WCZS-LD
Channels
Ownership
Owner
  • Sonshine Family Television
  • (Zebra Media, LLC)
WLYH
History
First air date
August 29, 1986; 37 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 ID55283
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT411.7 m (1,351 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°2′43″N 77°45′11″W / 40.04528°N 77.75306°W / 40.04528; -77.75306[2][3]
Links
Public license information
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WCZS-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by Sonshine Family Television.

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 DeFY Blank
35.6 Newsy Scripps News
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.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WCZS-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ a b "Licensing and Management System". Federal Communications Commission. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "WCZS-LD Shippensburg, PA". RabbitEars. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Jacobson, Adam. "A TV Deal That's A Pocketful of Sonshine". Radio and Television Business Report. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  5. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WCZS-LD
  6. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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