WGEM-TV
  
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Quincy, Illinois/Hannibal, Missouri/Keokuk, Iowa United States |
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| City | Quincy, Illinois |
| Branding | WGEM (general) WGEM News (newscasts) Tri-States CW (on DT2) WGEM Fox (on DT3) |
| Slogan | The Tri-States' News Leader |
| Channels |
Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 10 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 10.1 NBC 10.2 CW 10.3 Fox |
| Affiliations | NBC (Secondary through 1969) |
| Owner |
Quincy Media (WGEM License, LLC) |
| First air date | July 5, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | GEM City (civic slogan of Quincy) |
| Sister station(s) | WGEM, WGEM-FM |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 54 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Both secondary: ABC (1953–1969 & 1971–mid-1990's) Fox (1990–1994) |
| Transmitter power | 26 kW |
| Height | 238 m (781 feet) |
| Facility ID | 54275 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°57′4.1″N 91°19′54″W / 39.951139°N 91.33167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WGEM-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Tri-States area of Western Illinois, Northeastern Missouri, and extreme Southeastern Iowa that is licensed to Quincy, Illinois. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter east of the city on Cannonball Road near I-172. The station is the flagship of Quincy Media, and is a sister operation to the company's namesake, The Quincy Herald-Whig, and WGEM-AM-FM. Its studios are located in the New Tremont Apartments (formerly the Hotel Quincy) on Hampshire Street in Downtown Quincy.
The station signed on for the first time on July 5, 1953. WGEM has always been an NBC affiliate, but maintained a secondary ABC affiliation until 1969, shared with CBS affiliate KHQA-TV during the 1960s. WJJY-TV in Jacksonville was the ABC affiliate for Quincy between 1969 and 1971; when WJJY went bankrupt and shut down, WGEM resumed carrying a few ABC shows until the mid-1990s. The station also had a secondary affiliation with Fox between 1990 and 1994. It is one of the few and longest operating television stations in the country, outside of network owned-and-operated stations that has had the same call letters, owner, channel number, and primary network affiliation throughout its history.
Since the mid to late-1990s, WGEM has branded solely with its call letters.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
WGEM-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 54, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 10.
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