WQEK-LD

WQEK-LD
Clarksdale, Mississippi/Memphis, Tennessee
United States
City Clarksdale, Mississippi
Channels Digital: 18 (UHF)
Virtual: 36 (PSIP)
Subchannels See article
Affiliations Cozi TV
Owner HC2 Holdings
(DTV America Corporation)
Founded October 2, 2012
First air date September 3, 2016
Sister station(s) KPMF-LD
Former callsigns W18EK-D (2012-2015)
Former affiliations Silent (2012-2016)
Transmitter power 7.5 kW
Height 325 feet (99 m)
Facility ID 188791
Transmitter coordinates 35°16′32.6″N 89°47′37.6″W / 35.275722°N 89.793778°W / 35.275722; -89.793778

WQEK-LD is a digital low-powered television station that is licensed to Clarksdale, Mississippi within the Memphis, Tennessee television market. The station is a Cozi TV affiliate, and is owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida. WQEK’s digital signal is broadcast on UHF Channel 18, but is displayed as virtual channel 36 via PSIP.

WQEK's low-power signal does not actually reach its city of license of Clarksdale, and it instead serves the inner core of the Memphis market, though unlike sister station Paragould, Arkansas-licensed KPMF-LD (which is licensed to a city in the Jonesboro, Arkansas market), Clarksdale is fully within the Memphis market. WQEK-LD and KPMF-LD's transmitters are co-located on the Nexstar tower near Brunswick, Tennessee, in northern Shelby County. [1]

History

The station’s construction permit was granted by the Federal Communications Commission for the station as W18EK-D on October 2, 2012. The station’s call letters were changed to the current WQEK-LD on December 7, 2015. WQEK-LD finally took to the air in September 2016 as a Cozi TV affiliate. A total of eight subchannels were launched in its first months on the air, offering multiple digital networks.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

VC Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming [2]
36.1480i4:3WQEK-LDMain WQEK programming / Cozi TV
36.2Newsmax TV → Decades (as of September 3, 2018)[3]
36.3Movies!
36.4Stadium
36.5Justice Network
36.6Silent
36.7Shop LC
36.8QVC2

References

  1. ↑ http://rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=2003611
  2. ↑ Digital TV Market Listing for WQEK-LD
  3. ↑ http://decades.com/wheretowatch
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