WGPX-TV

WGPX-TV, virtual channel 16 (UHF digital channel 14), is a Ion Television owned-and-operated serving Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, North Carolina, United States that is licensed to Burlington. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. WGPX maintains offices located on North Ohenny Boulevard in Greensboro, and its transmitter is located south of Reidsville.

History

The station first signed on the air on August 7, 1984 as WRDG, originally operating as a religious independent station. It changed its call letters to WAAP in 1990, continuing to air religious programs while adding home shopping programming from Shop at Home. 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. In 1991, WAAP ran a local newscast, titled News Source 16. Austin Caviness, now a meteorologist at WXII-TV (channel 12), was among the on-air staffers; the newscast was cancelled in 1992.