WANC-TV

Primary: NBC (1953–1968), <a href="Independent_station_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent station (North America)">Independent (1968-1979)
Secondary: ABC (1953–1954), CBS (1953–1964)

WANC-TV (WISE-TV)
	Asheville, North Carolina; United States;
Channels	Analog: 21 (UHF);
Programming
Affiliations	Primary: NBC (1953–1968), Independent (1968-1979); Secondary: ABC (1953–1954), CBS (1953–1964);
Ownership
Owner	Thoms Broadcasting; (WISE-TV, Incorporated);
History
First air date	August 2, 1953
Last air date	1979
Former call signs	WISE-TV (1953–1967)
Former channel numbers	62 (UHF, 1953–1971)
Technical information
ERP	17.2 kW
HAAT	423 ft (129 m)
Transmitter coordinates	35°36′33.5″N 82°32′11.8″W / 35.609306°N 82.536611°W

WANC-TV (known as WISE-TV from 1953 to 1967) was a television station in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. It broadcast on channel 62 from 1953 to 1971 and channel 21 from 1971 to 1979. Owned throughout its existence by Thoms Broadcasting, WANC-TV was originally a network affiliate, though it gradually lost all of its affiliations. For most of the 1970s, it operated as a Christian independent station by rebroadcasting some programs of WGGS-TV (channel 16) in Greenville, South Carolina. Facing financial difficulty and the loss of its transmitter site, the station shut down in 1979. The channel 21 license was sold to Pappas Telecasting, which began the lengthy reconstruction of the station as WHNS, a general-market independent station which launched in 1984.