WCZS-LD

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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 ID 55283
Class LD
ERP 15 kW
HAAT 411.7 m (1,351 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°2′43″N77°45′11″W / 40.04528°N 77.75306°W / 40.04528; -77.75306 [2] [3]
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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.

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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 nameProgramming
27.14 720p 16:9 WHTM ABC (WHTM-TV)
35.1Bounce Bounce TV
35.2CourtTV Court TV
35.3 480i Mystery Ion Mystery
35.4Grit Grit
35.5DeFYBlank
35.6Newsy Scripps News
49.14 720pWLYH HD WLYH (Religious)
49.24 480iWLYH 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.

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WCZS-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. 1 2 "Licensing and Management System". Federal Communications Commission. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "WCZS-LD Shippensburg, PA". RabbitEars. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
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  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.