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Headquarters. 1315-1325 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Circulation. 761,000 (as of 1947) Website. thephiladelphiabulletin.com. The Philadelphia Bulletin (or The Bulletin as it was commonly known as) was a daily evening newspaper published from 1847 to 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the largest circulation newspaper ...
In 1946, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin secured a construction permit for channel 10, [2] naming its proposed station WPEN-TV after the newspaper's WPEN radio stations (950 AM), now WKDN, and 98.1 FM, later WCAU-FM and now WOGL. The picture changed dramatically in 1947, when The Philadelphia Record folded.
In March 1941, WPEN moved to 950 kHz, as part of the frequency shifts due to the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. During the mid-1940s, WPEN was owned by the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper; in 1948, the newspaper bought the more powerful WCAU and sold the station to the local Sun Ray Drug Store chain. As ...
The Levys agreed to sell WCAU-AM-FM to The Philadelphia Record in 1946. However, the Record folded shortly thereafter, and its "goodwill", including the rights to buy WCAU-AM-FM, passed to the Philadelphia Bulletin, which already owned WPEN and WPEN-FM, and had secured a construction permit for WPEN-TV (channel 10).
WPEN (97.5 MHz, "97.5 The Fanatic") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Burlington, New Jersey, in the Philadelphia radio market. The station is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group through licensee Beasley Media Group, LLC and broadcasts a sports radio format. WPEN is the flagship station for the NBA 's Philadelphia 76ers Radio ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer: 1829 Daily Philadelphia Tribune: 1884 Bi-weekly Philadelphia magazine: 1908 Monthly Philadelphia Daily News: 1925 Daily South Philly Review: 1947 Weekly Northeast Times: 1934 Weekly Philadelphia Weekly: 1971 Weekly Philadelphia Gay News: 1976 Weekly AL DÍA: 1994 Weekly El Hispano: 1976 Weekly The Public Record: 1999 ...
Grady was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1918 and grew up in Broomall, Pennsylvania. Grady's first radio job was with WIP while attending La Salle University. He landed his first full-time broadcast job as a radio announcer at WHAT (AM), later becoming program director. In 1945, he joined WPEN, to do staff announcing but ...
WPEN-LP (channel 68) was a low-power television station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, United States, which served the Hampton Roads television market. The station began broadcasting in 1985; it then changed call signs to WPEN-LP on March 20, 1995. During its time on the air, it was an independent station, then picking up an affiliation with ...