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38-546: KLJB (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa , United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting , which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Media Group , owner of Rock Island, Illinois –licensed CBS affiliate WHBF-TV (channel 4) and Burlington, Iowa –licensed CW owned-and-operated station KGCW (channel 26), for

76-538: A barter in some cases. Debtor-in-possession A debtor in possession or DIP in United States bankruptcy law is a person or corporation who has filed a bankruptcy petition , but remains in possession of property upon which a creditor has a lien or similar security interest . A debtor becomes the debtor in possession after filing the bankruptcy petition. A corporation which continues to operate its business under Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings

114-466: A 30-minute prime time newscast known as the Fox 18 Nine O'Clock News , airing Sunday through Friday. In an unusual arrangement, production of the newscast was outsourced to Davenport video production house EBI Video, with Grant providing marketing and sales support. EBI provided the news presenters and facilities. The station previously had only aired syndicated weather updates. For EBI, the KLJB partnership

152-630: A WHBF subchannel. This occurred in May 2015 as a direct consequence of the sale. The simulcast was then discontinued in 2020, when KGCW was relocated from a tower at Seaton, Illinois , halfway between Burlington and the Quad Cities, to Orion. Nexstar twice acquired other companies that owned Quad Cities-area television stations, selling them off to retain WHBF-TV and KGCW. In 2016, it acquired Media General , owner of NBC affiliate KWQC-TV ; that station

190-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

228-581: A new company, Fusion Communications, acquired the assets and retained most of the staff, the INN name, and nearly all of the clients, including KLJB. After nearly 11 years, KLJB ended its relationship with INN in September 2010 and began having the newscast produced under contract by another local TV station. The first station to do so was WQAD-TV, whose general manager successfully convinced KLJB to partner with it for its newscast. The change in producer also led to

266-619: A separately programmed The WB affiliate, in January 2001. However, it was not even the only channel 26 in the market. WBQD-LP , a low-power UPN affiliate, went on the air from Moline in 2002. As early as 2003, KGWB-TV's programming was added to a digital subchannel of KLJB-TV, making it available over-the-air in the Quad Cities. KGWB-TV became the local affiliate of The CW upon the merger of The WB and UPN in 2006 under new KGCW-TV call letters. On November 6, 2013, Irving, Texas –based Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would purchase

304-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

342-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

380-404: Is a debtor in possession. Under certain circumstances, the debtor in possession may be able to keep the property by paying the creditor the fair market value, as opposed to the contract price. For example, where the property is a personal vehicle which has depreciated since the time of the purchase, and which the debtor needs to find or continue employment to pay off his debts, the debtor may pay

418-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

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456-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

494-556: The Quad Cities ' comparatively high cable TV penetration and its status as one of the larger remaining markets without an existing independent station . KLJB-TV began broadcasting on July 28, 1985; it was named for the Hanna brothers' father, Lee J. Blumberg. As with other independents, its programming consisted of children's cartoons, syndicated reruns and movies, and sports. It operated from studios on 53rd Street in Davenport. In 1987,

532-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

570-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

608-705: The Grant stations, including KLJB and KGCW, for $ 87.5 million. Due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership regulations (as Nexstar was also in the process of acquiring WHBF-TV , the local CBS affiliate), KLJB was to then be spun off to Mission Broadcasting , with Nexstar providing operational support through a shared services agreement as with other Mission-owned stations. However, on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KLJB and two other Fox stations to Marshall Broadcasting Group —a new, minority-controlled company headed by Pluria Marshall Jr.—for $ 58.5 million. While this company acquired much of

646-517: The Quad Cities, had gone on the air in January 1988 as a Fox affiliate. However, in May 1994, it lost the network affiliation (picking up Channel America programming to fill the void), and six months later, it went off the air. KLJB-TV acquired the rights to programming from The WB in the Quad Cities market in September 1999 as a result of Superstation WGN ceasing carriage of WB programming nationally. Selected WB shows aired in late night time slots on channel 18. Grant then relaunched KJMH as KGWB-TV,

684-647: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

722-520: The debut of a Saturday night newscast for the first time. On December 31, 2012, newscast production changed hands again, this time to KWQC-TV. This continued until December 30, 2015. By that time, the Nexstar purchase of WHBF-TV and shared services agreement had come into effect; it had been known for months that production of the newscast would be assumed by WHBF-TV. A two-hour morning news extension to air from 7 to 9 a.m.—the only such local program in

760-529: The end of 2015. Mission purchased Marshall's stations in 2019 after the latter company filed for bankruptcy. Five applications were designated for comparative hearing in March 1983, though community surveys and filings had begun the year prior. Davenport Communications, Limited Partnership, was granted the construction permit in November after the five applicants entered into a settlement agreement; partners in

798-516: The foreseeable future as late as April 1990, the stronger ratings and more stable identity convinced Brandt to return the station to the Fox network beginning that September. The move did result in fewer sports telecasts on the station to accommodate Fox programming. In December 1990, Davenport Communications emerged from bankruptcy and debtor-in-possession status, having met the terms of a repayment schedule that saw $ 250,000 to $ 350,000 in payments on what

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836-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

874-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

912-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

950-710: The market—was added in September 2017, by which time the late newscast had expanded to one hour. The station's signal is multiplexed : KLJB-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 18, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, using virtual channel 18. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

988-522: The network in March 1988 before returning two years later because of the popularity of The Simpsons . After emerging from bankruptcy in 1990, it was purchased by Grant Communications , which owned mostly mid-market independent stations and Fox affiliates. The station began airing local news programming at the end of 1999 in a partnership with a Davenport production company that evolved into the Independent News Network , specializing in

1026-408: The outsourced production of local TV newscasts. Grant expanded with the launch of The WB programming in 1999, which was spun off as a separate station (KGWB-TV, now KGCW) in 2001. Black-owned Marshall Broadcasting Group acquired the station in 2014 as part of Nexstar's acquisition of Grant; Nexstar entered into an SSA to provide services. Nexstar-owned WHBF began producing the station's newscast at

1064-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

1102-466: The provision of certain services. The three stations share studios in the Telco Building on 18th Street in downtown Rock Island; KLJB's transmitter is located near Orion, Illinois . KLJB began broadcasting in 1985 as the first independent station in the Quad Cities area, owned by a group of local and out-of-area partners. The station affiliated with Fox when it launched in 1986, though it left

1140-590: The station debuted Live on Tape , a local Saturday night sketch comedy program wrapped around a feature film. The station was a charter affiliate of Fox when it launched in October 1986, but by early 1988, Brandt was expressing serious distaste with the network's constantly shifting programming. In January, he submitted a cancellation notice to Fox—which took effect on March 20—and shunted the network's Saturday night lineup to late nights. Meanwhile, in order to get out from expensive programming leases that had been made at

1178-479: The station included brothers Ed and Lee Hanna of New York, former Rock Island mayor James R. Davis, and Gary Brandt, who served as general manager. In June 1984, the board of supervisors in Henry County, Illinois , approved the rezoning of land at Orion for the station's transmitter; a Christmas launch was announced at that time, but the timeline had slipped to midyear by November. Station officials noted that

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1216-413: The station's assets, Nexstar entered into a shared services agreement to provide non-programming resources (such as master control) and advertising sales for Marshall's three stations. The sale was completed on December 1, 2014. In November 2014, while Nexstar was still waiting for the completion of its sale of KLJB to Marshall Broadcasting, there was speculation by other local media that KGCW might move to

1254-406: The station's launch in 1985—some for titles KLJB-TV never aired—Davenport Communications filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. While the station was in bankruptcy, the Fox network found its stride with shows such as The Simpsons , but Quad Cities viewers had no access to the network's programming, even on cable. Even though station management said they had no desire to affiliate with Fox for

1292-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

1330-565: Was a springboard to the remote production of TV newscasts for stations elsewhere in the United States. In April 2001, EBI began to produce a second newscast, for WVFX in Clarksburg, West Virginia . EBI was supplanted by Independent News Network (INN), which specialized in the outsourced production of television newscasts for small-market local stations from its Tremont Avenue studios. The company also brought weather production in house in 2003. INN filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January 2009;

1368-592: Was originally a $ 2 million debt. Two months later, the company agreed to sell KLJB-TV to Florida-based Grant Communications . Its founder, Milton Grant, had only the year before returned to television station ownership with the purchase of WZDX in Huntsville, Alabama . Grant extended the station's reach in 1996 by buying and restoring to air KJMH (channel 26) in Burlington, Iowa , which began to simulcast KLJB. The Burlington station, whose signal did not reach

1406-445: Was spun off to Gray Television . When Nexstar acquired Tribune Media in 2019, it spun off ABC affiliate WQAD-TV (channel 8) to Tegna Inc. On December 3, 2019, Marshall Broadcasting Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Mission Broadcasting agreed to purchase Marshall Broadcasting's stations for $ 49 million on March 30, 2020. The transaction was completed on September 1, 2020. On December 31, 1999, KLJB-TV launched

1444-678: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

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