WZLO-DT

### Affiliations

Independent (September 1, 1994-August 31, 1999; September 11, 2006-February 6, 2015;May 1, 2017-December 31, 2019; January 1-February 6, 2021; Janaury 1, 2024-)

### Owners

JeltCorp Broadcasting
(Jeltus Miami License, Inc.)

### Former affiliations

1.RTN (November 21st, 1983 - September 1st, 1994)
2.Cari TV (August 31, 1999 - September 11, 2006)
3.The Jeltus Network (February 6, 2015-May 1, 2017; February 6, 2021-January 1, 2024)

**WZLO-DT**, virtual digital channel 12 and VHF channel 8, is a independent television station licensed to Miami, Florida, United States. The station is owned by JeltCorp Broadcasting (a Subsidiary of JeltCorp). WZLO-DT's studios are located on Northwest 75th Street in Miami's Medley neighborhood and its transmitter is located in Miami Gardens, Florida, and shares with WPLG-TV.

## Subchannels

WZLO-TV (now WZLO-DT) ceased broadcasting programming over its analog signal, over UHF channel 12 on February 17, 2009, the original target date for full-power television stations in the United States to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate, WZLO, WJLO-TV and WPXM were the only Miami stations to carry out the switch in February instead of waiting for the new June 12 date.

## History

WZLO-DT first went on the air as WZLO-TV in November 21st, 1983 by Learning Media. as a RTN Station

Later in May 1st 1993 after Learning Media sold the Stations to Blox Media, WZLO became a independent station which is a sister station of RTN-affiliated station WJLO-TV.

In February 1, 1994, Blox Media and RTN Corporation announce to switch affiliations after RTN's purchase of WCRI-TV. On September 1st. WZLO became an independent station while WCRI became a RTN affiliate (callsign changed to WXPD-TV). Meanwhile, WJLO became a Cari TV affiliate.

In August, 1997. Blox Media announce it would switch affiliations for both Independent and Cari TV stations. On August 31st, 1999. WZLO became a Cari TV affiliate while WJLO became independent.

On January 9, 2006. Blox Media announced an agreement with Jellofan99, Inc. to launch The Jello Network, featuring programming library from Jellofan99, Inc. WJLO has selected to broadcast TJN, Meanwhile WZLO would return to be independent. On September 11, 2006. WJLO exited the Independent station and joined TJN while WZLO returned to its independent station roots.

in 2014, Blox Media announced to replace TJN on it's WJLO station with it's affiliation of ASN. WZLO would return to its affiliation roots and become an affiliation of The Jello Network. On February 6, 2015. WZLO began affiliating TJN and changed it's callsign to WJLT. while WJLO was renamed to WARX.

in 2016, Blox Media and Jeltus Enterprises announced that its agreement would expire on May 1, and WJLT would return to its independent affiliation replacing TJN (which ceased operations on the same day). On May 1, 2017. WJLT return to its indepentent station replacing TJN. On June 1, Blox Media was sold by Lockfield Corporation to Jeltus Enterprises. It was sold again in March 1, 2018 to SionCorp due to its purchase of Jeltus Enterprises. and it was originally planned to replace its Independent programming with its conservative-focused news network "SionX". However, on November 22, Jeltus announced on its Scratch News FM's Thanksgiving Reunion special that it would established JeltCorp on December 31. On that day, JeltCorp purchased Blox Media from SionCorp along with its archive of Jeltus-produced programming from Circuit Archival Television Distribution. and on March 1, 2019. JeltCorp acquired the entire library of Jeltus Enterprises programming from SionCorp and finalized on the 5th.

on March 31, 2019. ASN was discontinued along with it's O&Os. WARX has been rebranded to its Spanish-Independent affiliation. resulting WJLT began carrying its news programming from WARX.

on December 1, 2019. WJLT began carrying its TWiT's programming on Saturday mornings with an agreement with TWiT and later became an affiliate on New Years Eve.

on September 24, 2020. The E.W Scripps Company announce its acquisition of Ion Media with Berkshire Hathaway. Ion Media announce its Qubo Venture LLC subsidary would provide programming for JeltCorp Broadcasting's upcoming relaunch of TJN. On February 6, 2021. The Jeltus Network was relaunched with a temporary kids block until March 1. which its block was relaunched as TJN Jr and TJN Toons. WJLT became a affiliation of it during its launch.

on March 1, 2023. JeltCorp purchased SionCorp for $10 billion USD, This causes SionCorp's O&O stations to transfer over to JeltCorp Broadcasting. To make room for more affiliation carriage, It was announce that WARX would return to its TJN affiliation along with its old callsign and will move its Spanish-independent programming to WZNU, This results WJLT returned to independent after 3 years of affiliation as of January 1, 2024.

In December 4th, along with WPLG, and WSVN, WARX would begin broadcasting in NextGenTV. WJLT would continue their programming via its ATSC 1.0 signal. In addition before WJLT exiting its TJN affiliation. The station will moved it's local blocks previously broadcast on WARX back to their station on the same day as the upgrade.