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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 ...
WFIL-TV. The station first signed on the air on September 13, 1947, as WFIL-TV. It is Philadelphia's second-oldest television station, signing on six years after WPTZ (now KYW-TV). The first program broadcast on channel 6 was a live remote of an exhibition game of the Philadelphia Eagles against the Chicago Bears from Franklin Field. This was ...
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
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 ...
KFDM. / 30.14028°N 93.97917°W / 30.14028; -93.97917. KFDM (channel 6) is a television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW Plus, and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Port Arthur –licensed Dabl affiliate KBTV-TV (channel 4) under joint sales and shared ...
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 ...
Two years later, he began his television broadcast career at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York. He took the stage name Gardner because of antisemitism in the Buffalo community, and the thought that there were too many Jewish names on staff. Gardner worked for WPVI in Philadelphia from June 1, 1976 to December 21, 2022. He started as a reporter and ...
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.