WDCP-TV
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| WDCP-TV / WDCQ-TV | |
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| WDCP: University Center, Michigan WDCQ: Bad Axe, Michigan |
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| Branding | Q-TV |
| Slogan | Today's PBS Channel Delta College Quality Public Broadcasting Quality Public Broadcasting for Mid-Michigan and the Thumb |
| Channels | Analog: WDCP: 19 (UHF) WDCQ: 35 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Delta College |
| First air date | WDCP: October 12, 1964 WDCQ: December 31, 1986 |
| Call letters’ meaning | WDCP: Delta College Public Television WDCQ: Delta College Quality Television |
| Former callsigns | WDCP: WUCM-TV (1964-1997) WDCQ-TV (1997-2003) WDCQ: WUCX-TV (1986-1997) WDCP-TV (1997-2003) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1964-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | WDCP: 1100 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) WDCQ: 85.1 kW (analog) 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | WDCP: 140 m (analog) 141 m (digital) WDCQ: 155 m (analog) 309 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | WDCP: 16528 WDCQ: 16530 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | WDCP: WDCQ: (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.delta.edu/broadcasting |
WDCP-TV (Channel 19) is a PBS affiliate for the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Michigan television market. It is owned and operated by Delta College in University Center, an unincorporated community in southwestern Bay County.
Delta College also owns and operates WDCQ-TV, Channel 35, in Bad Axe, Michigan, the county seat of Huron County. In January 2004, the two stations switched call signs. The intent being that when the station goes all-digital, the two analog stations will go off the air, and just one digital station on channel 15 will cover the area currently covered by the two analog stations. (When each analog stations was assigned a digital channel, channel 19 in Bay City was assigned channel 18 for digital, and channel 35 in Bad Axe was assigned channel 15 for digital. For practicality and monetary reasons, the station management decided to use just channel 15 for the digital signal, from a location closer to the Tri-Cities.)
The analog channel 19 transmitter is located on a 496 foot (151 m) tower on the campus of Delta College, near the corner of 4-mile and Delta Roads near Delta College in Bay County. The channel 15 digital tower is located in Quanicassee, in northwestern Tuscola County. The analog channel 35 tower is located just south of Ubly.
The main station covering the Tri-Cities and Flint, WDCP, originally went on the air in October 1964. The original call sign was WUCM-TV, where UCM stood for University Center Michigan. In December 1986, they established a satellite station in Bad Axe for the Thumb area on channel 35, originally called WUCX-TV.
The WUCX calls are still used today for Delta College's Public Radio station, WUCX-FM 90.1, Q90.1.
Programming on WDCP is the general primary PBS fare, with some locally-produced shows, such as Currently Speaking, a weekly, live current events discussion program hosted by Andy Rapp, who's been a personality at WDCP since the early-1970s, when he hosted a daily discussion program, Day By Day, which ran on the old WUCM into the 1980s.
On cable, WDCP can be seen on Comcast Flint channel 19 and Charter Tri-Cities channel 9. Many cablevisions in the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City market often carry WDCP and either Flint's WFUM-TV or Mount Pleasant's WCMU-TV, the market's other PBS affiliates.
[edit] Digital Television
WDCQ's digital channel is multiplexed:
| Channel | Programming |
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| 19.1 | PBS HD programing in 1080i (8PM to 6AM)* Delta College Learning Channel (6AM to 8PM) |
| 19.2 | Main WDCP programming |
| 19.3 | QTV's Enrichment Channel (featuring Create; 6AM to 8PM) |
| 19.4 | Children's Channel (6AM to 8PM) |
* -- WDCP's HDTV programming can also be seen 24 hours a day on Charter's digital cable HD package on channel 681.
[edit] External links
- WDCP-TV website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WDCP-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WDCQ
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WDCP-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WDCQ-TV
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