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| City | Huntsville, Alabama |
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| Branding | Fox 54; My8 (DT2) |
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First air date | April 14, 1985 |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 28119 |
| ERP | 522 kW |
| HAAT | 525.3 m (1,723 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°44′12.8″N 86°31′58.9″W / 34.736889°N 86.533028°W |
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| Website | www |
WZDX (channel 54) is a television station in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on North Memorial Parkway (US 72/231/431) in Huntsville, and its transmitter is located on Monte Sano Mountain.
WZDX began broadcasting in April 1985 as the first independent station for the Huntsville area; it became a Fox affiliate in November 1987. Its original owner, Media Central, filed for bankruptcy that year and eventually sold the station in 1990 to a consortium of Citicorp and Milton Grant, marking the latter's return to TV station ownership after a prior bankruptcy. The station started a cable channel that served as the local affiliate of The WB—predecessor to its MyNetworkTV subchannel—in 2001. A local newscast, produced at first out-of-state and then by local ABC affiliate WAAY-TV, began to air in 2008.
The Grant stations were acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group in 2013; Nexstar brought local news production in-house by establishing its own newsroom in 2016, and it formed a duopoly in the market by acquiring The CW affiliate WHDF two years later. When Nexstar acquired Tribune Media, owner of Huntsville CBS affiliate WHNT-TV, in 2019, it retained that station and WHDF and spun out WZDX along with other stations to Tegna.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WZDX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.