WQAD-TV, the Glossary
WQAD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Moline, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an affiliate of ABC.[1]
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100 relations: ABC World News Tonight, Ajit Pai, American Broadcasting Company, Antenna TV, Apollo Global Management, Aspect ratio (image), Attempted acquisition of Tribune Media by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Bettendorf, Iowa, Bloomberg L.P., Breach of contract, Broadcast license, Business Wire, CBS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chicago Tribune, Columbus, Ohio, Comparative hearing, Cowles Media Company, Davenport, Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Digital subchannel, Display resolution, E. W. Scripps Company, Federal Communications Commission, Hoda Kotb, KBOB (AM), KCCI, KCRG-TV, KGAN, KGCW, KLJB, KWQC-TV, Limited liability company, Local TV LLC, Los Angeles Times, Master control, Mediacom, Michael Gartner, Microwave transmission, Moline, Illinois, Multiplex (television), Muscular Dystrophy Association, MyNetworkTV, Myocardial infarction, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, NBC, New York (magazine), News Hub, Newton N. Minow, Nexstar Media Group, ... Expand index (50 more) »
- 1963 establishments in Illinois
- Television channels and stations established in 1963
- Television stations in the Quad Cities
ABC World News Tonight
ABC World News Tonight (titled ABC World News Tonight with David Muir for its weeknight broadcasts since September 2014) is the flagship daily evening television news program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network in the United States.
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Ajit Pai
Ajit Varadaraj Pai (born January 10, 1973) is an American lawyer who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Antenna TV
Antenna TV is an American digital television network owned by Nexstar Media Group.
Apollo Global Management
Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets.
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Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.
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The attempted acquisition of Tribune Media by Sinclair Broadcast Group was a proposed broadcast media transaction between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media.
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Bettendorf, Iowa
Bettendorf is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.
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Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Breach of contract
Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance.
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Broadcast license
A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes.
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Business Wire
Business Wire is an American company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.
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Comparative hearing
The comparative hearing process was used by the United States Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934 and its successor, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), from 1934 to 1994 for the evaluation of mutually exclusive applications for broadcast stations and other licenses.
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Cowles Media Company (1935–1998) was a newspaper, magazine and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States.
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Davenport, Iowa
Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel.
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Display resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
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E. W. Scripps Company
The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb (هدى قطب, Hudā Quṭb;; born August 9, 1964) is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author.
KBOB (AM)
KBOB is a radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, and airs a sports format.
KCCI
KCCI (channel 8) is a television station in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, affiliated with CBS. WQAD-TV and KCCI are myNetworkTV affiliates.
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KCRG-TV
KCRG-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW. WQAD-TV and KCRG-TV are American Broadcasting Company affiliates and myNetworkTV affiliates.
KGAN
KGAN (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of CBS and Fox. WQAD-TV and KGAN are Quest (American TV network) affiliates.
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KGCW
KGCW (channel 26) is a television station licensed to Burlington, Iowa, United States, serving as the CW network outlet for the Quad Cities area. WQAD-TV and KGCW are television stations in the Quad Cities.
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KLJB
KLJB (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Quad Cities area. WQAD-TV and KLJB are television stations in the Quad Cities.
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KWQC-TV
KWQC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an affiliate of NBC. WQAD-TV and KWQC-TV are television stations in the Quad Cities.
Limited liability company
A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.
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Local TV LLC
Local TV LLC was a television broadcasting company owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners which operated 20 television stations in the United States.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Master control
Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks.
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Mediacom Communications Corporation is the United States' fifth-largest cable television provider based on the number of video subscribers, and among the leading cable operators focused on serving smaller cities and towns.
Michael Gartner
Michael Gartner (born October 25, 1938, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American journalist, attorney and businessman.
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Microwave transmission
Microwave transmission is the transmission of information by electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the microwave frequency range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz (1 m - 1 mm wavelength) of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Moline, Illinois
Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.
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Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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Muscular Dystrophy Association
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases.
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MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (stylized as myNetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of Fox First Run.
Myocardial infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and affiliated companies, commonly shortened to Nationwide, is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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New York (magazine)
New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.
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News Hub
News HUB (formerly known as Independent News Network) is a production company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, which syndicates "localized" news programs for broadcast television stations in the United States, that have budgets limiting their ability to produce their own local newscasts.
Newton N. Minow
Newton Norman Minow (January 17, 1926 – May 6, 2023) was an American attorney who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
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Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago.
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Oak Hill Capital Partners
Oak Hill Capital Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in New York City, with more than $19 billion of committed capital from entrepreneurs, endowments, foundations, corporations, pension funds and global financial institutions.
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Orion, Illinois
Orion is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.
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Peoria, Illinois
Peoria is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
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Private equity firm
A private equity firm is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of startup or operating companies through a variety of loosely affiliated investment strategies including leveraged buyout, venture capital, and growth capital.
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Quad Cities
The Quad Cities is a region of cities (originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois.
Quad-City Times
The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area, including Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, and Rock Island County in Illinois.
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Quest (American TV network)
Quest is an American digital multicast television network owned by Tegna Inc. The network specializes in travel, historical, science, and adventure-focused documentary and reality series aimed at adults between the ages of 25 and 54. WQAD-TV and Quest (American TV network) are Tegna Inc..
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RabbitEars
RabbitEars is a website that provides information on over-the-air digital television in the United States, its territories, protectorates, and border areas of Canada and Mexico.
Randy Michaels
Benjamin Homel, known professionally as Randy Michaels, is an American broadcasting executive and a former member of the National Association of Broadcasters TV Board.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Robert H. Michel
Robert Henry Michel (March 2, 1923 – February 17, 2017) was an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years.
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Robert S. Kerr
Robert Samuel Kerr (September 11, 1896 – January 1, 1963) was an American businessman and politician from Oklahoma.
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Robin Swoboda
Robin Swoboda (born December 30, 1958) is an American television news anchor, talk show host, and actress in Cleveland, Ohio, best known for her career on various television and radio stations primarily in Cleveland, as well as hosting national television programs.
Rock Island, Illinois
Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.
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Romper Room
Romper Room is an American children's television series that was franchised and syndicated from 1953 to 1994.
Scripps News
Scripps News is an American news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by the Scripps Networks division of the E. W. Scripps Company.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith.
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Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.
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Standard General
Standard General L.P. is an American hedge fund headquartered in New York City.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Tegna Inc.
Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.
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The Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
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The Detroit News
The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.
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The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus
The Dispatch–Argus is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf.
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The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon
The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual telethon held on (starting the night before and throughout) Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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The Nest (TV network)
The Nest is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American mass-media company that publishes The New York Times, its associated publications, and other media properties.
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Today (American TV program)
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.
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Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC was an American media company which operated as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Tribune Publishing
Tribune Publishing Company (briefly Tronc, Inc.) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company.
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True Crime Network
True Crime Network (formerly Justice Network) is an American digital multicast television network that is operated by True Crime Network, LLC, a limited liability company, which is owned by Tegna Inc. The network specializes in true crime, investigation and forensic science documentary programming aimed at adults – with a skew toward women – between the ages of 25 and 54. WQAD-TV and true Crime Network are Tegna Inc..
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006.
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Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.
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Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
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WBQD-LP
WBQD-LP (channel 26) was a low-power television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, which operated from 2002 to 2011. WQAD-TV and WBQD-LP are myNetworkTV affiliates and television stations in the Quad Cities.
WEEK-TV
WEEK-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Peoria, Illinois, United States, affiliated with NBC, ABC, and The CW Plus. WQAD-TV and WEEK-TV are American Broadcasting Company affiliates.
WGN (AM)
WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a talk radio format.
WHBF-TV
WHBF-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities area. WQAD-TV and WHBF-TV are television stations in the Quad Cities.
WHOI (TV)
WHOI (channel 19) is a television station in Peoria, Illinois, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network TBD.
WOI-DT
WOI-DT (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, serving the Des Moines area as an affiliate of ABC. WQAD-TV and WOI-DT are American Broadcasting Company affiliates, Tegna Inc., the Nest (TV network) affiliates and true Crime Network affiliates.
16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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2016 United States wireless spectrum auction
The 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, officially known as Auction 1001, allocated approximately 100 MHz of the United States Ultra High Frequency (UHF) spectrum formerly allocated to UHF television in the 600 MHz band.
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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720p
720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1).
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See also
1963 establishments in Illinois
- 400 East Randolph
- American College of Psychiatrists
- Bald Knob Cross
- Chicago Brass Quintet
- Coal Miner (statue)
- Eagle Creek State Park (Illinois)
- Egyptian Community Unit School District 5
- Forest View High School (Illinois)
- Guilford High School (Illinois)
- Hancock Stadium
- Judson University
- Lake Michigan High-Rises
- Lands' End
- Marist High School (Chicago, Illinois)
- Olney Central College
- Performance Seed Dirt Double (Springfield)
- Portillo's Restaurants
- Red Skelton Memorial Bridge
- Romeoville High School
- Rosary High School (Aurora, Illinois)
- Seton Academy (South Holland, Illinois)
- State Farm Center
- United States Penitentiary, Marion
- WCFJ (Illinois)
- WEEF
- WGFB
- WKJR
- WKZI
- WPNA-FM
- WQAD-TV
- WRCR (Illinois)
- WXLC
Television channels and stations established in 1963
- CJPM-DT
- Canal 5 (Uruguay)
- Channel 10 (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
- Channel 5 (Singaporean TV channel)
- Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel)
- DYPT-TV
- Fukushima Television
- Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation
- Glasgow University Student Television
- KAIT
- KCDO-TV
- KREZ-TV
- KWHY-TV
- KYMA-DT
- Korean Central Television
- La Première (RTI)
- RTQ
- Radio Télévision du Burkina
- Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirienne
- Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation
- TV Anhanguera Goiânia
- TV Difusora São Luís
- TV1 (Malaysian TV network)
- Telearuba 13
- Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
- WCTI-TV
- WGHP
- WGSF (TV)
- WHNT-TV
- WLNE-TV
- WMVT
- WOOK-TV
- WOUB-TV
- WQAD-TV
- XHY-TDT
- ZDF
Television stations in the Quad Cities
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQAD-TV
Also known as ABC 8 Quad Cities, ABC Quad Cities, Midnite Mausoleum, WQAD, WQAD Storm Track 8000 doppler weather channel, WQAD-DT2, WQAD-DT3, Wqad.com.
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