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WKBS-TV
  • GreensburgPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • United States
  • CityAltoona, Pennsylvania
    Channels
  • Virtual: 47
  • BrandingCornerstone Network
    Programming
    Affiliations
  • for others, see § Subchannels
  • Ownership
    OwnerCornerstone Television, Inc.
    History
    FoundedOctober 9, 1984

    First air date

    November 2, 1985 (38 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[1]

    Licensing authority

    FCC
    Facility ID13929
    ERP3.1 kW[2]
    HAAT305 m (1,001 ft)
    Transmitter coordinates40°34′3.7″N 78°26′25.2″W / 40.567694°N 78.440333°W / 40.567694; -78.440333
    Links

    Public license information

  • LMS
  • Websitewww.ctvn.org

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

    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

    [edit]

    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

    [edit]

    Subchannels

    [edit]

    The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

    Subchannels of WKBS-TV[3]
    Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
    47.1 480i 4:3 WKBS-DT Cornerstone
    47.2 16:9 CourtTV Court TV
    47.3 Bounce Bounce TV
    47.4 4:3 Ion Ion Television
    47.5 DABL Dabl
    47.6 16:9 Defy Defy TV
    47.7 [Blank]
    47.8 Scripps News
    47.9 4:3 PFFC Pittsburgh Faith & Family Channel

    Analog-to-digital conversion

    [edit]

    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,[4][5] using virtual channel 47.

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WKBS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  • ^ "TV Query Results -- Video Division (FCC) USA".
  • ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WKBS
  • ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  • ^ CDBS Print
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