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| City | Altoona, Pennsylvania |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Cornerstone Network |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Cornerstone Television, Inc. |
| History | |
| Founded | October 9, 1984 |
First air date | November 2, 1985 (1985-11-02) |
Former channel numbers |
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Call sign meaning | Kaiser Broadcasting System (original call letters of the former Philadelphia station that went dark in 1983) |
| Technical information1 | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 13929 | |
| ERP | 3.1 kW |
| HAAT | 305 m (1,001 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°34′3.7″N 78°26′25.2″W / 40.567694°N 78.440333°W / 40.567694; -78.440333 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WKBS-TV (channel 47) is a religious television station in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, owned 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 signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Short name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47.1 | 480i | CTVN | Cornerstone (4:3) |
| 47.2 | Court | Court TV | |
| 47.3 | Audio only | WKGO | Simulcast of WKGO radio |
| 47.4 | 480i | Ion | Ion (4:3) |
| 47.5 | Audio only | WEDO | Simulcast of WEDO radio |
| 47.6 | 480i | AtHome | At Home with Arlene Williams |
| 47.7 | Jewelry | Jewelry TV | |
| 47.8 | PFF | 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, using virtual channel 47.34
References
References
- "Facility Technical Data for WKBS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- "RabbitEars TV Query for WKBS". RabbitEars. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
- "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