WQAD-DT3
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Moline–Rock Island, Illinois/ Davenport–Bettendorf, Iowa United States |
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| City | Moline, Illinois |
| Branding | My TV 8-3 News 8 (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
The Quad Cities News Leader (primary) Live. Local. Latebreaking. (secondary) |
| Channels |
Digital: WQAD-DT 38.3 (UHF) (to move to 31.3 (UHF)) Virtual: 8.3 () |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group pending) (WQAD License, LLC) |
| Call letters' meaning | QuAD Cities |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW 868 kW (CP) |
| Height | 334 m (1,096 ft) 329 m (1,079 ft) (CP) |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 73319 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°18′44.5″N 90°22′46.2″W / 41.312361°N 90.379500°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WQAD-DT3 is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Quad Cities area of northwestern Illinois and southeastern Iowa in the United States. It is a third digital subchannel of Moline, Illinois-licensed ABC outlet WQAD-TV that is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media Company. Over the air, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 38.3 (or virtual channel 8.3 via ) from a transmitter in Orion, Illinois. WQAD-DT3's parent station maintains studio facilities on Park 16th Street in Moline. On cable, WQAD-DT3 is available on Mediacom channel 3 in standard definition and on digital channel 716 in high definition.
Northwest Television, the original owner of Galesburg-licensed WMWC-TV, had applied for a license to broadcast a digital signal on channel 53 and had planned to sign on September 1, 2001 as the UPN affiliate for the Quad Cities television market, with operations for the proposed station to be handled by Second Generation of Iowa, owner of Fox affiliate KFXA in Cedar Rapids. However, the application for the new station was challenged by Grant Broadcasting System II, then-owner of KLJB-TV and KGWB-TV. In May 2002 after receiving permission to begin broadcasting an analog signal on UHF channel 26, the predecessor of this digital subchannel station began transmitter tests and on June 1, signed-on as WBQD-LP with the UPN network affiliation that was originally to have gone to WMWC. The owner of the low-power television station was Four Seasons Broadcasting; a partnership between Malibu Broadcasting in Cleveland, Ohio and Venture Technologies Group, LLC in Los Angeles, California. In November 2004, it was announced that WBQD would enter into a joint sales agreement with WQAD. On September 5, 2006, WBQD became a MyNetworkTV affiliate. It adopted the nickname "My TV 16" in reference to its channel number on Mediacom. WBQD's over-the-air signal did not reach the entire market due to its low-power status, but most viewers watched WBQD via its simulcast on this station, WQAD's third digital subchannel, which covers the entire market.
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