WKBS-TV

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For the independent station in Philadelphia that operated on channel 48 from 1965 to 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 numbers
  • 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
HAAT305 m (1,001 ft)
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Links
Public license information
Websitewww.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.

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

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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

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Subchannels

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The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WKBS-TV[2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
47.1 480i 4:3 CTVN Cornerstone
47.2 16:9 Court Court TV
47.3 WKGO Simulcast of WKGO radio
47.5 4:3 WEDO Simulcast of WEDO radio
47.6 16:9 AtHome At Home with Arlene Williams
47.7 Jewelry Jewelry TV
47.8 PFF Pittsburgh Faith & Family Channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

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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, using virtual channel 47.[3][4]

References

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