The station added cartoons during the early mornings and afternoons in the fall of 1992, and some low-budget barter entertainment shows during the evening hours that winter.
The Triad market was not large enough at the time to support what were essentially three independent stations, and channel 16 barely registered in the ratings.
By the fall of that year, WAAP did manage to acquire a few syndicated cartoons from WXLV and WGGT when those stations took the ABC affiliation from WGHP.
Paxson Communications bought the station in July 1996, and by the end of the year, WAAP became an affiliate of the Infomall Television Network (inTV), airing infomercials and religious programs for most of the day and overnight programming from The Worship Network.
The station broadcast its signal from a transmitter located in the Cane Creek Mountains near Snow Camp for many years.