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WGHP
High Point/Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Branding	Fox 8
Slogan	The News Leader
Channels	Analog: 8 (VHF) Digital: 35 (UHF)
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	Local TV LLC (Community TV Of North Carolina License, LLC)
First air date	October 14, 1963
Call letters’ meaning	Winston-Salem Greensboro High Point
Former callsigns	WGHP-TV (1963-1998)
Former affiliations	ABC (1963-1995)
Transmitter Power	300 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Height	398 m (analog) 365 m (digital)
Facility ID	72106
Transmitter Coordinates	35°48′46.5″N 79°50′28.1″W / 35.812917, -79.841139
Website	www.myfoxwghp.com

WGHP ("Fox 8") is the Fox television station which serves the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Piedmont Triad) market area. It is licensed in High Point and affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company. Its transmitter is located in Sophia, North Carolina. The station is carried on cable channel 10 in most parts of the market.

WGHP currently offers about 8 hours of local newscasts a day, along with a number of first-run syndicated shows and a few off-network sitcoms.

History

In 1958, the Federal Communications Commission assigned a third TV channel to the Piedmont Triad area. Applicants included Jefferson Standard Broadcasting, owner of TV stations in Charlotte, North Carolina and Florence, South Carolina. The owner of Channel 26 in Winston-Salem was also interested^[1].

The station, then owned by Southern Broadcast Company, began operation on October 14, 1963. It was originally the Piedmont Triad's ABC affiliate. The station occasionally decided not to carry network programming; For example, it didn't carry Dark Shadows, a series which featured paranormal themes, during its network run on ABC and broadcast old movies instead.^[2] Likewise, it did not carry The Edge of Night, a soap opera run on ABC from 1975 to 1984. WGHP was subsequently sold to Gulf Broadcasting in 1978.

WGHP was owned by Gulf Broadcasting until 1984, when it was acquired by Taft Broadcasting in a group deal. Great American Broadcasting purchased other Taft properties in 1987, but Taft would keep WGHP until 1992 when Great American bought that station as well.

In 1993 Great American Broadcasting filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That year they restructured and became known as Citicasters. They then put their stations up for sale.

In the winter of 1993-1994 it was agreed that New World (which acquired stations from SCI in a similar type of business reorganization to the one Citicasters had come out of) would buy Citicasters' WDAF-TV channel 4 in Kansas City, which was an NBC affiliate, and KSAZ-TV (formerly KTSP) channel 10 in Phoenix, which was a CBS affiliate. Citicasters would keep WTSP channel 10 in Tampa Bay and WKRC-TV channel 12 in Cincinnati -- which were both ABC affiliates at the time. Both of those stations would later switch to CBS when Scripps-Howard contracted with ABC to air on Tampa Bay's WFTS and Cincinnati's WCPO.

Shortly after Fox agreed to affiliate with all the New World stations except for NBC affiliates KNSD channel 39 in San Diego and WVTM-TV channel 13 in Birmingham, as well as independent WSBK-TV channel 38 in Boston, which would be sold to Paramount/Viacom and become a UPN station.

But WGHP (along with WBRC) would be sold directly to Fox, who took over the operation of WGHP and WBRC through local marketing agreements in the summer of 1995. On September 3, 1995, WGHP took the Fox affiliation. It carried all Fox programs, including Fox Kids which it showed weekday afternoons from 1-4pm, replacing ABC soap operas, as well as on Saturday mornings where a local newscast previously ran. The ABC affiliation went to former Fox affiliate WNRW channel 45 (now WXLV-TV). WGHP added a few more talk/reality shows as well as some off network sitcoms such as I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Beverly Hillbillies, and others. The weekday newscasts expanded to occupy the Good Morning America timeslot. The evening newscasts remained in place. the 11 p.m. newscast was moved to 10 p.m. and expanded to an hour. On January 17, 1996, Fox completed the purchases of both WGHP and WBRC, with WGHP becoming an official Fox owned-and-operated station (O&O); WBRC had to wait another seven and one-half months, until September 1996, to switch from ABC to Fox. From 1996 to 2008, WGHP was the only Piedmont area station to be owned and operated by any major network.

In 1996, Pappas approached WGHP about picking up Fox Kids and moving it to their newly acquired WBFX channel 20 (then a WB affiliate, later WTWB-TV and now CW affiliate WCWG). In between that time Fox executives, upon picking up new affiliates through New World, decided to redo the on-air coverage policy of airing Fox Kids; the station can choose to keep airing it or be granted the right to preempt it and pass it down to another local counterpart. WGHP decided to let the other station have the programming. This would be the first Fox owned and operated station to not run the kids block, and only one of 2 (with WBRC) until New World merged with Fox in 1997. WGHP added more talk and court shows in the afternoon. But they still have no Saturday morning newscast. WTWB dropped Fox's children programming in late 2001 when Fox canceled the weekday block nationwide. In 2002, Fox began a Saturday morning block of cartoons to replace Fox Kids known as Fox Box (now 4Kids TV), but WGHP did not pick that up. As a result, Fox's 4Kids TV did not air in Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point.

On September 10, 2007, WGHP debuted a new logo and graphics package similar to what is currently being rolled out to other Fox owned-and-operated stations across the country. The new logo is similar to sister stations WJW-TV and WNYW-TV.

On December 22, 2007, Fox announced that they had entered into an agreement to sell WGHP and seven other Fox owned-and-operated stations^[3] to Oak Hill Capital Partners' Local TV LLC, which currently owns nine stations acquired from The New York Times Company. The sale was closed on July 14, 2008.

Cable and Satellite Carriage Outside the Market

WGHP can be viewed over on West Jefferson cable outlets in Ashe County, which is part of the Charlotte DMA. It is also viewable on Time Warner Cable in Carrboro which is part of the Raleigh DMA. On DirecTV, WGHP is available in many locations outside of the DMA. In North Carolina, WGHP is viewable in Chatham, Hoke, Lee and Orange counties. In Virginia, it is viewable in Carroll, Grayson and Henry counties. The Virginia independent cities also include Danville and Martinsville.

Notable Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

Anchors

• Neill McNeill Weekday Evening Anchor
• Julie Luck: Weekday Evening Anchor
• Brad Jones: Weekday Morning Anchor
• Cindy Farmer: Weekday Morning Anchor
• Melissa Painter Weekend Anchor/Consumer Reporter

Reporters

Meteorologists

• Van Denton: Chief Meteorologist

• Emily Byrd: Weekday Morning Meteorologist

• Charles Ewing: Weekend Meteorologist

Sportscasters

• Kevin Connolly: Sports Anchor
• Danny Harnden: Sports Anchor

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

• WGHP-TV News (1963-1967)
• 24 Hours (1967-1970)
• Television 8 News (1970-June 16th, 1974)
• TV-8 Eyewitness News (June 17th, 1974-1986)
• The Piedmont News (1986-1990)
• The Piedmont NewsChannel (1990-1994)
• NewsChannel 8 (1994-September 13, 1995)
• FOX 8 News (September 14, 1995-present)

Station Slogans

• WGHPiedmont (1987-1990, used with a triangle 8 logo also used by KSBW)
• The Piedmont Newschannel (1990-2005)
• The News Leader (2005-present)

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Note: WGHP was first known as "Channel ei₈ht" from 1963 until 1970. The name "ei₈ht" has also been used by KOMU, WJW, KAIT, and a few others.

Logos

One of the original WGHP logos as it appeared in 1975. A variation dotted the I with the ABC logo. This past logo was also used by WJW-TV 8.	WGHP Logo from 1979 to the early 1980s.	WGHP Logo from the mid 1980s through August 1987.	Second WGHP logo under Fox ownership, from January 1997 to May 2001. The first logo had the Fox logo with the Triangle 8.
WGHP logo from May 2001 to September 10, 2007.	WGHP Logo as of September 10, 2007.

External links

• Fox 8 WGHP
• History of WGHP
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WGHP
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WGHP-TV

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