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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.
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 ...
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
The "Action News" format was conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV) by news director Mel Kampmann in 1970, as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format that was used on rival station KYW-TV. [citation needed] At the time, WFIL-TV was said to be "#4 in a three-station market." [citation needed]
Background Dick Clark talks to Myrna Horowitz, one of the original dancers when the program began in 1952, on the show's 18th anniversary in 1970.. American Bandstand premiered locally in late March 1952 as Bandstand on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV Channel 6, which is now WPVI-TV, as a replacement for a weekday movie that had shown predominantly British films.
The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 6 in the United States: [1] [2] [3] K06AA-D in Broadus, Montana, on virtual channel 8, which rebroadcasts KULR-TV. K06AE-D in Prescott, Arizona, on virtual channel 2, which rebroadcasts KNAZ-TV. K06AV-D in Wolf Point, Montana, on virtual channel 20, which rebroadcasts K20JS-D.
Larry Kane. Larry Kane (born October 21, 1942) is an American journalist, news anchor and author known for his over 6 decade career. Kane spent 36 years as a news anchor in Philadelphia, and is the only person to have anchored at all three Philadelphia owned and operated television stations. Early in his career, he was the only broadcast ...
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 ...