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The KWQC Television Broadcasting Centre (also known as KWQC Broadcast Center, previously WOC Broadcast Centre) [2] [3] is a television studio and historic building located just north of Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States.
KWQC-DT2 is the Ion Television–affiliated second digital subchannel of KWQC-TV, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 6.2.. On August 13, 2007, KWQC launched a local digital weather service called the "KWQC 24/7 Weather Channel" on over-the-air digital subchannel 6.2 and on Mediacom digital channel 247 in the Quad Cities and surrounding areas.
WOC-TV, the first television station in Iowa, began broadcasting on October 31, 1949; it became KWQC-TV after the Palmer family split its radio and television holdings in 1986. The AM frequency, meanwhile, has undergone several format changes since the end of the Golden Age of Radio. Its current news/talk radio format started in 1979.
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Ion Television is a television network based in the United States made up of 44 owned-and-operated stations and 194 network affiliates, 164 of which broadcast as digital subchannels. [1] The Ion-owned stations are a part of the Ion Media unit of Scripps Networks , a wholly-owned subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company .
Raycom bought Aflac's broadcast division of five TV stations in August 1996, using, in part, a loan from the RSA. [2] [4] The three groups merged to form Raycom Media. John Hayes initially headed up the company until 2001. [3]:2. In 1998, Raycom took a 35% stake in Worldnow, an internet publishing provider for broadcast media.
The station signed on in 1947; it was originally owned by the parent company of The Birmingham News, and it was the sister station of one of the more popular AM radio stations in Birmingham. In 1953, the parent company of The News purchased WAFM-TV , WAPI and WAFM-FM and was forced to sell WSGN-AM and FM to Jemison Broadcasting Company and then ...
The programme began on 28 September 1964, broadcasting from a small room in the Birmingham Register Office before moving to the custom-built Pebble Mill broadcasting centre in Edgbaston on 10 November 1971. It remained there until the studios closed on 22 October 2004 when the BBC Birmingham operations were switched to the current studios at ...