WPCB-TV

WPCB-TV, UHF channel 50, is a television station that is licensed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States serving Pittsburgh as the flagship station of the Christian broadcast network Cornerstone Television, which originates most of its programs from the station. The station's studios and transmitter are located in Wall. WPCB-TV programming is also seen on satellite station WKBS-TV (UHF digital channel 46) in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

History

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 in 1975 (CRI would launch that station as secular independent WPTT-TV three years later). Bixler then applied for a license on channel 40, and was granted a construction permit for that channel in 1976.