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WHNS (known on-air as Fox Carolina) is the Fox affiliate licensed to Greenville, South Carolina. It also serves Spartanburg, Asheville, and large portions of western North and South Carolina. It is owned by the Meredith Corporation. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 21, and its digital signal on UHF channel 57. Its transmitter is located near Brevard, North Carolina.
The station airs first-run programming from Fox, including prime time, weekend sports, and weekend children's programming. It also runs off-network sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, court shows, and local news.
History
A construction permit was issued for channel 21 in Asheville NC as early as 1953. It signed on in 1975 as a simulcast of WGGS channel 16 and operated on low power.
The station became WHNS on April 1, 1984 under the ownership of Pappas Telecasting, a company based in Fresno, California. The call letters WHNS stand for Harry N Stella for the owner Harry Pappas and his wife Stella. The station ran a typical UHF independent schedule consisting of cartoons, sitcoms, old movies, drama shows and some sports. It became the dominant independent station in the region, ahead of WAXA-TV (channel 40, now WMYA-TV). Its first slogan was "It's Your Station", which was changed to "We're Your Station" (also used on WHNS-TV's then sister-station KMPH in Fresno, California and KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska). WHNS-TV's first logo consisted of the call letters in a Subway-esque logo with the channel number on the center bottom. That logo was used until the late 1980s.
WHNS became the area's Fox affiliate in 1988 after original Fox station WAXA went dark, and quickly dropped its original on-air name of "TV21" in favor of "Fox 21". In 1990, the station was sold to Cannell Communications. First Media Television acquired the station in 1994, and it acquired a secondary UPN affiliation in January 1995, airing UPN programming in the late-night hours. (The UPN affiliation moved in 1997 to WASV (channel 62), which was coincidentally owned by Pappas, WHNS' original owner.)
From around 1996 to 1999, WHNS carried a 10pm newscast produced by WSPA-TV. The partnership between the two stations ended in 1999, when WHNS launched its own news division.
WHNS was acquired by Meredith Corporation in 1997 as part of a group deal. In 2002, it began calling itself "Fox Carolina".
WHNS is the latest television station in the market to begin 24/7 broadcasting, having done so since late April/early May 2006. Before that, WHNS signed off from 3-5 AM late Sunday night/early Monday morning.
On May 14, 2007, Assignment Editor Joe Loy was killed while on assignment. On a local highway, he was filming the aftermath of one accident when another occurred right behind him. He managed to get it on video as a white van, possibly made out-of-control by a red pickup truck, spun towards him. Police are seeking information about the red pickup, a "vehicle of interest".
In 2004, WHNS aired a Nightline broadcast showing the names and faces of the dead from the Iraq war, after ABC station WLOS-TV pre-empted it on orders from its owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Connie LeGrand was the main female anchor from 1998 to 2003 before leaving for SPEED Channel. She is now anchoring with CBS affiliate WSPA in Spartanburg.
Repeater stations
In order to reach viewers in valleys of North Carolina, WHNS has 6 low power repeater stations:
- W14AS channel 14 West Asheville, North Carolina
- W35AV channel 35 Black Mountain, North Carolina
- W57BG channel 57 Canton-Waynesville, North Carolina
- W64BO channel 64 Franklin, North Carolina
- W66BU channel 66 Sylva, North Carolina
- W69CN channel 69 Bryson City, North Carolina
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