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WPVI-TV (channel 6), branded 6 ABC, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's ABC outlet. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on City Avenue in the Wynnefield Heights section of Philadelphia, and a transmitter in the city's Roxborough neighborhood.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948.
KEYT-TV: ABC No Identified as Action News 1977–1984; has identified as NewsChannel 3 since 2013 San Luis Obispo, California: KSBY: NBC No Originally Identified itself as Action 6 News (1970s-early 1980s), 6 Action News (late 1980s-2007) and KSBY 6 Action News (2007–2010) and was a sister station of KSBW, which also uses the Action News format.
— Action News on 6abc (@6abc) December 20, 2023 "Wednesday night, and the big story on Action News is tragedy here at Action News," anchor Rick Williams said with a grim expression in a broadcast.
James Franklin Oldham, better known as Jim O'Brien (November 20, 1939 – September 25, 1983), was an American newscaster. He was a member of the WPVI-TV Channel 6 Action News team, which became the highest-rated television news team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley region during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Since 1966, the parade has been broadcast on WPVI, as well as simulcast on other television stations throughout the United States. [6] Viewers could also watch the telecast on the station's website, 6abc.com, ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu, and since 2023 the parade has been aired intenationally via the Youtube page of ABC News.
In 1978, Roberts joined WPVI-TV in Philadelphia as a co-host for the morning television show AM Philadelphia. To avoid possible confusion with Lisa Thomas-Laury, he changed his stage name from David Thomas to Dave Roberts. After the death of Jim O'Brien on September 25, 1983, he began reporting the weather for WPVI's Action News.
The crew members were killed after the news station helicopter, Chopper 6, crashed in a wooded part of Washington Township around 8 p.m., according to 6ABC. The names of the crew members have not ...