WPSG
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | The CW Philly 57 (general) Eyewitness News on The CW Philly (newscasts) |
| Slogan | TV Now |
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Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 57 () |
| Affiliations | The CW |
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CBS Corporation (Philadelphia Television Station WPSG, Inc.) |
| First air date | June 15, 1981 |
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Paramount Stations Group (former owner of WPSG, and predecessor of CBS Television Stations) |
| Sister station(s) | KYW, KYW-TV, WIP-FM, WOGL, WPHT, WTDY-FM, WXTU |
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| Transmitter power | 250 kW |
| Height | 400 m |
| Facility ID | 12499 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′30″N 75°14′11″W / 40.04167°N 75.23639°WCoordinates: 40°2′30″N 75°14′11″W / 40.04167°N 75.23639°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | cwphilly |
WPSG, channel 57, is a CW owned-and-operated television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, and is part of a duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station KYW-TV (channel 3). The two stations share a studio and office facilities located on Hamilton Street north of Center City Philadelphia, WPSG's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
The channel 57 frequency was originally assigned to Easton, Pennsylvania where it was home to WGLV-TV, a dual ABC/DuMont affiliate owned by the Easton Express newspaper, which first signed on the air June 26, 1953. Unfortunately, the station struggled to get an audience mainly because it was a UHF station at a time when television manufacturers were not required to offer UHF tuners. Its fate was sealed in 1957, when the FCC collapsed the Lehigh Valley into the Philadelphia television market. The Philadelphia stations built tall towers in the city's hilly Roxborough neighborhood, adding Easton and the rest of the Lehigh Valley to their city-grade coverage. WGLV went dark on November 1 of that year, and several years later the FCC reassigned the channel 57 allocation to Philadelphia.
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