WKBS-TV

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WKBS-TV
Satellite of WPCB-TV,
Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
City Altoona, Pennsylvania
Channels
BrandingCornerstone Network
Programming
Affiliations47.1: Cornerstone TV
for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner Cornerstone Television, Inc.
History
FoundedOctober 9, 1984
First air date
November 2, 1985(37 years ago) (1985-11-02)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
47 (UHF, 1985–2009)
Digital:
46 (UHF, 2002–2019)
Virtual:
46 (January–February 2021)[ citation needed ]
Call sign meaning
Kaiser Broadcasting System
(original call letters of the former Philadelphia station that went dark in 1983)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 13929
ERP 3.1 kW [1]
HAAT 305 m (1,001 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°34′3.7″N78°26′25.2″W / 40.567694°N 78.440333°W / 40.567694; -78.440333
Links
Public license information
Website www.ctvn.org

WKBS-TV (channel 47) is a religious television station in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, owned and operated by Cornerstone Television. The station's transmitter is located in Logan Township.

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WKBS-TV operates as a full-time satellite of Cornerstone's flagship station, Greensburg-licensed WPCB-TV (channel 40), whose studios are located in Wall, Pennsylvania. WKBS-TV covers areas of West-Central Pennsylvania that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from WPCB-TV, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WKBS-TV is a straight simulcast of WPCB-TV; on-air references to WKBS-TV are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Besides the transmitter, WKBS-TV does not maintain any physical presence in Altoona, and unlike its parent station, it does not broadcast in high definition and has a different subchannel lineup.

History

In 1983, Cornerstone Television was granted a construction permit for channel 47 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, to serve the Johnstown–Altoona market. It bought the transmitter used by the original WKBS-TV (channel 48) in Philadelphia when that station went dark in 1983, and used this transmitter to put channel 47 on the air November 2, 1985, reusing the WKBS-TV call sign.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WKBS-TV [2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
47.1 480i 4:3 WKBS-DT Cornerstone
47.2 16:9 CourtTV Court TV
47.3Bounce Bounce TV
47.44:3Ion Ion Television
47.5DABL Dabl
47.616:9Defy Defy TV
47.7[Blank]
47.8 Scripps News
47.94:3PFFCPittsburgh Faith & Family Channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

WKBS-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 47, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46. [3] [4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47.

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