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WPBM-CD

Not to be confused with WMPB.

WPBM-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A religious independent television station in Scottsville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Scottsville businessman and minister Marvey B. Wood and his late wife, Frances. They are the sole owners of the station, doing business as Proclaim Broadcasting, Inc.

WPBM-CD
CityScottsville, Kentucky
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsReligious Independent
Ownership
Owner
  • Marvey B. & Frances Wood
  • (Proclaim Broadcasting, Inc.)
History
Founded1982
First air date
Former call signs
  • W07BM (1982–1992)
  • W48BM (1992–2001)
  • WPBM-LP (2001–2010)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 7 (VHF, 1982–1992), 48 (UHF, 1998–2001), 31 (UHF, 2001–2009)
  • Digital: 46 (UHF, 2009–2019)
  • Religious independent (1982–1992)
  • Dark (1992–1998)
  • FamilyNet (1998–2013)
Call sign meaning
"Where Promises Become Miracles"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID30580
ClassCD
ERP8 kW
HAAT150.7 m (494 ft)
Transmitter coordinates36°50′0″N 86°5′0″W / 36.83333°N 86.08333°W / 36.83333; -86.08333
Links
Public license information

WPBM-CD's studio and transmitter site is located along U.S. Route 31E near Barren River Lake in rural northeastern Allen County not too far from the county's northeastern boundary with Barren County. WPBM upgraded to a full HD signal in March 2018.

History

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Originally licensed to and serving Cookeville, Tennessee, the station began its first incarnation on July 1, 1982[2] under the callsign W07BM, broadcasting on VHF channel 7. It was originally a religious independent station owned by the First Baptist Church of Cookeville. Transmission of the station originated from a tower on South Walnut Street in downtown Cookeville. Programming aired on W07BM originally consisted of televised church services, classified advertising, city council meetings, and some syndicated programming.[3]

Sometime around 1991, the owners of the station filed to sell the station and to relocate the station to the Bowling Green–Glasgow, Kentucky area. The station then changed hands to its current owners. Once the relocation was complete, the station changed the callsign to W48BM on January 10, 1992.

The station was sold to upstart Proclaim Broadcasting in May 1997.[4][5] The station returned to the air for its second incarnation in 1998, broadcasting on UHF channel 48 from its current transmitter site.[6] Three years later, its analog signal was reallocated to UHF channel 31 in 2001, and changed its callsign to WPBM-LP,[7] as part of the beginning of the digital television conversion. Since then, the station was branded as TV 31, Proclaim Broadcasting. WPBM discontinued its analog signal and converted to digital broadcasting in December 2009 on channel 46, but it is displayed as channel 31.1 through the use of PSIP. The current WPBM-CD call letters were adopted on June 25, 2010.[2] In October 2019, WPBM began broadcasting on channel 15, as required by the FCC as part of the Spectrum auction.

The station was an over-the-air affiliate of FamilyNet from 1998 until 2013.[8]

Currently, in terms of religious television outlets, WPBM is the only locally based religious television station for the Bowling Green media market of any part, even though Allen County, Kentucky, where the station is based in, is considered to be part of the Nashville, Tennessee media market. That is due in part of Allen County's close proximity to the Kentucky–Tennessee state line. WPBM serves at least nearby portions of both the Nashville and Bowling Green media markets on both sides of the state line. Hendersonville, Tennessee-based WPGD-TV, an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, also serves parts of southern Kentucky as the default over-the-air TBN affiliate for the area, but is a second option for religious programming. Bowling Green would not be served over-the-air by another locally based religious station besides WPBM until the Sonlife Broadcasting Network became available via the fourth digital subchannel of then-upstart WCZU-LD in August 2016.

Local programming

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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. Local programming produced by the station includes From the Heart with Frances Wood, Sneed Family Music starring The Sneed Family of Glasgow, Take The Living Word to a Dying World with station owner Marvey B. Wood, and a few other locally produced programs are featured.[9][10] WPBM airs Sunday worship services on a delayed basis from Shepherd's House in Glasgow, Bethlehem Baptist Church in Greensburg, Abounding Grace Ministries in Scottsville and First Baptist Church, Bowling Green.[10]

Technical information

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Subchannel

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Subchannel of WPBM-CD[11]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
31.1 1080i 16:9 WPBM-CD Religious Independent

Analog-to-digital conversion

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WPBM was not obligated to transition to digital in the digital television transition of 2009 since it was a low-power station. September 2015 was the original deadline for low-power stations to transition to digital. In spite of this, WPBM discontinued its analog signal and converted to digital broadcasting in December 2009 on UHF digital channel 46, but it is displayed as channel 31 through the use of PSIP.

Coverage area

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With 8,000 watts of power and a 500-foot (150 m) tower, the signal covers about a 40-mile (60 km) radius from the tower site.[12] 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, Greensburg, and Edmonton. In Tennessee, WPBM is carried on cable in Lafayette, Westmoreland and Red Boiling Springs.[13] The station is not carried on cable in Bowling Green, only over the air with an antenna.[9] Providers that distribute WPBM to these areas include Comcast, Mediacom,[14][15][16] South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative,[17] the Glasgow Electric Plant Board,[18] and North Central Telephone Cooperative.[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPBM-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ a b "Digital TV Market Listing for WPBM-CD". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  3. ^ TV & Cable Factbook (60th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Warren Communications News. 1991. p. 97.
  4. ^ "Notice for W48BM". Park City Daily News, May 21, 1998, page 12-B.
  5. ^ "New TV station aims to go on air May 1". The Courier-Journal. February 17, 1998. p. B6. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Overstreet, Melinda J. "Station wants on cable". Park City Daily News – via Google Books.
  7. ^ WPBM TV << Our People Archived from the original December 10, 2013.
  8. ^ Westerburg, Girard. DTV Image Captures (Post-transition) DXFM.com from Lexington, KY.
  9. ^ a b WPBM TV << Programs Archived from the original December 10, 2013.
  10. ^ a b WPBM-TV Programming Schedule September 2014.
  11. ^ "WPBM-CD Scottsville, KY".
  12. ^ WPBM-CD Contour Map @ RabbitEars.Info
  13. ^ WPBM TV
  14. ^ Mediacom Channel Lineup: Morgantown, Brownsville, Butler Co., and Edmonson County, KY. Mediacom. Retrieved May 17, 2015.
  15. ^ Mediacom Channel Lineup: Summershade, Edmonton, and Metcalfe County, KY. Mediacom. Retrieved May 17, 2015.
  16. ^ Mediacom Channel lineup: Burkesville, KY
  17. ^ SCRTC Cable Channel Lineup for Barren, Metcalfe, and Hart Counties Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine. SCRTC. Retrieved May 17, 2015.
  18. ^ Glasgow Electric Plant Board Basic Cable Lineup. Retrieved May 17, 2015.
  19. ^ NCTC Channel Chude
  20. ^ Advertising | WPBM TV
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