WPCB-TV
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Greensburg - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
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| City | Greensburg, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | Cornerstone Television |
| Slogan | God is here |
| Channels |
Digital: 50 (UHF) Virtual: 40 () |
| Subchannels | 40.1 Cornerstone 40.2 Bible Discovery TV |
| Owner | Cornerstone Television |
| First air date | April 15, 1979 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Western Pennsylvania Christian Broadcasting (original name of company) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 40 (UHF, 1979–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 362 kW |
| Height | 264 m (866 ft) |
| Facility ID | 13924 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°23′34″N 79°46′54″W / 40.39278°N 79.78167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WPCB-TV, virtual channel 40 (UHF digital channel 50), is a television station licensed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States and serving the Pittsburgh television market. WPCB-TV is the flagship station of the Christian television network Cornerstone Television, which originates most of its programs from the station. WPCB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Wall, Pennsylvania.
WPCB-TV programming is also seen on satellite station WKBS-TV (channel 47) in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
On cable television, WPCB is carried on channels 5 (standard definition) and 805 (high definition).
In the 1960s, Rev. Russ Bixler was visiting the Virginia Beach area and came across independent station WYAH-TV, which was running an all-Christian format. Russ came to visit the Christian Broadcasting Network studios, meeting Pat Robertson and Jim Bakker. Concluding that Pittsburgh needed a similar station, Russ applied for the channel 22 license in the 1970s, but lost to Commercial Radio Institute, a forerunner of Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1975, who would launch that station as secular independent WPTT-TV in 1978. Bixler then applied for a license on channel 40, and was granted a construction permit for that channel in 1976.
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