WQPT-TV

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WQPT-TV
Moline/Rock Island, Illinois/Davenport, Iowa
Branding	WQPT
Slogan	Quad Cities PBS
Channels	Analog: 24 (UHF) Digital: 23 (UHF)
Translators	W48CK Sterling
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Black Hawk College
First air date	November 2, 1983
Call letters’ meaning	We're Quad Cities Public Television
Transmitter Power	1070 kW (analog) 80 kW (digital)
Height	261 m (analog) 269 m (digital)
Facility ID	5468
Transmitter Coordinates	41°19′39″N, 90°22′45.7″W (analog) 41°18′44.5″N, 90°22′46.2″W (digital)
Website	www.wqpt.org

WQPT-TV is a television station in Moline, Illinois, serving the Quad Cities market as a PBS member station on channel 24. The station also has a repeater station, W48CK in Sterling, Illinois.

The station signed on for the first time on November 2, 1983. ^[1] Until then, PBS programs had to be carried by the commercial stations in the area, on a per program basis.

From 1992 to 2003, WQPT operated another satellite station, KQCT in Davenport. After WQPT boosted its signal to better cover the Iowa side of the market, it sold KQCT to IPTV, who renamed it KQIN.

Contents 1 Digital Television 1.1 Analog-to-digital conversion 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
24.1 / 23.1	main WQPT programming; simulcast with the station's analog channel.
24.2 / 23.2	WQPT HD / PBS HD

[edit] Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 ^[2], WQPT will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 23. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WQPT's virtual channel as 24.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.wqpt.org/aboutwqpt.html
2. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WQPT-TV
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for W48CK
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WQPT-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Quad Cities (Davenport, Iowa/Moline, Illinois/Rock Island, Illinois) market  (Nielsen DMA #96) WHBF 4 (CBS) - KWQC 6 (NBC, "24/7 WX" on DT2) - WQAD 8 (ABC, Local WX on DT2, WBQD/MNTV on DT3) - K16EL 16 (3ABN) - KLJB 18 (Fox) - WQPT 24 (PBS) - KGCW 26 (The CW) - WBQD-LP 26 (MNTV) - KQIN 36 (PBS/IPTV) - W50BY 50 / W52BI 52 (TBN) - K61HD 61 / K42HI 42 (TBN) Significantly Viewed Out-Of-Market Stations KIIN 12 (PBS/Iowa Public Television)