WQTV-LP

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WQTV-LP / WQWQ-LP
WQTV-LP: Murray, Kentucky WQWQ-LP: Paducah, Kentucky
Branding	Heartland's CW
Channels	Analog: WQTV: 24 (UHF) WQWQ: 9 (VHF) Digital: KFVS-DT 57.2 (UHF)
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Raycom Media (KFVS License Subsidiary, LLC)
Founded	late-1980s
Sister station(s)	KFVS-TV
Former callsigns	WQTV: W46BE
Former affiliations	The WB UPN (until September 18, 2006)
Transmitter Power	WQTV: 9.97 kW WQWQ: 3 kW
Height	WQTV: 167 m WQWQ: 89 m
Facility ID	WQTV: 31410 WQWQ: 19595
Transmitter Coordinates	WQTV: 36°32′58″N, 88°19′52″W WQWQ: 37°2′55″N, 88°35′41″W
Website	see below

WQTV-LP is a low-powered television station in Murray, Kentucky. Licensed to the city, the station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 24. WQTV's transmitter is located between Murray and the Tennessee state line.

WQWQ-LP is another low-powered television station in Paducah, Kentucky. Licensed to that city, this station broadcasts an analog signal on VHF channel 9. WQWQ's transmitter is located in Woodlawn.

Together, the two stations serve as the CW affiliates for the Cape Girardeau (MO), Paducah, and Harrisburg (IL) market. WQTV & WQWQ are co-owned, with the area's CBS affiliate KFVS-TV, by Raycom Media. All three stations share studios that are located on Broadway Avenue (in the Hirsch Tower) in Downtown Cape Girardeau. WQTV & WQWQ are known on-air as "Heartland's CW".

For identification purposes, it is the WQWQ call sign (rather than WQTV), that is used in the branding of the stations as well as the logo. However, WQTV is more powerful in terms of broadcasting power.

As a result of their low-powered status, the two stations do not offer digital signals of their own. However, there is one offered on a second subchannel of KFVS' digital signal. WQTV & WQWQ offer a signal to area cable systems as well as DirecTV and Dish Network satellite services.

[edit] WQTV History

WQTV-LP began in the late-1980s as W46BE and was known on-air as "TV 46". It was designed to be a sister outlet for radio station WNBS-AM and was located on Court Square in Downtown Murray. During its infancy, TV 46 was affiliated at various times with the All News Channel, FamilyNet, and Channel America. After its corporate bankruptcy, the license was sold to Jackson Purchase Broadcasting, owners of WSJP-AM and WBLN-FM. The call letters were changed to the current WQTV and it became a WB affiliate. WQTV was then sold to Murray State University, which continued to operate it as a for-profit enterprise. Eventually, the channel assignment was changed from 46 to 24, and MSU sold the station to current owner Raycom Media.

At some point in time, WQTV became a UPN affiliate. During this period, the station was known on-air as "UPN The Beat".

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW. The letters represented the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner.

On September 18, 2006, the station became a CW affiliate. WQTV re-branded as "Heartland's CW" and began to be offered on KFVS DT2 digital subchannel.

[edit] Newscasts

At one point, KFVS-TV produced a nightly 9 PM newscast on WQTV & WQWQ. Known as Heartland News at 9, it had a Southeastern Missouri focus in terms of news coverage. It is unknown when or why it stopped airing.

Currently, the two stations rebroadcast three weekday newscasts from KFVS. This includes The Breakfast Show (at 7 AM), Heartland News at Noon (at 1 PM), and Heartland News at 10 (at 10:30 PM).

Hirsch Tower, home of the WQTV, WQWQ, and KFVS studios.

[edit] Logos

WQTV & WQWQ's "UPN The Beat" logo, used until September 18, 2006.

WQTV & WQWQ's current logo.

Ad for the KFVS-produced WQTV & WQWQ news.

The Heartland News at 9 opening.

[edit] External links

• WQTV-LP & WQWQ-LP "Heartland's CW"
• KFVS 12
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WQTV-LP
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WQWQ-LP