WKBS-TV


WKBS-TV 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, [Blair County, Pennsylvania|Logan Township].
WKBS-TV operates as a full-time satellite of Cornerstone's flagship station, Greensburg-licensed WPCB-TV, 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 -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 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:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
47.1480i4:3CTVNCornerstone
47.2480i16:9CourtCourt TV
47.3480i16:9WKGOSimulcast of WKGO radio
47.5480i4:3WEDOSimulcast of WEDO radio
47.6480i16:9AtHomeAt Home with Arlene Williams
47.7480i16:9JewelryJewelry TV
47.8480i16:9PFFPittsburgh 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 Digital television transition 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.