WCZS-LD explained

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.

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.[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.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WCZS-LD[4] ! Channel ! Res. ! Aspect ! Short name ! Programming
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)
49.24480i WLYH SD Radiant TV (WLYH-DT2)

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,[5] using virtual channel 35.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jacobson . Adam . A TV Deal That’s A Pocketful of Sonshine . Radio and Television Business Report . December 12, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201212051352/https://www.rbr.com/a-tv-deal-thats-a-pocketful-of-sonshine/ . December 12, 2020.
  2. Web site: Licensing and Management System . Federal Communications Commission . December 12, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201212054114/https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityTechDetails.html?facilityId=55283&applicationId=25076f9174fff4c101751ccc33792222 . December 12, 2020.
  3. Web site: WCZS-LD Shippensburg, PA . RabbitEars . December 12, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201212054534/https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_station&facility_id=55283 . December 12, 2020.
  4. http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WCZS-LD#station RabbitEars TV Query for WCZS-LD
  5. Web site: DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds . PDF . March 24, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf . August 29, 2013 .