WLCQ-TV

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WLCQ-TV (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Liberty City, Liberty, serving as the market's outlet for the Central Television Network. Owned and operated by network's Central Networks Corporation division alongside independent outlet WLCY (channel 20), its transmitter is located at the top of the Rotterdam Tower, and studios at East Island City on Dukes.
==History==
The station began operations on April 9, 1957, as WLC-TV. It was originally owned by Frank Annenberg's Pentagon Publications and operated as an independent station, publishers of the Liberty Times and owners of WLC radio (965 AM). Channel 20 has a long history of producing local programs. On March 26, 1958, it aired a production of Parsifal that featured conducting 50 players from the Liberty City Orchestra, a chorus of 300, and the Wanamaker Organ. Perhaps its most notable local production was Bandstand, which began in 1952 and originated from WLC-TV's newly constructed Studio B (located in the 1952 addition to the 46th and Market studio).
Other well known locally produced shows included the children's programs Captain Noah and His Magical Ark and Chief Halftown and two variety programs: The Al Alberts Showcase, a talent show emceed by the lead singer of The Four Aces; and The Larry Ferrari Show, on which the host played organ versions of both popular and religious music.
Channel 2 became a charter Central affiliate on its expansion to the United States on September 1966. Pentagon merged with then-Austin, Texas-based Capitol States Broadcasting Company in 1971, and moved to Paradise City, CA; where Capitol States had owned local and fellow affiliate KPVI (channel 6) since its inception.
WLC-TV was sold off to Quebecor Media in 1976. To differentiate channel 2 to its now former sister station, Quebecor added a Q in its call letters, forming the current WLCQ-TV (the -TV suffix was not used from 1976-2009).
After Quebecor, which became the current Pierre Péladeau Company in 1993, acquired Capitol States in 1986, it automatically became a Central owned-and-operated station. The station kept its legacy WLCQ call letters.
==Programming==
===Syndicated programming===
Syndicated programs broadcast on WLCQ-TV include Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Wendy Williams Show, Tamron Hall, Dr. Phil, Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight.
===News operation===
WLCQ-TV currently produces 39 hours, 23 minutes of of locally produced newscasts each week (including 6 hours, 7 minutes each weekday, and 4 1/2 hours weekends). The station airs its 11 p.m. newscasts for one full hour on weekends and the standard 35 minutes on weeknights (since 1995), and is the first to carry the hour-long prime access hour on all Central owned-and-operated stations.
====Titles====
*Channel 2 News (1961-1993)
*NewsCenter 2 (1993-2008)
*CEN 2 News (2008–2022)
*Liberty City News (2022–present)
====Theme History====
*Move Closer To Your World - Mayoham Music (1973-1980)
*Channel 2 News - Bob Sakayama (1976-1978, only on late-night newscasts/updates)
*Cool Hand Luke: Tar Sequence - Lalo Schifrin (1980-1988)
*News 88 - Tuesday Productions (1988-1994)
*In-Sink - 615 Music (1994-2017)
*High Velocity - 615 Music (2017–2022)
*Ascend - Stephen Arnold Music (2022–present)
==Gallery==
WLCQ Circle 2.svg|"Circle 2" used since 1978
WLCQ 1985 ID.png|Spirit of Liberty on TV 2 (1985-1988)
WLCQ 1987 open.png|Channel 2 News open (1987-1989)
WLCQ O&O.png|The One & Only TV 2 (1998)
WLCQ Open (1993).png|NewsCenter 2 open (1993-1999)
WLCQ open.png|2 News open (2008-2017)
WLCQ 2017 open.png|2 News open (2017-2022)
WLCQ screengrab.png|Graphics (2017-2022; recorded from noon newscasts in May 2020)
WLCQ 2021 screengrab.png|Graphics (2017-2022, recorded from 11pm newscasts in August 2021)
LCN generic open 2022.png|Liberty City News generic open since March 2022
==Techincal information==
===Subchannels===
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programing
2.1 	1080p	16:9 	WLCQ-HD 	Main WLCQ programming / Central
2.2 	1080p	16:9 	NWLD 	NWLD-LC
2.3 	1080p	4:3 	Story 	Story Television
2.4 	1080p	4:3 	 	TBD (TV network)
2.5 	1080p	4:3 	AVGN 	Avant Garde Network
===Analog-to-digital transition===
WLCQ shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 2. In 2017, during the digital television repack, WLCQ moved from UHF channel 48 to UHF channel 18.
Category:Liberty City
Category:Liberty
Category:Channel 2
Category:Central Television Network
Category:Central owned and operated stations
Category:Central affiliates
Category:The Pierre Péladeau Company
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1957
Category:Former independent stations
Category:NewsWorld network affiliates
Category:Avant Garde Network affiliates
Category:TBD network affiliates