WCZS-LD

WCZS-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by Sonshine Family Television.

WCZS-LD

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania United States
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 35
Ownership
Owner	Sonshine Family Television (Zebra Media, LLC)
Sister stations	WLYH
History
First air date	August 29, 1986; 39 years ago (1986-08-29)
Former call signs	W40AF (1986–2003) W35BT (2003-2009) W07DP-D (2009–2020)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 40 (UHF, 1986–2003), 35 (UHF, 2003–2009) Digital: 7 (VHF, 2009–2020)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	55283
Class	LD
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	411.7 m (1,351 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°2′43″N 77°45′11″W[2][3]
Links
Public license information	LMS

History

The station, which first signed on the air on August 29, 1986, was a longtime Cornerstone Television station previously licensed to Harrisburg. WCZS-LD (as W07DP-D) was sold to Sonshine Family Television in 2018.^[4] In 2020, the station changed its city of license to Chambersburg and obtained a construction permit to move its transmitter to Clarks Knob, near its new city of license.^[2][3]

The station signed on UHF analog channel 40 on August 29, 1986, as W40AF; and then began broadcasting on channel 35 on December 8, 2003, as W35BT. The station's digital signal was inaugurated on VHF digital channel 7 on August 21, 2009, as W07DP-D; and moved to UHF digital channel 30 in 2020 as WCZS-LD.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WCZS-LD^[5]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
27.14	720p	16:9	WHTM	ABC (WHTM-TV)
35.1			Bounce	Bounce TV
35.2			CourtTV	Court TV
35.3	480i		Mystery	Ion Mystery
35.4			Grit	Grit
35.5			H&I	Heroes & Icons
35.6			Pocono	Pocono Television
49.14	720p		WLYH HD	WLYH (Religious)
49.24	480i		WLYH SD	Radiant TV (WLYH-DT2)

  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

W07DP-D (as W35BT) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 35, 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 began on its pre-transition VHF channel 7,^[6] using virtual channel 35.