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WCTZ-LD is an upcoming low-powered television station that is licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and expected to serve the South-central region of Kentucky. The station is currently silent, but it is expected to sign on in the near future (probably in 2015). When it does, it will operate on digital UHF channel 35. The station is owned by Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America Corporation, which will make it the sister station of Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WCZU-LD.

History
The construction permit for the station, dates back to December 2009 as W35CT-D. The current WCTZ-LD call letters came to the station on May 29, 2013. Madison Avenue Ventures was the original owner of the construction permit until DTV America purchased WCTZ-LD in 2013. Even though a license was issued for this station, it is still unclear whether or not this station will sign on the air, or the exact date of the station’s launch.

DTV America Corporation already signed on WCZU-LD to serve as a MyNetworkTV and Antenna TV affiliate in the first quarter of 2014. DTV America is still yet to launch WCTZ, as well as WKUT-LD, which is owned by Budd Broadcasting, but will be operated by DTV America through an outsourcing agreement.

If DTV America still owns this station when and if WCTZ signs on, it will probably sign on with any of the other networks DTV America has been offering in other markets, like either the Soul of the South Network, Telemundo, MundoFox, or Estrella TV, or if it would succeed WCZU’s second subchannel as a Dr. TV affiliate. Additionally, if WCTZ affiliates with either MundoFox, Telemundo or Estrella TV, then WCTZ will become Bowling Green’s first ever Spanish-language television station, and will probably be the first ever Spanish-language station in the entire state of Kentucky.

A license to cover construction was granted on January 23, 2015.

Transmitter site
Upon its launch, WCTZ-LD will be transmitting from a former AT&T Long line microwave tower located near the intersection of Kentucky Route 70 and Grassland-Blackgold Road just northwest of Brownsville, in Edmonson County.