WPTZ

WPTZ  is an upcoming television station that is licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey, USA. The station is currently owned by CBS Corporation. Upon inception, the station will broadcast on digital UHF channel 30.

The station’s construction permit was won in an FCC auction by CBS Corporation in August 2016. CBS is intending to bring the channel on the air as a semi-satellite of their Philadelphia-licensed owned-and-operated station KYW-TV (channel 3). CBS is also expected to simulcast their co-owned digital multicast network Decades on one subchannel, and KYW sister station WPSG (channel 57, branded as The CW Philly) on another. According to CBS Corporation President Les Moonves, WPTZ is scheduled to begin broadcasting in early 2017. CBS adopted the WPTZ calls in honor of its parent station's history; that station used the WPTZ call letters until 1956, when CBS Corporation predecessors Westinghouse Broadcasting traded the station to NBC amidst controversy (Westinghouse would later regain the station when the FCC ordered the swap reversed 9 years later).