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{{Short description|Television station in Chamberburg, Pennsylvania}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WCZS-LD
| logo                   = 
| branding               =
| digital                = 30 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 35
| subchannels            = 
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1986|8|29}}
| location               = [[Chambersburg, Pennsylvania]]
| country                = United States
| callsign_meaning       = 
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|W40AF (1986–2003)|W35BT (2003-2009)|W07DP-D (2009–2020)}}
| owner                  = Sonshine Family Television
| licensee               = Zebra Media, [[LLC]]
| sister_stations        = [[WLYH (TV)|WLYH]]
| former_affiliations    = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 40 ([[UHF]], 1986–2003), 35 (UHF, 2003–2009)|'''Digital:''' 7 ([[VHF]], 2009–2020)}}
| erp                    = 15 kW
| haat                   = {{convert|411.7|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = [[low-power broadcasting#Television|LD]]
| facility_id            = 55283
| coordinates            = {{coord|40|2|43|N|77|45|11|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}<ref name="FCC LMS" /><ref name="RabbitEars" />
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                =  
}}
'''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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jacobson |first1=Adam |title=A TV Deal That's A Pocketful of Sonshine |url=https://www.rbr.com/a-tv-deal-thats-a-pocketful-of-sonshine/ |website=Radio and Television Business Report |date=November 9, 2018 |access-date=December 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212051352/https://www.rbr.com/a-tv-deal-thats-a-pocketful-of-sonshine/ |archive-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref name="FCC LMS">{{cite web |title=Licensing and Management System |url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityTechDetails.html?facilityId=55283&applicationId=25076f9174fff4c101751ccc33792222 |website=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=December 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212054114/https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityTechDetails.html?facilityId=55283&applicationId=25076f9174fff4c101751ccc33792222 |archive-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref><ref name="RabbitEars">{{cite web |title=WCZS-LD Shippensburg, PA |url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_station&facility_id=55283 |website=RabbitEars |access-date=December 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212054534/https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_station&facility_id=55283 |archive-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref>

The station signed on [[UHF]] [[analog television|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 [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Subchannels of WCZS-LD<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WCZS-LD#station RabbitEars TV Query for WCZS-LD]</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]] 
! [[Display resolution|Res.]] 
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]] 
! Short name 
! Programming
|-
! scope= "row" | [[WHTM-TV|27.14]] 
| rowspan=3|[[720p]] || rowspan=9|[[16:9]] || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|WHTM || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] ([[WHTM-TV]])
|-
! scope= "row" | 35.1 
| Bounce || [[Bounce TV]]
|-
! scope= "row" | 35.2 
| CourtTV || [[Court TV]]
|-
! scope= "row" | 35.3 
| rowspan=4|[[480i]] || Mystery || [[Ion Mystery]]
|-
! scope= "row" | 35.4 
| Grit || [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]]
|-
! scope= "row" | 35.5 
| H&I || [[Heroes & Icons]]
|-
! scope= "row" | 35.6 
| Pocono || Pocono Television
|-
! scope= "row" | [[WLYH (TV)|49.14]] 
| 720p || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|WLYH HD || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|[[WLYH (TV)|WLYH]] ([[Religious broadcasting|Religious]])
|-
! scope= "row" | [[WLYH (TV)|49.24]]
| 480i || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|WLYH SD || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|[[Radiant TV]] ([[WLYH (TV)|WLYH-DT2]])
|}
{{legend|#E6FFF7|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 [[Digital television transition 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,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 35.

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Harrisburg/Lancaster/York TV}}
{{Other Pennsylvania Stations}}

[[Category:Chambersburg, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Low-power television stations in Pennsylvania|CZS]]
[[Category:Bounce TV affiliates]]
[[Category:Court TV affiliates]]
[[Category:Ion Mystery affiliates]]
[[Category:Grit (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1986]]
[[Category:Television stations in the Susquehanna Valley|CZS-LD]]