KQEG-CA

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KQEG-CA
La Crescent, Minnesota / Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Branding	KQEG TV 23
Channels	23 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	FamilyNet
Owner	White Eagle Partners
Founded	July 15, 1992
Former callsigns	K50DK (1992-1996)
Former affiliations	UPN/FamilyNet (until 2006)
Website	www.kqegtv.com

KQEG-CA is a low-power television station licensed to La Crescent, Minnesota, with studios and offices in La Crosse, Wisconsin, serving the Eau Claire-La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota, television markets as a FamilyNet affiliate on channel 23. Prior to January 27, 2006, the station was also an affiliate of UPN. The station is owned by White Eagle Partners. Interestingly, the station promotes themselves as independent.

FamilyNet programming is pre-empted much of the evening, so in addition to network programming, KQEG also carries high school sports, selected parades, repeats of WXOW's 6:00 news, and a handful of local programs including Bargain House and Coulee Conversations, a local talk show.

On January 27, 2006, KQEG announced that they would drop UPN effective immediately [1] and switch to more general-interest and local programming (most likely due to the formation of The CW from the merger of UPN and The WB). It was soon replaced on cable in Eau Claire, Wisconsin with the new UPN affiliate WKBT-DT2.

White Eagle Partners also owns a construction permit for W45CF in Elk Mound, intended as a translator of KQEG-CA, but the station is not on air.

[edit] External link

• Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KQEG-CA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W45CF