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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 ...
WFIL. 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, Pennsylvania. WFIL transmits fulltime with 5,000 watts, using ...
Move Closer to Your World. Move Closer to Your World (MCTYW) is a television news music package composed in 1970 by Walt Liss [1] and released by jingle writer Al Ham under his Mayoham Music label. Since the 1970s, it was considered an anthem for local television news, notably of WPVI-TV in Philadelphia for its Action News broadcasts. [2]
Gardner worked for WPVI in Philadelphia from June 1, 1976 to December 21, 2022. He started as a reporter and noon anchor, before anchoring the 5:30 PM news by November 1976. He had solo anchored the 6:00 PM weekday newscasts since May 11, 1977, replacing Larry Kane; he also solo anchored the 11:00 PM weekday newscast between May 11, 1977 and ...
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. [1][2][3][4 ...
WEEU-TV was a short-lived TV station replaced by WITF-TV, anchored the weekend TV news at 11 pm and did the weather at 6:15 pm [2] 1956-1963 WFIL-TV: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Breakfast Time, [3] substitute booth announcer on American Bandstand, [4] host of Hess's Fashion/Toy shows, [5] the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Mummers Parade: 1964 ...
A sign is posted on Washington Turnpike in the Pine Barrens, about 7 miles away from the site where a pilot and a photographer were killed when Action News' helicopter Chopper 6 crashed in a ...