WJZY
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| Belmont / Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Branding | WJZY CW 46 |
| Channels | 46 (UHF) analog, 47 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | Capitol Broadcasting Company |
| Founded | March 13, 1987 |
| Call letters meaning | WJZ (a station in Baltimore, Maryland)-Y |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1987-95), UPN (1995-2006) |
| Website | www.wjzy.com/ |
WJZY 'CW 46' is The CW affiliate in Charlotte. It is licensed to Belmont, a nearby suburb, with studios on Charlotte's western edge. The station is found on channel 8 on most area cable systems. Its transmitter is located in Dallas, North Carolina. WJZY is co-owned with MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYT-TV.
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[edit] History
It signed on March 13, 1987 as an independent station, the first new full-power station in the Charlotte area since WCTU-TV (now WCNC-TV) signed on in 1967. However, the station was originally licensed as WMHU in 1986, changing its calls to WJZY in November. Former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt was part of the group that owned the station. It ran a format of cartoons, westerns, old movies and drama shows. Less than a year later, Capitol Broadcasting, owners of WRAL-TV in Raleigh, bought the station. At that time classic sitcoms, more recent off-network sitcoms, and more recent movies were mixed in. When WFVT (channel 55, later WWWB and now WMYT) signed on, WJZY operated the station under a local marketing agreement until Capitol bought the station outright in 2001.
It became a charter UPN affiliate on January 16, 1995. Starting in the mid 1990's, the station added more talk and reality shows and moved away from classic sitcoms and movies. In 2003 the kids shows were dropped after UPN ended its Disney kids block. At one point, it was tied with WUPA, the UPN O&O in Atlanta, as the network's fifth-strongest station. It was the over-the-air home of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats until 2006 when WMYT gained the rights.
On March 1, 2006, Capitol Broadcasting officials confirmed that WJZY would affiliate with The CW Television Network in the fall. This made WJZY the first UPN affiliate not owned and operated outside The CW's core group of WB stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting and UPN stations owned by CBS Corporation to join the new network [1]. In addition, sister station WMYT affiliated with MyNetworkTV, which made Capitol Broadcasting the first company to own both a CW affiliate and a MyNetworkTV affiliate in the same market. While most experts believed WJZY would get the CW affiliation, it would not have been an upset had WMYT gained the affiliation instead. CW officials were on record as preferring the "strongest" WB and UPN affiliates, and Charlotte was one of the few markets where the UPN and WB affiliates were both relatively strong.
Originally, WJZY was to be rebranded as 'CW 8' once the CW affiliation took place, which would have reflected its cable channel. [2]. However, it later scrapped these plans and now brands itself as 'CW 46.'
[edit] Newscasts
WJZY airs a nightly 10 PM newscast produced by WBTV.
[edit] Logos
 WJZY's original logo, used from 1987 to late 1995 |
 WJZY 'UPN 46' logo used from 1995 to 2002. This logo was still seen at the entrance to WJZY's studios for some time after 2002. |
 WJZY 'UPN 46' logo used from 2002 to August 2006 |
 WJZY 'CW 46' current logo |
[edit] External links
| Broadcast television in the Charlotte market (Nielsen DMA #26) | ||
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WBTV 3 (CBS) - WSOC 9 (ABC) - WHKY 14 (Ind) - W16CF 16 / W38CN 38 / W66ST 66 (TBN) - WUNE 17 / WUNG 58 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WCCB 18 (Fox) - WLNN-LP 24 / WTBL-LP 49 (A1) - WGTB-LP 28 (FN) - WNSC 30 (PBS/SCETV) - WCNC 36 (NBC) - WTVI 42 (PBS) - WJZY 46 (The CW) - WMYT 55 (MNTV) - WAXN 64 (Ind) |
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News 14 Carolina - C-SET (defunct) |
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| See also Broadcast television in Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, Columbia and Piedmont Triad | ||
