WKBS-TV

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For the independent station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that operated on channel 48 from 1965 until 1983, see WKBS-TV (Philadelphia).
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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
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 date
November 2, 1985 (35 years ago) (1985-11-02)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
47 (UHF, 1985–2009)
Digital:
46 (UHF, until 2019)
Virtual:
46 (PSIP, 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
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID13929
ERP3.1 kW[1]
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
Profile
LMS
Websitewww.ctvn.org

WKBS-TV, virtual channel 47 (VHF digital channel 6), is a Cornerstone Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. 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[]

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]
47.1 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
47.9 4:3 PFFC

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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