Also purchased from SCC at the time was ProVideo of Wisconsin, Inc. In June 2001, QNI purchased from Shockley Communications Corporation five ABC affiliates in Wisconsin: WKOW-TV in Madison, WAOW-TV in Wausau WYOW in Eagle River (a satellite of WAOW) WXOW-TV in La Crosse and WQOW-TV in Eau Claire (a semi-satellite of WXOW). Also in 1995, The Merchant, a weekly shopper in Quincy was purchased by the company. All of the stations were also NBC affiliates at their acquisitions except for WSJV and WREX, which were ABC affiliates however, in 1995, WSJV dropped ABC for Fox, and soon thereafter WREX joined NBC. WSJV in Elkhart, Indiana (serving South Bend) was acquired in 1974 KROC-TV (renamed KTTC) in Rochester, Minnesota in 1976 WHIS-TV (renamed WVVA) in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1979 KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989 and WREX-TV in Rockford in 1995. QNI acquired controlling interest in American Newspapers in 1980 and became sole owner in 1986.īeginning in the 1970s, QNI began a major expansion into television. In 1969, QNI and six other newspaper entities formed American Newspapers Inc., which bought The New Jersey Herald in Newton, New Jersey, converting the semi-weekly to a daily and Sunday publication in 1970. Quincy Broadcasting also operates the Hotel Quincy, which houses the studios of WGEM AM-FM-TV, as a residential/transient hotel. Quincy Broadcasting produced the Quincy region's first television broadcast on September 4, 1953, with the launch of WGEM-TV, the area's NBC affiliate.
to operate WGEM, the city's second AM station. The following year QNI purchased Quincy Broadcasting Co. QNI entered broadcasting in 1947, the year it started Quincy's first commercial FM station, WQDI. In 1920, the Lindsays consolidated the Whig and The Quincy Journal, founded in 1883. Frank Lindsay remained in Decatur with the Decatur Herald and formed an association with another Illinois newspaper family, the Schaubs. bought the Quincy Whig in 1915, with Arthur Lindsay taking up residence in Quincy as president and manager. Eaton's son John Dewitt Eaton stayed with the paper as Advertising Manager until his retirement in 1955. Hedley Eaton retired in 1913 and died in 1936. He retired as editor of the Republic in 1913 and died in 1921. Johnson in ownership of the Rockford Republic. Miller spent four years in Quincy, returning to Rockford in 1896 to join Harry M. Oakley, the first two generations of the Oakleys in the newspaper business in Quincy. Subsequently, Miller brought to the Herald his brother-in-law and nephew, respectively, Aaron Burr Oakley and Ray M. Miller had earlier founded the Rockford Daily Register, that city's oldest newspaper. Miller, Hedley John Eaton and Edmund Botsford. The Herald was purchased in September 1891 by three men from Rockford, Charles L. The corporation was formed in Quincy on July 1, 1926, as a publishing company upon the consolidation of Quincy Herald, direct descendant of the Illinois Bounty Land Register first published in Quincy in 1835, and the Quincy Whig-Journal, descendant of the Quincy Whig founded in 1838. The company moved into radio in 1947 and began television broadcasts in 1953. In 1935, the company was renamed the Quincy Herald-Whig, and it still operates under that name today. Over the next century, a number of mergers followed. "The company's history can be traced back to 1835, when the Bounty Land Register was one of four newspapers in Illinois.
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