WKBS-TV
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.
| Satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
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| City | Altoona, Pennsylvania |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Cornerstone Network |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 47.1: Cornerstone TV 47.2: Court TV 47.3: Bounce TV 47.4: Ion Television 47.5: Dabl 47.6: Defy TV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Cornerstone Television, Inc. |
| History | |
| Founded | October 9, 1984 |
First air date | November 2, 1985 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 47 (UHF, 1985–2009) Digital: 46 (UHF, 2002–2019) Virtual: 46 (PSIP, January–February 2021) |
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″N 78°26′25.2″W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | www |
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:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | TruReal | TrueReal | ||
| 47.8 | Newsy | Newsy | ||
| 47.9 | 4:3 | PFFC | Pittsburgh 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 in 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.
References
- "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 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- CDBS Print