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WGHP (channel 8) is a television station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, United States, serving the Piedmont Triad region as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on Francis Street (just outside downtown High Point); its transmitter is located in Sophia, North Carolina.
On May 23, 1994, as part of a deal between Fox and New World Communications, it was announced that High Point-based ABC affiliate WGHP (channel 8) would change from ABC to Fox. The deal left WNRW–WGGT as a Fox affiliate with an uncertain future once the network moved and ABC without an affiliate in the Triad.
Dahler reported on many high-profile news stories within the U.S. and abroad [8] such as the Columbine shootings in his native Colorado.On September 11, 2001, Dahler was the first network correspondent on the scene of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York city reporting live via telephone from his apartment—which was just blocks away from ground zero—a few moments after the ...
WGHP in High Point, North Carolina; WJW in Cleveland, Ohio, with website at fox8.com; WLIO-DT2, a digital subchannel of WLIO in Lima, Ohio; WVUE-DT in New Orleans, Louisiana; WWCP-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
In 1972, Boggs left KYW for then-ABC affiliate WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina, where he hosted and produced his first talk show, Southern Exposure. He also hosted the syndicated All Star Anything Goes on ABC in 1977–78. Boggs was a long-time personality on WNEW-TV (now WNYW) from 1975-86.
WXII presently broadcasts 38 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).. Long a distant runner-up to WFMY-TV, channel 12's newscast ratings began to increase following a series of severe weather events in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The station's call letters changed to WTWB-TV (for "Triad WB") on August 28, 2000. WTWB dropped Fox's children's programming in March 2001, and WGHP chose not to pick up Fox's new Saturday morning cartoon block, Fox Box (later 4Kids TV), which replaced Fox Kids in 2002. As a result, the block did not air at all in the Piedmont Triad.
Chocolate Myers is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the eldest son of Lorene Yountz Myers and NASCAR racer Bobby Myers, who was known as the "Master of the Madhouse" for his racing exploits at the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium. [1] Myers died in an accident at the 1957 Southern 500 while driving for Richard Petty's father Lee ...