| ATSC 3.0 station | |
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| Branding | Z-TV |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Ownership | |
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| WVLA-TV,WGMB-TV,WBRL-CD | |
| History | |
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Call sign meaning | UPN (former affiliation) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 24975 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 10kW |
| HAAT | 212.8 m (698 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°19′34.6″N91°16′36.1″W / 30.326278°N 91.276694°W /30.326278; -91.276694 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KZUP-CD (channel 20) is alow-power,Class Aindependent television station inBaton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is owned byNexstar Media Group alongsideFox affiliateWGMB-TV (channel 44) andCWowned-and-operated stationWBRL-CD (channel 21); Nexstar also provides certain services toNBC affiliateWVLA-TV (channel 33) underjoint sales andshared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner White Knight Broadcasting. The four stations share studios on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge; KZUP-CD's transmitter is located nearAddis, Louisiana.
While KZUP-CD is the station's officialcall sign, it uses "KZUP-TV" for promotional purposes.
The station signed on the air in 1999 as a WZUP,[2] aUPN affiliate available only oncable (TCI and laterCox channel 13). It was the second UPN affiliate (of three) in the Baton Rouge area. When the station went over the air on November 26, 2002, it changed its call sign to KZUP-CA; originally it was going to air on channel 21 andWB affiliateWBRL-CA was on channel 19, but this assignment was short-lived.[3] Channel 19 was once used as a translator station for local station and original UPN affiliateWBTR, and when KZUP went on the air, WBTR moved to previously-unused channel 41.[4] It became an independent station after losing UPN toRaycom Media'sWBXH-CA in 2003. As an independent, it called itself "Z-19," and it primarily airedAfrican-American-oriented programming likeGood Times,The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, andThe Jeffersons. For brief periods in 2005, KZUP was used to simulcast WVLA and WGMB over analog as their individual transmitter towers were turned off to allow upgrades for theirdigital television channels.[5] KZUP became an affiliate of theRetro Television Network on September 15, 2008.[citation needed] In 2012, White Knight Broadcasting dropped RTN and resumed carrying syndicated programming.
On April 24, 2013,Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its entire group toNexstar Broadcasting Group. WVLA and KZUP were to be sold toMission Broadcasting, but on August 13, 2014, Mission withdrew its application.[6] The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.[7] Nexstar would continue to operate WVLA and KZUP under ashared services agreement, with sister stations WGMB and WBRL.[8]
KZUP was the official station of theSouthern University athletic department.
On January 4, 2016, Nexstar agreed to exercise its option to purchase KZUP-CD. Nexstar also decided to enter KZUP-CD into the FCC's broadcast incentive auction, but the station's spectrum was never sold.[9] The sale was approved by the FCC on February 19[10] and completed on March 17.[11]
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 20.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KZUP-CD | Independent |
| Channel | Short name | Programming |
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| 20.1 | KZUP-TV | Independent |
| 21.1 | WBRL-CW | The CW (WBRL-CD) |
| 33.1 | WVLA-TV | NBC (WVLA-TV) |
| 44.1 | WGMB-TV | Fox (WGMB-TV) |
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