WGHP is a television station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, United States, serving the Piedmont Triad region as an affiliate of the Fox network.
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16 Facts About WGHP
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Since Fox was not able to immediately acquire WGHP and WBRC due to questions over the American citizenship of then-parent company News Corporation's Australian-born CEO Rupert Murdoch, New World decided to acquire WGHP but place it in an outside trust on September 9,1994; WBRC was put in this trust the following month on October 12.
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On September 10,2007, WGHP debuted a new logo and graphics package as part of a standardized on-air look that was rolled out all of Fox's owned-and-operated stations.
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When WGHP became a Fox affiliate in 1995, it carried all of the network's programs, including Fox Kids .
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WGHP added a few more talk and reality shows, as well as some off-network sitcoms such as I Love Lucy and Seinfeld.
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In February 1996, Pappas Telecasting Companies approached WGHP about acquiring Fox Kids programming for its newly acquired WB affiliate WBFX .
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WGHP accepted the offer, and permitted the Fox Kids block to move to WBFX beginning in March 1996, becoming the first Fox-owned station to no longer run the block, and only one of two to do so, before New World merged with Fox in 1997.
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WTWB dropped Fox's children's programming in late 2001, when Fox canceled the weekday block nationwide; WGHP chose not to pick up Fox's new Saturday morning cartoon block, Fox Box, which replaced Fox Kids in 2002.
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Fox discontinued children's programming on December 28,2008, replacing it with a two-hour Saturday morning infomercial block called Weekend Marketplace, which WGHP declined to air; it airs instead on MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV.
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Now, WGHP opens a 15-minute sports show following the 10 p m newscasts from Friday to Sunday only.
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When WGHP affiliated with Fox in 1995, the station began placing more emphasis on its local newscasts: the station's newscasts expanded to just under 40 hours each week.
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On September 13,2009, WGHP began broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition.
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On September 12,2010, WGHP became the first station in the Piedmont Triad to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
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However, WGHP remains the only station in the market that broadcasts all of its field video in high definition.
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In recent years, WGHP has been carried on cable outside of the Greensboro television market, including carriage on cable providers within the Charlotte and Raleigh–Durham markets in North Carolina, and the Roanoke market in Virginia.
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