WDCQ-TV (channel 19), branded Delta College Public Media, is a PBS member television station licensed to Bad Axe, Michigan, United States, serving the Flint–Tri-Cities television market. The station is owned by Delta College, and it is a sister station to NPR member WUCX-FM (90.1 MHz, owned by Central Michigan University (CMU) and jointly operated by Delta College and CMU). The two stations share studios at the Frank N. Andersen Broadcast Center on the Delta College campus on Delta Road in University Center, an unincorporated community in Frankenlust Township in southwestern Bay County; WDCQ-TV's transmitter is located in Quanicassee, in northwestern Tuscola County.
History
The station first signed on the air on October 12, 1964, as WUCM-TV; the "UCM" stood for University Center, Michigan, its city of license. The station was affiliated with National Educational Television (NET) from 1967 to 1970, when the present-day PBS replaced NET. In 1986, WUCM established a satellite, WUCX-TV (channel 35) in Bad Axe, to better cover Michigan's Thumb area. In 1997, concurrent with a rebranding to "Q-TV", both stations changed their calls, with WUCM becoming WDCQ-TV, and WUCX becoming WDCP-TV.
The analog channel 19 transmitter was located on a 496 ft tower on the campus of Delta College, near the corner of 4-Mile and Delta Roads in Bay County. The analog channel 35 tower was located just south of