FOX8 WGHP
U.S. center-right (local Fox affiliate)
Background
WGHP signed on October 14, 1963, launched by Southern Broadcast Company as an ABC affiliate in High Point, North Carolina, with its original studios inside a downtown Sheraton Hotel. The station served the Piedmont Triad market—one of the larger TV markets in the Southeast—under ABC for more than three decades. In 1995, as part of a sweeping New World Communications affiliation swap, WGHP dropped ABC in favor of Fox, becoming a Fox affiliate and eventually adopting the FOX8 branding. Tribune Media acquired the station in 2013 as part of a broader local TV buying spree. In December 2018, Nexstar Media Group announced a $6.4 billion all-cash deal to purchase Tribune Media; the acquisition closed in September 2019, bringing WGHP into the Nexstar portfolio. Nexstar, already the nation's largest local TV operator by station count, has been characterized by analysts as having a right-leaning corporate editorial posture, though it is considered less overtly partisan than rivals such as Sinclair Broadcast Group and does not mandate synchronized political content across its stations. Media Bias/Fact Check rates WGHP's local output as 'Least Biased' with high factual reporting, reflecting a station whose daily work centers on community news, weather, and Piedmont Triad regional affairs rather than national ideological commentary.
Sources
- WGHP – Wikipedia
- WGHP Fox8 – Bias and Credibility – Media Bias/Fact Check
- WFMY, WGHP would have same corporate owner in $6.2 billion Nexstar deal – Greensboro.com
- Nexstar Nation – Columbia Journalism Review
- Nexstar Media Group – Factually.co
- WGHP celebrates 50 years – FOX8 WGHP
Profile compiled 2026-08-18; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.