W30FH-D
Television station in Chamberburg, Pennsylvania
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W30FH-D (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by Sonshine Family Television.
- Sonshine Family Television
- (Zebra Media, LLC)
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| Affiliations | see § Subchannels |
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| WLYH | |
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First air date | August 29, 1986 |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| 55283 | |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 411.7 m (1,351 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′43″N 77°45′11″W[2][3] |
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Public license information | LMS |
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.
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.[5]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
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.[7]