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WDCQ-TV (channel 19), branded Delta College Public Media, is a PBS member television station licensed to Bad Axe, Michigan, United States, serving the Flint–Tri-Cities television market. The station is owned by Delta College, and it is a sister station to NPR member WUCX-FM (90.1 MHz, owned by Central Michigan University (CMU) and jointly operated by Delta College and CMU). The two stations share studios at the Frank N. Andersen Broadcast Center on the Delta College campus on Delta Road in University Center, an unincorporated community in Frankenlust Township in southwestern Bay County; WDCQ-TV's transmitter is located in Quanicassee, in northwestern Tuscola County.
The station first signed on the air on October 12, 1964, as WUCM-TV; the "UCM" stood for University Center, Michigan, its city of license. The station was initially affiliated with National Educational Television (NET) until 1970, when the present-day PBS replaced NET. In 1986, WUCM established a satellite, WUCX-TV (channel 35) in Bad Axe, to better cover Michigan's Thumb area. In 1997, concurrent with a rebranding to "Q-TV", both stations changed their calls, with WUCM becoming WDCQ-TV, and WUCX becoming WDCP-TV.
The analog channel 19 transmitter was located on a 496-foot (151 m) tower on the campus of Delta College, near the corner of 4-Mile and Delta Roads in Bay County. The analog channel 35 tower was located just south of Ubly.
The WUCX calls are still used today for Delta College's NPR member station, WUCX-FM (90.1). That station is owned by Central Michigan University, and jointly run by Delta College and CMU.
WDCQ is currently the third most-watched PBS station in Michigan, behind WTVS in Detroit and WGVU-TV in Grand Rapids.[citation needed] As of 2021, Thomas Bennett is the general manager of WDCQ and WUCX-FM.
In late August 2020, Delta College re-branded its public broadcasting operations from "Q-TV" to "Delta College Public Media" to better identify its TV and radio stations as associated with Delta College.
Programming on WDCQ consists of the general primary PBS fare, with some locally produced shows, such as Currently Speaking, a weekly, live current events discussion program hosted by Andy Rapp, who's been a personality at WDCQ since the early 1970s, when he hosted a daily discussion program, Day by Day, which ran on the old WUCM into the 1980s.
Starting in 2005, WDCQ-TV began to produce local documentaries which looked at aspects of local history in the Great Lakes Bay Region and surrounding areas. These documentaries received many state and national awards including four Michigan Association of Broadcasters "Excellence in Broadcasting" Awards, numerous "Telly" awards among others. Documentaries produced include:
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WDCQ-TV
WDCQ-TV (channel 19), branded Delta College Public Media, is a PBS member television station licensed to Bad Axe, Michigan, United States, serving the Flint–Tri-Cities television market. The station is owned by Delta College, and it is a sister station to NPR member WUCX-FM (90.1 MHz, owned by Central Michigan University (CMU) and jointly operated by Delta College and CMU). The two stations share studios at the Frank N. Andersen Broadcast Center on the Delta College campus on Delta Road in University Center, an unincorporated community in Frankenlust Township in southwestern Bay County; WDCQ-TV's transmitter is located in Quanicassee, in northwestern Tuscola County.
The station first signed on the air on October 12, 1964, as WUCM-TV; the "UCM" stood for University Center, Michigan, its city of license. The station was initially affiliated with National Educational Television (NET) until 1970, when the present-day PBS replaced NET. In 1986, WUCM established a satellite, WUCX-TV (channel 35) in Bad Axe, to better cover Michigan's Thumb area. In 1997, concurrent with a rebranding to "Q-TV", both stations changed their calls, with WUCM becoming WDCQ-TV, and WUCX becoming WDCP-TV.
The analog channel 19 transmitter was located on a 496-foot (151 m) tower on the campus of Delta College, near the corner of 4-Mile and Delta Roads in Bay County. The analog channel 35 tower was located just south of Ubly.
The WUCX calls are still used today for Delta College's NPR member station, WUCX-FM (90.1). That station is owned by Central Michigan University, and jointly run by Delta College and CMU.
WDCQ is currently the third most-watched PBS station in Michigan, behind WTVS in Detroit and WGVU-TV in Grand Rapids.[citation needed] As of 2021, Thomas Bennett is the general manager of WDCQ and WUCX-FM.
In late August 2020, Delta College re-branded its public broadcasting operations from "Q-TV" to "Delta College Public Media" to better identify its TV and radio stations as associated with Delta College.
Programming on WDCQ consists of the general primary PBS fare, with some locally produced shows, such as Currently Speaking, a weekly, live current events discussion program hosted by Andy Rapp, who's been a personality at WDCQ since the early 1970s, when he hosted a daily discussion program, Day by Day, which ran on the old WUCM into the 1980s.
Starting in 2005, WDCQ-TV began to produce local documentaries which looked at aspects of local history in the Great Lakes Bay Region and surrounding areas. These documentaries received many state and national awards including four Michigan Association of Broadcasters "Excellence in Broadcasting" Awards, numerous "Telly" awards among others. Documentaries produced include: