WPBM-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A religious independent television station in Scottsville, Kentucky, United States.
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.
[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.
[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.
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.
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.