WQAD-TV
 
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Moline-Rock Island, Illinois/ Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa United States |
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| City | Moline |
| Branding | WQAD (general) WQAD News 8 (newscasts) My TV 8.3 (on DT3) |
| Slogan | Hard Work, Determination (That's what we stand for at WQAD News 8). (Visually displayed as Hard Work and Determination.) (primary) |
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Digital: 38 (UHF) Virtual: 8 () |
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Tribune Broadcasting (WQAD License, LLC) |
| First air date | August 1, 1963 |
| Call letters' meaning | Quad Cities |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 1096.1 ft = 334.1 m |
| 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.com |
WQAD-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Quad Cities area of West-Central Illinois and Eastern Iowa that is licensed to Moline, Illinois. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 38 from a transmitter in Orion, Illinois. Owned by Tribune Broadcasting, WQAD has studios on Park 16th Street in Moline.
WQAD-TV signed-on for the first time on August 1, 1963. It was owned by the Moline Television Corporation, a group of 24 local investors. They had actually won the license in 1961; however, concerns about interference with WIRL-TV in Peoria (now WHOI on channel 19) delayed sign-on for two years. Before WQAD signed-on, ABC programming had been split between WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV) and WHBF-TV. From day one, WQAD aired ABC programming in color. Cowles Communications of Des Moines, Iowa purchased WQAD in 1978.
In 1985, the Cowles family sold off their various media interests, with WQAD going to The New York Times Company. On May 7, 2007, Local TV LLC (a subsidiary of Oak Hill Capital) officially took over the Times' nine television stations including WQAD. On July 1, 2013, Local TV LLC announced that its stations would be acquired by the Chicago-based Tribune Company; the purchase was finalized on December 27. This made WQAD a sister station with Chicago's WGN-TV, the company's flagship station.
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