WHNS

Credits

Descriptions by
Cattotld, Charlie179

Background

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 miles (8 km) southeast of Brevard).

1st ID (1990)

Visuals: Over a blue gradient background, the golden text "WE'RE YOUR STATION." in a stacked and tilted format are shown. The text zooms in and tilts to the opposite side and fades out, and the golden number "21" flies in as the golden station name "WHNS" flips in and flies from the bottom. The background forms into a rectangle, revealing a waterfall footage. The station's headquarters zoom out below, as well as the text from before.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: A 6-note chime tune, followed by a majestic violin & trumpet fanfare accompanied by an announcer saying "This is your station. WHNS 21, serving Ashville, Greenville, Spartenburg and Anderson.".

2nd ID (1990)

Visuals: The sequence starts off a crowd standing behind the Fox logomark illuminated by searchlights. Two silver bars then zoom out and face the left portion, revealing a turquoise Fox logomark and the text "WHNS" below, as well as the golden number "21" rising up above. The headquarters in white are shown below, and the background fades to black with a blue light behind, as the logo shines.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: The 20th Century Fox logo audio from the time, accompanied by an announcer saying "You're watching WHNS Fox 21.".

3rd ID (1992-1993)

Visuals: Over a blue gradient background with a white right angle shape in the lower-left portion, the gray copies of a number "21" slide and flip in from below, and slide to the right side as the gray text "WHNS" slides in from the number. A red bar slides in from the left and a white word "FOX" fades in in it. The station's headquarters fade in below.

Technique: CGI and computer animation.

Audio: A cartoonish flute tune with the announcer saying information about the airing show.

Audio Variant: A majestic new-age violin stinger is heard with the announcer saying "This is WHNS Fox 21. Ashville, Greenville, Spartenburg, Anderson.".

4th ID (1998)

Visuals: The sequence starts off with the black letters of the Fox logomark connecting and leaving blue rays, and a silver number "21" in a blue square appears through a dissolving effect and faces the viewer as the faint Fox logomark is shown sliding across the screen on a blue background. A red gradient rectangle slides in from above and shrinks into a bar, revealing the white text "WHNS" in it and a white square above. A silver word "FOX" slides in from the blue square, and the white text "WHNS ASHEVILLE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG ANDERSON" fades in below.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Several whooshes accompanied by an announcer saying "You're watching WHNS Fox 21.", and ending with an ascending whoosh and a click with a synth pad.

5th ID (1999)

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Visuals: On a blue background, a radar is seen activated. A rectangle then fades in at the center, which consists of three sections: the white section at the top left, the blue section at the top right, and red section below both of them. The white section contains the silver word "FOX" , the blue section contains the silver number "21", and the red section contains the silver text "TEN O’CLOCK NEWS". And an orange rectangle can also be seen at the bottom of it. After that, the text "GET IT FIRST AT TEN" (with the word "FIRST" being italic and having bigger size than the other words) is seen fading in at the top, and the text "WHNS ASHEVILLE GREENEVILLE SPARTANBURG ANDERSON" fades in at the bottom.

Technique: Computer animation with live-action.

Audio: A dramatic fanfare, with an announcer saying: "Watch the late news early, on the Fox 21 Ten o’clock news".

6th ID (1999)

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Visuals: On a black and white background, multiple copies of the Fox logo are seen zooming in. They all zoom in with an inverted effect, with the logo’s parts on the black sides on the right & left being white, and the part on the white side in the center being black; and as they get close to the screen, a copy fades out while another copy appears. And meanwhile, many diagonal orange and blue rectangles also slide around the screen. The orange ones turn themself in at the center and the blue lines appear from one of the sides. The text "WHNS" then fades in and slides to the left side. Right after fading out, a white & blue rectangle containing the 1996 Fox logo and the number "21", which is the station’s logo at the time, fades in. And at the bottom, the text "WRITE IT DOWN!" also appears and slides to the middle. As the announcer stops saying, the words in the said text appear one-by-one in the same place in blue, while the blue text "WHNS ASHEVILLE GREENVILLE ANDERSON" appears on the station’s logo. And finally, the outlined white text "WHNS" appears.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: A funky synth tune, with an announcer saying: "You’re watching WHNS, Fox 21. Write it down!".

7th ID (2000)

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Visuals: On a black background with some blue rectangles on it, the station’s logo at the period and the white text "WHNS ASHEVILLE GREENVILLE ANDERSON" is seen in the center.

Technique: Computerized graphics.

Audio: None.

8th ID (2001)

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Visuals: After a clip of a station’s news promo, objects zoom out on a black and blue background with periwinkle squares moving at the top, including: the Fox wordmark, which has an animated effect while zooming out; a few spotlights turning around to form the 1996 Fox logo with the wordmark; a blue rectangle behind both of them; a white rectangle at the right; and a wide red rectangle below, which is also seen sliding to the left while zooming. The number "21", from the station’s logo at the period, fades in on the white rectangle with shines occurring and moving around. In the meanwhile, the white text "TEN O’CLOCK NEWS" appears letter-by-letter on the red rectangle. After that, a list of the station’s translators, along with the text "WHNS ASHEVILLE GREENVILLE ANDERSON" fades in below. The background is also seen having a ripple effect when the number "21" appears, with some three-dimensional circular silver objects rotating on it after.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: A dramatic news-styled synth xylophone theme, with an announcer saying: "News weather and forth first tonight, on the Fox 21 ten o’clock news".

9th ID (2021)

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Visuals: Over a blurred footage of a woman sitting in a TV control room zooming out, the text "WHNS-TV GREENVILLE, SC/ ASHEVILLE, SC/ ANDERSON, SC" is seen at the bottom. Texts and rectangles then animate themself to form the station’s current logo, including: The Fox logo drawing itself in red; a white rectangle behind it wiping in; a wide white rectangle behind it also wiping itself in opposite direction with the other one; and the blue text "CAROLINA" wiping in, also in the direction as the rectangle behind it. After that, they all get covered in a layer with different colors, with both the Fox logo and the "CAROLINA" text get covered in a white layer, the rectangle above being covered by a blue layer, and the wide rectangle below being covered in a red layer. Meanwhile, the text "WEEKNIGHTS 10:00PM" also appears below the logo, and the text "CONNECTED TO YOU" wipes in below the text. The background then zooms out, with the station’s logo zooming in.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: A new-age tube with an announcer saying: "Your late news one hour earlier. Fox Carolina’s ten o’clock news, committed to you".