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Religious TV station in Hickory, North Carolina

WWJS (channel 14) is a religious television station licensed to Hickory, North Carolina, United States, owned and operated by the Sonlife Broadcasting Network. It serves the northwestern corner of the Charlotte media market, a region locally referred to as "The Unifour". WWJS' primary transmitter is located on Bakers Mountain in southwestern Catawba County, with a secondary transmitter in the unincorporated area of Newell in northeastern Mecklenburg County (just northeast of the Charlotte city limits).

The station first signed on the air on February 14, 1968, as WHKY TV, a sister station to WHKY radio (1290 AM), owned by Long Communications of Hickory. During the 1980s, WHKY TV aired Major League Baseball games from the Cincinnati Reds; it also had a secondary affiliation with NBC, carrying some programs that were preempted by the Charlotte market's primary NBC affiliate, WPCQ TV (channel 36, now WCNC TV). For most of its first quarter century on the air, WHKY TV primarily targeted the Unifour. In 2002, WHKY TV installed two new antennas: one for its digital signal and one which replaced its older analog antenna. The latter antenna's installation helped to increase WHKY TV's analog signal coverage into the far northern corner of Mecklenburg County. As a result, the station was granted a must carry claim, allowing it to be added to Time Warner Cable's systems in the Charlotte area; the station also began identifying as "Hickory–Charlotte" in its on air legal identifications. In 2004, WHKY TV boosted its analog transmitter's power to 2 million watts. In June 2006, the station began to be carried on Dish Network and DirecTV's Charlotte area local station lineups, expanding its reach to cover two million people in North and South Carolina. The station's digital transmitter was relocated to Bakers Mountain in the fall of 2011, with its effective radiated power increasing to 950,000 watts (equivalent to 4.75 million watts in analog); the station also launched a fill in translator, whose transmitter is located just north of Charlotte (near the Charlotte Motor Speedway). On February 15, 2023, it was announced that WHKY TV would be sold to Baton Rouge, Louisiana–based Family Worship Center Church, led by pastor Jimmy Swaggart, for $12 million. The sale was completed on April 25; the station changed its call sign to WWJS on June 7, 2023. Long Communications retained WHKY radio and its FM translator, as well as the WHKY call sign. The deal resulted in main channel coverage of Swaggart's Sonlife Broadcasting Network throughout the Charlotte market, which is a hub of major televangelism organizations, including Swaggart's longtime rivals, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Jim Bakker's PTL, now INSP; it was previously carried as a subchannel of both WJZY and WMYT TV before their 2020 sale to Nexstar Media Group.

Prior to the sale to Sonlife, WHKY TV's schedule consisted primarily of locally produced religious and entertainment shows, as well as paid programming. In addition, a weekday local newscast aired twice a day at 5:30 and 10 p. m. and was known for its rundown of crime news and wanted fugitive notices within Hickory and Catawba County. The station featured only one syndicated show, MGM Television's Personal Injury Court.

WWJS (as WHKY TV) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 14, on February 14, 2009, three days before the original date on which full power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 40, using virtual channel 14.