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WPHL-TV
Image:MyPHL17logo.PNG
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Branding MyPHL17
Channels Analog: 17 (UHF)

Digital: 54 (UHF)
Affiliations MyNetworkTV
Owner Tribune Company
(Tribune Television Company)
Founded September 17, 1965
Call letters’ meaning PHiLadelphia
(PHL is also IATA airport code for Philadelphia International Airport)
Former affiliations Independent (1965-1995)
WB (1995-2006)
Transmitter Power 2340 kW (analog)
500 kW (digital)
Height 320 m (analog)
354 m (digital)
Facility ID 73879
Transmitter Coordinates 40°2′30.9″N, 75°14′21.9″W (analog)
40°2′30.1″N, 75°14′10″W (digital)
Website www.myphl17.com

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History

On June 17, 1960, Perry Crawford signed on WPCA-TV, a religious station. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The call letters stood for "People's Christian Association. " The station was Philadelphia's first commercial UHF channel, but at a time when UHF converters weren't required on most TV sets, WPCA only lasted two years and went off the air in 1962.

However, a group of local investors obtained a new channel 17 license. The new station debuted on September 17, 1965 as independent station WPHL-TV. Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Independent station is a term for a broadcast radio or Television station which is more independent in some way compared to other "dependent" It was the third UHF independent to sign-on in Philadelphia that year, two and-a-half weeks behind WKBS-TV (channel 48) and four months later than WIBF-TV (channel 29, later WTAF and now WTXF-TV). WKBS-TV was an independent television station licensed to Burlington New Jersey, which served the Philadelphia Pennsylvania area from 1965 to 1983 WTXF-TV, channel 29 is an owned-and-operated station of the News Corporation -owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania During its early years WPHL went through a string of owners, most notably as an owned-and-operated station of the short-lived United Network. The Overmyer Network was the product of a failed attempt to create a fourth national Television network in the United States.

In the summer of 1975 WPHL-TV moved from its studios in the suburb of Wyndmoor to its current studio in Wynnefield. Wyndmoor is a Census-designated place (CDP in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. The building had once been an A&P supermarket. The station offered a schedule of off network drama shows, sitcoms, old movies, sports and religious shows. During most of the 1970s, channel 17 also offered Japanese live action shows and cartoons dubbed in English, including Ultraman, Marine Boy, Space Giants, Speed Racer, King Kong and Johnny Sokko. is a Fictional character featured in Tokusatsu, or "special effects" television programs in Japan Marine Boy was one of the first Anime Cartoons to be shown in a dubbed form in the U is the title and protagonist of a Manga and Tokusatsu TV series created by famous Mangaka Osamu Tezuka. Speed Racer is an English adaptation of the Japanese Manga and Anime, which centered on automobile racing. King Kong is the name of a fictional giant ape from the fictional Skull Island, who has appeared in several works since 1933 It also ran NBC programs that were pre-empted by KYW-TV until the fall of 1976 and again from the fall of 1977 to the summer of 1983. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's KYW-TV, channel 3 is a television station in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, owned by the CBS Corporation and affiliated with the CBS Television Network. The Providence Journal Company bought channel 17 in 1979. The Providence Journal, nicknamed the ProJo, is a daily Newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence Rhode Island and is

Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, WPHL was known on-air as "The Great Entertainer", with voiceovers from Sid Doherty. The station positioned itself as an alternative to both WTAF and WKBS, as it programmed more towards adults with movies and other syndicated programs, while its competitors were heavy on sitcoms and children's cartoons. WPHL was also a station heavy on sports, as it aired contests featuring Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers. The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The Philadelphia 76ers (also known as the Sixers for short are a professional Basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional Ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

From September 1981 to August 1987, the WPHL studios hosted a Monday-through-Friday afternoon dance show, Dancin' On Air as well as a spin-off on the USA Network called Dance Party USA with the latter hosted by Dave Raymond, who was better known as the man in the Phillie Phanatic costume. USA Network (commonly referred to as USA) is an American Cable television channel with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005 This article is about the television program For the 2006 film see Dance Party USA (film. The Phillie Phanatic is the official mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team Those shows marked the on-air debut of a young girl from nearby Voorhees, New Jersey named Kelly Ripa. Voorhees Township is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970) an American Daytime Emmy Award -winning actress, Television personality and

In 1983, WKBS went on the market after its owner, Field Communications, decided to exit broadcasting. Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News The Providence Journal Company was among those who were bidding for channel 48's license. Had it emerged victorious, Providence Journal would have moved most of WPHL's stronger shows to WKBS and sell the channel 17 license to a religious broadcaster. However, their bid was well below Field's asking price. WKBS-TV ceased operations ("went dark" in television terminology) that August, and channel 17 picked up various syndicated programs, movies, and production equipment from channel 48.

In 1987, the Providence Journal Company sold WPHL-TV to a consortium headed by Dudley S. Taft Jr. , the former president of the Cincinnati-based Taft Television and Radio Company, the longtime owners of rival WTAF-TV. The Taft Broadcasting Company, also known as Taft Television and Radio Company Incorporated, was a media conglomerate based in Cincinnati Ohio. Dudley Taft had left his family's namesake company following a corporate restructuring which resulted in the firm changing its name to Great American Broadcasting. He also brought along key personnel from WTAF (which Taft had sold to TVX Broadcast Group in early 1987), including general manager Randy Smith. The TVX Broadcast Group was a company that owned a group of UHF television stations during the 1980s The new ownership scrapped the "Great Entertainer" slogan and related logo for a new identity as PHL 17, in an apparent attempt to counter WGBS-TV's (channel 57, now WPSG) Philly 57 branding. WPSG, channel 57 is a Philadelphia CW television station which is owned by the CBS Corporation (which owns 50 percent of the CW Network and is a sister station In 1991, the Taft group sold channel 17 to the Tribune Company. The Tribune Company is a large American Multimedia Corporation based in Chicago Illinois. The station affiliated with the WB Television Network in January 1995, and in September of that year changed its on-air identity to WB 17.

Throughout the station's first three decades of service, WPHL had a tremendous professional sports presence -- at various points holding the broadcast rights to the Phillies (1971-82 and 1990-98), the Flyers (1991-98), and the 76ers (1986-95), as well as covering local college basketball and football, with games featuring teams from the Philadelphia Big 5 (LaSalle University, University of Pennsylvania, Saint Joseph's University, Villanova University and Temple University). For other uses of the term "Big Five" and its variants see Big five (disambiguation. For the university in Manila Philippines see De La Salle University. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Saint Joseph's University (also called SJU or St Joe's) is a private Coeducational Roman Catholic University located Villanova University' is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States Temple University is a state-related public research University in Philadelphia. After the station took on WB programming, it let go of many of its sports contracts in order to concentrate on its network obligations. Currently, the station does air syndicated college football and basketball games from the syndication arm of ESPN involving schools from the Big Ten Conference through 2006 and Mid-American Conference (football) and Big East Conference (basketball). American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to The Mid-American Conference ( MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA Division I college athletic conference with a membership The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of seventeen Universities in the northeastern southeastern and midwestern United It has also aired preseason games of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced that they would merge into a new network called the CW. Events 41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel Despotism, is Assassinated by his disgruntled Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven The CW Television Network ( The CW) is a Television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-2007 television season. On the same day the new network was announced, it signed a 10-year affiliation agreement with most of Tribune's WB stations. However, in the case of Philadelphia, the new network's affiliation went to CBS-owned WPSG. WPHL-TV was slated to return to its previous independent status, but on May 15, 2006, Tribune announced that it would affiliate channel 17 (and two other WB stations not included in the CW affiliation deal) with My Network TV, making it the largest station (in terms of market size) affiliated with MNTV that is not owned by News Corporation, MNTV's parent company. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the In July, WPHL rebranded itself as myphl17, which partially revived the station's former PHL 17 moniker. WPHL-TV began airing My Network TV programming on September 5, 2006, the day the new service was launched. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. WPHL did not air the final two weeks of WB programming.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Subchannel Programming
17. 1 / 54. 1 main WPHL-TV/MyNetworkTV programming
17. 2 / 54. 2 World Championship Sports Network - discontinued in May 2008

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [1], WPHL-TV will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel number, 17. [2]

News Operations

In 1994, WPHL entered into an unusual agreement with The Philadelphia Inquirer to broadcast an Inquirer-branded news program. The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily Newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United "Inquirer News Tonight" was a hybrid newscast that integrated normal television news conventions with contributions from the newspaper's personnel. "Inquirer News Tonight" did not last, and in late 1996 the program was rebranded "WB17 News At Ten". On December 10, 2005, all in-house news operations ceased, and WCAU began producing a newscast called "WB 17 News at Ten Powered by NBC 10". Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For broadcast stations that previously used the WCAU call sign see WCAU (disambiguation WCAU, channel 10 is the NBC owned-and-operated On July 25, 2006, the newscast was re-named myphl17 News at Ten Powered by NBC 10. [1].

Current personalities

WPHL-TV shares news staff with WCAU; see that article for a complete listing. Vai Sikahema (born August 29, 1962 in Nuku{{Okina}}alofa, Tonga) was an American football Running back - Kick returner For broadcast stations that previously used the WCAU call sign see WCAU (disambiguation WCAU, channel 10 is the NBC owned-and-operated

News/station presentation

Newscast titles
Station slogans

Logos

A WPHL-TV logo from the 1960s to circa 1980

The First WPHL logo during its "Great Entertainer" branding, circa 1980. The 17 logo itself dates back to the late 1970s and was dropped in fall 1988; "Great Entertainer" was dropped shortly before this, presumably in fall 1987.

The second "Great Entertainer logo.

WPHL's second PHL17 logo, used from 1990 to 1995 (version 1 of this logo contained an unitalicized "PHL" and lacked the "Philadelphia" script). Note the "Taft" logo, identical to the one used by Taft Broadcasting in the 80s. Dudley Taft's group bought the rights to the name and logo.

WPHL's first WB17 logo, used from 1995 to fall 2000. The logo was very similar to that of the athletic logo of St. John's University of New York City that was in use from 1994 to 2002. SMG of New York City designed both logos.

WPHL's second WB17 logo, used from fall 2000 to July 2006.

Current WPHL logo, used since July 2006.

References

  1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  2. ^ CDBS Print

External links

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