WMQF
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| Marquette, Michigan | |
| Branding | Fox 19 |
| Channels | 19 (UHF) analog, no digital |
| Affiliations | Fox, My Network TV |
| Owner | Equity Broadcasting |
| Founded | February 2, 2003 |
| Call letters meaning | W Marquette's Fox |
| Former affiliations | UPN |
| Transmitter Power | 500 KW |
| Website | www.wmqf19.com |
WMQF is the newest TV station in the Marquette market, providing Fox and My Network TV programming to the central Upper Peninsula.
Other than the transmitter itself, WMQF has no physical presence in the region -- it's owned and operated by Equity Broadcasting, who operates all its stations via satellite from Little Rock, Arkansas. As a result, the signal and picture quality on channel 19 was sub-par for the first few months, and most cable systems in the region took the signal directly off the satellite. To this day, it is still challenging to receive a signal over the air -- some living close to the station's transmitter attest that the signal is snowy at best.
Prior to WMQF's sign-on in 2003, Fox programming was seen on cable from either Cadillac's WFQX or Green Bay's WLUK. Marquette's WLUC also had secondary relations with Fox in the early-1990s. UPN never got full coverage in the UP, but it was seen in the Crystal Falls area on WUPT-CA channel 49, later channel 25. WUPT folded in 2003 after losing the UPN affiliation to WMQF.
In the fall of 2006, WMQF added MyNetworkTV programming.
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| Broadcast television in the Marquette market (Nielsen DMA #178) | ||
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WJMN 3 (CBS) - WBKP 5 / WBUP 10 (ABC) - WLUC 6 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WDHS 8 (EWTN) - WNMU 13 (PBS) - WMQF 19 (Fox) - W40AN 40 (Fox) |
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CBMT 6 (CBC, Montreal) - WLUK 11 (Fox, Green Bay) - WFQX 33 (Fox, Cadillac) |
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WJBK 2 (Detroit) - WXMI 17 (Grand Rapids) - WMQF 19 (Marquette) - W32CV 321 (Ironwood) - WFQX 33 / WFUP 45 (Cadillac / Vanderbilt) - W40AN 402 (Escanaba) - WSYM 47 (Lansing) - WSMH 66 (Flint / Saginaw) |
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1W32CV is a repeater of KQDS-TV, Duluth, Minnesota. |
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WXSP-CA 151 / WOOD-DT 7.2 / WOTV-DT 20.2 (Grand Rapids / Battle Creek) - WHTV 18 (Jackson) - WMQF 19 (Marquette) - WMYD 20 (Detroit) - |
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1Also has a network of low-powered repeaters. |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Michigan and CBC, CTV, Global, SRC and Other stations in Ontario | |
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