WSIL-TV

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WSIL-TV (channel 3) in Harrisburg, Illinois, and KPOB-TV (channel 15) in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, are television stations serving as the ABC affiliates for Southern Illinois, Southeast Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, and Northwest Tennessee. They are owned by Gray Media alongside CBS/CW affiliate KFVS-TV (channel 12) and Telemundo affiliate WQWQ-LD (channel 9). WSIL-TV and KPOB-TV maintain studio facilities on Country Aire Drive (near the IL 13–Wolf Creek Road interchange) in Carterville, Illinois. WSIL-TV's transmitter is located near Creal Springs, Illinois, while KPOB's tower is on US 60 northwest of Poplar Bluff. KPOB-TV serves as a full-time satellite of WSIL-TV, covering the Missouri Bootheel and northeastern Arkansas. WSIL-TV also operates translator K10KM-D (channel 10) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. WSIL-TV was the first television station in southern Illinois, debuting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 22 on December 6, 1953. It soon affiliated with ABC and NBC before moving to channel 3 in 1959 and becoming a sole ABC affiliate. KPOB-TV went on the air in 1961; aside from a brief period in the 1980s, it has simulcast WSIL with separate legal identifications for the better part of its history. The station has focused its news coverage almost exclusively on Southern Illinois since the 1980s, since its broadcast coverage area is not as large as those of the other major stations in the market. It has traditionally fallen behind its two rivals in the market in news ratings and resources, though less so now than in decades past. After having two ownership groups almost all of its first 65 years on air, it was sold to Quincy Media in 2018, to Allen Media Group in 2021, and to Gray in 2026.