Carolinas' Own Queen City News, WJZY-TV
Brian Christiansen is an experienced photojournalist currently working at Carolinas' Own Queen City News, WJXY-TV since August 2014. Prior to this role, Brian served as a volunteer photographer for Make-A-Wish® Central and Western North Carolina from August 2013 to 2014. Brian has extensive military experience as a photojournalist with the North Carolina National Guard from December 2003 to July 2013 and as an Air Force photojournalist with the North Carolina Air National Guard from January 2000 to July 2013. Brian's education includes a Certificate of Completion in Radio and Television Broadcasting Technology from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting (2013-2014) and a Certificate in Combat Camera Team Leader Management from the Air Mobility Warfare Training Center (2006). Brian also completed training at the Defense Information School in 2000.
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Carolinas' Own Queen City News, WJZY-TV
Carolinas’ Own Queen City News (WJZY), virtual channel 46, is a FOX-affiliated television station serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States that is licensed to Belmont. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly with Rock Hill, South Carolina-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYT-TV. The two stations share studios on Performance Road in unincorporated western Mecklenburg County and transmitter facilities in Dallas, North Carolina, along the Catawba River. The station first signed on the air on March 9, 1987, originally operating as an independent station. WJZY presently broadcasts more than 60 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 10 hours each weekday, four and a half hours on Saturdays, and six hours on Sundays). In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Charlotte market.