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.

For the independent station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated on channel 48 from 1965 until 1983, see WKBS-TV (Philadelphia).
Not to be confused with the Korean Broadcasting System.
WKBS-TV
CityAltoona, Pennsylvania
Channels
BrandingCornerstone Network
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerCornerstone Television, Inc.
History
FoundedOctober 9, 1984
First air date
November 2, 1985 (1985-11-02)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 47 (UHF, 1985–2009)
  • Digital: 46 (UHF, 2002–2019)
  • Virtual: 46 (January–February 2021)
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
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.ctvn.org

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[3]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
47.1 480i4:3WKBS-DTCornerstone
47.2 16:9CourtTVCourt TV
47.3 BounceBounce TV
47.4 4:3IonIon Television
47.5 DABLDabl
47.6 16:9DefyDefy TV
47.7 [Blank]
47.8 Scripps News
47.9 4:3PFFCPittsburgh 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.[4][5] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47.

References
  1. "Facility Technical Data for WKBS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "TV Query Results -- Video Division (FCC) USA".
  3. RabbitEars TV Query for WKBS
  4. "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.
  5. CDBS Print
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