Wggb-tv history

In 1954, a 50% interest in Hampden-Hampshire Corporation was purchased by the employees beneficial funds of the Springfield Republican and Daily News and the Springfield Union for $250,000.

WHYN-TV originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary affiliation with DuMont; it lost DuMont when that network folded in 1956.

WHYN-TV originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary affiliation with DuMont; it lost DuMont when that network folded in 1956. It moved to channel 40 on September 30, 1957, in order to give the station a closer dial position to other UHF stations in the region.

The WHYN radio stations were sold off in 1979; Guy Gannett retained WHYN-TV, and on December 31 the station took its present WGGB-TV call letters.

Most of Guy Gannett's television stations, including WGGB, were acquired by the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1998.

In late-July 2007, Sinclair sold WGGB to locally based Gormally Broadcasting for $21.2 million.

The sale was completed on October 31, 2014.

On September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire Meredith for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General once the sale was finalized.

However, on January 27, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General, resulting in the termination of Meredith's acquisition by Media General.