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The relaunched channel 17 was one of three new UHF stations to launch in the Philadelphia market in 1965. Channel 29 debuted as WIBF-TV on May 16, [13] and channel 48 was activated as WKBS-TV on September 1. [14] WPHL-TV increased its effective radiated power to 1 million watts in August 1966. [15]
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Allentown: Philadelphia: 35 9 WPPT: PBS: World on 35.2 : Allentown: 39 9 WLVT-TV: PBS: Create on 39.2, France 24 on 39.3 : Allentown ...
List of United States over-the-air television networks; List of TV markets and major sports teams; List of the Caribbean television channels; Lists of television stations in North America; List of radio stations in North America by media market; U.S. broadcast television template; Canadian broadcast television template; Mexican broadcast ...
At the start of 1985, rumors began to swirl that WWSG-TV was about to be sold and turned into a full-time ad-supported commercial station. Milton Grant, an independent station builder who had just put WBFS-TV on the air in Miami the year prior, was buying the rights to show various syndicated reruns, such as Dallas and Eight Is Enough, in the Philadelphia market, contingent on the purchase of ...
At the dawn of the American television industry, each company was only allowed to own a total of five television stations around the country. As such, when the networks launched their television operations, they found it more advantageous to put their five owned-and-operated stations in large media markets that had more households (and therefore, denser populations) on the belief that it would ...
Television station Affiliate Founded Channel WDPN-TV: MeTV: 1988 2 KYW-TV: CBS: 1941 3 WPVI-TV: ABC: 1947 6 WPSJ-CD: Azteca America: 1986 8 WCAU: NBC: 1948 10 WHYY-TV: PBS: 1957 12 WPHL-TV: The CW: 1965 17 WFPA-CD: UniMás: 1995 28 WTXF-TV: Fox: 1965 29 WPPT: PBS: 1990 35 WELL-LD: Daystar 1988 45 WGTW-TV: Trinity Broadcasting Network: 1992 48 ...
Significantly viewed signals permitted to be carried 47 U.S.C. § 340 or the Significantly Viewed list (SV) is a federal law which allows television stations as determined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be carried by cable and other multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) providers outside their assigned Nielsen designated market area (DMA). [1]
On August 10, 2023, CBS News and Stations activated their station WPSG (channel 57) as the market's lighthouse station for ATSC 3.0, which includes a simulcast in that standard for WPVI-TV's main channel. As WPSG's physical channel is UHF channel 33, it is the first time in 16 years that WPVI-TV is available in some form on the UHF band.