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Full-power digital · channel 17 · GREENVILLE, SC
| Facility ID | 72300 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | GREENVILLE, SC
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 35.18222, -82.68194 |
| Effective radiated power | 364 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 1527.7 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.foxcarolina.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 12
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 793984 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 795117 | 3 | LPT | |
| W04EG-D | 4 | LPD | |
| facility 795174 | 5 | LPD | |
| facility 795120 | 5 | LPT | |
| facility 795093 | 6 | LPD | |
| WNTV | 8 | DTV | SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION |
| W10AJ-D | 10 | LPT | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| W22EY-D | 22 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| W28FY-D | 28 | LPD | |
| WGGS-TV | 29 | DTS | CAROLINA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING, INC. |
| WYFF | 30 | DTV | WYFF HEARST TELEVISION INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WHNS | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WHNS | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.