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WGEM-TV
WGEM-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Quincy, Illinois, United States, serving the Quincy, Illinois–Hannibal, Missouri–Keokuk, Iowa media market, market as an affiliate of NBC, The CW Plus, and Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. Owned by Gray Media, it is sister station, sister to the company's sole radio property, sports radio, sports station WGEM-FM (105.1). The two stations share studios in the New Tremont Apartments (formerly the Hotel Quincy) on Hampshire Street in downtown Quincy. WGEM-TV's transmitter is located east of the city on Cannonball Road near I-172. Until August 2, 2021, WGEM-TV served as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship television property of founding owner Quincy Media, and was sister to the company's namesake newspaper, ''The Quincy Herald-Whig''. History WGEM-TV's license was originally granted to Quincy Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the ''Herald-Whig''; it was allotted channel 10. The station was originally affiliated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGEM-FM
WGEM-FM (105.1 Hertz, MHz; "Sports Radio 105.1") is a radio station in Quincy, Illinois, broadcasting a sports radio format. The station is the lone radio station owned by Gray Media, which owns WGEM-TV in Quincy, and is affiliated with ESPN Radio. History The station signed on August 1, 1947, as WQDI. It was Quincy Newspapers' first broadcasting station, signing on five months before WGEM (AM), WGEM; it was also the first FM station in the market. The WQDI callsign was retained until 1953, when the station became WGEM-FM to match the AM station and WGEM-TV. For much of its early history, WGEM-FM was a simulcast of WGEM. This ended by 1976, when the station implemented a country music format; "Gem Country" lasted until 2002, when it gave way to a Talk radio, news/talk format. On February 1, 2021, Gray Television announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire all Quincy Media television and radio properties for $925 million in a cash transaction. This included WGEM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHQA-TV
KHQA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Hannibal, Missouri, United States, serving the Quincy, Illinois–Hannibal, Missouri–Keokuk, Iowa market as an affiliate of CBS and ABC. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and maintains studios on South 36th Street in Quincy; its transmitter is located northeast of the city on Cannonball Road near I-172. History KHQA went on-the-air September 23, 1953. The station was originally owned by Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa, along with the '' Hannibal Courier-Post'' and WTAD radio ( 930 AM and 99.5 FM, now WCOY). Despite the common ownership, Lee was unable to use the WTAD-TV calls because Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules of the time did not allow stations to share common base callsigns if they were licensed in different cities. While licensed to Hannibal (hence accounting for the "H" in its callsign, as well as its callsign beginning with a "K"), its studios have long been located across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Quincy Herald-Whig
Quincy Media, Inc., formerly known as Quincy Newspapers, Inc., was a family-owned media company that originated in the newspapers of Quincy, Illinois. The company's history can be traced back to 1835, when the ''Bounty Land Register'' was one of four newspapers in Illinois. Over the next century, a number of mergers followed. The company moved into radio in 1947 and began television broadcasts in 1953. The company was owned by the Oakley and Lindsay families of Quincy. History The corporation was formed in Quincy on June 1, 1926, as Quincy Newspapers after the merger of the ''Quincy Herald'', direct descendant of the ''Illinois Bounty Land Register'' first published in Quincy in 1835, and the ''Quincy Whig-Journal'', descendant of the ''Quincy Whig'' founded in 1838. The two papers were combined to form a single daily paper, the ''Quincy Herald-Whig.'' The ''Herald'' was purchased in September 1891 by three men from Rockford, Charles L. Miller, Hedley John Eaton and Edmund Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJJY-TV
WJJY-TV (channel 14) was a television station in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States, which broadcast from 1969 to 1971. It was the ABC affiliate for Quincy, Illinois, and served Springfield as well. History West-central Illinois had limited choices for television in the 1960s. Most of the western portion of the region was in the Quincy market, while most of the eastern portion was part of the Springfield– Decatur trading area of the Champaign– Urbana–Springfield market. A significant part of the Quincy market was in the states of Missouri and Iowa. For much of the region, television was limited to WGEM-TV and KHQA-TV in Quincy, or grade B signals from the St. Louis VHF stations. A few homes in the area (mostly in the eastern part of the region) could watch UHF stations from Springfield, and with luck could pick up signals from Peoria. Keith Moyer, with the help of several Jacksonville-area investors, formed Look Television Corporation and applied for the channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGEM Logo
WGEM may refer to: * WGEM-FM, a radio station (105.1 FM) licensed to Quincy, Illinois, United States * WGEM-TV WGEM-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Quincy, Illinois, United States, serving the Quincy, Illinois–Hannibal, Missouri–Keokuk, Iowa media market, market as an affiliate of NBC, The CW Plus, and Fox Broadcasting Company, ..., a television station (channel 10) licensed to Quincy, Illinois * WGEM (AM), a defunct radio station (1440 AM) formerly licensed to Quincy, Illinois {{Call sign disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual program stream, and multiplexing to combine them into a single signal. The practice is sometimes called " multicasting". ATSC television United States The ATSC digital television standard used in the United States supports multiple program streams over-the-air, allowing television stations to transmit one or more subchannels over a single digital signal. A virtual channel numbering scheme distinguishes broadcast subchannels by appending the television channel number with a period digit (".xx"). Simultaneously, the suffix indicates that a television station offers additional programming streams. By convention, the suffix position ".1" is normally used to refer to the station's main d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC (commonly known as Fox; stylized in all caps) is an Television in the United States, American commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast television broadcaster, television network serving as the flagship property of Fox Corporation and operated through Fox Entertainment. Fox is based at Fox Corporation's corporate headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and it hosts additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and at the Fox Media Center in Tempe, Arizona. The channel was launched by News Corporation on October 9, 1986 as a competitor to the Big Three (American television), Big Three television networks, which are the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and the NBC, National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network; it was also the highest-Nielsen ratings, rated free-to-air netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal is a city along the Mississippi River in Marion County, Missouri, Marion and Ralls County, Missouri, Ralls counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 17,108, making it the largest city in Marion County. The bulk of the city is in Marion County, with a tiny sliver in the south extending into Ralls County. Nestled on the Mississippi River, commerce and traffic has long been an integral part of Hannibal's development, including by river, rail and the interstate/highway system. Today the city is intersected by Interstate 72 and U.S. Routes U.S. Route 24 in Missouri, 24, U.S. Route 36 in Missouri, 36, and U.S. Route 61 in Missouri, 61. Hannibal is approximately northwest of St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis (also bordering the Mississippi), east-northeast of Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City and miles east of Saint Joseph, Missouri, Saint Joseph (both cities on the Missouri River), and approximate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penske Media Corporation
Penske Media Corporation (PMC ) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City. It publishes more than 20 digital and print brands, including '' Variety'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Women's Wear Daily'', ''Deadline Hollywood'', ''Billboard'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', '' Boy Genius Report'', '' Robb Report'', '' Artforum'', ''ARTNews'', and others. PMC's Chairman and CEO since founding is Jay Penske. In addition to media publications, Penske Media Corporation owns the Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival and is a 50 percent stakeholder in South by Southwest. It is also the owner of Dick Clark Productions which includes the award shows Golden Globe Awards, American Music Awards, Streamy Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and the Billboard Music Awards. History 2003–2011: Founding and early years of Penske Media Penske Media Corporation was founded by Jay Penske in 2003. It began as an affinity marketin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Globe Newswire
GlobeNewswire provides press release distribution services globally, with substantial operations in North America, Europe and Asia. In 2025, Notified, parent company GlobeNewswire entered into an agreement to be acquired by Equiniti. GlobeNewswire was a Nasdaq, Inc. subsidiary from September 2006 until April 2018 when West Corporation (noNotified acquired the Public Relations Solutions and Digital Media Services Businesses, including GlobeNewswire. Formerly known as PrimeNewswire, the company changed its name to GlobeNewswire in 2008 to better reflect its international scope. History GlobeNewswire was established in 1998 with the goal of eliminating the 15-minute delay in disclosing financial releases to all media, as well as offering Investor Relations website management services, hosting online customer service centers, and delivering the news via HTML email. GlobeNewswire facilitates the distribution of corporate press releases, financial disclosures, and multimedia conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
