WPBM-CD

WPBM-CD is a class-A low-power television station licensed to Scottsville, Kentucky. As a Christian television station, WPBM produces more than 12 hours per week of local programming, including music, interviews, preaching, teaching and family living shows. WPBM broadcasts a digital signal on channel 46 from a studio and transmitter site along US Route 31E near Barren River Lake in south central Kentucky.

History

WPBM went on the air in 1998 on channel 48, then moved to channel 31 in 2000, as part of the digital television conversion. WPBM converted to digital broadcasting in December 2009 on channel 46, but it is displayed as channel 31.1 through the use of PSIP.

WPBM-CD is owned by Scottsville businessman and minister Marvey B. Wood and his wife, Frances. They own 100% of the station.

Coverage area

With 15,000 watts of power and a 500-foot (150 m) tower, the signal covers about a 40-mile (60 km) radius from the tower site. WPBM is carried by 15 cable television systems, taking the signal far beyond the 40-mile (60 km) broadcast radius. Some of the communities where WPBM is available on cable include Glasgow, Scottsville, Morgantown, Brownsville, Hodgenville, Albany, Cave City, Park City, Munfordville, Franklin, Horse Cave, and Edmonton. In Tennessee, WPBM is carried on cable in Lafayette, Westmoreland and Red Boiling Springs.^[1] The station is not carried on cable in Bowling Green, only over the air with an antenna.^[2]

References

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WPBM-CD