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WMWC-TV Galesburg, IL (Quad Cities)

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Iowan

Recently, a TV station has been given the call letters WMWC. The tower is supposed to be located in Orion, IL, where most of the QC TV towers are. However, this station, before it could sign on the air in 2001, was blocked by the owner(s) of KLJB and KGCW. The station was supposed to air UPN programming and local sports among other shows. Now there's only three days left to complete the construction of the tower as the CP expires this Thursday!
 
UPDATE: Looks like they're working to add a new antenna to the Orion tower right now. According to WQAD, most QC stations (the ones with transmitters located in the Orion outskirts) will be at reduced power during the week and then out Saturday morning. Looks like the Quad Cities will get a new station after all. Welcome aboard, WMWC!
 
Too bad there won't be any syndicated programming....Will KFXA (or the owners of) still be managing WMWC as initially reported in 2001?
 
KS-IL-IA said:
Owned/managed by Trinity Broadcasting.
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As is WWTO-35 (RF 10) LaSalle/Chicago, which formerly had an analog translator in Galesburg (as well as in the likes of Peoria, Sterling, Rockford, Bloomington, etc.). And wasn't that Galesburg TBN translator (at channel 51) the only one still operating as of last year (TBN shut down the others rather than covert them to digital, despite holding CP's for them)?
 
Work has been done over the past few weeks to make way on the Orion antenna that serves, I believe, almost every TV station in town, to make way for the addition.
 
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