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WHBF-TV Channel 4 is a television station licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, USA, which serves as the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities television market (comprising Rock Island and Moline, Illinois and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa). WHBF-TV is owned and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group with the studios located in the Telco Building on 18th Street in downtown Rock Island and the transmitter located in Bettendorf. ==History== WHBF-TV signed on the air on July 1, 1950. It's the fifth-oldest surviving station in Illinois and the oldest outside Chicago and next to the state of Iowa across the Mississippi River. It was owned by the Potter family, publishers of the ''Rock Island Argus'' along with WHBF radio (1270 AM, now WKBF and 98.9 FM, now WLKU). WHBF-TV has been a CBS affiliate since its inception, but carried secondary affiliations with ABC and the DuMont Television Network. After DuMont's demise in 1956, WHBF shared ABC programming with WOC-TV (channel 6, now KWQC-TV) up to the time that the new station WQAD-TV (channel 8) signed on as an ABC affiliate in 1963. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕 The Potters broke up their media holdings in 1986; at that time, Citadel Communications acquired WHBF-TV, and the radio stations moved out of the Telco Building. The following year, Lynch Entertainment acquired a stake in the station; at that time Coronet Communications Company was formed as a partnership between Citadel and Lynch. On January 29, 2007, WHBF-TV rebranded as ''CBS 4''. It also adopted a variation of the circle logo shared with Citadel's other major network affiliates. WHBF-TV was the first station in the area to use color radar and now uses the state-of-the-art weather system known as ''ESP: Live (Exclusive Storm Prediction)''. This allows the station to alert the Quad Cities about any potential weather hazards.〔 Citadel's other stations also use the ''ESP: Live'' branding. From 1982 to 2011, WHBF-TV didn't carry either ''CBS News Up to the Minute'', nor its predecessor, ''CBS News Nightwatch''. Instead the station joined its fellow Citadel stations in signing off every night, making WHBF one of the few stations in the country to still do so. However, as of the mid-2000s, WHBF ran its transmitters all night, airing a test pattern with station identification superimposed over the pattern. Digital channel 4.2 has operated 24/7 since the Retro Television Network debut on December 1, 2008. WHBF-TV finally added ''Up to the Minute'' to its programming lineup in October 2011. ''Up to the Minute'' was replaced by the ''CBS Overnight News'' on September 21, 2015. The move left Iowa Public Television station KQIN as the last Quad Cities television station to sign-off. On January 16, 2012, WHBF-TV along with all Citadel stations, launched an affiliation with the Live Well Network on its DT2 subchannel. From December 1, 2008 to January 15, 2012, the station carried the Retro Television Network on DT2. Prior to that, WHBF had been simulcasting its main programming in SDTV on the DT2 subchannel. From March 5, 2011 to January 15, 2012, WHBF-TV's subchannel affiliation with the Retro Television Network had a local competitor in the Quad Cities as the DT2 subchannel of WQAD-TV became an affiliate of Antenna TV after WQAD discontinued their "Quad Cities Weather Channel" service. On September 16, 2013, Citadel announced that it would sell WHBF-TV, along with WOI-DT in Des Moines and KCAU-TV in Sioux City, Iowa to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group for $88 million. Nexstar immediately took over the station's operations through a time brokerage agreement. The deal followed Citadel founder and CEO Phil Lombardo's decision to "slow down," as well as a desire by Lynch Entertainment to divest its investments in WHBF and WOI. On November 6, Nexstar announced that it would purchase the stations owned by Grant Broadcasting, including KLJB and KGCW, for $87.5 million. Due to FCC ownership regulations, KLJB was spun off to Marshall Broadcasting, but will be operated by Nexstar through a shared services agreement, forming a virtual triopoly with WHBF. The sale for WHBF was completed on March 13, 2014.〔(Consummation Notice ), Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 17 March 2014.〕 The deal reunited WHBF with two of its former Citadel sister stations, WIVT in Binghamton, New York and WVNY in Burlington, Vermont. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WHBF-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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