WQAD-TV

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WQAD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Moline, Illinois, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by the Tegna subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group; Nexstar also owns CBS affiliate WHBF-TV (channel 4) and CW station KGCW (channel 26), and operates Fox affiliate KLJB (channel 18). WQAD-TV's studios are located on Park 16th Street in Moline, and its transmitter is located in Orion, Illinois. Channel 8 was a comparatively late addition to the market; the allocation was removed from Peoria, Illinois, as part of contentious channel planning proceedings there. Eight different companies pursued the permit to build the station, with Moline Television Corporation prevailing in 1962 after years of hearings. WQAD-TV began broadcasting on August 1, 1963, as the Quad Cities' ABC affiliate. Lingering disputes from the comparative hearing process stretched into the 1970s and impeded an attempted sale of the station. In 1977, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company acquired WQAD-TV. It made changes to the local newscasts in an attempt to lift them out of second- and third-place positions, but it has remained in second, as a variety of owners have been unable to put the station ahead of dominant KWQC-TV in the Quad Cities market. Tegna acquired WQAD-TV in 2019 as part of a divestiture package from the merger of Tribune Media and Nexstar Media Group. In addition to its main ABC programming, WQAD-TV programs "MyTV 8-3", a digital subchannel with MyNetworkTV and other programming. In 2026, Tegna and Nexstar merged, bringing WQAD-TV under common operation with WHBF-TV, KLJB, and KGCW.