Temporary setup at WGHP FOX 8

[tyrannical bastard 4678]

They're not getting a new set, they're just getting new studio lighting.

 

Since this set and graphics package was one of the "parting gifts" Tribune left their stations before handing the keys to Nexstar, I wonder how much longer these stations (WJW, WGHP, WGN, etc...) can remain status quo.

 

(photo is from Neil McNeill's WGHP FOX 8 facebook page)

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

I love the historical stuff on the right! I wish more stations did stuff like that.

Edited July 15, 2025 by TheRolyPoly

[GraphicsMan 345]

7 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

They're not getting a new set, they're just getting new studio lighting.

 

Since this set and graphics package was one of the "parting gifts" Tribune left their stations before handing the keys to Nexstar, I wonder how much longer these stations (WJW, WGHP, WGN, etc...) can remain status quo.

 

(photo is from Neil McNeill's WGHP FOX 8 facebook page)

They'll stay status quo for as long as they want too Nexstar knows these are legacy stations, that why they don't mess to much with PIX and KTLA and that why when they got their new set a it was a nexatar set in a box they had free reign to choose whatever designer. 

[tyrannical bastard 4678]

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

I love the historical stuff on the right! I wish more stations did stuff like that.

It's a coincidence they were also an "ei8ht" station since they and WJW did not link up until the 1994 switch. 

And unlike WJW, they went straight from Citicasters (Taft & Great American) to FOX instead of being sold to New World.  WJW was Storer -> Gillett/SCI -> New World -> FOX

 

In the waning days of their FOX O&O status, they got the same "8" as WJW got when New World christened them as "Fox 8".

The lineage continued as WGHP and WJW were two of the stations FOX wanted to sell off at the time.

Edited July 16, 2025 by tyrannical bastard