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WQPT PBS (wqpt.org) scores 76 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Brand-Ready tier among Media & Entertainment brands, Education brands, Non-profit brands, in the 49th percentile of 29748 Media & Entertainment brands.
WQPT PBS is a PBS member television station based in Moline, Illinois, serving the Quad Cities region since 1983. It produces local programming focused on regional history, culture, and civic life, while also broadcasting national PBS content. The station offers a livestream of its programming and emphasizes education and community engagement as part of its public broadcasting mission.
| Brand Name | WQPT PBS |
|---|---|
| Domain | wqpt.org |
| Industry | Media & Entertainment, Education |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Moline |
| Main Competitors | Iowa PBS (81/100), WTVP (79/100), KWQC-TV6 (86/100), WQAD-TV (84/100), WHBF-TV (57/100) |
Moz Domain Authority 34/100 vs category average 51 / leader 100 - limited third-party links, so AI systems rarely encounter mentions of the brand.
No Wikipedia presence was found - a major gap, since Wikipedia is among the most heavily weighted sources in AI training data.
The homepage meta description reads "Learn about our local programming, find out what's on now, and watch a livestream of WQPT PBS." (Meta description: 17 words (ideal length). OG description present and descriptive) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 1 JSON-LD block(s), Organization schema, Breadcrumb/Website schema, og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, Twitter cards. Adding FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: No robots.txt found (default: all bots allowed, but explicit file preferred) - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Social footprint: verified profiles on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked October 2026.
When asked "What is WQPT PBS?", Claude could identify the brand as of October 2026. WQPT PBS is the public television station serving the Quad Cities area (Moline, Illinois and the surrounding Iowa-Illinois region), broadcasting PBS programming along with local educational and community content. Best known for Being the PBS member station for the Quad Cities region.
When asked "Best brands similar to WQPT PBS?", Claude would not surface WQPT PBS as of October 2026. It's a solid local public broadcaster, but it's a regional station rather than a widely known brand I'd mention when discussing top media and entertainment companies generally.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
WQPT PBS's main competitors in Media & Entertainment: Iowa PBS (81/100), WTVP (79/100), KWQC-TV6 (86/100), WQAD-TV (84/100), WHBF-TV (57/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
WQPT PBS is a PBS member television station located in Moline, Illinois, serving the Quad Cities region. Founded in 1983, it broadcasts both local programming and national PBS content, functioning as a public, non-profit media organization dedicated to education and community engagement.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 28/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 15, trust 39, recommendation 37). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS was founded in 1983. WQPT PBS operates in the Media & Entertainment category. It is analyzed by Brand Analyzer across seven brand dimensions and AI-search visibility.
Sources: Wikidata
WQPT PBS is headquartered in Moline. WQPT PBS operates in the Media & Entertainment category.
Sources: Wikidata
WQPT PBS offers local television programming focused on regional history, culture, and civic topics, a livestream of its broadcast, and access to national PBS educational and entertainment programming.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS produces and broadcasts local programming centered on the history, culture, and civic life of the Quad Cities region. It also carries national PBS programming and provides a livestream of its content, combining community storytelling with trusted public broadcasting.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS scores 37/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is less likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Media & Entertainment options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS is known for its locally produced programming that highlights the history, culture, and civic life of the Quad Cities region, alongside its role as the area's PBS member station delivering national public television content.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS is used by residents and community members of the Quad Cities region who are interested in local history, educational programming, and public television content.
Sources: WQPT PBS official site
WQPT PBS scores 28/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
WQPT PBS has a weak AI-visibility profile at 28/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is trust (39/100) and its weakest is visibility (15/100). It benefits from a Wikidata knowledge-graph entry, open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.) and machine-readable schema.org markup. The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, a low Moz Domain Authority of 34/100 and no llms.txt to steer AI to its best pages. In a live check, Claude could already identify WQPT PBS from memory (October 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to WQPT PBS: WPFW 89.3 FM (76/100), wpForo (76/100), Vancouver Writers Fest (76/100), Arabian Travel Market (76/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Zoom (81/100), Znews (81/100).
Category leader: Change.org (97/100).
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