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WBQD-LP
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HAAT221 m (725 ft)
Transmitter coordinates41°28′28.98″N 90°26′44.99″W / 41.4747167°N 90.4458306°W / 41.4747167; -90.4458306
Translator(s)WQAD-DT 8.3 (38.3 UHF) Moline, IL

WBQD-LP (channel 26) was a

LLC), it was affiliated with UPN and MyNetworkTV. The station was operated under a local marketing agreement (LMA), and a technical services agreement by The New York Times Company, and later by Local TV LLC, as a sister station to Moline, Illinois–licensed ABC affiliate WQAD-TV (channel 8). WBQD-LP's operations were housed at WQAD-TV's studios on Park 16th Street in the Prospect Park section of Moline; its transmitter was located on 70th Street, next to Black Hawk College
, near Moline's Poplar Grove neighborhood.

Upon going

K20KF-D) which flash cut
to digital operations in September 2012.

History

Northwest Television, the original owner of

KGWB-TV.[1]
In December 2001 after receiving permission to begin broadcasting on UHF channel 26, this station began transmitter tests and on February 4, 2002, signed on as WBQD-LP with the UPN affiliation that was originally to have gone to WMWC.

Four Seasons Broadcasting initially operated WBQD outright from 2002 to 2004. In November 2004, it was announced that WBQD would enter into a joint sales agreement with WQAD, then owned by

paid programming
from Corner Store TV.

WBQD's

VHF
channel 7 with the calls WBQD-LD.

However, on June 30, 2009, Four Seasons Broadcasting filed for digital displacement relief and requested to move its digital channel assignment to UHF channel 14 instead.

flash-cut" to their former analog channels after the digital transition.[6]

On December 9, 2011, WBQD-LP notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they went silent after losing their tower lease on the Black Hawk College campus in Moline. On June 6, 2013, the FCC canceled the license of WBQD-LP, after being off the air for over a year.[7] After WBQD's closure, WQAD, which had for years been simulcasting WBQD on its third digital subchannel, began programming channel 8.3; it retained the MyNetworkTV affiliation and inherited WBQD's cable carriage,[8][9] though it was rebranded "My TV 8.3". On October 9, 2012, the cable channel assignment for WQAD-DT3 on Mediacom moved from channel 16 to channel 3.[10]

WMWC-TV was eventually granted its construction permit on July 20, 2007,

owned and operated by TBN.[12]

Sources

  1. The Gazette. Associated Press
    . August 17, 2001.
  2. ^ Burke, David (November 19, 2004). "WQAD will sell advertising for WBQD". Quad-City Times. Lee Enterprises. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  3. ^ Burke, David (March 18, 2006). "Fox's new division is on a Q-C station". Quad-City Times. Lee Enterprises. Retrieved June 20, 2006.
  4. ^ Burke, David (July 31, 2006). "Few changes in local TV schedules". Quad-City Times. Lee Enterprises. Retrieved August 3, 2006.
  5. ^ "CDBS Print".
  6. ^ "Forms".
  7. ^ "FCC letter to Four Seasons Peoria, LLC, June 6, 2013".
  8. ^ "Broadcasting News-June 2013". northpine.com.
  9. ^ "2013 Broadcast News". iowamedianews.com.
  10. ^ Nelson, Shellie (October 8, 2012). "MyTV Moves to Mediacom Channel 3". WQAD-TV. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  11. ^ Kreisman, Barbara A. (February 17, 2010). "Order on Reconsideration" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
  12. ^ Seyler, Dave (October 23, 2012). "Trinity picks up television stations in two markets". Television Business Report. Retrieved June 16, 2013.

See also

  • WMWC-TV, the original "proposed" UPN affiliate for the Quad Cities market, now a religious station affiliated with TBN
  • WQAD-DT3
    , the successor of WBQD-LP and the current MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Quad Cities market
  • WTVK, WBQD's sister station in Peoria, also a former UPN and MyNetworkTV affiliate

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Preceded by
None
 MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Quad Cities Television Market
2006–2011 		Succeeded by
WQAD-DT3
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