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Jesse Custer

The Reverend Jesse Custer is the fictional protagonist of the comic book series Preacher, created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon (with a large percentage of the original cover art painted by Glenn Fabry), and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.

He was ranked the 11th Greatest Comic Book Character by Empire. In 2011, IGN ranked Jesse Custer 34th in the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes.

Dominic Cooper portrayed the live action version of the character in the television series Preacher.

Early days
Jesse Custer was born on September 19, 1973, son of John Custer, a U.S. Marine from Texas, and Christina L'Angelle, a troubled runaway. The couple met when Christina, encouraged by the Vietnam War-protesting group she was traveling with, spat in the eye of the first soldier she saw returning from overseas. Despite the assault, the two recognized a sense of displacement in each other, and a relationship formed. Quickly, John and Christina fell deeply in love and gave birth to a son, Jesse.

During Jesse's early years, his father instilled a love of cowboys and justice in him. Their happiness was short-lived, as Christina's family finally caught up with them with the intention of bringing her home. Psychotic thugs Jody and T.C. were prepared to murder John until they realized he was the father of Christina's son and were obliged to take him along.

Jesse was taken back to the family home and introduced to his malicious, intelligent, yet decrepit Grandma, who began to teach him to both love and fear God. John and Christina were married, although John secretly vowed to escape with his family after a suitably safe period of time had passed, but they were caught during the escape attempt, and Jody killed John in front of young Jesse's eyes. After further torment from Jody, Jesse vowed never to cry again.

After that, Jesse was stuck with his new family, his only friend Billy-Bob, a one-eyed, inbred swamp-dweller. Gradually his family managed to cruelly take these from him, too. Jesse was educated largely by his mother, while the sadistic Jody taught him mechanics, fighting, and shooting. He was frequently punished by being placed in an airtight coffin and then submerged at the bottom of a river. Jesse's sanity was held intact by the company of a spirit taking the form of cowboy legend John Wayne. Whether this spirit is a genuine manifestation of the Western hero or simply a coping mechanism spawned from his movie-watching history with his father is uncertain. In either case, there's no question that Wayne held him together.

By his late teens, the death of his parents and his best friend Billy-Bob gave Jesse the necessary drive to escape the L'Angelle family and run away.

After Angelville
Jesse was a cocky young man, using his skills and good looks to get easy money. Eventually, he ran into a woman who would change his life forever: Tulip O'Hare. The two fell in love and, along with Tulip's friend Amy, pursued a life of crime, stealing expensive cars without getting caught. The three soon became indebted to a criminal who also stole horses to sell on the meat market. With the help of a former Texas Ranger, Jesse and Tulip freed the horses and defeated the thieves, and Jesse hanged the French meat-dealer for horse-rustling and murdering the ranger, whom Jesse had grown to like and respect (as seen in "Preacher: Tall in the Saddle").

Jesse and Tulip enjoyed a high life of crime and sex on the highways — Jesse planned on proposing to Tulip but the sudden reappearance of Jody and T.C. prevented that. Threatening to kill Tulip if he ever spoke to her again, Jesse simply 'disappeared' from her life and was pressed into the clergy by his Grandma. Finally admitting defeat and turning to alcohol, he began practicing as reverend to an ungrateful and ignorant Texas town.

Soon enough, the John Wayne spirit that had appeared to Jesse now refused to talk to him. Jesse's desire to point out the hypocrisy of his congregations' lives was finally resolved when he chanced to encounter the comedian Bill Hicks (in either Dallas or Houston, as Jesse was a trifle too drunk to remember properly). Watching the performance of Hicks' cynical, caustic yet utterly truthful wit inspired Jesse to live to a higher standard; when he heard of Hicks' death, he decided to confront his congregation in the local bar, where he pointed out the residents' dirty little secrets. Eventually, Jesse was cut short when he accused a drunk of having raped a hitchhiker. The rapist, whose father had paid off the judge, beat Jesse unconscious with a pool cue.

Genesis
During a sermon the day after he was attacked in the bar, Jesse was suddenly struck by a supernatural force later identified as Genesis, grafting itself to Jesse's soul and releasing an explosion of energy that destroyed the church and the town, killing the whole population. By a well-timed coincidence, Tulip had hitched a lift with an Irishman named Proinsias Cassidy after having just bungled her first job as an assassin. The two discovered Jesse among the rubble of the church and, after some discussion, agreed to help him to safety, although Tulip was still furious with Jesse over his sudden abandonment of her five years before. The death of the townsfolk and the rumored appearance of a stone-faced, dual-pistol wielding cowboy brought the involvement of both local law enforcement and the FBI.

Through subsequent bloodshed and black humor, the following is revealed:
 * Merging with Genesis has given Jesse "the Word of God", a power which forces the listener to obediently follow his commands, so long as the listener can hear and comprehend what is said. This power is signified by Jesse's eyes glowing an eerie red.
 * The highly charismatic Cassidy, while appearing to be human, is actually a vampire well into his 90s.
 * The mysterious cowboy is the unstoppable Saint of Killers, sent on a mission from Heaven to find Jesse and subsequently Genesis.
 * Genesis is the result of a sexual union between an angel and a demon, something not defined by good or evil, and perhaps more powerful than God Himself. It escaped its confinement in Heaven and fled to Earth, finding Jesse.
 * When Genesis was born, God left Heaven, and no one knows where He went or why.

Much of this information was forced from an angel using Jesse's newfound power. Jesse also made a new friend in Cassidy after initially calling him an abomination for drinking blood. Jesse also discovered he was being followed by the Saint of Killers, who was sent to hunt down the mortal who had merged with Genesis.

Following these revelations, Jesse decided to use his power to track God down and make Him face up to His own wrongdoings as Creator.

Jesse's quest for God would take on the form of an unconventional road trip. He visited many American landmarks, including New York City, Texas, San Francisco, and New Orleans.

Family reunion
While on the road, he was once again captured by Jody and T.C., who had almost given up on finding him again. This time, they took Tulip with them, too. Jesse tried to use the Word of God on Jody, but it apparently had no effect on him. Jesse was returned to Grandma, who allowed him one final night with Tulip. Jesse explained to her the events of his childhood, the murder of his father at the hands of Jody, and the real reason why he had to leave her five years before. When morning came, Grandma sent in Jody, who shot Tulip in the head with his handgun. A broken man, Jesse lost all hope.

The following day, God visited Tulip's corpse and returned her to life, commanding her to persuade Jesse to give up his quest. Tulip refused, believing God to be using her resurrection as a bribe to get Jesse to end his quest. Meanwhile, John Wayne's spirit slowly convinced the devastated Jesse to fight back against his captors and finally collect on all the pain they had caused him throughout his life.

While imprisoned in his room, Jesse tried the Word on T.C. again and was grimly satisfied to see it work. Jesse beat T.C. to a bloody pulp, set fire to Grandma's clan, and battled Jody in a final showdown, eventually breaking his back, strangling him to death and reclaiming his father's Zippo lighter. Tulip shot T.C. dead, and Grandma was killed when the burning house ignited her oxygen tank, sending her rocketing into the sky like a fiery comet.

Reunited, Jesse and Tulip shared a passionate kiss, finally free from the demons of Jesse's past.

Cassidy and the Grail
While helping Cassidy track down the man responsible for giving his junkie girlfriend a large amount of heroin to stash, Jesse met The Grail, a sinister organization who have been tasked with finding and capturing Jesse. The secret society was headed by a pope-like figure named Allfather D'Aronique, and his right-hand man, The Sacred Executioner, a German military expert referred to as Herr Starr. While the All-Father wished to capture Jesse in retaliation for the death of his distant aunt (Jesse's grandmother), Starr heard of Jesse's power and planned to use him to bring on Armageddon so they could take over the world.

The Grail took Cassidy, believing him to be Jesse, and flew him to a hidden base in France named Masada, where Cassidy maintained the deception. He was found out, and the Grail repeatedly and unsuccessfully, attempted to kill him. Jesse traveled to France to recover Cassidy, believing that they share a bond. He was unwilling to endanger Tulip's life in a rescue attempt, and left her while she slept.

Jesse rescued Cassidy, but not without incurring Starr's wrath and inadvertently helping to elevate him to the level of All-Father of the Grail. The Saint of Killers was now after Jesse for information regarding his past that might be locked into Genesis' memories. Cassidy, Jesse, and Tulip were reunited again, but Tulip was angry that Jesse did not trust her to handle herself in a firefight. When Cassidy made a clumsy pass at her, she returned to Jesse's arms and began to distrust the vampire.

Jesse realized that his only chance of finding God lay in the memories of Genesis. He traveled to Monument Valley, where he hoped a hallucinogen might hold the key to unlocking them. Starr found him, and used his Grail authority to order a massive military support, eventually deploying a nuclear strike. Attempting to flee the blast in a private jet, Jesse was thrown from the plane after ordering Cassidy not to risk his life saving him.

Much to his surprise, Jesse found himself alive and well in the desert, having miraculously survived the fall but inexplicably missing an eye. Initially, he had no memory of what happened after Cassidy dropped him, and it would not be until later that he remembered: God appeared and explained that He saved Jesse to show that He loves him and that he should abandon his quest. Jesse refused and attempted to use his power; however, God attacked him, biting out his left eye and leaving him a wreck. Before finishing the job, God fled when He detected the Saint of Killers approaching. Though physically ruined, Jesse happily realized that God was afraid of the Saint.

Betrayal and salvation
Jesse was found by a hermit in the desert, having lost his memory of his encounter with God. After recuperating for a month, Jesse set off to find Tulip and Cassidy. When he found them, he saw Cassidy embracing Tulip intimately and collapsed in shock. Believing that Tulip had made her peace and moved on, Jesse temporarily put his quest for God on the back burner and found himself in a small town named Salvation.

The town was being abused by a local meat industrialist, a diminutive man named Odin Quincannon, and his band of thugs. Jesse was quickly given the position of Sheriff. There, he met Lorie, the sister of his childhood friend, Billy-Bob. Lorie lived with a one-armed woman named Jodie, whom Jesse eventually realized was his mother, Christina, suffering from amnesia from a gunshot wound delivered by Jody years previous. With added help from his female deputy, Cindy, and a German man named Gunther, Jesse fought back at Quincannon's criminal activity, going head-to-head with corporate lawyer Miss Oatlash, an S&M (sadomasochism) fanatic who admired Adolf Hitler and secretly desired Jesse. After escaping Oatlash, Jesse confronted the tiny businessman who attempted to blow up the town during a storm, but was struck by lightning before doing so. A defeated man, Quincannon was eventually killed by Jesse in one of his meat storage rooms.

During his time in Salvation, Jesse became very close to Cindy, and the possibility of a romance blossomed between the two. However, both of them realized it would never work out, as Jesse was still in love with Tulip. This realization started Jesse on the road to forgiving Tulip, a process he began by setting out to learn what happened between her and Cassidy.

Meanwhile, Jesse's mother began a relationship with Gunther. Although Jesse was initially uncomfortable with the idea of his mother having a relationship, he came to like and respect Gunther, who supported him when Jesse needed the town's approval to go against Quincannon. Jesse believed Gunther's tale of having escaped from Germany because he was against the Nazi regime; however, with the help of one of Miss Oatlash's books on Nazi history, Jesse eventually discovered Gunther's story was a lie. When confronted, Gunther broke down and admitted that he was a fully participating SS officer. Although Gunther pleaded with Jesse to understand, believing that he was his chance for redemption, from Jesse's point of view he could not be forgiven for the acts he had committed as a Nazi. Jesse tossed him a rope and walked out, and it is later revealed that Gunther hanged himself without leaving any explanation.

Through another well-timed prompt from The Duke's spirit, Jesse realized he was going to get back on the job he set out to do, and to bring the girl he loved to meet his mother. With the help of the hallucinogens, he still had from Monument Valley, Jesse recovered his lost memories of his brush with God (and with it, the revelation that God feared the Saint). Furthermore, he came to a conclusion about God's motives. These two facts combined to give Jesse a new strategy for hunting down God.

"The End of the Road"
Jesse eventually discovered that Tulip had never truly betrayed him to Cassidy, as he had kept her dependent on drugs and alcohol after she thought Jesse had died. Tulip managed to escape the vampire's control, and fled back to her old friend Amy, who delivered the startling news that Jesse was alive and well and was in fact coming to Amy's place to begin his search for Tulip. Jesse and Tulip were reunited for the second time, and Tulip finally revealed Cassidy's true nature to Jesse.

Jesse found a homeless woman who was an old acquaintance of Cassidy's and discovered the fullness of his sins, including violence against women, theft, prostitution, murder, and addiction. While disappointed in Cassidy, he was angrier that he had been tricked into thinking that he and Cassidy shared the same code of honor that he so fervently believed in.

When Cassidy showed up to reclaim Tulip, he was surprised to find Jesse alive. He grew agitated when confronted with what he'd done, and took a swing at Jesse in anger. Jesse made him leave, agreeing to meet on a certain date to discuss their grudge.

While devising a plan to finally catch up with God and challenge Him, Jesse realized that he would be putting Tulip in danger once more. Ashamed that he still couldn't bear the risk of hurting her, he sedated her and left her in a hotel room while he took care of business, knowing this would be the final betrayal and that she would not forgive him a second time.

Jesse met with Cassidy, and they discussed his troubled past. Jesse eventually forced Cassidy to fight him, meaning to show his former friend what it feels like to be as vulnerable as all the women he had abused. The fight was one-sided, as Jesse beat Cassidy to a bloody pulp. Beaten and ashamed, Cassidy asked Jesse for help, saying that if a good man like Jesse can offer him his hand, then that's enough of a reason to believe he has to change his ways. Cassidy asked for Jesse's hand in forgiveness. When Jesse, showing signs of recognizing and being uncomfortable by the similarities, once again turned away, Cassidy accused him of not following his own code, that he wouldn't stand by his friends when they really need it ("it's not so easy... when they're stuck on the road to hell, is it?"). Jesse realized this was true and offered a hand to Cassidy – but it was partially a ruse and Cassidy knocked Jesse out, incapacitating him.

Cassidy turned to face the sun as it rose and thanked Jesse for being his friend and offering him his hand. As he died in flames, Jesse was shot by a sniper hiding on a rooftop under order from Herr Starr – who had been watching the whole fight with glee. Tulip arrived in time to kill Starr, but not to save Jesse, who had died instantly, covered in the ashes of his best friend.

Alamo
Shot down outside the Alamo, Jesse's death would not be in vain, or, as it turns out, final. Having faced down the Saint of Killers (something no one had successfully done before), he had struck a bargain with him. Jesse's death would separate him from Genesis, the only occasion that would cause God to feel safe in returning to His seat in Heaven, but God wouldn't know the Saint would be waiting with his twin Colts, guns that deliver wounds no less than fatal. When God returned to Heaven, He was shocked to find the entire angelic host slaughtered and the Saint waiting for Him. God was unable to move him, first with His holy wrath, and then with the promise of resurrecting the Saint's family. The Saint then shot and killed God, freeing the world from His corruption.

Before his confrontation with Jesse, Cassidy had visited a church and struck a deal of his own, promising God he would hand Jesse over as long as both his own life and Jesse's are spared.

Jesse, now resurrected and with his lost eye restored, sought out Tulip, who explained she cannot and will not forgive him for betraying her a second time. On the verge of parting ways forever, Jesse tracked her down on horseback and asked for her to take him back. After seeing tears in his eyes for the first time since his father's death, Tulip accepted his love for her and will to change as genuine.

The last panels show Cassidy, now human after his deal with God, watching the sunset and talking to himself, or rather out to Jesse, saying that he will try to act like a man.

Skills and upbringing
After the death of John Custer, Jesse is raised in Angelville by Christina Custer (named after the New Orleans native currently living in Atlanta), along with the corrupted influence of his grandmother and Jody. Along with his Bible lessons, Christina also sought a more scholarly education. After Christina was taken from him, Jesse continued to be raised by his grandmother, but his parents had already become a major influence on his personality and outlook. Jesse also learned how to fight and hunt and shoot, and became proficient in maintaining and fixing machinery, all taught by Jody. Jody's immense fighting ability obviously rubbed off on Jesse, who impressed Starr tremendously after Jesse had taken out some of his elite Grail soldiers and evaded capture in France.

His skills allow him to easily beat the superhumanly strong and fast vampire, Cassidy (at least until Cassidy sucker-punches him). Jesse explains that this is because Cassidy has never had to learn how to fight.

The Word of God
When his soul merged with the angel-demon entity Genesis, her powers were focused into what Jesse Custer would refer to as "The Word of God". When he uses the Word, his eyes turn red and his voice changes that sounds like "nails scraping against [your] soul". Although no one can resist his commands, his victims must be able to understand them. For example, animals would ignore his commands, and a group of attacking French-speaking soldiers were able to resist him. Jesse prefers to keep his Word in reserve, using it only when he has to. However, he has used the word for all sorts of situations before, from ordering a Ku Klux Klan member to 'shit himself' to calling in on a radio phone-in show and ordering the guests to tell America what is it they really want, with embarrassing results.

Genesis
Genesis first appears as "a comet with the face of an infant". After the emergence of Genesis, Jesse is told that she knows the secrets of heaven and hell. It is sometimes a conscious exchange of information, but it also appears in the form of dreams and hallucinations. His "imaginary friend" John Wayne reappears since Custer became a minister, and for the first time gives Jesse information he could not have known on his own. He would regularly reappear to give Jesse general advice and notably telling him to leave Salvation because he's just treading water. After the death of Jesse, Genesis reemerges, but now has the face of an adult as she has grown within Jesse's soul.

In other media

 * Jesse Custer appears as the main character in the AMC television adaptation of the Preacher comic series, developed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg with Dominic Cooper portraying the character.

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The result of the debate was Speedy as patent nonsense. Radiant_ >|< 09:23, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

The Theory of utter nonsense
Delete take your pick of OR, hoax, neologism, or joke. Didn't think it quite qualified for speedy so brought it to AFD, but if it qualifies by all means speedy. (A google search of "michael dahm" nonsense returns 0 results if anyone was curious.) TM (talk) 08:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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WHNS

WHNS (channel 21), branded Fox Carolina, is a television station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on Interstate Court (just northwest of Interstate 85) in Greenville, and its transmitter is located atop Slick Rock Mountain in Transylvania County, North Carolina (5 mi southeast of Brevard).

Channel 21 license prior to 1979
WHNS operates on the oldest active television station license in the market, though the connection is indirect. WISE-TV launched in Asheville, North Carolina, on August 2, 1953. Broadcasting on channel 62, it was a primary NBC affiliate which also carried programs from ABC, CBS, and DuMont. ABC and DuMont moved to WLOS (channel 13) when that station signed on in September 1954. In 1967, the station changed its call letters to WANC-TV; the next year, it dropped its remaining NBC programming as its ownership brought a cable system to Asheville. WANC-TV moved from channel 62 to 21 in 1971, airing a limited amount of Christian television programming throughout the 1970s by simulcasting WGGS-TV in Greenville. The owner of WANC-TV, Thoms Broadcasting, reached a deal to sell WANC-TV to the owners of WGGS-TV in 1977; the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forced the deal's demise in January 1979, saying that, as WGGS-TV could move to a transmitter site from which it could also serve Asheville, the ownership of two stations would be a wasteful use of spectrum.

Rebuilding channel 21
After the sale to Carolina Christian Broadcasting collapsed, Thoms lost the lease on the channel 21 antenna site, and the station went off the air. Thoms reached a deal to sell WANC-TV to Pappas Telecasting of Visalia, California, for $206,000 in June 1979. The sale became effective September 14, and twelve days later, on September 26, the call letters were changed to WHNS.

WANC-TV's signal had only reached Asheville and did not extend beyond the South Carolina state line. Pappas began the process of filing for new, much more powerful facilities on Slick Rock Mountain just a month after taking possession of the license. However, in 1981, the FCC designated its application for hearing. WGGS-TV had filed to move its transmitter to Caesar's Head in Greenville County, South Carolina, and the two applications were mutually exclusive for technical reasons. While WGGS-TV dropped its conflicting application, another problem had emerged: the proposed facility would not provide a strong enough signal to three percent of the city of Asheville, the city of license, because of shadowing by mountains. As a result, the FCC denied the initial application in 1982. Pappas appealed: the FCC review board found in Pappas's favor given the circumstances, finding that the company's push to restore channel 21's service to Asheville, limited choice of suitable sites, and good faith efforts outweighed the shadowing issues.

With approval from the FCC in hand, Pappas set out to rebuild the station. An existing building near Interstate 85 and Pelham Road, midway between Greenville and Spartanburg, was refitted to serve as the main WHNS studio base; delays in establishing more than a temporary presence in Asheville attracted protests from competitor WAXA-TV (channel 40) in Anderson. The delays were due to site work and sale negotiations.

WHNS began broadcasting April 1, 1984, promoting itself as the market's first general-entertainment independent station. (WAXA-TV, in comparison, did not reach homes in the North Carolina portion of the market.) It used one of the first circularly polarized TV antennas in service, broadcasting 3.5 million watts of power from Slick Rock Mountain. The station represented a $12 million investment in facilities and another $5 million in programs.

WHNS initially ran a schedule typical of an independent on the UHF band, consisting of cartoons, sitcoms, classic movies, drama series and select sporting events. It became the dominant independent station in the region, placing well ahead of WAXA in the ratings. Its original slogan, "It's Your Station" (which was later changed to "We're Your Station" in 1988) would also be used on then-sister stations KMPH-TV in Fresno and KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska.

Becoming a Fox affiliate
WAXA beat out WHNS for a charter affiliation with the upstart Fox Broadcasting Company, which launched in October 1986, even though WAXA had a considerably weaker signal (it was marginal at best in the North Carolina portion of the market and only appeared on Asheville cable systems upon affiliation ) and less well-heeled ownership. However, in 1988, WAXA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Pappas, meanwhile, struck a group deal to affiliate KMPH, KPTM and WHNS with Fox: the three stations became Fox affiliates that September. WAXA never recovered from the loss of Fox programming and went off the air on August 31, 1989. After joining the network, WHNS abandoned its "TV-21" brand and changed its on-air branding to "Fox 21".

In 1990, Pappas sold WHNS to Cannell Communications (a broadcast group owned by television producer and author Stephen J. Cannell), earning a handsome return on its original investment; Pappas had successfully built up WHNS as a major player in the market. Cannell sold WHNS to First Media Television in 1994. On January 16, 1995, WHNS took on a secondary affiliation with the United Paramount Network (UPN), airing the network's programming during late-night time periods. First Media sold its stations to Meredith Corporation for $435 million in 1997. In October of that year, UPN's programming moved to WASV-TV (channel 62, now WYCW)—which had been acquired by Pappas two years earlier in 1995. The station became exclusively affiliated with Fox as a result, only to add a secondary affiliation with Pax TV when that network launched on August 31, 1998; WHNS carried select programs from the network until 2003. In the fall of 2002, WHNS began branding itself as "Fox Carolina". On July 24, 2003, Meredith received FCC approval to change WHNS' city of license from Asheville to Greenville to aid identification as a South Carolina station. Under the terms of the reallotment, the station was required to retain city-grade coverage of Asheville and to maintain its existing public interest obligations to that city.

In March 2009, the Meredith Corporation announced that WHNS and Nashville sister station WSMV-TV would have their master control operations moved to a new master control hub based out of the studio facilities of Atlanta sister station WGCL-TV, which began operations in the fall of 2009.

On September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire Meredith for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General if the sale had been finalized. Because Media General already owned CBS affiliate WSPA-TV (channel 7) and CW affiliate WYCW, and both WHNS and WSPA ranked among the four highest-rated stations in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market in total day viewership, the companies would have been required to sell either WHNS or WSPA. However, on January 27, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General, resulting in the termination of Meredith's acquisition by Media General.

On May 3, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division, including WHNS, for $2.7 billion. The sale was completed on December 1.

News operation
WHNS presently broadcasts 42 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with eight hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). In terms of the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local output among the market's individual stations (WLOS, along with sister station WMYA-TV along with WSPA and sister station WYCW produce more hours of newscasts with their combined operations).

WHNS launched the first prime time newscast in the Greenville-Spartanburg market in September 1996, when WSPA-TV began to produce a nightly half-hour newscast at 10 p.m. through a news share agreement. The program was produced from WSPA's main news set at its International Drive studio facility in Spartanburg and utilized WSPA's anchors and reporters; however, the newscast had a different on-air identity and graphics package than that seen on WSPA's newscasts. Meredith Corporation terminated the news share agreement in 1999, when the station began developing its own in-house news department; its news operation launched that fall with the debut of an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast.

The station eventually expanded their news offerings, adding a morning newscast.

On May 14, 2007, assignment editor Joe Loy was filming the aftermath of a traffic accident on a local highway when another accident occurred right behind him. Loy managed to tape that accident as a white van, which possibly went out-of-control because of a red pickup truck, spun towards and hit him, killing him instantly.

In September 2009, WHNS expanded its news programming into early evenings with the debut of a half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m.

In 2011, WHNS began broadcasting its local newscasts in widescreen enhanced definition. The station ultimately upgraded its news production to high definition in 2014.

In September 2012, the station canceled their 6:30 p.m. newscast due to low ratings, but the following week launched an 11 p.m. newscast, airing Monday through Friday.

In October 2014, WHNS added a weekday hour-long 4 p.m. newscast, called The Four O'Clock News.

In 2017, the station added a 5 p.m. newscast and expanded their morning news from 4:30 a.m. until 9 a.m.

The station's 10 p.m. newscast is the highest-rated prime time newscast in the market in that timeslot (outranking the WLOS-produced newscast on WMYA-TV and the WSPA-produced newscast on WYCW) and its other newscasts are seen as competitive in the market.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

From 2007 to 2015, WHNS carried a 24-hour local weather channel on its second digital subchannel, which was branded as "Fox Carolina 3D Radar". Through separate affiliation agreements involving Meredith Corporation and those networks' respective owners (NBCUniversal and Katz Broadcasting) that were signed within days of each other, on March 23, 2015, WHNS announced it would affiliate its second digital subchannel with Cozi TV and launch a third subchannel affiliated with Escape onto its digital signal that spring. On April 15, 2015, the 21.2 subchannel became a Cozi TV affiliate, while the new 21.3 subchannel launched as an Escape affiliate. In June 2017, a fourth subchannel was added, launching 21.4 as a Bounce affiliate. As a result of Circle TV suspending its over-the-air operations, WHNS announced that its channel slot would be replaced with The365, an African American lifestyle network, beginning on January 1, 2024.

Analog-to-digital conversion
WHNS discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, 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 relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 21.

Translators
WHNS operates five translators across the mountains of western North Carolina. These translators serve as low-power, limited-area repeaters that bring the network's signal to deep mountain valleys where the parent signal is blocked by the surrounding terrain. All digital translators use PSIP virtual channel 21.

 *  Franklin
 *  ||Bryson City
 *  ||Sylva
 *  ||Canton / Waynesville
 *  ||West Asheville

Former translator
WHNS has one decommissioned translator.

 *  Black Mountain (permit cancelled on November 18, 2015)

Out-of-market cable carriage
In recent years, WHNS has been carried on cable systems within the Augusta and Columbia markets in South Carolina, and the Atlanta market in Georgia.

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The date of this translation in 1872 it appears, so copyright has run out. Wikisource it. --Wetman 08:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Done --Steerpike 00:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

The translation adds a little extra commentary to the original (the little part about "people take the part of the lower class against the higher", for example, does not appear at all in the Danish version on the right). I wonder, where is the translation from? 130.225.96.2 16:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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Orrell railway station

Orrell railway station serves the Orrell area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is a small two-platform commuter hub on the Kirkby branch line from Wigan.

From Orrell, trains provide services to Manchester, passing through Wigan's Wallgate station. On the opposite platform, trains served by Northern Trains use the Tontine Tunnel onwards towards the Headbolt Lane terminus of this branch line.

The majority of passengers at Orrell use services to Wigan town centre and Manchester. The services to Manchester are significantly busier than those to Kirkby. Usage figures are slightly inflated by the fact that Orrell is the boundary for free Concessionary travel for Manchester residents; pensioners book (free) to Orrell and need only pay from there to areas outside Greater Manchester.

Facilities
The station is unstaffed and has a ticket machine that can be found at street level. Shelters, digital information screens and timetable information boards are located on each platform, with a footbridge linking them. No step-free access is available, as the station is situated in a cutting below street level and can only be reached via the stairs from the footbridge.

Services
All services at Orrell are operated by Northern Trains.

The station is served by one train per hour between Headbolt Lane and Blackburn via Wigan Wallgate and Manchester Victoria. Connections for Merseyrail services to and from Liverpool Central can be made by changing at Headbolt Lane.

No services call at the station during late evenings or on Sundays.

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Portuguese Indian escudo

The escudo was the currency of Portuguese India between 1958 and 1961. It was subdivided into 100 centavos and was equal in value to the Portuguese escudo. After Goa was invaded by the Republic of India in 1961, the escudo was replaced by the Indian rupee.

History
The escudo replaced the rupia at the rate of 1 rupia = 6 escudos. This was due to the respective values of the Indian rupee (to which the rupia was pegged) and the Portuguese escudo, with one rupee equalling one shilling six pence (18 pence) sterling and one escudo equaling three pence.

Coins
Coins were introduced in 1958 in denominations of 10, 30 and 60 centavos, 1, 3 and 6 escudos. The 10 and 30 centavos were struck in bronze, the others in cupro-nickel. Except for the 10 centavos, which was minted in 1961, none of these coins were produced after 1959. All of them are common.

Banknotes
In 1959, notes were introduced by the Banco Nacional Ultramarino in denominations of 30, 60, 100, 300, 600 and 1000 escudos.

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When did this dialect actually die out? Caesarion 08:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * According to the linked page: "The newspaper noted at the end of the 1880's that children in Alderney no longer spoke the Alderney language amongst themselves.
 * "The final death of the language was a result of the upheavals of the Occupation."--The Jade Knight 21:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Dead?
Is this language dead or not because I'm seeing conflicting reports of almost dead and extinct. --151.224.254.144 (talk) 10:35, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

 * The article states, "It is estimated that there are now possibly only 20 people still fluent in the language."

 * The article is mistaken! It is Sercquiais (spoken on Sark) which has twenty or fewer speakers left. Auregnais is extinct. I have no idea if this is WP:RS, but you will find many other sources all saying the same-: BBC: Norman dialects of the Channel Islands

 * The Jade Knight (previous Talk section) queried this article as long ago as 2005. Why is so much of Wikipedia left uncorrected? Not everybody has the confidence to edit, which is why we flag problems on the Talk pages, so that others are aware! Alrewas (talk) 10:36, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

 * This source says it's extinct. So I have corrected the article. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Features
It is obvious that Auregnais was related to Guernésiais, Jèrriais, and Serquois. But how was it related to them? What were its main distinguishing features? From what little material is left, at least something can be said about this dialect, I guess? Steinbach (talk) 18:47, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I still want to know this. What exactly was Auregnais like, compared to other Norman dialects? Steinbach (talk) 23:39, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

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Good morning
I don't have any particular stake in the question, but I was wondering why you rv van Andel-Schipper back to van Andel. Andel-Schipper is the name she called herself, and (although English convention for maiden-name/married-name combinations is the reverse of the Dutch), every English report I've seen regarding her death has used her full name. Is there something I am missing? Xoloz 08:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Deaths in 2017
Hi. Can I just point out to you that long-held consensus at the above article does not allow subject names to be piped away from the names in question. Your edit to the entry for Heather Heyer contravenes that consensus, so has been reverted. Paradoxically, a Heather Heyer redirect to another relevant article IS allowable, and I have made sure the entry stays true to that article editing principle. Thanks. Ref (chew) (do) 18:00, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * In answer to your reply on my talk page: If your position then is that she should not be included there at all, why did you just pipe her entry and not merely remove her boldly? My reversion was entirely correct as regards the consensus achieved over many years of the Deaths pages - that names alone are not supposed to be piped to redirect to an article so far removed from the subject name. Piping of "subjectname (profession/year)" to achieve "subjectname" is the only piping agreed on where names of entrants are concerned. Piping within the information attached to the subject's entry (such as awards, recognition and the like) is allowable per usual conventions. But, in a nutshell, I would ask why you did not delete if you believe her not to be of enough notability to be included. Please note that there is also a section open on this matter at Talk:Deaths in 2017 which you can use to further discuss this issue. Thanks. Ref (chew) (do) 22:00, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Can I also add the fact that the many redlinks you see littering the current Deaths month come about because entries are allowed there without an article already existing. Thirty days grace is allowed so that the eminently notable can have an article written about them posthumously, while the barely notable (Heather Heyer, for instance) are removed if still a redlink after one month. There is enough internet reportage on her, and a plethora of results for her in Google searches, for editors to argue her very basic notability, not on the basis of what she has ever achieved during life but on the basis of her anecdotal prominence after death and in the manner of her passing. (If Heyer's bluelink proves still to be a redirect after thirty days and not a dedicated biographical article, then she will certainly be removed during routine "culling".) Ref (chew) (do) 22:20, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Events have conspired to make our exchange of views redundant, as is the case regarding the Deaths Talk Page section covering it. Her name, reduced to a non-notable redlink, has been removed from the list of deaths by another editor. Thanks for the input anyway. Ref (chew) (do) 23:51, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

List of longest-living state leaders
You should move the places of the state leaders, to match the numbering. GoodDay (talk) 02:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Ok....
i know you undid my revision, so i am not going to edit it again, so we do not make an edit war. peace! Thewinrat (talk) 22:28, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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Royal Navy Admirals
Thank you so much for all the work on the List of Royal Navy admirals page. Both for making notes in the talk page (very useful), but most of all for adding a lot of admirals to the list itself. Your work has made the list much more representative (and thus relevant). Takvaal 15:26, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

The list is getting quite long, and I wonder if we should divide it, to make more sub-headlines. An obvious place to do this would be when they changed from the colour appointments to the Admiral/Admiral of the Fleet. Or it could be done by century. Do you have any preferences? Do you know who was the last admiral to be appointed admiral of the blue, and who was the first to be a 'mere' admiral? Takvaal 11:55, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Just a quick note to say I decided against dividing the list. It is getting long, but the sort function will not work if it´s divided. Takvaal 16:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Admirals of the Fleet
Hi - Just in case you have not seen this on my talk page...I have a copy of Heathcote's book The British Admirals of the Fleet . On page 2. it says "There was no admiral of the red by that title until 1805 when this rank was introduced to give admirals of the white a better chance of promotion than that provided by the single post of admiral of the fleet". Sounds a good source to me. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 20:26, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Well done on finding the London Gazette! Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 00:40, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Peerage etc.
Thanks for the message - I am wondering if I know you from years ago in a different place? Espcially given your username.

Regarding the Earl of Ilchester - I have heard from my newsgroup that the Lord Stavordale has died (which we were previously unaware) according to Debretts. I am aware that this would affect my lists regarding titles with no/few heirs. Regarding the 7th Marquess of Downshire - his enterring the House of Lords was "surely later" as I have seen evidence that Lord Romily was considered the longest serving Lord during Lord Downshire's service in the House, meaning that Lord Downshire entered the House after him, and that was surely after 1918 (1920 at the earliest) - I've never conclusively resolved that, and did rescue the list after it was deleted from the Father of the House article. --New Progressive (talk) 01:19, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Dispute resolution notice board
Hello I am letting you know I will be filing a notice initially at with Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding Ownership of content and in particular Wikipedia:Ownership of content/Multiple-editor ownership regarding the original article the List of Royal Navy admirals who's scope you altered and additions and sources I have been adding to the new List of Royal Navy admirals (1707-current) which both you and the other editor are removing.--Navops47 (talk) 07:01, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

 * I'm a volunteer at DRN. A complaint solely about ownership of content will not be accepted at DRN as that is a conduct matter and DRN does not handle conduct matters. While a filing only addressing the content issues in question and not referring to any editor's conduct might be filed, DRN requires extensive discussion about the dispute at the article talk page and, unless I'm missing it (which is possible), that discussion has not occurred. Regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 21:15, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

 * thanks for your feedback I thought initially an RFC maybe better and there has been ongoing in depth discussions at Talk:List of Royal Navy admirals (1707-current) see section 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14.--Navops47 (talk) 02:45, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Footballers
Sorry for reverting your eminently correct change. I looked too quickly, and thought you had done the exact opposite for what you were absolutely right to do. Rcb1 (talk) 20:15, 28 March 2019 (UTC)rcb1

North Korea
I see you are quite interested in North Korean politics. I'm a regular reader of KCNA news and was sincerely surprised by Kim Yong-nam's removal. You noted that Choe Yong-rim (and Kim Yong-ju) are not in the list of Deputies. Well, both of them are Honorary Vicepresidents of the SPA Presidium. Is it implicit they mantained this honorary role? I'd be very astonished if their deaths would not get announced by mainstream media. Kim Yong-ju is the brother of Kim Il-sung, he is said to have bad relationship with Kim Jong-un, but his complete absence from the political scene in the last 4 years is quite worrying (for him) on health ground. A bit out of this topic, don't you find it strange no article celebrated Hyun Soong-jong's 100th birthday? --Folengo (talk) 19:08, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't have many sources.Does one have to be a SPA member to be an honorary vice president?...are the statutes on this accessible?Would reelections be announced?How regularly does KCNA keep track of deaths?...I remember a comment perhaps from you that a long time had gone by since they had done so.LE (talk) 19:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

 * Sincerely NK Leadership Watch is not much updated. Last time they listed the Presidency of the Presidium (that was in July 2016) they said all four North Korean on the list took part to the meetings. KCNA announced no notable deaths in 2017 (only Kang Ki Sop in January) but last year has seen the departure of three major players: Kim Yong-chun, Ju Kyu-chang and Kim Chol-man. Choe and Kim have the highest charge in the state after Kim Jong Un and (now) Choe Ryong-hae, it would be shocking if they don't get a state funeral. We'll see...--Folengo (talk) 15:57, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * People sometimes vanish from the public eye and their fate stays unknown.Did we ever find a death date for Ri Kun-mo?...should we really assume longtime defense minister Kim Il-chol (not on the SPA and unheard from in the Kim Jong Un era) is still alive? LE (talk) 23:28, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note that I am no longer permitted to edit.LE (talk) 21:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I hope you can read this anyway. Ri Kun-mo is dead, but we don't know the exact date. 2001 seems the most likely year. There is no reason to think Kim Il-chol has died. Both Kim Yong-ju and Choe Yong-rim have been removed from their posts during this reshuffle. Both still alive, but for how long? We just have to wait.... --79.24.121.252 (talk) 18:59, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Stop canvassing
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 * As if your attacks on articles are anything but canvassing? LE (talk) 01:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

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