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{{short description|TV station in Bloomington, Indiana}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WCLJ-TV
| city                   = Bloomington, Indiana
| logo                   = 
| branding               = 
| digital                = 28 ([[UHF]]), shared with [[WIPX-TV]]<ref name=channelsharefiling>{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91600de630016028a88afc3d7c&id=25076f91600de630016028a88afc3d7c&goBack=N|title=Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application|work=Licensing and Management System|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=January 20, 2018|archive-date=January 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120125038/https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91600de630016028a88afc3d7c&id=25076f91600de630016028a88afc3d7c&goBack=N|url-status=live}}</ref>
| virtual                = 42 
| subchannels            =
| translators            =
| affiliations           = [[Scripps News]]
| owner                  = Inyo Broadcast Holdings
| licensee               = Inyo Broadcast Licenses [[LLC]]
| operator               =
| location               = [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]]–[[Indianapolis, Indiana]]
| country                = United States
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1987|8|27|p=y}}
| last_airdate           =
| callsign_meaning       = 
| sister_stations        = [[WIPX-TV]]
| former_callsigns       = WCLJ (1987–2008)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 42 (UHF, 1987–2009)|'''Digital:''' 56 (UHF, until 2009), 42 (UHF, 2009–2018), 27 (UHF, 2018–2019)}}
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|[[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]] (1987–2018)|[[Ion Plus]] (2018–2021)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/ion-and-qubo-unavailable|title=ION Plus and Qubo Ceased Operations on February 26, 2021|date=October 14, 2021|website=Xfinity Help & Support|access-date=February 12, 2021|archive-date=February 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216161453/https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/ion-and-qubo-unavailable|url-status=live}}</ref>|[[Bounce TV]] (2021–2024)}}
| erp                    = 175 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|310.7|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 68007
| coordinates            = {{coord|39|24|12|N|86|8|50|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{url|scrippsnews.com}}
}}

'''WCLJ-TV''' (channel 42) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Bloomington, Indiana]], United States, serving the [[Indianapolis]] area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network [[Scripps News]]. It is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings alongside [[Ion Television]] affiliate [[WIPX-TV]] (channel 63, also licensed to Bloomington). WCLJ-TV and WIPX-TV share offices on Production Drive (near [[Interstate 74 in Indiana|I-74]]/[[I-465]]) in southwestern Indianapolis; through a [[channel sharing agreement]], the two stations transmit using WIPX-TV's spectrum from an antenna on [[Indiana State Road 252|SR 252]] in [[Trafalgar, Indiana]].{{r|channelsharefiling}}

==History==
{{Expand section|date=August 2017}}
The station was built by the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]] (TBN) and first signed on the air on August 27, 1987.

TBN entered into an agreement with [[Ion Media Networks]] on November 14, 2017, which gave Ion the option to acquire the licenses of WCLJ-TV and three other TBN stations that had sold their spectrum in the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC)'s [[incentive auction]]. Ion exercised the option on May 24, 2018.<ref name="fcc-saletoion">{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1782959&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=67893|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=June 11, 2018|date=June 8, 2018|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612145003/http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1782959&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=67893|url-status=live}}</ref> The sale was completed on September 25, 2018, creating a [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] with existing [[Ion Television]] station [[WIPX-TV]].<ref name="wcljsalecloses">{{cite web|title=Consummation Notice|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101792892&formid=905&fac_num=68007|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=October 1, 2018|date=September 25, 2018|archive-date=October 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001183506/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101792892&formid=905&fac_num=68007|url-status=live}}</ref> Ion immediately moved Ion Life (later [[Ion Plus]]) to the station in order to provide the network with full-market coverage equivalent to that of WIPX-DT1.

On February 27, 2021, the date Ion Plus ceased broadcasting, WCLJ switched to [[Bounce TV]], sharing the affiliation with [[WNDY-TV|WNDY-DT2]].

On May 5, 2024, WCLJ switched from Bounce to sister network [[Scripps News]], with Bounce moving to sister station WIPX-DT3.

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
{{#section:WIPX-TV|subs}}
<!-- Needs some sort of context here on its former subchannel layout so that the visible information about the JUC/SOC consolidation makes sense in the wider scheme. -->On June 1, 2015, [[JUCE TV|JUCE]] and [[Smile of a Child]] were consolidated into a single network on the third subchannel to accommodate the addition of a new network, [[TBN Salsa]], on the fifth subchannel where Smile of a Child used to reside.<ref name=multichannelnews>{{cite web|title=TBN Salsa Targets English-Speaking Hispanics|url=http://www.multichannel.com/tbn-salsa-targets-english-speaking-hispanics/390953|author=Kent Gibbons|periodical=[[Multichannel News]]|publisher=[[NewBay Media]]|date=May 29, 2015|access-date=June 1, 2015|archive-date=May 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531063214/http://www.multichannel.com/tbn-salsa-targets-english-speaking-hispanics/390953|url-status=live}}</ref> As a result of the change, children's programming that previously aired on Smile of a Child was carried on 42.3 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<ref name=newsoac>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbn.org/ |title=Seventh slideshow image: 'new soac.png' |date=June 10, 2015 |access-date=May 31, 2016 |quote=TBN Salsa is on the air - Available on TBN's 'over the air' broadcast stations in the United States on sub channel 5. ... Smile of a Child airs 7am-7pm & JUCE airs 7pm-7am on subchannel 3. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527212822/http://www.tbn.org/ |archive-date=May 27, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> On April 1, 2018, the channel switched off its non-shared signal, leaving it to air only on its new frequency shared with [[WIPX-TV]].{{r|channelsharefiling}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WCLJ-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 42, on February 17, 2009, earlier than the June 12, 2009, official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Galer |first1=Sarah |date=April 15, 2016 |orig-year=Updated 2016; originally published February 17, 2009 |title=Eight Indiana TV stations to end analog on Tuesday |url=https://www.wthr.com/article/eight-indiana-tv-stations-to-end-analog-on-tuesday |work=[[WTHR]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |quote=The Indiana stations are WFWA (PBS), WISE-TV (NBC) and WPTA (ABC) of Fort Wayne; WCLJ-TV and WIPB (PBS) of Indianapolis; and WSJV (Fox), WNDU-TV (NBC) and WSBT-TV (CBS) of South Bend-Elkhart. |access-date=March 27, 2018 |archive-date=March 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327144824/https://www.wthr.com/article/eight-indiana-tv-stations-to-end-analog-on-tuesday |url-status=live }}</ref> The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 56, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era frequency, UHF channel 42.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012 |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
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