WZDX
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| WZDX | |
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| Huntsville/Decatur | |
| Branding | FOX54 |
| Channels | 54 (UHF) analog, 41 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | FOX MyNetworkTV (digital) |
| Owner | Grant Broadcasting System II |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Former affiliations | independent (1985-90) |
| Website | www.fox54.com |
WZDX TV, FOX 54, the FOX television affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, is owned by Grant Broadcasting. WZDX-TV also broadcasts MyNetworkTV programming on its secondary digital subchannel 54.2 / 41.2, branded with the fictitious call letters WAMY-TV. Studios are located on North Memorial Parkway (U.S. Highway 231/431), with transmitter and tower on Monte Sano Mountain. Originally, the station's tower and transmitter were located on Green Mountain in southeast Huntsville; studios were located in northwest Huntsville. It now shares a tower with WAAY.
The station began broadcasting on April 20, 1985. Its first program was a broadcast of the 1968 film Charly. During the first months after going on-air, the station's used the slogan "We're Taking You to the Top!" In the beginning, WZDX was northern Alabama's first independent TV station, and the first new station in nearly 20 years. When the new FOX network began in 1987, WZDX abstained from affliating, unlike many independents. However, the station did air occasional FOX broadcasts such as the Emmy Awards. Eventually, in 1990, WZDX became a full-fledged affiliate of FOX.
WZDX is one of a handful of FOX affiliates to not feature a local newscast; its only attempt at local news occurred during the station's early months in 1985, when brief, five-minute updates aired during prime time.
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The Huntsville-Decatur television market is only one of two in the Southeastern U.S. to have only UHF channel allocations; Lexington, Ky. is the only other. No full-power VHF stations exist at all in the state of Alabama north of Birmingham; thus, none of the North Alabama-based channels have ever suffered a disadvantage from competing against established VHF stations in the same area, a problem that particularly affected UHF broadcasters elsewhere, well into the early 1980s.
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| Broadcast television in the Huntsville / Decatur market (Nielsen DMA #84) | ||
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WBCF 3 (A1) - WXFL 5 (Ind) - WTZT 11 (A1) - WHDF 15 (The CW) - W18BL 18 (Ind) - WHNT 19 (CBS) - WHIQ 25 / WFIQ 36 (PBS/APT) - WYLE 26 (S@H) - WAAY 31 (ABC) - WMJN 43 (FamilyNet) - W46CF 46 / W59CF 59 (UBN) - WAFF 48 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WZDX 54 (FOX) (MNTV on DT2 "WAMY") - WYAM 56 (Ind) - W64BJ 64 (TBN) |
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| Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location |
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WBRC 6 (Birmingham) - WALA 10 (Mobile) - WCOV 20 (Montgomery) - WDFX 34 (Ozark) - WZDX 54 (Huntsville) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Alabama | |
