KLJB

KLJB

Davenport–Bettendorf, Iowa Moline–Rock Island, Illinois United States
City	Davenport, Iowa
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 18
Branding	Fox 18
Programming
Affiliations	18.1: Fox for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
Operator	Nexstar Media Group
Sister stations	KGCW, WHBF-TV
History
First air date	July 28, 1985 (39 years ago) (1985-07-28)
Former call signs	KLJB-TV (1985–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 18 (UHF, 1985–2009) Digital: 49 (UHF, until 2020)
Former affiliations	Independent (1985–1986, 1988–1990)
Call sign meaning	Lee J. Blumberg, father of the Hanna brothers, founders of the station[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	54011
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	328.1 m (1,076 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°18′44.5″N 90°22′46.2″W / 41.312361°N 90.379500°W / 41.312361; -90.379500
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.ourquadcities.com

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 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 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 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 the end of 2015. Mission purchased Marshall's stations in 2019 after the latter company filed for bankruptcy.