WQEK-LD

WQEK-LD

Clarksdale, Mississippi/Memphis, Tennessee United States
City	Clarksdale, Mississippi
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 36
Programming
Affiliations	See article
Ownership
Owner	HC2 Holdings (DTV America Corporation)
Sister stations	KPMF-LD
History
Founded	October 2, 2012
First air date	September 3, 2016 (5 years ago) (2016-09-03)
Former call signs	W18EK-D (2012-2015)
Former channel number(s)	Digital: 18 (UHF, 2015–2019)
Former affiliations	Silent (2012–2015) Cozi TV (2015–20??)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	188791
ERP	10 kW
HAAT	329.3 m (1,080 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°16′33″N 89°47′38″W / 35.27583°N 89.79389°W / 35.27583; -89.79389
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS

WQEK-LD, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 30), is a low-power television station licensed to Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, which primarily airs paid programming. The station is owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida.

WQEK's low-power signal does not actually reach Clarksdale, and it instead serves the inner core of the Memphis, Tennessee market, though unlike sister station KPMF-LD (which is licensed to Paragould, Arkansas, a city in the Jonesboro market), Clarksdale is fully within the Memphis market. WQEK-LD and KPMF-LD's transmitters are co-located on the Tegna 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. Its 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 signal is multiplexed:

References[]

External links[]

• HC2 Holdings
• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on WQEK-TV