MOLINE, Illinois – WQPT, Quad Cities PBS public affairs program “The Cities with Jim Mertens” has been focusing on the area’s elections through a series of programs dealing with the 71st Illinois Assembly race between Mayor Tony McCombie (...
MOLINE, IL – WQPT, Quad Cities PBS invites veterans who served in the United States military, in any capacity, from World War I through the present and those no longer serving, to share their story of service as a part of the Library of Congress...
MOLINE, IL – WQPT, Quad Cities PBS is pleased to announce that Andrew Orrego-Lindstad has joined the station as their new Director of Development. Andrew comes to WQPT from the Second Wind Fund, a statewide youth and child suicide prevention men...
MOLINE, ILLINOIS – WQPT and Fourth Wall Films took home Second Place in Public Affairs at the Iowa Broadcast News Association award ceremony on April 23 in Waterloo, Iowa for their documentary “Letters Home to Hero Street.”
MOLINE, IL – WQPT received nearly 300 stories from students in kindergarten through third grade for the annual PBS KIDS Writers Contest. Sixteen winners (four from each grade) were selected by educators and contest sponsors. The winners and ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Whiskey Cookers: The Amazing True Story of the Templeton Rye Bootleggers, the award-winning documentary on the history of the famous Prohibition bootleggers from Templeton, Iowa, will receive its television broadcast prem...
MOLINE, IL – WQPT in partnership with Mickle Communications is devoting a full night of programming on March 31 to the topic of teen suicide and depression. “Mike Mickle of Mickle Communications approached me about the topic and we decided t...
MOLINE, IL — WQPT, Quad Cities PBS, in partnership with Western Illinois University-Quad Cities, the Child Abuse Council, Child Care Resource & Referral, the Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, Quad Cities Association for the Education o...
MOLINE, IL – With a sold-out crowd for the March 19 WQPT event, Imagination Station, the Quad Cities Public Broadcasting Station is issuing a call for volunteers to help with the day's activities.
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