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WGBS-LD, virtual channel 7 (VHF digital channel 12), is a low-power Retro TV-affiliated television station licensed to Carrollton, Virginia, United States, and serving the Greater Hampton Roads area. The station is owned by Joan Wright.
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Branding | WGBS-TV 7 |
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Affiliations | Retro TV |
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Owner | Joan Wright |
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First air date | March 1994 |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 31350 |
Class | LD |
ERP | 0.3 kW |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°51′39″N 76°21′13″W / 36.86083°N 76.35361°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
The station began broadcasting in March 1994. For most of the 1990s, the station was a low-power independent outlet known as "Genesis TV7", mixing programs from the American Independent Network with local programs, some of them Christian, such as Morning Praise, Peninsula SportsCenter, and a community bulletin board. It originally broadcast from the former studio of WVEC in Hampton;[2] the signal was broadcast from its former tower.[3] In 1996, the station moved its studio to the Newmarket Fair shopping mall.[4]
In 1998, Cox Communications removed WGBS-LP from its lineup in Hampton as part of a move to consolidate lineups in different Hampton Roads municipalities. The removal forced Genesis TV7 to lay off 10 employees and scale back its local programming.[4][5]
The founders, Kenneth and Joan Wright, separated in 2017. In 2020, they signed an agreement whereby Kenneth transferred all of his interest in WGBS-LD to Joan Wright.[6]
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Aspect | Video | Short name | Programming[7] |
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7.1 | 480i | 4:3 | Infomercials | |
7.2 | Color Bars |