WUXP-TV
Encyclopedia
WUXP, channel 30 is the MyNetworkTV
affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee
. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
, and is a sister station to Fox
affiliate WZTV
channel 17 and the CW affiliate WNAB
channel 58. It is currently branded as My 30. Its transmitter is located in Whites Creek, Tennessee
. Syndicated programming on WUXP includes: Entertainment Tonight
, Jeopardy!
, Judge Judy
, and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
.
, which had signed on a few other stations in other markets. The station had a general entertainment format with cartoons, sitcoms, movies, and dramas.
Along with the other TVX stations, WCAY became a Fox
affiliate at the network's 1986 inception as part of a group deal. Fox affiliated with all of TVX's stations as a condition of affiliating with WNOL-TV
in New Orleans. However, there was a catch: if one of TVX's underperforming stations were sold, it could lose its Fox affiliation.
In 1987, TVX acquired Taft Broadcasting
's non-Big Three stations. Unfortunately, the deal left TVX heavily leveraged. After the 1987 stock market "bump", the larger investors started pulling their funding. One large investor used his voting shares and influence to force TVX to sell some of its underperforming medium-market stations. WCAY and sister station WMKW in Memphis
(now WLMT
) were sold to MT Communications, which was headed by -- and named after -- Michael Thompson. WCAY then changed its call letters to WXMT.
In 1990, WZTV's owner, Act III Broadcasting
-- who was known for buying its competitors' stronger programming assets and having the competitor change formats to religion or shopping or go dark altogether in one case -- offered to buy WXMT's entire syndicated programming inventory and move most shows onto WZTV mixing with shows WZTV had. Fox also was planning to exercise their option of moving affiliation to WZTV as well. Originally, WXMT was to switch to home shopping 18 hours a day and religion 6 hours, but MT Communications still wanted some of the programming and to keep some entertainment on the schedule. The deal was called off early in February. But in the middle of the month when Fox moved over, negotiations resumed and immediately it was decided that WZTV would get only cash programming (sitcoms, movies, some of the cartoons), while WXMT would keep barter cartoons, a few barter sitcoms plus some religious shows.
The deal took effect in February. WXMT's schedule now looked like this: cartoons from 7-9 AM, religion 9 AM-noon, home shopping noon to 4 PM, low rated barter syndicated shows from 4 to 9 PM and home shopping after 9 PM. In 1991, WXMT provided Nashville its first-ever 9PM newscast in a deal with WSMV
, Nashville's NBC
affiliate. The hour-long weeknight newscast, which featured WSMV's anchors and reporters, lasted less than two years before being replaced with syndicated programming.
Gradually, more first run talk shows, sitcoms and cartoons were added. By 1994, WXMT was once again running general entertainment full time. On January 16, 1995, the station became an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), and branded itself UPN 30. By then, WZTV was owned by Abry, and later that year, WZTV entered into a local marketing agreement
with WXMT. MT Communications sold the station to a local owner, but WZTV would program the station. The call letters changed to the current WUXP on August 23, 1996 and would rebrand itself UXP30 and UPN Nashville before going back to UPN 30 in 2002.
The LMA continued after Sinclair acquired Abry. As time went on, cartoons disappeared gradually and more first run reality and talk shows would be added. In 2000, Sinclair bought WUXP outright.
In February 2006, WUXP, along with most of Sinclair's WB and UPN affiliates, was announced as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. On September 5 of that year, WUXP rebranded as My 30 and moved the last three weeks of UPN programming to late nights. 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.
Before the LMA with WZTV began, WXMT had planned to build a state-of-the-art studio facility along the "south loop" of Interstate 40
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".
, digital television receivers display WUXP-TV's virtual channel
as 30. As a part of a deal involving several Sinclair Broadcast Group
owned stations, WUXP added a subchannel for theCoolTV
on RF channel 21.2 (virtual channel 30.2) as of September 18, 2010, while WUXP still uses MyNetworkTV
programming on RF channel 21.1 (virtual channel 30.1).
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
, and is a sister station to Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
affiliate WZTV
WZTV
WZTV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Nashville, Tennessee. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter on Knob Road north of downtown along I-24...
channel 17 and the CW affiliate WNAB
WNAB
WNAB, virtual channel 58 is the CW-affiliated television station in Nashville, Tennessee. It is owned by Tennessee Broadcasting, although operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group under an outsourcing agreement. It currently serves as a sister station to WZTV and WUXP-TV. It is currently branded as...
channel 58. It is currently branded as My 30. Its transmitter is located in Whites Creek, Tennessee
Whites Creek, Tennessee
Whites Creek, Tennessee is a community located in the northern part of Davidson County, Tennessee. The community is named for the creek of the same name running north-south along U.S. Route 431...
. Syndicated programming on WUXP includes: Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
, Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
, and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (U.S. game show)
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is an American quiz game show on Fox. It is produced by Mark Burnett and is hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. The show premiered as a three-day special which began on February 27, 2007 with the first two shows each a half-hour in length...
.
History
The station signed on the air on February 18, 1984 as WCAY-TV, owned by the TVX Broadcast GroupTVX Broadcast Group
The TVX Broadcast Group was an American media company that owned a group of UHF television stations during the 1980s. Originally known as the Television Corporation, the company was headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, and was founded by a group of Norfolk-area businessmen led by Timothy McDonald...
, which had signed on a few other stations in other markets. The station had a general entertainment format with cartoons, sitcoms, movies, and dramas.
Along with the other TVX stations, WCAY became a Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
affiliate at the network's 1986 inception as part of a group deal. Fox affiliated with all of TVX's stations as a condition of affiliating with WNOL-TV
WNOL-TV
WNOL-TV, virtual channel 38, is the CW-affiliated television station in New Orleans, Louisiana. It broadcasts on UHF digital channel 15. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, in a duopoly with ABC affiliate WGNO.-Digital television:...
in New Orleans. However, there was a catch: if one of TVX's underperforming stations were sold, it could lose its Fox affiliation.
In 1987, TVX acquired Taft Broadcasting
Taft Broadcasting
The Taft Broadcasting Company, also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated, was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio....
's non-Big Three stations. Unfortunately, the deal left TVX heavily leveraged. After the 1987 stock market "bump", the larger investors started pulling their funding. One large investor used his voting shares and influence to force TVX to sell some of its underperforming medium-market stations. WCAY and sister station WMKW in Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
(now WLMT
WLMT
WLMT is the CW-affiliated television station for Western Tennessee licensed to Memphis. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 31 from a transmitter in Arlington's Brunswick section. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel...
) were sold to MT Communications, which was headed by -- and named after -- Michael Thompson. WCAY then changed its call letters to WXMT.
In 1990, WZTV's owner, Act III Broadcasting
Act III Broadcasting
Act III Broadcasting was a company that owned several television stations that started as independents, and later became Fox affiliates. The stations were located in medium-sized markets, and the company existed from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, eventually to be sold to Abry in 1994...
-- who was known for buying its competitors' stronger programming assets and having the competitor change formats to religion or shopping or go dark altogether in one case -- offered to buy WXMT's entire syndicated programming inventory and move most shows onto WZTV mixing with shows WZTV had. Fox also was planning to exercise their option of moving affiliation to WZTV as well. Originally, WXMT was to switch to home shopping 18 hours a day and religion 6 hours, but MT Communications still wanted some of the programming and to keep some entertainment on the schedule. The deal was called off early in February. But in the middle of the month when Fox moved over, negotiations resumed and immediately it was decided that WZTV would get only cash programming (sitcoms, movies, some of the cartoons), while WXMT would keep barter cartoons, a few barter sitcoms plus some religious shows.
The deal took effect in February. WXMT's schedule now looked like this: cartoons from 7-9 AM, religion 9 AM-noon, home shopping noon to 4 PM, low rated barter syndicated shows from 4 to 9 PM and home shopping after 9 PM. In 1991, WXMT provided Nashville its first-ever 9PM newscast in a deal with WSMV
WSMV-TV
WSMV-TV, virtual channel 4, is the NBC-affiliated television station serving the Nashville, Tennessee area. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 10. Owned by Meredith Corporation, its transmitter and tower are located adjacent to its studios on Knob Road in west Nashville, south of...
, Nashville's NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate. The hour-long weeknight newscast, which featured WSMV's anchors and reporters, lasted less than two years before being replaced with syndicated programming.
Gradually, more first run talk shows, sitcoms and cartoons were added. By 1994, WXMT was once again running general entertainment full time. On January 16, 1995, the station became an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), and branded itself UPN 30. By then, WZTV was owned by Abry, and later that year, WZTV entered into a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
with WXMT. MT Communications sold the station to a local owner, but WZTV would program the station. The call letters changed to the current WUXP on August 23, 1996 and would rebrand itself UXP30 and UPN Nashville before going back to UPN 30 in 2002.
The LMA continued after Sinclair acquired Abry. As time went on, cartoons disappeared gradually and more first run reality and talk shows would be added. In 2000, Sinclair bought WUXP outright.
In February 2006, WUXP, along with most of Sinclair's WB and UPN affiliates, was announced as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. On September 5 of that year, WUXP rebranded as My 30 and moved the last three weeks of UPN programming to late nights. WUXP may carry CW or Fox programming should WNAB
WNAB
WNAB, virtual channel 58 is the CW-affiliated television station in Nashville, Tennessee. It is owned by Tennessee Broadcasting, although operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group under an outsourcing agreement. It currently serves as a sister station to WZTV and WUXP-TV. It is currently branded as...
or WZTV preempt in the event of a local special or an emergency such as a breaking news story.
Before the LMA with WZTV began, WXMT had planned to build a state-of-the-art studio facility along the "south loop" of Interstate 40
Interstate 40
Interstate 40 is the third-longest major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90 and I-80. Its western end is at Interstate 15 in Barstow, California; its eastern end is at a concurrency of U.S. Route 117 and North Carolina Highway 132 in Wilmington, North Carolina...
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".
Digital television
| Channel | Video Display resolution The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection... |
Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main WUXP-TV programming / MyNetworkTV |
| 30.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | TheCoolTV TheCoolTV THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the... |
Post-analog shutdown
WUXP-TV discontinued regular analog programming in 2009. The station remained on its pre-transition channel 21. However, through the use of PSIPProgram and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
, digital television receivers display WUXP-TV's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
as 30. As a part of a deal involving several Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
owned stations, WUXP added a subchannel for theCoolTV
TheCoolTV
THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the...
on RF channel 21.2 (virtual channel 30.2) as of September 18, 2010, while WUXP still uses MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
programming on RF channel 21.1 (virtual channel 30.1).