Солтүстік Дакота штатының KQCD телеарнасы

NBC/Fox affiliate in Dickinson, North Dakota

KQCD TV (channel 7) is a television station in Dickinson, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains a news bureau and advertising sales office on 21st Street East in Dickinson; its transmitter is located near South Heart, North Dakota. KQCD TV is part of the four station NBC North Dakota regional network of NBC affiliates in central and western North Dakota, originating from flagship station KFYR TV (channel 5) in Bismarck. The NBC North Dakota network relays NBC network and other programming from KFYR TV across central and western North Dakota, as well as bordering counties in Montana and South Dakota. The four stations along with fellow NBC affiliate KVLY TV in Fargo often share news stories. Master control and some internal operations of KQCD are based at KFYR TV's facilities on North 4th Street and East Broadway Avenue in downtown Bismarck. The four stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes. Though identifying as a separate station in its own right, KQCD TV is a semi satellite of KFYR TV in Bismarck. While it airs separate commercials and legal identifications, for most of the day it airs a time shifted feed of KFYR TV in Mountain Time. Most of the station's coverage area, including Dickinson itself, is in the Mountain Time Zone, and its prime time schedule starts at 6 p. m. rather than the usual 7 p. m. for its sister stations.

KQCD TV debuted on January 25, 1980. It was the last station in what was then known as the Meyer Television Network to sign on, and has always been a semi satellite of KFYR TV. It replaced K07HN, a low powered translator of KFYR TV that had served the area since around 1967. Until KQCD's sign on, KDIX TV (channel 2, now KXMA TV) aired a few NBC programs in off hours. Longtime owner Marietta Meyer Ekberg sold her broadcast holdings in 1997, with the television stations going to Sunrise Television Corporation. Sunrise sold them to The Wicks Group of Companies of New York City. Hoak Media bought KFYR TV, KMOT, KUMV, and KQCD in July 2006, as well as KVLY TV in Fargo and KSFY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and its satellite stations. On November 17, 2006, the sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). KQCD picked up MeTV in April 2013, with an official launch date of May 1, 2013. On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. Gray initially planned, through Excalibur Broadcasting, to also acquire Fox affiliate KNDX/KXND for $7.5 million and operate them under a local marketing agreement. On March 25, 2014, Prime Cities Broadcasting, owner of KNDX/KXND, requested that the FCC dismiss the sale of that station to Excalibur. This came as a result of increased scrutiny of LMAs by the FCC. Gray would instead acquire the stations' non license assets, and, upon the closure of the Hoak purchases on June 13, 2014, shut down KNDX/KXND and moved Fox programming to subchannels of KFYR and its satellites.

KQCD TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on February 16, 2009, the day prior to the original date on which full power television stations in the United States were set to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later rescheduled for June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 18 to VHF channel 7 for post transition operations.

Gray also owned KNDX LD (channel 38) in Dickinson; this station was acquired alongside the purchase of the non license assets of KNDX and KXND KNDX LD had been granted a move to channel 28, but Gray Television surrendered KNDX LD's license to the FCC on October 20, 2020. The FCC canceled the license the same day.