WCZS-LD

WCZS-LD 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 was sold to Sonshine Family Television in 2018. 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.
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:

W07DP-D 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, using virtual channel 35.