WGHP

WGHP, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 35), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Greensboro, Winston-Salem and its city of license High Point, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company. WGHP maintains studio facilities located on Francis Street (just outside downtown High Point), and its transmitter is located in Sophia. The station is carried on channel 10 on cable providers throughout much of the market.

History

As an ABC station

In 1958, the Federal Communications Commission assigned a third VHF channel frequency to the Piedmont Triad area. The channel 8 allocation was freed up by the move of Florence, South Carolina's WBTW, to channel 13, and was short-spaced to WCHS-TV in Charleston, West Virginia and WXEX-TV (now WRIC-TV) in Petersburg, Virginia. Applicants for the High Point channel 8 allocation included Jefferson Standard Broadcasting, owner of WBTV in Charlotte and WBTW. The owner of WTOB-TV (channel 26; whose channel allocation is now occupied by WUNL-TV) in Winston-Salem was also interested.