WQPT-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WQPT-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Quad Cities PBS
station_branding = WQPT
analog = 24 (UHF)
digital = 23 (UHF)
other_chs = W48CK Sterling
subchannels = 24.1 PBS 24.2 PBS HDTV
network =
founded =
airdate = November 2, 1983
location = Moline/Rock Island, Illinois/Davenport, Iowa
callsign_meaning = We're
Quad Cities
Public
Television
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Black Hawk College
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 1070 kW (analog)
80 kW (digital)
HAAT = 261 m (analog)
269 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 5468
coordinates = coord|41|19|39|N|90|22|45.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|41|18|44.5|N|90|22|46.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.wqpt.org/ www.wqpt.org]

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

The station signed on November 2, 1983. [http://www.wqpt.org/aboutwqpt.html WQPT | About Your Quad Cities PBS ] ] Until then, WTTW was piped in from Chicago by most cable systems in the area. A few cable systems on the Illinois side of the market also carried Peoria's WTVP. Of course, PBS reserved the right, during the 1970's, to offer its programs to any of the three commercial stations, mostly for the benefit of non-cable viewers, but no evidence has yet surfaced regarding this.

From 1992 to 2003, WQPT operated a 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.

Digital Television

The station's digital channel (UHF 23) is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , WQPT-DT will remain on channel 23. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WQPT's virtual channel as 24.

References

External links

* [http://www.wqpt.org/ Official site]
*TVQ|WQPT-TV
**TVQ|W48CK
*BIA|WQPT|TV|TV