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WGGS-TV 16 is Greenville, South Carolina's Christian television station - a religious independent on virtual channel 16 that has served the Upstate and western North Carolina since 29 October 1972. Owned by Carolina Christian Broadcasting for its entire existence, it is the oldest independent station in South Carolina, and its program also streams live online.

The call sign stands for "We're Greenville's Gospel Station," and the schedule delivers exactly that: a conservative, family-oriented lineup aimed at the region's fundamentalist and Pentecostal churches, with national ministry programs filling the day and local production from the station's own studios in Taylors.

Ministry Programs and Niteline

The schedule is built on preaching and teaching from national ministries - The 700 Club, In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley and programs from televangelists such as Jim Bakker, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Meyer - alongside Christian children's programming and, on Sundays, bible instruction and local church services. Local production is anchored by Niteline, the station's Christian talk-and-variety show, which carried its name years before ABC's similarly spelled Nightline arrived in 1980; the cooking program You Can Make It!, created by Tammy Faye Messner in 2006, continues in production with a new host.

From Half Secular to All Gospel

WGGS signed on as a half-secular, half-religious independent, carrying classic series from The Lone Ranger to The Brady Bunch alongside Christian programming, with cartoons on Saturdays and an all-religious Sunday. As competing independents arrived in the 1980s the station phased out secular shows - by 1986 it ran almost entirely Christian programs, and by 1999 the schedule was fully so, going round-the-clock in late 1999. The station even turned down an offer to affiliate with Pax TV in 1998, staying independent and local.

The Signal from Paris Mountain

The transmitter on Paris Mountain above Greenville broadcasts at 125 kW, reaching the Upstate and the North Carolina mountains. The station sold spectrum in the 2016-17 incentive auction for $44.3 million and has since moved channels - VHF 2 in 2019, UHF 29 in 2024 - while viewers keep finding it at virtual channel 16. The signal is multiplexed into eleven subchannels: the main program plus partners ranging from SonLife and The Walk TV to QVC, Court TV and Laff, making WGGS one of the busier towers in the Carolinas.

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