Cedar Rapids/ Waterloo/Dubuque: KCRG: 7-22-02 Andy Shaw left KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids to become chief meterologist at a station in Casper, WY. KGAN: 7-22-02 Dave Benton is the new weeknight co-anchor at KGAN. KGAN, KFXA: 7-22-02 Sinclair Broadcast Group and Second Generation of Iowa have entered into an outsourcing agreement.  Second Generation's station KFXA in Cedar Rapids will provide certain non-programming related sales, operational and managerial services for Sinclair's station KGAN.  KFXA general manager Joe Denk will oversee those parts of KGAN's operation.  Sinclair will continue to program KGAN and produce it's newscasts.  The arrangement is to take effect August 1. KGAN: 6-24-02 Les Vann is leaving his General Manager post at KGAN to become the GM at WLOS in Asheville, SC. This is a promotion from Sinclair which owns both stations as the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market is #36 while the Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Dubuque-Iowa City market is #89. KPXR: 5-4-02 KPXR-DT 47 has signed on the air. KWKB: 5-4-02 KWKB-DT 25 has signed on the air.	Des Moines/Ames: WHO: 6-24-02 The DM Register reported over the weekend Mike Bock is out as the GM at WHO-TV following a recent OWI arrest. Word is, however, that he was fired and did not re-sign as the paper reported. KDSM: 5-4-02 KDSM-DT 16 has signed on the air.
Quad Cities: WQAD: 6-12-02  WQAD has stopped airing UPN programming as of Sunday, June 09, 2002 with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. WBQD: 5-18-02 (Listed in LPTV) WBQD-TV will begin a regular program schedule on or before July 1, general manager Julie Brinks said. A test pattern has been running for several weeks over the air on Ch. 26. WBQD is a low-power station, and Brinks said its signal should reach 25 to 35 miles from its antenna, located “smack in the middle of Moline.” Whether the new station will be seen on local cable remains uncertain. Eleven months ago, Cleveland-based broadcasters Second Generation of Iowa announced plans for an open frequency at Ch. 53 that would include UPN programming and Big Ten sports. Their application was blocked through a petition filed by Grant Broadcasting, which owns KLJB and KGWB, and faced a further setback by an FCC plan to turn TV frequencies from 52 to 59 over to cell-phone usage. Second Generation was unable to build and meet requirements, unable to meet their contract with UPN, and it (the affiliation) was signed over to WBDQ WBQD was negotiating to carry Big Ten sports, and would have its fall schedule ready to announce in July. WBQD is owned by Peoria-based Four Seasons Broadcasting, a partnership between Venture Technologies Group, Los Angeles, and Malibu Broadcasting, Cleveland. It signed on UPN affiliate WAOE two years ago, and has UPN stations in Lansing, Mich., Syracuse, N.Y., and Las Vegas, Nev. Another UPN station will sign on in Albany, N.Y., in February. Four Seasons had ownership of the license for the frequency since December 2000, but did not begin building until a year later, Brinks said. WQAD: 5-18-02 WQAD, an ABC affiliate, had picked up several UPN programs during the 2001-02 season, but will drop them in mid-June. KQCT: 5-18-02 KQCT 36 will become an Iowa Public Television affiliate.
Mason City: KIMT: 5-4-02 KIMT-DT 42 has signed on the air.	State: K53HW: 7-19-02 Pappas Telecasting has received a construction permit for a 10kW low-power TV station on channel 53 in Storm Lake, K53HW. Though no station to be rebroadcast was specified in the application, Pappas also owns Sioux City FOX affiliate KPTH/44.