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Jim O'Brien (reporter) 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 ...
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.
Years active. 1950–1999. Title. Honorary chief of Seneca tribe. Spouse. Margaret Halftown. Children. 3. Traynor Ora Halftown (February 24, 1917 – July 5, 2003), better known as Chief Halftown, was a Native American entertainer who hosted a children's show that aired on WFIL-TV (which became WPVI-TV in 1972) in Philadelphia from 1950 to 1999.
Webber was hired as an announcer at WEEU-TV (channel 33) in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1953. However, the station was unprofitable; it went off the air in 1955, after Webber left. In 1954, Webber began working in Philadelphia at WFIL and WFIL-FM as a "summer relief announcer." In 1956, Webber became an announcer at WFIL-TV (Channel 6
On November 10, 2021, Gardner announced his intentions to retire from broadcasting at the end of 2022. Prior to his retirement, Gardner left his position as anchorman on Action News at 11:00 PM on January 11, 2022, and remained on the 6:00 PM broadcast until his retirement and final broadcast at 6:00 PM on December 21, 2022.
Wrong-way teen driver kills 6, including 2 children, in Texas, authorities say. Phil Helsel and Juliette Arcodia. Updated December 28, 2023 at 12:25 PM. Six people were killed in Texas when the ...
The special occasion came days ahead of July 16, 2022, a date that will mark 50 years since the ABC-owned station became AccuWeather's first TV client, sparking a close-knit partnership that ...
WFIL. / 40.095111°N 75.2768472°W / 40.095111; -75.2768472. WFIL (560 AM) is a radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs. Owned by Salem Media Group, studios and transmitter facilities are shared with co-owned WNTP (990 AM) in Lafayette Hill ...