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WGEM-TV's license was originally granted to Quincy Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Herald-Whig; it was allotted channel 10.The station was originally affiliated with NBC and ABC, while being represented by Walker Representation Co. Quincy Broadcasting's president at the time was T. C. Oakley; Joe Bonansinga was the station's founding general manager.
City of license / Market Station Years owned Current status Albany, Georgia: WALB 1590 1946–1960 [M]: WALG, owned by First Media Services : Quincy, Illinois: WGEM 1440 : 2021–2023 [G]
Arts/Quincy – distributed and printed by the Quincy Society of Fine Arts; a black and white news article published every week about the culture, history, and art of Quincy Quincy Herald-Whig – the major newspaper in the region, printed by Quincy Newspapers and shipped throughout much of the Tri-State region
The following year QNI purchased Quincy Broadcasting Co. to operate WGEM, the city's second AM station. WQDI became WGEM-FM in 1953. Quincy Media Corporate headquarters in Downtown Quincy. Quincy Broadcasting produced the Quincy region's first television broadcast on September 4, 1953, with the launch of WGEM-TV, the area's NBC affiliate.
WGEM may refer to: WGEM-FM , a radio station (105.1 FM) licensed to Quincy, Illinois, United States WGEM-TV , a television station (channel 10) licensed to Quincy, Illinois
WGEM-FM dropped the news/talk format in favor of the sports radio programming previously heard on WGEM, primarily supplied by ESPN Radio, on March 1, 2023. The AM station had gone off the air in June 2022 due to technical problems; its programming had continued to be heard on FM translator W255CY (98.9), which shut down on March 1. [ 12 ]
This included WGEM and WGEM-FM, as well as WGEM-TV. [1] The acquisition was completed on August 2. [ 20 ] At the time of the acquisition, Gray's only other radio property was KTXC in Lamesa, Texas , which was in the process of being divested in an unrelated concurrent deal; [ 21 ] by 2023, the WGEM radio stations were the only radio stations in ...
WJJY-TV (channel 14) was a television station in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States, which broadcast from 1969 to 1971. It was the ABC affiliate for Quincy, Illinois , and served Springfield as well.