WGBS-LD

WGBS-LD (channel 7) is a low-power television station licensed to Carrollton, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area and primarily airing paid programming. The station is owned by Joan Wright.

Channels

• Digital: 12 (VHF)
• Virtual: 7

BrandingWGBS-TV 7

Affiliations

• 7.1: Infomercials
• 7.2: Color bars

Owner

• Joan Wright
• (Joan and Kenneth Wright)

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WGBS-LD

Carrollton, Virginia United States
Channels	Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 7
Branding	WGBS-TV 7
Programming
Affiliations	7.1: Infomercials 7.2: Color bars
Ownership
Owner	Joan Wright (Joan and Kenneth Wright)
History
First air date	March 1994 (1994-03)
Former call signs	W07CZ (1993–1996) WGBS-LP (1996–2009)
Former channel numbers	Analog: 7 (VHF, 1994–2009) Digital: 11 (VHF, 2009–2022)
Former affiliations	AIN, Retro TV
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	31350
Class	LD
ERP	2.7 kW
HAAT	116 m (381 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	36°51′39.1″N 76°21′9.6″W
Links
Public license information	LMS

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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]