WFIL-TV
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | 6 ABC (general) Channel 6 (secondary) Channel 6 Action News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
The One and Only (general) Delaware Valley's Leading News Program (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 6 (VHF) Virtual: 6 () |
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| Owner |
Disney/ABC (ABC, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 13, 1947 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Philadelphia VI (6 in Roman numerals) |
| Sister station(s) | WPHL-TV (newscasts only) |
| Former callsigns | WFIL-TV (1947–1971) |
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| Transmitter power | 34 kW 62.9 kW (application) |
| Height | 330 m (1,083 ft) |
| Facility ID | 8616 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′33.0″N 75°14′33.0″W / 40.042500°N 75.242500°WCoordinates: 40°2′33.0″N 75°14′33.0″W / 40.042500°N 75.242500°W (NAD27) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | 6abc |
WPVI-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, WPVI maintains studios located on City Line Avenue (US 1) in the Wynnefield Heights section of Philadelphia. The broadcast tower used by the station is located in Philadelphia's Roxborough neighborhood at (40°02′33.0″N 75°14′32.0″W / 40.042500°N 75.242222°W).
The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1947 as WFIL-TV; it is Philadelphia's second-oldest television station. It was originally owned by Triangle Publications, publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and owners of WFIL radio (560 AM, and 102.1 FM). WFIL radio had been an ABC radio affiliate dating back to the network's existence as the NBC Blue Network. However, WFIL-TV started out carrying programming from the DuMont Television Network, as ABC had not yet ventured into broadcast television. When the ABC television network debuted on April 19, 1948, WFIL-TV became its first affiliate. Channel 6 joined ABC before the network's first owned-and-operated station, WJZ-TV in New York City (now WABC-TV), signed on in August of that year. However, it retained a secondary affiliation with DuMont until that network shut down in 1956.
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