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My time at KWQC was nothing but miserable. In the time that I was there, we went through 4 news directors in my less than 2 years working there. If you are expecting growth in your career, I suggest you go anywhere besides KWQC TV6 news as they traumatize their employees with their lack of communication and leadership. I have never worked for an organization so unprofessional, disorganized, and led by a team of managers who refuse to do work. They sit in the conference room all day having “meetings” and nothing productive comes from the closed door “meetings” because they are not talking about anything productive, they just gossip about employees. I have never felt so disrespected and taken advantage of. My time at KWQC TV6 News Station in DAVENPORT, IA was an experience I hope I hopefully can forget. As a minority, I was met with racist comments from a senior anchor and my news director as well. I find it very unbelievable that a station as poorly run as KWQC is still operating after losing 13 employees in less than 1 year. Mind you, we also went through 2 general managers. The current general manager disrespects women and doesn’t respect minority culture. He also has no respect for the only black television show in this market that is at his station. Employees leave meetings crying because of the disrespect and their inability to train. I really want to emphasize that they do not communicate. So if you decide you would like to be part of that toxic environment, just know you will have an assignment manager that will change your reporter story as you are in the middle of an interview for the reporter story she originally sent you on. And it will be your fault. 0/10. Highly don’t recommend! Thanks!

Pretty good. They do a lot of clever things which is nice. There's an emphasis on being clever and creative. It's hyper local. An hours drive is "far away". I think the catch is it's a larger market because there's a lot of military, which adds numbers of viewers, but the military is selective about what can be covered and how, so as a news market it's not really bustling, it often seemed a bit sleepy. It's a good station for covering the softer side of news.

As a market it seemed a bit expensive, hold out for a bit more money. Make sure they're really interested in hiring you.