Callsign: | WCZS-LD |
Digital: | 30 (UHF) |
Virtual: | 35 |
Location: | Chambersburg, Pennsylvania |
Country: | United States |
Owner: | Sonshine Family Television |
Licensee: | Zebra Media, LLC |
Sister Stations: | WLYH |
Erp: | 15 kW |
Haat: | 411.70NaN0 |
Class: | LD |
Facility Id: | 55283 |
Coordinates: | 40.0453°N -77.7531°W |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WCZS-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by Sonshine Family Television.
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.[1] 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.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
WHTM | ABC (WHTM-TV) | |||
35.1 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
35.2 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
35.3 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
35.4 | Grit | Grit | ||
35.5 | DeFY | Blank | ||
35.6 | Newsy | Scripps News | ||
720p | WLYH HD | WLYH (Religious) | ||
49.24 | 480i | WLYH SD | Radiant TV (WLYH-DT2) |
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,[5] using virtual channel 35.