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Don Tollefson (born September 13, 1952) is an American television broadcast journalist, best known for his work as a sportscaster for the Philadelphia local ABC affiliate WPVI-TV from 1975 to 1990. He also worked for Philadelphia's local FOX affiliate, WTXF-TV .
Cecily Joan Tynan (born March 19, 1969) is an American television meteorologist who has been with WPVI-TV since 1995. As of 2024, she is the 5, 6, and 11 pm weathercaster and chief meteorologist for Action News and is also the weathercaster for a streaming-exclusive edition that airs at 6:30 pm.
Promising a lineup of religious programs and family entertainment, [6] [7] the station signed on July 17, 1960, [6] making it Philadelphia's first commercial UHF station. WPCA-TV struggled amid the low penetration of UHF tuners prior to the 1964 passage of the All-Channel Receiver Act and Crawford's unexpected death in an October 1960 car ...
Marc Howard (born February 13, 1937) is a retired longtime Philadelphia news anchor. He last anchored at KYW-TV beginning in 2003 when he fronted the late newscasts, but soon only anchored the 4 p.m. news. Howard's television career began at WFMJ-TV in Youngstown, Ohio. One of Howard's duties was hosting a late afternoon movie program called ...
Kennedy was profiled in Philadelphia Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia City Paper. In 2004, he left WPVI and joined the faculty at Temple University's School of Journalism as an adjunct professor. Prior to WPVI, he was at WCAU in Philadelphia and WSB Radio in Atlanta.
WPPX-TV (channel 61) is a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Philadelphia area. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company and maintains offices on Main Street in Manayunk, with a transmitter in Roxborough, both sections of Philadelphia.
Gary Papa (September 2, 1954 – June 19, 2009) was a sportscaster with WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from April 1981 to June 2009 and was the 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. sportcaster. He joined the station as a weekend sportscaster in 1981 and was promoted to the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in 1991, and was named sports director one year ...
In 2005, WFMZ formed a broadcast partnership with WPVI-TV (channel 6), Philadelphia's ABC owned-and-operated station. The partnership permitted the two stations to cooperate in news gathering for local stories. In November 2017, WFMZ launched newly formatted and expanded newscasts.