| Callsign: | WKBS-TV |
| City: | Altoona, Pennsylvania |
| Branding: | Cornerstone Network |
| Digital: | 6 (VHF) |
| Virtual: | 47 |
| Founded: | October 9, 1984 |
| Country: | United States |
| Callsign Meaning: | Kaiser Broadcasting System (original call letters of the former Philadelphia station that went dark in 1983) |
| Erp: | 3.1 kW[1] |
| Haat: | 3050NaN0 |
| Facility Id: | 13929 |
| Coordinates: | 40.5677°N -78.4403°W |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
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.
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.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| 47.1 | WKBS-DT | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.2 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 47.3 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 47.4 | 4:3 | Ion | ||
| 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 |
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,[3] [4] using virtual channel 47.