WQPT-TV is the PBS member station for the Quad Cities region of northwestern Illinois and eastern Iowa, broadcasting on digital channel 23. It is owned by Western Illinois University-Quad Cities, which is located in Moline, Illinois; where the station is licensed. The station also currently operates an analog repeater station W48CK in Sterling, Illinois on channel 48. The station signed on November 2, 1983. It was owned by Black Hawk College, a junior college in Moline.

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  • WQPT-TV is the PBS member station for the Quad Cities region of northwestern Illinois and eastern Iowa, broadcasting on digital channel 23. It is owned by Western Illinois University-Quad Cities, which is located in Moline, Illinois; where the station is licensed. The station also currently operates an analog repeater station W48CK in Sterling, Illinois on channel 48. The station signed on November 2, 1983. It was owned by Black Hawk College, a junior college in Moline. Until then, Iowa Public Television's Iowa City outlet, KIIN-TV, had been providing at least grade B coverage to most of the market (its transmitter was intentionally located at West Branch, halfway between Cedar Rapids and Davenport, in order to serve both the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area and the Quad Cities). KIIN was available on many Quad Cities cable systems for many years after WQPT's sign-on. Many cable systems on the Illinois side of the market also carried Chicago's WTTW and/or Peoria's WTVP. 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 Iowa Public Television, who renamed it KQIN. In May 2010, Black Hawk College sold WQPT to Western Illinois University-Quad Cities. At that time, the station moved from its longtime home on Black Hawk's campus to rented space in the Crown Center office complex in Moline. A new studio is being built on WIU-QC's Riverfront Campus, and channel 24 expects to move there as early as 2012. In August 2010, WQPT launched a 24-hour broadcast schedule on both its main/traditional service (channel 24.1) and its MHz Worldview subchannel affiliation (channel 24.2). This leaves WHBF-TV as the only remaining TV station in the Quad Cities to sign-off during the overnight hours.
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  • WQPT-TV is the PBS member station for the Quad Cities region of northwestern Illinois and eastern Iowa, broadcasting on digital channel 23. It is owned by Western Illinois University-Quad Cities, which is located in Moline, Illinois; where the station is licensed. The station also currently operates an analog repeater station W48CK in Sterling, Illinois on channel 48. The station signed on November 2, 1983. It was owned by Black Hawk College, a junior college in Moline.
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