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).

WKBS-TV
(satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Branding	Cornerstone Television
Slogan	God Is Here
Channels	Digital: 46 (UHF)
Affiliations	Cornerstone Television
Owner	Cornerstone Television, Inc.
First air date	November 2, 1985
Call letters' meaning	Kaiser Broadcasting System (original call letters of the former Philadelphia station that went dark in 1983)
Transmitter power	200 kW
Height	309 m
Facility ID	13929
Website	www.ctvn.org

WKBS-TV is a Christian television station serving the Allegheny area of Pennsylvania that is licensed to Altoona. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46. Owned by Cornerstone Television, the station is effectively a satellite of Cornerstone's flagship station, WPCB-TV in Pittsburgh.

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 channel

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[1]
47.1	480i	4:3	WKBS-DT	Main WKBS-TV programming / Cornerstone SD

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.^[2]^[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47.

References

↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WKBS
↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
↑ CDBS Print

External links

v t e Broadcast television in West-Central Pennsylvania, including Johnstown, Altoona and State College

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WPSU (3.1 PBS, 3.2 Create, 3.3 PBS World) WJAC (6.1 NBC, 6.2 Me-TV) WWCP (8.1 Fox, 8.2 WATM) WTAJ (10.1 CBS) WSCP-LP (13 Ind) WPCW (19.1 CW) WATM (23.1 ABC HD, 23.2 WWCP HD, 23.3 This TV) WHVL-LP (29.1 MNTV, 29.2 A1) W36BE-D (16.1 ABC, 16.2 Antenna TV) WKBS (47.1 COR)

Local cable channels	IUP-TV (Ind)

Adjacent locals	Pittsburgh, PA KDKA (2.1 CBS) WTAE (4.1 ABC) WPXI (11.1 NBC) Hagerstown, MD WHAG (25.1 NBC) WJAL (68.1 Ind)

Defunct	W41CF (41 Ind) WLLS-LP 49 (A1)

Pennsylvania broadcast television Binghamton, New York Buffalo, New York Elmira, New York Erie Johnstown/Altoona/State College New York City Philadelphia Pittsburgh Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Susquehanna Valley (Harrisburg) Washington, DC Youngstown, Ohio

v t e Other Television Stations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Independent Stations	WSCP-LP 13 (Johnstown/Altoona/State College) WBGN-CD 16 (Pittsburgh) WYBE 35 (Philadelphia)* WGCB-TV 49 (Red Lion) WTVE 51 (Reading-Philadelphia) WJAL 68 (Chambersburg/Hagerstown) WFMZ-TV 69 (Allentown)

Religious Stations	W07BV / W19CI (EWTN, Scranton) W07DP-D (CSTV, Dillsburg) WELL-LD 8 (Daystar, Philadelphia) WPCB 40 (CSTV, Greensburg) WKBS 47 (CSTV, Altoona) WGTW 48 (TBN, Burlington, NJ-Philadelphia) WBPH 60 (FamilyNet, Allentown)

Other Stations	WINP-TV 16 (ION/Qubo/ION Life, Pittsburgh) WFPA-CA 28 (UniMás, Philadelphia) WIIC-LP 29 (Unknown, Pittsburgh) WBYD-CA 35 (S@H, Pittsburgh) WYLN-LP 35 (A1, Hazleton)

*WYBE is a non-commercial independent station. See article.

See also ABC CBS CW Fox ION MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Pennsylvania

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