WQPT-TV is a television station in Moline, Illinois, serving the Quad Cities market in Illinois and Iowa as a PBS member station on channel 24. The station also operates repeater station W48CK in Sterling, Illinois.

The station signed on November 2, 1983. Until then, WTTW was piped in from Chicago by most cable systems in the area. A few cable systems on the Illinois side of the market also carried Peoria's WTVP. Of course, PBS reserved the right, during the 1970's, to offer its programs to any of the three commercial stations, mostly for the benefit of non-cable viewers, but no evidence has yet surfaced regarding this.

From 1992 to 2003, WQPT operated a satellite station, KQCT in Davenport. After WQPT boosted its signal to better cover the Iowa side of the market, it sold KQCT to IPTV, who renamed it KQIN.

Digital Television

The station's digital channel (UHF 23) is multiplexed: Digital channels

Virtual Channel	Video	Aspect	Programming
24.1	480i	4:3	WQPT - PBS
24.2	1080i	16:9	PBS HD

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 , WQPT-DT will remain on channel 23. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WQPT's virtual channel as 24.

References

External links

• Official site