WKBS-TV

WKBS-TV, virtual channel 47 (VHF digital channel 6), is a Cornerstone Television owned-and-operated television station licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. 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
Satellite of WPCB-TV,
Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Altoona/Johnstown/
State College, Pennsylvania
United States
CityAltoona, Pennsylvania
ChannelsDigital: 6 (VHF)
Virtual: 47 (PSIP)
BrandingCornerstone Network
SloganReal Answers for Real Life
Programming
Affiliations47.1: Cornerstone TV
47.2: Court TV
47.3: Bounce TV
47.4: Ion Television
47.5: Dabl
47.6: Pittsburgh Faith & Family Channel
Ownership
OwnerCornerstone Television, Inc.
History
FoundedOctober 9, 1984
First air dateNovember 2, 1985 (1985-11-02)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
47 (UHF, 1985–2009)
Digital:
46 (UHF, until 2019)
Call sign meaningKaiser
Broadcasting
System
(original call letters of the former Philadelphia station that went dark in 1983)
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID13929
ERP3.1 kW[1]
HAAT305 m (1,001 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°34′3.7″N 78°26′25.2″W
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS
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 callsign.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
47.1480i4:3WKBS-DTCornerstone
47.216:9CourtTVCourt TV
47.3BounceBounce TV
47.44:3IonIon Television
47.5Dabl
47.6PFFCPittsburgh 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
  1. https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=wkbs
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for WKBS
  3. "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.
  4. CDBS Print


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