WKBS-TV
Cornerstone Television station in Altoona, Pennsylvania
40°34′3.7″N 78°26′25.2″W / 40.567694°N 78.440333°W / 40.567694; -78.440333
Public license information
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- LMS
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
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:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | [Blank] | |||
| 47.8 | Scripps News | |||
| 47.9 | 4:3 | PFFC | Pittsburgh 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] using virtual channel 47.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WKBS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "TV Query Results -- Video Division (FCC) USA".
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WKBS
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ CDBS Print
External links
- Official website
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Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television
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- WKBS-TV (47.1 COR, 47.2 Court, 47.3 Bounce, 47.4 Ion, 47.5 Dabl, 47.6 Defy, 47.7 [Blank], 47.8 Scripps News, 47.9 Faith & Family)
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