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Boob tube station in Ohio, United states

WBQC-LD

Cincinnati, Ohio United states
Channels	Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 25
Branding	WKRP-TV
Programming
Affiliations	See below
Ownership
Owner	Block Broadcasting (Elliott B. Block)
History
First air date	June vii, 1994 (27 years ago)  (1994-06-07) [ specify ]
Former call signs	W25AI (1988–January 1989, February 1989–1995) DW25AI (January–February 1989)[ane] WBQC-LP (1995–2001) WBQC-CA (2001–2010)[2]
Sometime aqueduct number(s)	Analog: 25 (UHF, 1988–2005) 38 (UHF, 2005–2009) Digital: 47 (UHF, until 2018) twenty (UHF, 2018–2019) Virtual: 20 (PSIP, until 2019)
Former affiliations	Analog/LD1: Independent (1994–1995, January–October 1998, 2006–2011) The WB (1995–January 1998) UPN (October 1998–2006) RTV (2011–2012)[3] LD2: Universal Sports (2010–2011) LD3: RTV (2009–2011, 2013–2017) LD5: America One (until 2014) YouToo America (2014)[3] Heartland (2014–2017) Light Idiot box (2017–2021)[3] [four] LD7: Classics (2016–2017) LD8: TheFu (2016–2017)[3] RTV (2017)[3] [5]
Call sign meaning	WB (for former affiliation) Queen City (nickname for Cincinnati)
Technical data
Licensing authorization	FCC
Facility ID	19431
Class	LD
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	255.4 m (838 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°7′xxx.iv″N 84°29′56″W  /  39.125111°Due north 84.49889°W  / 39.125111; -84.49889
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	wkrp.tv

WBQC-LD, virtual channel 25 (UHF digital channel 28), branded on-air every bit WKRP-TV, is a low-power Cozi Television-affiliated television station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, U.s.a.. The station is owned past Block Broadcasting. WBQC'southward transmitter is located along Symmes Street, but s of East McMillan Street in Cincinnati (shared with ABC affiliate WCPO-Boob tube, channel 9). Cake also previously operated sister Class A station WOTH-CD (aqueduct 20); that station went dark on January 23, 2018.

According to its website, WBQC was the first telly station to be fully automatic.^[6] It was also the showtime station in Cincinnati to perform "digital spot insertion" and to air Spanish-linguistic communication commercials.

History [edit]

WB affiliation [edit]

The station signed on the air in 1994, as depression-power television station W25AI on UHF aqueduct 25. The station originally ran generally infomercials. All of Cincinnati's full-power stations, in dissimilarity, carried programming from national networks. Needing an affiliate in Cincinnati, The WB, which launched on January xi, 1995, signed an affiliation agreement with channel 25. The station so changed its call letters to WBQC-LP to reflect its new amalgamation and began to make itself on-air equally "WB Channel 25".

UPN affiliation [edit]

In July 1997, the Sinclair Broadcast Grouping signed an amalgamation bargain with The WB that resulted in a number of the company'south UPN affiliates and independent stations switching to The WB.^[7] One of the stations included in the deal was WSTR-TV (channel 64). Every bit a result, the WB affiliation moved to WSTR in January 1998, leaving WBQC without a network affiliation. UPN struck an affiliation deal to air its programming on NBC chapter WLWT (channel 5), which aired its weekly then-Monday-to-Wednesday six-hour schedule from 2 to 4 a.m. on early Sat, Dominicus and Monday mornings equally a secondary affiliation. Meanwhile, every bit an independent station, WBQC carried NBC programming that WLWT chose not to carry, including various sporting events, also as serial such as The Profiler and Sunset Beach. After a few months of poor late night ratings on WLWT, and with the addition of Thursday and Fri hours on the horizon the next flavour that would likely come across WLWT refuse lower-rated programming and the network's Th night motion-picture show, UPN resumed discussions with WBQC to join the network. In the fall of 1998, UPN agreed to affiliate with WBQC.

"Should-acquit" [edit]

WBQC had been pushing for carriage on local cable and satellite providers for many years. In 2005, WBQC swapped aqueduct allocations with America One-affiliated sis station WOTH-LP (aqueduct 38). In 2001, WBQC became a Course A television station, with the phone call sign WBQC-CA, in hopes of receiving must-deport status on cable providers and protection from displacement by the total-ability stations' digital channel allocations. Every bit a Class A station, WBQC had to see all the requirements of a full-power station. Ultimately, Course A stations did non receive must-carry status, though they did receive protection from deportation. In negotiating with the cable and satellite providers, WBQC claimed "should-carry" status, in the absenteeism of federal must-carry recognition.^[8]

Several small satellite chief antenna television (SMATV) systems and the Delhi Township cablevision system carried the minor independent station. Meanwhile, talks with InterMedia Cable (Northern Kentucky), Time Warner Cablevision (Cincinnati), and Adelphia Cable (Cincinnati) saw no progress for years. Shortly after WBQC became a UPN affiliate, notwithstanding, a number of systems began offering WBQC on their lineups:

• DirecTV,^[9] Insight Communications (which purchased InterMedia), and Adelphia all added WBQC on aqueduct 25.
• The city of Lebanon, Ohio began competing with Time Warner with its own municipal cable service. Lebanon Cable, which has since been sold to Cincinnati Bell, carried WBQC on channel 17 (later channel 97).^[x]
• SusCom Cable (Indiana) added WBQC on aqueduct 6.^[11]

Although Fourth dimension Warner Cable had long included WBQC on its Oxford, Ohio organisation, on channel 13, the station remained off of Time Warner's Cincinnati offerings. According to WBQC, some Cincinnati customers were told past Time Warner representatives that the station operated out of Indianapolis, Indiana; Dayton, Ohio; or "some guy'due south basement".^[12] At one point, Time Warner considered carrying WSBK-TV from Boston rather than WBQC (it had used the same strategy to keep Syracuse, New York UPN chapter WAWA-LP off their systems until an ownership change, though that was more because of WAWA's low-quality schedule surrounding UPN programming).^[8]

Once UPN acquired Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Time Warner Cable resumed discussions with WBQC. After months of talks, Time Warner agreed to carry WBQC. Unlike the other cable systems, Time Warner Cincinnati would but air WBQC nightly from 6 to 11 p.g. on channel xx, a leased access cable channel. Time Warner later on purchased Adelphia, merely kept WBQC on the latter's lineup until after Time Warner Cable had fully transitioned Adelphia viewers into the Fourth dimension Warner organization.

From the tardily 1990s until at least 2001, WBQC aired a rebroadcast of WCPO-TV (channel nine)'s 6:00 p.k. newscast at 7:00 p.m.^[thirteen] Later, WBQC formed a joint broadcast venture with Fox chapter WXIX-TV (aqueduct 19), assuasive WBQC to air that station'south 10 p.chiliad. newscast during sporting events, such equally Cincinnati Bearcats basketball.^[xiv] WBQC would besides air some basketball games produced by WXIX.^[fifteen]

Independence [edit]

With the shutdown of UPN and The WB in September 2006 and replacement past The CW (which was initially equanimous primarily of programs from both predecessor networks),^{[16] [17]} in that location was a question where the network's affiliation would country in Cincinnati. WSTR was the WB affiliate and a full-ability station; WBQC was the UPN affiliate, a low-power Form A station with full cable wagon (except for Time Warner Cable'due south Cincinnati organisation). On March 2, 2006, it was appear that WSTR would affiliate with MyNetworkTV.^{[xviii] [xix]} This seemingly opened the door for WBQC to potentially become The CW's Cincinnati chapter, all the same on Apr nineteen information technology was confirmed that the network would exist carried on digital subchannel 12.ii of Cincinnati's CBS affiliate WKRC-Tv set (aqueduct 12). Equally a result of the shuffle, WBQC became an independent station^[20] upon the dissolution of UPN in September.

By July four, 2006, in a stunt to promote its "Independence Day", UPN network programming was moved out of primetime, and was replaced with marathons, and and then a schedule of older off-network dramas and comedies. UPN aired early Tuesday to Saturday mornings from 2 to 4 a.m. until its closure.^[20] The station then changed its logo, which had some elements of the Ohio state flag. The same year, WBQC moved from Golf game Manor to its newly built studios in Roselawn.^[21]

With the launch of WKRC's "CinCW" digital subchannel, Time Warner Cable dropped WBQC on October 18 to carry WKRC-DT2 full-time on channel 20. The CinCW as well replaced WBQC on channel 25 on both Insight Communications and DirecTV, which created some confusion to viewers who thought WBQC was the CinCW. Insight moved WBQC to digital cable channel 189. In 2007, Fourth dimension Warner Cable Cincinnati experienced a change in direction. Early the next year, WBQC and Time Warner Cable started discussions for cable carriage. Nonetheless, Time Warner Cable stated information technology did not have whatever channels available, either on the analog or digital tier.

On November 28, 2008, the station adopted the branding "WKRP-TV", drawing on the 1970s CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.^[22] Co-ordinate to Elliott Block, general managing director and chief engineer for the pocket-sized station, the move was fabricated to promote the station's movement to digital dissemination.^[23] Currently, the change reflects only the branding of the station, as its legal callsign remains WBQC-LD.

In November 2010, Cincinnati Bell's local fiber-optic service, FiOptics, began carrying all five of WBQC's subchannels on channels 254 and 270 to 273.^[24] In January 2011, WBQC replaced its primary subchannel with programming from the Retro Television Network.

Programming [edit]

WBQC currently airs network programming. Until 2011, the station produced several local programs, including:

• New Xtreme Sounds – music entertainment
• Scizone with Bill Boshears – commentary on political and paranormal topics
• Friday Night Fu – campy kung fu movies hosted by Cap'due north Dave and the Fu Coiffure
• Subsequently Midnight – music talent showcase
• On the Mark – call-in talk show hosted by Marking McDonald
• Sunday Mass

Subchannels [edit]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming[25]
25.i	480i	16:9	WKRP-Television receiver	Cozi Television set
25.2		4:3	THIS TV	This Tv set
25.3			GET TV	getTV
25.4		sixteen:9	JTV	Jewelry TV[26]
25.5			THEGRIO	TheGrio TV
25.6			SONLIFE	SonLife
25.7			HSN	HSN
25.8		four:3	ShopHQ	ShopHQ
25.9		16:ix	START	Outset TV
25.10			MOVIES	Movies!
25.11			Decades	Decades
25.12			QUEST TV	Quest

Decades (20.two) and Quest (xx.3) went live on the air on April four, 2018.^{[3] [27]}

References [edit]

1. ^ Note: The FCC conventions signal that such a D in the front end indicates a deleted license
2. ^ FCC Phone call Sign History
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "WKRP: A New Frontier". WKRP 25. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
4. ^ "Heartland Adds WBQC Cincinnati". TVN: Telly News Check. 12 Jan 2015.
5. ^ Kiesewetter, John (21 December 2017). "3 Area Television receiver Stations Going Nighttime in 2018". WVXU 91.7 & WMUB 88.5.
6. ^ "History". Archived from the original on 2004-12-11. Retrieved 2004-10-19 .
7. ^ WB woos and wins Sinclair, Broadcasting & Cable, July 21, 1997. Retrieved September 20, 2013 from HighBeam Research.
8. ^ ^{a b} Kiesewetter, John (2001-07-02). "Time Warner's Aqueduct 25 snub remains a mystery" (PDF). The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio: Gannett Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-28. Retrieved 2008-11-30 .
9. ^ "Can You lot Encounter Me Now?". Golf Manor, Ohio: WBQC-CA. 2002. Archived from the original (WMV) on 2002-12-11. Retrieved 2008-11-30 .
10. ^ "Tired of Waiting to Watch Your Favorite Shows?" (PDF). Town Hall News. Lebanon, Ohio: City of Lebanon. Fall–Winter 2006. p. 3.
11. ^ Hathaway, Tom (2005-12-16). "UC Basketball Games on UPN 38" (Printing release). Academy of Cincinnati. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2008-xi-30 .
12. ^ "Time Warner Doesn't Offer All Local Channels". Golf Estate, Ohio: WBQC-CA. Archived from the original on 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2008-11-30 .
13. ^ Kiesewetter, John (2001-08-26). "WBQC cable deal merely a ceasefire". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio: Gannett Company. Retrieved 2009-07-26 .
14. ^ Knippenberg, Jim (2004-08-21). "Television news fire coverage: 4 solutions for 4 stations". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio: Gannett Company. Retrieved 2009-07-26 .
15. ^ "27 UC Basketball Games Slated for Television receiver". CSTV.com. College Sports Television. 2005-10-19. Retrieved 2009-07-26 .
16. ^ 'Gilmore Girls' run into 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture commencement in September, CNNMoney.com, Jan 24, 2006.
17. ^ UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network, The New York Times, Jan 24, 2006.
18. ^ "SBG Enters Into Affiliation Agreement With The CW Network" (Press release). Sinclair Broadcast Group. 2006-05-02. Archived from the original on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2006-05-20 .
19. ^ Romano, Allison (2006-03-02). "Sinclair Signs On to MyNetworkTV". Broadcasting & Cablevision. Reed Business organization Data. Retrieved 2006-05-xx .
20. ^ ^{a b} Kiesewetter, John (2006-06-25). "Local media: 'Veronica Mars' Left Homeless By UPN Closing". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio: Gannett Visitor. p. 2D. Retrieved 2006-07-sixteen . Channel 38 will become an contained station – with no network affiliation – this fall.
21. ^ Kiesewetter, John (2011-04-27). "Low-Power WKRP For Sale". Cincinnati.com. Gannett Visitor. Retrieved 2011-04-28 .
22. ^ "Station takes phone call letters of TV show". Yahoo! News (Associated Press). Yahoo!. 2008-eleven-29. A low-power TV station has changed its call letters to WKRP, the same as the fictional radio station in the 1970s striking series 'WKRP in Cincinnati.'
23. ^ Kiesewetter, John (November 28, 2008). "Actually on air in Cincinnati". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio: Gannett Company. Archived from the original on Dec 1, 2008. Block began plotting the change two years ago, tied to Idiot box stations' transition nationwide from analog to digital broadcasting scheduled for Feb. 17. Although depression-power stations aren't required by law to switch to digital next year, Block made the investment so viewers here with digital TV converter boxes could go on to see his stations next year.
24. ^ Kiesewetter, John (2010-11-15). "Cincinnati Bell Adds All WKRP-TV Subchannels". Cincinnati.com TV & Media Weblog. Gannett Company. Retrieved 2010-11-22 .
25. ^ RabbitEars Idiot box Query for WBQC-LD
26. ^ Kiesewetter, John (2009-06-08). "Channel 25 Digital Tv set Channels Due Dorsum Past Thursday". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. Retrieved 2009-06-09 .
27. ^ Kiesewetter, John (ten April 2018). "Decades Network Returns to Block Broadcasting Lineup". WVXU 91.7 & WMUB 88.v.

• The Dean of Cincinnati (November xiv, 2007). "WBQC deserves admission to cablevision, satellite customers". Cincinnati Buoy. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
• Radelat, Ana (June 7, 2008). "Pocket-sized television stations struggling with digital conversion". U.s.a. Today.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• WBQC historical documents – formerly "The State of war"
• The Other Aqueduct – WBQC's sister station, WOTH-LP
• WBQC Channel 38 on YouTube – overview of the station's history, including a glimpse of the WB25 logo, likewise equally promotions for local and network programming

Original WBQC programming:

• Friday Dark Fu
• Scizone
• NXSTV

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBQC-LD

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