Branding WZCK 8 Madison Affiliations Cozi TV | Subchannels (see article) | |
Channels Digital: 36 (UHF)
Virtual: 8 (PSIP) Owner DTV America
(DTV America Corporation) Call letters' meaning Disambiguation of former W08CK callsign with closest equivalent available letter Z in place of 8 | ||
WZCK-LD is a low-power digital television station in the Madison, Wisconsin area, and officially twin-licensed to both Madison and Middleton. The station is owned and operated by DTV America.
WZCK was originally known as W08CK, and broadcast a low-power analog television signal on channel 8. The station was owned by the Science of Identity Foundation, a new religious movement with Hindu roots, and broadcast music, some religious programming, and a station ID from a transmitter atop the Tenney Building near the Wisconsin State Capitol and a signal only strong enough to cover the central Madison Isthmus and the UW campus. Though it was off the air for most of the 2010s, W08CK was for a time the only station in Madison to broadcast on the VHF band (WISC-TV left analog channel 3 for digital channel 50 in the 2009 digital TV transition; WMSN-TV would relocate its physical digital signal from 11 to 49 earlier in the 2010s).
By 2016, W08CK would be acquired by DTV America, an owner/operator of LPTV stations throughout the U.S. With the silent station rechristened WZCK-LD, DTV America proceed to construct a digital signal on physical channel 36. On November 16, 2016, WZCK began digital broadcasting.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed: