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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: WGHP, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 35), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, United States . the station is owned by Nexstar Media Group . WG Jefferson Standard Broadcasting, owner of WBTV in Charlotte and WBTW were interested . southern broadcast company was awarded the license and signed on WGHP on October 14, 1963 . it originally operated as an ABC affiliate Gulf sold the station to Taft Broadcasting as part of a group deal in 1984 . the station moved to its current location on Francis Street outside of downtown High Point . channel 8 was repurchased by Great American in 1993, Great American Broadcasting filed for bankruptcy and was restructured again to become Citicasters . it then put its entire television division up for sale . the company had 15 stations, three more than the FCC on may 23, 1994, Fox agreed to affiliate with 12 of New World’s stations . because of ownership conflicts and the fact it would go over the FCC’s ownership limit, it would sell WGHP and WBRC to WGHP became the first station in the piedmont triad area to be owned by a major network . the move gave the station its fifth owner in a little over a decade . on September 10, 2007, on July 1, 2013, the Tribune Company acquired the Local TV stations for $2.75 billion . the sale reunited WGHP with MyNetworkTV affiliate WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, which Tribune acquired in 1992 the termination of the Sinclair sale agreement also means Standard Media’s purchases of WXLV will not proceed . the deal would make Nexstar the largest television station operator by total number of stations . it would make WGHP the the station’s digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 35 to VHF channel 8 . WGHP COURTTV broadcasts over the air currently on channel number 8-3 . the station lost “a sizeable number” of its viewers . the FCC agreed with WGHP’s assessment that it would be “best served” by staying on channel 35 . at 11:02 a.m. in its last years as an ABC affiliate, WGHP aired Nightline on a 30-minute delay . when it became a Fox affiliate in 1995, it carried all of the network’s programs . it added WGHP adds 15-minute sports show following 10 p.m. newscasts . wtwb dropped children’s programming in late 2001, when Fox canceled the weekday block nationwide . the block local news has been a stable product on WGHP since it went on the air in 1963 . station aired newscasts at noon, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m., and occasionally at 7:00 p WGHP’s daily newscasts expanded to 412 hours after it became a Fox owned-and-operated station in 1996 . the morning newscast would eventually expand over time to five hours by 2011 . WGHP became the first station in the piedmont triad to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . on november 13, 2011, WFMY-TV upgraded its newscast from widescreen enhanced definition WGHP has been carried in parts of the Raleigh and Roanoke markets . during the 1970s and 1980s through CATV, it was carried in areas much farther south and east . on DirecTV,