WQEK-LD


WQEK-LD is a digital low-powered television station that is licensed to Clarksdale, Mississippi within the Memphis, Tennessee television market. The station is a Cozi TV affiliate, and is owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida. WQEK’s digital signal is broadcast on UHF Channel 30, but is displayed as virtual channel 36 via PSIP.
WQEK's low-power signal does not actually reach its city of license of Clarksdale, and it instead serves the inner core of the Memphis market, though unlike sister station Paragould, Arkansas-licensed KPMF-LD, Clarksdale is fully within the Memphis market. WQEK-LD and KPMF-LD's transmitters are co-located on the Tegna tower near Brunswick, Tennessee, in northern Shelby County.

History

The station’s construction permit was granted by the Federal Communications Commission for the station as W18EK-D on October 2, 2012. The station’s call letters were changed to the current WQEK-LD on December 7, 2015. WQEK-LD finally took to the air in September 2016 as a Cozi TV affiliate. A total of eight subchannels were launched in its first months on the air, offering multiple digital networks.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
VCVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgramming
36.1480iWQEK-LDSoul of the South
36.2480iWQEK-LDDecades
36.3480iWQEK-LDMovies!
36.4480iWQEK-LDStadium
36.5480iWQEK-LDJustice Network
36.6480iWQEK-LDvacant
36.7480iWQEK-LDShop LC
36.8480iWQEK-LDQVC2