WGPX-TV is the Ion Television affiliate licensed to Burlington, North Carolina and serving the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point television market. The station offers paid programming, religious shows, and family entertainment from Ion such as dramas, talk shows and game shows. It is owned by ION Media Networks and broadcasts on UHF digital channel 14. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WGPX's virtual channel as 16.
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WGPX-TV is the Ion Television affiliate licensed to Burlington, North Carolina and serving the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point television market. The station offers paid programming, religious shows, and family entertainment from Ion such as dramas, talk shows and game shows. It is owned by ION Media Networks and broadcasts on UHF digital channel 14. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WGPX's virtual channel as 16.
The station signed on as WRDG in 1984 with a religious format. It became WAAP in 1990, continuing to air religious shows as well as adding home shopping programming from Shop at Home. The station added cartoons in the early mornings and afternoons in the fall of 1992, and some low budget barter entertainment shows in the evenings in the winter of that year. For a brief time in 1991/1992, WAAP ran a local newscast, "News Source 16". WXII-TV weatherman Austin Caviness was one of the personalities. By 1993, WAAP had become a general entertainment...
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