WCLJ-TV (channel 42) is atelevision station licensed toBloomington, Indiana, United States, serving theIndianapolis area as an affiliate of the digital multicast networkBounce TV. It is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings alongsideIon Television affiliateWIPX-TV (channel 63, also licensed to Bloomington). WCLJ-TV and WIPX-TV share offices on Production Drive (nearI-74/I-465) in southwestern Indianapolis; through achannel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WIPX-TV's spectrum from an antenna onSR 252 inTrafalgar, Indiana.^[1]

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The station was built by theTrinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and first went on the air on August 27, 1987.

TBN entered into an agreement withIon 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 theFederal Communications Commission (FCC)'sincentive auction. Ion exercised the option on May 24, 2018.^[4] The sale was completed on September 25, 2018, creating aduopoly with existingIon Television stationWIPX-TV.^[5] Ion immediately moved Ion Life (laterIon Plus) to the station in order to provide the network with full-market coverage equivalent to that of WIPX-DT1; since then, the station has aired various digital subchannels, all of them owned byScripps Networks.

On June 1, 2015,JUCE andSmile 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.^[7] 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.^[8] On April 1, 2018, the channel switched off its non-shared signal, leaving it to air only on its new frequency shared withWIPX-TV.^[1]

WCLJ-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 42, on February 17, 2009, earlier than the June 12, 2009, official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.^[9] 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.^[10]

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