Editing WBQC-LD (section)

{{Short description|Television station in Cincinnati, Ohio}}
{{redirect|WKRP-TV|the sitcom|WKRP in Cincinnati||WKRP (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WBQC-LD
| logo = Telemundo Cincinnati logo.png
| logo_upright = .6
| branding = Telemundo Cincinnati
| digital = 28 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 25
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''25.1:''' [[Telemundo]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Gray Media]]
| licensee = Gray Television Licensee, [[LLC]]
| location = [[Cincinnati]], Ohio
| country = United States
| founded = September 24, 1986
| airdate = {{start date and age|1990|09|29|p=y|br=y}}
| callsign_meaning = "The WB, Queen City"
| sister_stations = [[WXIX-TV]]
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|W25AI (1988–1995){{efn|The FCC's call sign records show the station having the "DW25AI" call sign between January and February 1989; FCC conventions indicate that such a D in the ''front'' indicates a deleted license.}}|WBQC-LP (1995–2001)|WBQC-CA (2001–2010)<ref>[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=19431&Callsign=WBQC-CA FCC Call Sign History]</ref>}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 25 (UHF, 1988–2005), 38 (UHF, 2005–2009)|'''Digital:''' 47 (UHF, 2007–2018), 20 (UHF, 2018–2019)|'''Virtual:''' 20 (2018–2019)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1990–1995, 1998, 2006–2011)|[[The WB]] (1995–1998)|[[UPN]] (1998–2006)|[[Ion Television|Pax TV]] (secondary, 1999–?)<ref name="wbqcpax">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-pax-will-strengt/171164767/|title=Pax will strengthen local UPN|first=John|last=Kiesewetter|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=September 15, 1999|page=E8|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>|[[Retro TV|RTV]] (2011–2012)<ref name="Frontier25">{{cite web|title=WKRP: A New Frontier|publisher=WKRP 25|url=https://wkrp.tv/wkrp%3A-a-new-frontier|access-date=September 22, 2018}}</ref>|[[Cozi TV]] (2012–2023)}}
| erp = 15 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|255.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class = [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|LD]]
| facility_id = 168413
| coordinates = {{coord|39|7|30.4|N|84|29|56|W|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.telemundocincinnati.com/}}
}}

'''WBQC-LD''' (channel 25) is a [[low-power television station]] in [[Cincinnati]], Ohio, United States, affiliated with the [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish-language]] network [[Telemundo]]. It is owned by [[Gray Media]] alongside [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[WXIX-TV]] (channel 19) and 24/7 weather channel WZCD-LD (channel 30). The three stations share studios at 19 Broadcast Plaza on Seventh Street in the [[Queensgate, Cincinnati|Queensgate]] neighborhood just west of [[downtown Cincinnati]]; WBQC-LD's transmitter is located on Symmes Street in the [[Mount Auburn, Cincinnati|Mount Auburn]] section of the city.

According to its website, WBQC was the first television station to be fully automated.<ref name="History">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wbqc.com/aboutus/history/index.htm |title=History |access-date=October 19, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211112114/http://www.wbqc.com/aboutus/history/index.htm |archive-date=December 11, 2004 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was also the first station in Cincinnati to perform "digital [[Television advertisement|spot]] insertion" and to air Spanish-language commercials.