W30FH-D

W30FH-D
Channels
Programming
Affiliationssee § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner
  • Sonshine Family Television
  • (Zebra Media, LLC)
WLYH
History
First air date
August 29, 1986 (1986-08-29)
Former call signs
  • W40AF (1986–2003)
  • W35BT (2003-2009)
  • W07DP-D (2009–2020)
  • WCZS-LD (2020–2026)
Former channel numbers
  • Analog: 40 (UHF, 1986–2003), 35 (UHF, 2003–2009)
  • Digital: 7 (VHF, 2009–2020)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
55283
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT411.7 m (1,351 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
40°2′43″N 77°45′11″W / 40.04528°N 77.75306°W / 40.04528; -77.75306
Links
Public license information
LMS

W30FH-D (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. 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.

On February 23, 2026, an FCC rule change required stations licensed as broadcast translators and not low-power TV stations, including this one, to be assigned translator-type call signs. As a result, this station was changed to W30FH-D.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of W30FH-D
Subchannel Res.Tooltip Display resolution Short name Programming
27.14 720pWHTMABC (WHTM-TV)
35.1 BounceBounce TV
35.2 CourtTVCourt TV
35.3 480iMysteryIon Mystery
35.4 GritGrit
35.5 H&IHeroes & Icons
35.6 PoconoPocono Television
49.14 720pWLYH HDWLYH (Religious)
49.24 480iWLYH SDRadiant 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, using virtual channel 35.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for W30FH-D". 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.
  4. ↑ Jacobson, Adam (November 9, 2018). "A TV Deal That's A Pocketful of Sonshine". Radio and Television Business Report. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Media Bureau Announces TV Translator Call Sign Changes" (PDF). Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission. March 11, 2026.
  6. ↑ "TV Query for W30FH-D". RabbitEars.
  7. ↑ "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.