made of its closure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WNTZ-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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