WMQF
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WMQF is the newest TV station in the Marquette market, providing Fox and UPN 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-LP channel 49, later channel 25. WUPT folded in 2003 after losing the UPN affiliation to WMQF.
In the fall of 2006 WMQF will add secondary programming from Fox's newest sibling My Network TV.
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| Broadcast television in the Marquette market [(Nielsen DMA #180)]''' | ||
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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) | ||
| Broadcast television available on cable only: | ||
| CBMT 6 (CBC) (Montreal) - WLUK 11 (Fox) (Green Bay) - WFQX 33 (Fox) (Cadillac) | ||
| WJBK 2 ([[Template:Detroit TV|Detroit]]) - WXMI 17 ([[Template:Grand Rapids TV|Grand Rapids]]) - WMQF 19 ([[Template:Marquette TV|Marquette]]) - W32CV 321 ([[Template:Duluth TV|Ironwood]]) - WFQX 33 / WFUP 45 ([[Template:Northern Michigan TV|Cadillac / Vanderbilt]]) - W40AN 402 ([[Template:Green Bay TV|Escanaba]]) - WSYM 47 ([[Template:Lansing TV|Lansing]]) - WSMH 66 ([[Template:Flint-Saginaw-Bay City TV|Flint / Saginaw]]) | |
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1W32CV is a repeater of KQDS-TV, [[Template:Duluth TV|Duluth, Minnesota]]. 2W40AN is a repeater of WLUK-TV, [[Template:Green Bay TV|Green Bay, Wisconsin]]. | |
| See also: [[Template:ABC Michigan|ABC]], [[Template:CBS Michigan|CBS]], [[Template:NBC Michigan|NBC]], [[Template:PBS Michigan|PBS]], [[Template:UPN Michigan|UPN]], [[Template:WB Michigan|WB]] and [[Template:Other Michigan Stations|Other]] stations in Michigan and [[Template:CBC Ontario|CBC]], [[Template:CTV Ontario|CTV]], [[Template:Global Ontario|Global]], [[Template:SRC Ontario|SRC]] and [[Template:Other Ontario Stations|Other]] stations in Ontario | |
Note: Networks in parenthesis indicate affiliations starting September 2006.
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WXSP-CA 151 / WOOD-DT 7.2 / WOTV-DT 20.2 ([[Template:Grand Rapids TV|Grand Rapids / Battle Creek]], MNTV) -
WHTV 18 ([[Template:Lansing TV|Jackson]], MNTV) -
WMQF 19 ([[Template:Marquette TV|Marquette]], MNTV) - WFQX 33 / WFUP 45 ([[Template:Northern Michigan TV|Cadillac /Vanderbilt]], ND) - WKBD 50 ([[Template:Detroit TV|Detroit]], The CW) | |
| 1Also has a network of low-powered repeaters. | |
| See also: [[Template:ABC Michigan|ABC]], [[Template:CBS Michigan|CBS]], [[Template:Fox Michigan|Fox]], [[Template:NBC Michigan|NBC]], [[Template:PBS Michigan|PBS]], [[Template:WB Michigan|WB]] and [[Template:Other Michigan Stations|Other]] stations in Michigan and [[Template:CBC Ontario|CBC]], [[Template:CTV Ontario|CTV]], [[Template:Global Ontario|Global]], [[Template:SRC Ontario|SRC]] and [[Template:Other Ontario Stations|Other]] stations in Ontario | |
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