WHBF-TV
 
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Rock Island-The Molines, Illinois-Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa United States |
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| City | Rock Island, Illinois |
| Branding | Local 4 (general) Local 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Local 4 You! (general) |
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Digital: 4 (VHF) Virtual: 4 () |
| Translators | 47 (UHF) Rock Island |
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Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | 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) |
| Sister station(s) | KLJB & KGCW |
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| Transmitter power | 33.7 kW |
| Height | 409 m |
| Facility ID | 13950 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°32′48.8″N 90°28′37.7″W / 41.546889°N 90.477139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
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 Media Group as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KGCW. Nexstar also operates Fox affiliate KLJB, owned by Marshall Broadcasting. The studios for all three stations are located in the Telco Building on 18th Street in downtown Rock Island. The transmitter for WHBF-TV is located in Bettendorf.
WHBF-TV signed on the air on July 1, 1950. It is 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.
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