[5] Upon signing on, WCZU became the first station in the Bowling Green market to provide programming from a digital multicast specialty network, since the station began with a primary Antenna TV affiliation, with upstart healthy-lifestyle specialty network Doctor TV Channel (DrTV) being carried on WCZU's second subchannel.
[9] Like most of Nashville's other full-power UHF digital stations, WUXP could still be received in parts of the Bowling Green market using an outdoor antenna.
In December 2014, Glasgow, Kentucky-based South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative and DTV America Corporation reached an agreement for the SCRTC to carry both of WCZU's digital subchannels, making WCZU available to the SCRTC's customers in the Bowling Green market only, including Barren, Metcalfe, and Hart counties.
[11][12] This made the SCRTC the first cable provider in the Bowling Green market to reach such an agreement, and to carry either of WCZU's subchannels of the time.
Later on in the same month, the Glasgow Electric Plant Board also reached an agreement with DTV America to carry both of WCZU's subchannels.
WCZU-LD2's switch to Buzzr was also the first affiliation change in the Bowling Green market since WNKY's switchover from Fox to NBC in March 2001.
On January 27, 2016, the station launched a third subchannel as an affiliate of Bounce TV, a multicast network that is specifically geared towards the African American population.
Antenna TV returned the following Sunday morning, May 29, in time for that network's marathon of racing-inspired movies that commemorated the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500.
There was some speculation that WCZU would launch two additional subchannels, WCZU-LD4 and WCZU-LD5, which would have served as affiliates of Katz Broadcasting-operated gender networks Grit and Escape, respectively, at some point in late 2016 or early 2017.
Since December 2017, as a solution to that problem, WCZU-LD began simulcasting its MyNetworkTV programming schedule with the DT2 subchannel of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware–based NBC affiliate WRDE-LD from 7 to 9 p.m. Central time, and also airs its local commercials.
WCZU was one of several dozen DTV America stations that were purchased by HC2 Holdings (now part of Innovate Corp.) in October 2017.
[23][24] In May 2019, WCZU, along with the parent company's other MyNetworkTV affiliates, began to simulcast the service's prime time schedule with KWWE-LD in Lake Charles, Louisiana, including the latter station's commercials.
The market would be once again without a local MyNetworkTV affiliation until the October 18, 2019, sign-on of the Glasgow-licensed WDNZ-LD, which would hold both the MyNetworkTV and Antenna TV affiliations, complete with the full-time Antenna TV schedule finally being available to the Bowling Green area through a separate subchannel,[25] for almost five years until that station dropped those networks in 2024.
Throughout its history, WCZU was known to be forced off the air for prolonged periods of time due to either a severe storm or any occasional power outages at the transmitter.
As a result, the station filed for Silent Special Temporary Authority for allowance of time to repair the transmitter.
Reception of WUXP was still necessary to view MyNetworkTV's programming in high-definition, because WCZU's entire broadcasting schedule was aired in standard definition to accommodate the Antenna TV network feed's picture format.
At some point in early 2015, Raycom Sports and DTV America reached an agreement to bring ACC football and men's basketball to WCZU.
Prior to the 2015–16 season, since none of the Bowling Green area's local stations carried ACC Network programming, ACC fans in the area had to rely on either Nashville's WUXP or Louisville's NBC affiliate WAVE-TV, or ESPN's out-of-market sports packages and/or the ESPN3 online-streaming service to access those broadcasts.
Due to its low-powered status, and with its 15,000 watts of effective radiated power, WCZU's signal can only cover a 40-mile (64 km) radius around the transmitter.
It covers most of the Bowling Green market, which comprises Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, and Warren counties.