WGHP

U.S. center-right (local commercial TV; Fox-affiliated, corporate-owned)

Background

WGHP signed on October 14, 1963, as an ABC affiliate under Southern Broadcasting, and it later passed through several owners, including Gulf Broadcasting, Taft/Great American, Citicasters and New World Communications. It switched to Fox in 1995 as part of New World's affiliation deals. In the following years it was owned by Fox Television Stations, then Local TV LLC, then Tribune, and Nexstar took it over when it bought Tribune in 2019. This ownership chain is from memory and was not checked against the sources below. In March 2026 the FCC and Justice Department approved Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, waiving the national ownership cap and requiring six divestitures. The approval drew bipartisan criticism and antitrust suits from several states and DirecTV. Tegna also owns WFMY-TV, a competing Greensboro station, so the merger may affect this market. I did not find a source on that. WGHP's content is mainly local news, with some syndicated and Fox network programming. Media Bias/Fact Check has rated it as generally factual, with mild right-of-center lean in story selection and wording. Because newsroom decisions are shared across the Nexstar group, the station's perspective reflects group-wide editorial priorities as well as local ones.

Sources

1. WGHP - Wikipedia
2. WGHP Fox8 - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
3. FCC approves the merger of local television owners Nexstar and Tegna - NPR
4. Nexstar's $6.2 billion Tegna deal wins approval despite antitrust challenge - Poynter
5. Nexstar, Tegna merger closes after winning regulatory approval - CNBC

Profile compiled 2026-10-25; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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