WCTZ-LD

The station’s construction permit was initially issued on December 8, 2009, under the calls of W35CT-D, when it was under the original ownership of Madison Avenue Ventures.[5] The current WCTZ-LD calls were assigned on May 29, 2013.[6] The station was sold to DTV America on August 20, 2013.[7]

WCTZ was one of several dozen DTV America stations that were purchased by HC2 Holdings (now Innovate Corp.) in October 2017.[8][9]

It was not until May 1, 2019, when WCTZ officially signed on. The station simulcast sister station WKUW-LD's seven digital subchannels until September 20, 2019, when WKUW became a sister translator station to WJFB, broadcasting its five subchannels.[10]

On February 21, 2020, WCTZ replaced Soul of the South Television with Three Angels Broadcasting Network on DT3, while they also replaced Jewelry Television with Infomercials on DT7. Three months later on May 18, 2020, DT3 and DT7 changed again, with WCTZ replacing 3ABN with a mixture of localized classic TV Shows (Which are mainly in Public Domain) and Infomercials on DT3; and the Infomercials which ran on DT7 were replaced with NBCUniversal-owned LX.

On July 21, 2020, WCTZ replaced the infomercials on DT5, with Cheddar, a financial news channel, as part of a groupwide station agreement with WCTZ's parent owner (HC2 Holdings), and the network itself.[11][12] The carriage agreement with WCTZ and Cheddar expired as of May 2020. At that point, Cheddar was replaced with the Spanish feed of beIN Sports. (beIN Sports Xtra en Español) [13]

It was announced on February 24, 2021, that Tegna Inc. would launch Twist, a network that specializes in factual lifestyle and reality television content aimed at females between the ages of 25 and 54. WCTZ would become one of the new affiliate stations to launch the network on April 5, replacing the localized programming on its third subchannel.[14][15][16][17]

• DTV America
• Facility details for Facility ID 182481 (WCTZ-LD) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WCTZ-LD REC Broadcast Query