WHBF-TV

'WHBF-TV' ''CBS 4'' 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 Communications (no relation to the large company Citadel Broadcasting, who owns numerous radio stations across the country). Its transmitter is located in Bettendorf, Iowa.

Contents

History

Programming

Personalities

Trivia

External links

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. When 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.
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'', to better identify the station, and afilliate, and Quad City product. It also adopted a version of the circle logo. Coronet's other stations adopted a similar branding scheme.
WHBF held the number one spot in the market from the mid-1970s until KWQC (then WOC-TV) overtook it in 1980. It has since fallen to third place.
Station Identifications:

★ ''News 4'' - 1999-2002

★ ''Channel 4 Eyewitness News'' - 2002-2007

★ ''CBS 4 News'' - 2007-present

Programming

Syndicated programs on WHBF's schedule include ''Entertainment Tonight'', ''Family Feud'', ''Inside Edition'', and ''Martha'', ''. 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.

Personalities

'Anchors'

★ Tambrey Laine- weekdays

★ Brandy Auterson- weekday morning updates for The Early Show

★ Nicol Lally- weekends
'Reporters'

★ Keegan Feeney

★ Rachel Gabrielsen

★ Cayce Mallen

★ Hillary Mintz

★ Nicole Wiseman

★ Courtney Zieller
'ESP:Live Weather'

★ Andy McCray- Chief Meteorologist

★ Kyle Mounce- Weekend Meteorologist
'Sports'

★ Jay Kidwell- Sports Director

★ Mike Laskasky- Weekend Sports Anchor

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 former ESPN personality and original Big Ten Network studio host 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

★ Quad Cities television directing legend Mark "Hoppy" Koster directed more than 5000 newscasts in a ten year span.

External links

★ Station website

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★ The Unofficial Grandpa Happy Website