KWQC TV 6 is a TV station in Davenport, Iowa, USA airing NBC network programs, local news and weather.
The station is an affiliate of the NBC Television Network.
KWQC TV 6 in Davenport broadcasts to the Quad Cities, a region that includes Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline in northwestern Illinois.
The station began broadcasting on October 31, 1949 as WOC TV. It was founded by B. J. Palmer, founder of the Palmer College of Chiropractic. It has been said that the WOC call letters stood for Wonders of Chiropractic, though the Palmer family never acknowledged that to be the case. WOC was the first TV station in Iowa and the Quad Cities. In 1986 the Palmers sold the WOC and KIIK radio stations to Vickie Anne Palmer and her then-husband J. Douglas Miller. Due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules of the time, channel 6 changed its call letters to KWQC (Welcome to the Quad Cities) so as not to confuse the two properties. KWQC was sold to Broad Street Television in 1989 and to Young Broadcasting in 1995. Gray Television bought the station from Nexstar Media Group in 2016.
This TV station is owned by Gray Television, Inc.
For KWQC TV 6 contact information, see the Iowa news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
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KWQC TV 6 Names New News Director KWQC TV 6 Names Beth Marsoun News Director
KWQC TV 6 Moves National Sales From Adam Young, Inc. to Cox Reps
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-- Richard Kurz has been named news director of KWQC TV 6, Media General’s NBC affiliate in Davenport, Iowa, effective March 2014. Since 2006, Kurz has been executive producer and special projects manager for KGW Portland, Ore., where he oversaw a number of daily newscasts as well as the station’s investigative efforts and political content. Kurz replaces Beth Marsoun, who stepped down in January.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, March 6, 2014
-- Marsoun had been serving as interim news director there since March 2012. Kenneth Freedman, VP and GM of KWQC TV 6, announced the appointment on July 6, 2012.
“Beth has distinguished herself as a strong leader of KWQC’s news department, winning the respect of those both inside and outside of the station,” Freedman said. “She has worked tirelessly to uphold the reputation of KWQC as the...
-- January 11, 2011 -- Adam Young, Inc., the national television representation firm owned by Young Broadcasting, will cease operations at the end of January 2011. National sales for Young Broadcasting’s 10 television stations will now be handled by Cox Reps, a division of Cox Media Group, Inc.
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