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WZDX is the Fox-affiliated television station for North Alabama's Tennessee Valley. Licensed to Huntsville, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 (or virtual channel 54.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Monte Sano Boulevard Southeast in Madison County (in Huntsville). Owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, WZDX is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate "WAMY-TV" and the two share studios on North Memorial Parkway/US 72/US 231/US 431 in Huntsville. ==History== WZDX first signed on April 14, 1984 as Northern Alabama's first independent station and the area's first new outlet to launch in nearly twenty years. The station originally broadcast in analog on channel 54. The inaugural program shown was an airing of the 1968 film ''Charly''. The station's transmitter was on Green Mountain in Southeastern Huntsville while its studios were in the northwestern section of the city. During the first months after its beginning, WZDX used the slogan "We're Taking You to the Top!" and ran full page ads in ''The Huntsville Times'' with this tagline and with still pictures of old movies and syndicated TV shows that the station planned to air. When Fox began broadcasting on October 6, 1986, WZDX abstained from affiliating with the network unlike many other independent TV stations across the country. However, the station did occasionally air Fox special broadcasts such as the Emmy Awards. Eventually in 1990 it became a full-time affiliate of the network. Also that year on March 29, WZDX became the first property owned by a new broadcasting group founded by Milton Grant. In 2002, it launched the second digital signal of the market on UHF channel 41. A simulcast of cable-only WB affiliate "WAWB-TV" was then added to a second digital subchannel of WZDX. That offered non-cable viewers access to WB programming for the first time. In September 2003, the broadcast tower shared by WZDX and ABC affiliate WAAY-TV collapsed killing three men. Until it could be replaced, WZDX and WAAY temporarily aired from the nearby tower of CBS affiliate WHNT-TV. On November 6, 2013, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would purchase the Grant stations, including WZDX, for $87.5 million. The sale was completed on December 1, 2014.〔(Consummation Notice ),''CDBS Public Access'' Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 3 December 2014.〕 The station's WAMY .2 subchannel was an initial affiliate of the American Sports Network with its first broadcast on August 30, 2014. WZDX is Nexstar's second station in Alabama, after Dothan's ABC affiliate, WDHN. 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「WZDX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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