WGHP history

(Top L) TV Guide ad from 1960 for the local news broadcast on WFMY TV 2.

In February 1964, WGHP began airing Championship Wrestling on Saturday evenings. It was Harville who spoke the first words on the new station when it first went on the air four months earlier on October 14, 1963.

1964 Ad for Wrestling on WGHP-8 in High Point NC.

Championship Wrestling aired at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday evenings for most of it's 10 year run on WGHP. There was a brief period of time in the fall and winter of 1966 when the show was split in to two 30 minute programs airing at 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM on Saturday.

The ad features Charlie Harville who was at channel 2 before going to channel 8. (Top R) An image from a WFMY employee publication celebrating Charlie Harville's 50th anniversary in broadcasting. (Bottom L) A TV Guide ad from 1967.

It was Wahoo's first appearance on WGHP as he prepared to enter the territory full time in 1974.

Gulf then sold the station to Taft Broadcasting as part of a group deal in 1984.

On October 12, 1987, Taft was restructured into Great American Broadcasting after a hostile takeover.

The new Taft held onto channel 8 until 1992, when Great American repurchased the station.

In 1994 it was agreed that New World would buy most of Great American Broadcasting's (now known as Citicasters) TV stations, but WGHP (along with WBRC Birmingham) would be sold directly to Fox.

On September 4, 1995, WGHP took the Fox affiliation and became an official Fox owned-and-operated station (O&O). The ABC affiliation went to WNRW channel 45 (now WXLV-TV). (Credit - Wikipedia)

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.

On May 8, 2017, Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group—which owns WXLV-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV-TV (channel 48)—entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in debt held by Tribune.