WMQF

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WMQF
Marquette, Michigan
Branding Fox 19
Channels 19 (UHF) analog,
no digital
Affiliations Fox, My Network TV
Owner Equity Broadcasting
Founded February 2, 2003
Call letters meaning W Marquette's Fox
Former affiliations UPN
Transmitter Power 500 KW
Website www.wmqf19.com

WMQF is the newest TV station in the Marquette market, providing Fox and My Network TV programming to the central Upper Peninsula.

Other than the transmitter itself, WMQF has no physical presence in the region -- it's owned and operated by Equity Broadcasting, who operates all its stations via satellite from Little Rock, Arkansas. As a result, the signal and picture quality on channel 19 was sub-par for the first few months, and most cable systems in the region took the signal directly off the satellite. To this day, it is still challenging to receive a signal over the air -- some living close to the station's transmitter attest that the signal is snowy at best.

Prior to WMQF's sign-on in 2003, Fox programming was seen on cable from either Cadillac's WFQX or Green Bay's WLUK. Marquette's WLUC also had secondary relations with Fox in the early-1990s. UPN never got full coverage in the UP, but it was seen in the Crystal Falls area on WUPT-CA channel 49, later channel 25. WUPT folded in 2003 after losing the UPN affiliation to WMQF.

In the fall of 2006, WMQF added MyNetworkTV programming.

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Broadcast television in the Marquette market (Nielsen DMA #178)

WJMN 3 (CBS) - WBKP 5 / WBUP 10 (ABC) - WLUC 6 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WDHS 8 (EWTN) - WNMU 13 (PBS) - WMQF 19 (Fox) - W40AN 40 (Fox)

Broadcast television available on cable only:

CBMT 6 (CBC, Montreal) - WLUK 11 (Fox, Green Bay) - WFQX 33 (Fox, Cadillac)

Defunct station:

WUPT 49 (defunct, was UPN)