WBQD-LP
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WBQD-LP (channel 26) was a low-power television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, which operated from 2002 to 2011. Last owned by Four Seasons Broadcasting (a partnership between Cleveland-based Malibu Broadcasting and Los Angeles–based Venture Technologies Group, LLC), it was affiliated with UPN and MyNetworkTV. The station was operated under a local marketing agreement (LMA), and a technical services agreement by The New York Times Company, and later by Local TV LLC, as a sister station to Moline, Illinois–licensed ABC affiliate WQAD-TV (channel 8). WBQD-LP's operations were housed at WQAD-TV's studios on Park 16th Street in the Prospect Park section of Moline; its transmitter was located on 70th Street, next to Black Hawk College, near Moline's Poplar Grove neighborhood.
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City | Davenport, Iowa |
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Branding | My TV 16 (cable channel) |
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Operator | WQAD-TV
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WAOE, WHOI, WEEK-TV, WQAD-TV | |
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Founded | March 8, 1995 |
First air date | February 4, 2002 (2002-02-04) |
Last air date | December 8, 2011 (2011-12-08) (9 years, 307 days) |
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Facility ID | 70777 |
Class | LP |
ERP | 26 kW |
HAAT | 221 m (725 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°28′28.98″N 90°26′44.99″W |
Translator(s) | WQAD-DT 8.3 (38.3 UHF) Moline, IL |
Upon going silent in December 2011, WBQD-LP was the second-to-last television station in the Quad Cities market to broadcast an analog signal, having been surpassed only by 3ABN translator station K16EL (now K20KF-D) which flash cut to digital operations in September 2012.