WCZS-LD

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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.[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
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 H&I Heroes & Icons
35.6 Pocono Pocono Television
49.14 720p WLYH HD WLYH (Religious)
49.24 480i WLYH SD Radiant TV (WLYH-DT2)

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  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,[5] using virtual channel 35.

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