WHBF-TV

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WHBF-TV
Rock Island / Moline, Illinois /
Davenport, Iowa
Branding CBS 4 (General)
CBS 4 News (News Branding)
Slogan CBS For The Quad Cities
(At The End of Promotional commercials.)
Channels 4 (VHF) analog,
58 (UHF) digital
Affiliations CBS
Owner Citadel Broadcasting
(Coronet Communications Company)
Founded July 1, 1950
Call letters meaning Where
Historic
Black Hawk
Fought
(a reference to Chief Black Hawk, whose tribe once occupied the area that is now the Quad Cities)
Former affiliations ABC (Secondary, until 1963)
DuMont (Secondary, until 1955)
Transmitter Power 100 kW Analog
2.2 kW Digital STA
1,000 kW Digital CP
Height 408 m (1338.58 ft) Analog
90 m (295.28 ft) Digital STA
378 m (1240.16 ft) Digital CP
Class Full Service TV Station (-TV)
Temporary Digital Service (-DS)
Digital Construction Permit (-DT)
Facility ID 19350
Transmitter Coordinates 41° 32' 49.00" N LAT
90° 28' 35.00" W LON
Website www.cbs4qc.com

WHBF-TV is the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities (Davenport, Iowa/Moline/Rock Island, Illinois television market). The station is licensed to Rock Island, and broadcasts on channels 4 (analog) and 58 (digital). It is owned by Coronet Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Citadel Broadcasting. Its transmitter is located in Bettendorf, Iowa.

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[edit] History

WHBF-TV signed on the air on July 1, 1950. It was the second station in the Quad Cities. It is also the fifth-oldest television station in Illinois, and the oldest outside Chicago. It signed on It was owned by the Potter family, publishers of the Rock Island Argus, along with WHBF radio (AM 1270, now WKBF; and FM 98.9, now WLKU). It has always been a CBS affiliate, but carried secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont.

After DuMont's demise in 1956, WHBF shared ABC programming with WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV) until WQAD-TV signed on as an ABC affiliate in 1963. For most of the time since the 1970s, WHBF's newscasts have rated third in the market, but it wages a spirited battle with WQAD for second place.

The Potters sold the radio stations in 1987, but held onto WHBF-TV until the 1990s.

On January 29th, 2007, WHBF began calling itself CBS 4. It also adopted a version of the circle logo. Coronet's other stations adopted a similar branding scheme.

Station Identifications:

  • News 4 - 1999-2002
  • Channel 4 Eyewitness News - 2002-2007
  • CBS 4 News - 2007-present

[edit] Programming

Syndicated programs on WHBF's schedule include Entertainment Tonight, Family Feud, Inside Edition, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Martha, plus reruns of The Drew Carey Show. WHBF does not carry CBS News Up to the Minute, instead the station signs off every night--one of the few stations in the country that still does so.

[edit] Current Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

  • CBS 4 News Early Show Updates
  • CBS 4 News at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 p.m.)
  • CBS 4 News at 10:00 (10:00-10:35 p.m.)
  • Friday Night Hoops (10:15-10:35 Fridays)
  • Tuesday Night Hoops (10:15-10:35 Tuesdays)

[edit] Weekends

  • CBS 4 News at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 p.m.)
  • CBS 4 News at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 p.m)
  • CBS 4 News at 10:00 (10:00-10:30 p.m.)

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current Personalities (as of February 2007)

[edit] Anchors

  • Tambrey Laine (Weekdays at 5 and 10)
  • Nicol Lally (Weekend achor/weekday reporter)
  • Brandy Auterson (The Early Show updates (news & weather), reporter)

[edit] Reporters

  • Rachel Gabrielsen
  • Kegan Feeny
  • Kerry Hall
  • Cayce Mallen
  • Courtney Zieller
  • Nicole Wiseman

[edit] Weather

  • Andy McCray (chief meteorologist)
  • Kyle Mounce (weekend meteorologist/weekday reporter)

[edit] Sports

  • Jay Kidwell (Sports Director, host of Friday & Tuesday Night Hoops/Football)
  • J.B Long (Weekends sports/sports reporter)

[edit] Trivia

  • Former Illinois 17th District Republican candidate Andrea Zinga was a former anchor and reporter for WHBF-TV.
  • Former Good Morning America weather anchor Mike Barz was once an anchor at WHBF, while ESPN personality Dave Revsine was a weekend sports anchor there in 1995-1996.
  • WHBF currently uses the CBS Enforcer Package as their news music
  • Anchor Tambrey Laine was born in Canada

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Broadcast television in the Quad Cities (Davenport, Iowa/Moline, Illinois/Rock Island, Illinois)market  (Nielsen DMA #96)

WHBF 4 (CBS) - KWQC 6 (NBC) - WQAD 8 (ABC) - K16EL 16 (3ABN) - KLJB 18 (Fox) - WQPT 24 (PBS) - KGCW 26 (The CW) - WBQD-LP 26 (MNTV) - KQIN 36 (PBS/IPTV) - W50BY 50 / W52BI 52 (TBN) - K61HD 61 / K62FU 62 (TBN)
CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Illinois

WBBM 2 (Chicago) - WCIA 3 (Champaign) - WHBF 4 (Rock Island) - WIFR 23 (Freeport) - WMBD 31 (Peoria)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other Stations in Illinois
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