WKBS
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Altoona, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | Cornerstone Television |
| Slogan | God Is Here |
| Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 47 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Cornerstone |
| Owner | Cornerstone Television, Inc. |
| Founded | October 9, 1984 |
| 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) |
| Former channel number(s) | 47 (UHF analog, 1985–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 170 kW |
| Height | 305 m |
| Facility ID | 13929 |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
(satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Profile (satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) CDBS |
| 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.
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.
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. Through the use of , digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47.
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