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122-468: WCAU (channel 10) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Mount Laurel, New Jersey –licensed Telemundo outlet WWSI (channel 62); it is also sister to regional sports network NBC Sports Philadelphia . WCAU and WWSI share studios in

244-643: A barter in some cases. WCBS (AM) WHSQ (880 AM , "ESPN New York 880") is a radio station in New York City. Owned by Audacy, Inc. and operated by Good Karma Brands (GKB) under a local marketing agreement (LMA), it broadcasts a sports radio format as the co-flagship of the ESPN Radio network. The station's transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx ; its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of

366-617: A duopoly . The Bulletin could not afford to get a waiver to keep both stations, so it opted to keep its stake in WDAU-TV and sell the WCAU stations to CBS. CBS had to seek a waiver to buy the WCAU stations, as the signals of WCAU's AM and television stations overlapped with those of WCBS radio and WCBS-TV in New York City (in the case of the AM outlets, both were clear-channel stations ;

488-441: A middle of the road (MOR) music and personality format, which included limited talk programming. Personalities included morning host Jack Sterling, Bill Randle , and Lee Jordan. Like many MOR stations at the time, WCBS did mix in softer songs by rock-and-roll artists. Its ratings at the time were ordinary compared to the higher ratings at WOR and WNEW , both of which also had MOR formats and more distinct identities. Through it all,

610-472: A "sneak preview" basis on March 3, but the official opening of the station was not until May 23, 1948. It secured an affiliation with CBS through the influence of the Levy brothers, who continued to work for the newspaper as consultants. WCAU radio had been one of CBS' original 16 affiliates when the network launched in 1927. A year later, the Levy brothers persuaded their brother-in-law, William S. Paley , to buy

732-634: A CBS station, WCAU also aired select Phillies games as part of CBS' broadcast contract with Major League Baseball from 1990 to 1993 , including the 1993 World Series , in which the Phillies lost to the Toronto Blue Jays . Philadelphia Eagles games primarily aired on Channel 10 back when it was a CBS station and that network carried the National Football Conference, a relationship that began in 1956 when CBS took on

854-777: A content partnership with Philadelphia-based company Entercom Communications (which in 2021 officially became known as Audacy ) and its AM radio station KYW-AM along with its sister stations WIP-FM , WTDY-FM , WOGL-FM , WPHT-AM and WBEB-FM for use of WCAU's on-air talent on the radio stations; it is the second station partnership between Entercom/Audacy and NBC (following KXAS-TV and KRLD in Dallas beginning in 2018). Fellow NBC O&O stations had already partnered with radio stations in markets including Washington, D.C. (WRC-TV and WTOP-FM ), New York City (WNBC and WOR ), Los Angeles (KNBC and KABC-AM ), Hartford (WVIT and WILI ), and Miami (WTVJ and WIOD ). On February 17, 2020, WCAU added

976-574: A full-time radio presence in New York City. CBS programming had earlier been heard on 710 WOR also on a part time basis. WOR remained independent for a few years, then helped form the Mutual Broadcasting System . After a short time broadcasting CBS programming three days a week, WABC-WBOQ was purchased by CBS president William S. Paley , and became a full-time CBS Network owned and operated station. WABC-WBOQ increased its transmitting power from 5,000 to its present 50,000 watts,

1098-580: A half-hour 7 p.m. newscast on weekdays. It was announced in July 2020 that Sikahema would be retiring from NBC10 in November of that year after a 26-year run at the station, stepping away from the anchor position but still being active around the station until fully retiring. Additionally, co-anchor Tracy Davidson would be shifting away from the morning editions to anchor the 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. newscasts alongside Jacqueline London and Jim Rosenfield respectively. It

1220-508: A locally produced newscast at 7 pm. On December 20, 2012, digital subchannel 10.2 became an affiliate of Cozi TV , which replaced the Nonstop network. 34.5 (virtual 62.1) carries WWSI, as described below, with 34.6/62.2 carrying TeleXitos , under a channel share agreement. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was

1342-586: A monopoly on the all-news format. In New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, CBS had to compete with Westinghouse -owned stations, WINS, KFWB , and KYW , respectively. They had adopted all-news programming before the CBS stations did. While the Los Angeles stations made the switch within days of each other, WCAU in Philadelphia did not switch to the format until 1975, giving KYW a ten-year head start with

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1464-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

1586-484: A playing of " Imagine " by John Lennon and sign off by morning news anchor Wayne Cabot. Alongside ESPN Radio programming, WHSQ would retain its rights to the New York Mets, as they are owned by Audacy itself. The rights to Rutgers Scarlet Knights basketball were transferred to WFAN. From 1924 until the end of its all-news programming in 2024, WCBS was known for announcing the time every three minutes. This

1708-460: A solid runner-up to longtime leader WPVI for over a quarter century. WCAU managed to pass WPVI in the 5 p.m. time slot for a time in the early 1980s with its original Live at 5 , anchored by Larry Kane and Deborah Knapp (now at KENS in San Antonio ). In 2001, WCAU made national news when its 11 p.m. newscast (anchored by Larry Mendte and Renee Chenault-Fattah) knocked WPVI from the top spot in

1830-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

1952-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

2074-513: Is also used at other CBS-affiliated news radio stations nationwide. As an all-news station WCBS promoted its pairing of traffic and weather reports every ten minutes "on the eights", and used the tagline "Traffic and Weather Together". The station's chief meteorologist, Craig Allen , and its rush hour traffic reporter Tom Kaminski, were both with WCBS for over three decades and recorded a series of commercials together to that effect. Part-time WCBS meteorologist Todd Glickman , who filled in for Craig,

2196-455: Is because during the early 20th century, not all listeners had reliable time pieces. They relied on synchronising their clocks up with the radio almost every day. On the hour, WCBS played the iconic and distinctive CBS network "bong" indicating that the time is on the hour, although the station would later broadcast with a 10-second delay. The time was distinctly introduced with "WCBS news time: _:__". This standard practice, with slight variations,

2318-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

2440-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

2562-474: Is sold by Audacy during Mets broadcasts. Likewise, the station is promoted by Audacy as Mets Radio 880 , and its associated stream on the Audacy app otherwise carries Infinity Sports Network outside of Mets games. The station was first licensed, as WAHG, on September 20, 1924, to Alfred H. Grebe & Company, for 500 watts on 950 kHz. It made its debut broadcast on the evening of September 22. WAHG

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2684-652: The American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which began operation under that name in 1945. Control of the call sign WABC was retained by renaming a relay station from WEHG to WABC. Longtime, and unrelated, ABC radio flagship station on 770 kHz in New York was assigned the call sign WABC in 1953, after operating since its beginning in 1921 as WJZ. Over the next 20 years WCBS developed a series of radio soap operas, afternoon talk shows, and an all-night easy listening music show, Music 'til Dawn . It

2806-548: The Bulletin on the idea of a local 11 p.m. newscast—the first in the country. It aired for the first time on September 8. In 1950, WCAU became the first station with a four-man news team. The 6 p.m. newscast was anchored by Facenda, with Philadelphia radio legend Phil Sheridan handling weather, Jack Whitaker on sports and Ed McMahon as announcer. In 1965, channel 10 introduced the "Big News" format from Los Angeles sister station KNXT (now KCBS-TV ). The station's news operation

2928-581: The CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57th Street. Around this time, the station began referring to itself as "Newsradio 880". On December 2, 2011, the station moved operations to 345 Hudson Street, known as the Hudson Square Broadcast Center, sharing space with CBS Radio's other New York stations. On February 2, 2017, CBS agreed to merge CBS Radio with Entercom , at the time the fourth-largest radio broadcaster in

3050-812: The Comcast Technology Center on Arch Street in Center City , with some operations remaining at their former main studio at the corner of City Avenue and Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd . Through a channel sharing agreement , the two stations transmit using WCAU's spectrum from a tower in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. In 1946, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin secured a construction permit for channel 10, naming its proposed station WPEN-TV after

3172-810: The NBC and CBS stations in Miami traded broadcasting facilities, with CBS moving to the stronger of the two signals. CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for a minority stake in KYW-TV. The deal officially took effect on September 10, 1995. Group W's parent, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation , purchased CBS two months later, making CBS' Philadelphia radio stations sisters to WCAU-AM/WPHT's longtime rival, KYW radio. The last CBS network program to air on channel 10

3294-846: The PSFS Building in Center City, was not nearly strong enough to serve this larger viewing area. In 1957, WCAU-TV moved to a new 1,200-foot (366 m) tower in Roxborough, which added most of Delaware, the Jersey Shore and the Lehigh Valley to its city-grade coverage. Also in 1957, the Bulletin formed a limited partnership with the Megargee family, owner of CBS affiliate WGBI-TV (channel 22) in Scranton . As part of

3416-516: The Philadelphia 76ers NBA franchise home games held at the Wells Fargo Center ; the home games of the 76ers are currently broadcast on its sister regional sports network NBC Sports Philadelphia. Prior to the launch of the station's in-court advertisement campaign, the station carried these 76ers games as part of the network's broadcasting package of the NBA from 1995 until 2002 (including

3538-605: The Philadelphia Flyers hockey games beginning with the 2017–18 season with NBC Sports Philadelphia. Flyers games were also broadcast nationally on the station through its broadcast package of the National Hockey League until the contract's expiration at the end of the 2020–21 season , including the team's appearance in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals . Beginning in the 2017–18 season , WCAU began displaying its in-court advertisements during all of

3660-612: The Susquehanna Valley after WGAL , the NBC affiliate in that market, was knocked off the air after a portion of the roof at the station's Columbia Avenue studio facility collapsed due to heavy accumulations of snow and ice caused by a winter storm that moved through the Eastern United States earlier that week. On April 16, 2014, WMGM-TV (channel 40), the NBC affiliate in nearby Atlantic City , announced that

3782-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

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3904-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

4026-460: The 11 p.m. newscast on September 9, 1995, hours before the switch to NBC. It used the original 1975 version from 1982 to 1987, a synthesized version produced by a local composer during the 1987–88 season and the "Palmer News Package" composed by Shelly Palmer from 1988 to 1995. KYW-TV has used variants on this theme in recent years. Shortly after CBS agreed to sell the station to NBC in the fall of 1994, WCAU began to slowly remove CBS references from

4148-453: The 36th annual event in 2014. WCAU presently broadcasts 47 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 35 minutes each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and six hours on Sundays). News has been produced at WCAU from when the station went on the air on in 1948. Charles Shaw , who had worked with Edward R. Murrow as a CBS correspondent in London during World War II,

4270-566: The 6 p.m. newscast. The logo was also simplified to remove the redundant "NBC" text and streamline the NBC Peacock and the "10" numeral together more closely, as had been done with sister station WBTS-LD 's new "10" logo upon their numerical rebranding to "NBC 10 Boston" at the start of 2018. In August 2019, WCAU announced that the last 15 minutes of its 11 a.m. newscast would be cut in favor of their lifestyle show Philly Live beginning September 9. In February 2020, WCAU announced

4392-478: The 7 a.m. hour on a one-week delay to run the hour-long locally produced children's program, The Gene London Show , which ended in 1977. Beginning in 1978, WCAU-TV began preempting an hour of Sunday morning cartoon reruns and in the beginning of 1979 the station preempted an hour of the Saturday morning cartoons. By 1980, the station was running the entire Saturday morning cartoon lineup again and by early in 1981,

4514-570: The 7 p.m. edition solo. On June 26, 1972, three news correspondents were killed in a helicopter crash in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where they had been covering the flooding stemming from Hurricane Agnes . The victims were Del Vaughn of CBS News and Sid Brenner and Louis Clark of WCAU, and the pilot, Mike Sedio. On October 25, 2010, WCAU introduced its own version of WNBC's New York Nonstop channel, NBC Philadelphia Nonstop . This subchannel featured various news and entertainment programs, and

4636-546: The CBS Radio Network late in their playing days. Sports announcer Marty Glickman served as sports director during a time in the 1960s. Mel Allen was originally renowned as an all-purpose broadcaster on WCBS and the CBS Radio Network before and during his tenure as the Yankees' lead broadcaster. Decades later, Ed Ingles established a 25-year career as sports director and morning sports anchor at WCBS, reporter for

4758-463: The Eagles clinch their first NFL championship in the modern Super Bowl era. In the summer of 2015, Comcast and the Eagles announced a new TV contract; WCAU began airing the preseason games in the 2015 season after ending its contract with ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI in the 2014 season . Pre-season games are sub-licensed to other stations during Olympic years. WCAU has free-to-air rights to

4880-712: The Entercom transaction, and to gain regulatory approval of it, WBZ, along with several other Entercom stations, were sold to iHeartMedia effective December 19, 2017.) On October 10, 2022, after Audacy had reached a new deal with SAG-AFTRA , it was announced that the separate staffs and newsrooms of WCBS and WINS would be combined. Concurrently, WNYL (92.3 FM) also became an FM simulcast of WINS. The move gave WINS an FM outlet, while WCBS remained only on AM radio and on an HD Radio digital subchannel of 101.1 WCBS-FM. Since WINS added its FM signal, WINS had seen increases in listeners (especially among young adults) and revenue at

5002-642: The FCC and the U.S. Justice Department nullified the swap in June 1965. New World got into the bidding because it had just signed a multi-year affiliation deal with Fox , and intended to make WCAU a Fox station had it emerged as channel 10's owner. Fox's affiliate in Philadelphia, WTXF-TV , was about to become an affiliate of the United Paramount Network ( UPN ), which was to be programmed mostly by WTXF's owner, Paramount Stations Group . New World found

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5124-738: The FCC at the time usually did not allow common ownership of clear-channel stations with overlapping nighttime coverage areas). However, in its application for a waiver, CBS cited NBC's then-ownership of WRCV-TV in Philadelphia (channel 3, now KYW-TV ) and WRCA-TV in New York City (now WNBC ). The FCC readily granted the waiver, and CBS took control in 1958. In July 1994, CBS entered into a long-term affiliation agreement with Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting , owners of Philadelphia's longtime NBC affiliate, KYW-TV, and its sister stations in Baltimore ( WJZ-TV ) and Boston ( WBZ-TV ). Westinghouse converted all three of those stations into CBS affiliates. CBS

5246-662: The NBA's New York Knicks . In 2016, the New York Islanders moved their flagship station to WCBS for that year's playoffs, with WFAN airing select games when available; the Islanders had, up to that point, resorted to airing on noncommercial WNYE , which had limited the team's ability to earn money from the broadcasts. WCBS served as a springboard to athletes-turned-broadcasters in its pre-all-news period. Most notably, former football Giants Pat Summerall and Frank Gifford were employed in various capacities by WCBS and

5368-606: The National Football League. It also served as the flagship commercial station for St. John's University basketball games during the Johnnies' renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s. WCBS also served two tenures as the flagship station of the New York Jets . In its pre-all-news days, WCBS also carried the baseball Giants (as part of the 1930s-40s Giants-Yankees home game package), the football Giants, and

5490-633: The Philly July 4 Jam concert was also broadcast nationally on VH1 . By airing the event, the station preempts the live national NBC telecast of the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks from New York City, though it carries the condensed replay immediately after both ceremonies end. Since Comcast acquired the station's parent NBCUniversal in 2011, WCAU has aired Philadelphia's major sports teams in many years. Because of those commitments to air these major sports teams, they reschedule NBC network programs preempted on

5612-542: The Sunday morning hour of children's programs was brought back. In July 2016, Comcast announced that they would take over as presenting sponsor of the Wawa Welcome America 4th of July festivities, particularly the Philly July 4 Jam and Grand Finale Fireworks; WCAU and WWSI assumed the local broadcast duties beginning in 2016, thus ending 32 years of broadcast rights with ABC owned-and-operated WPVI, while

5734-647: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

5856-468: The United States; the sale was conducted using a Reverse Morris Trust so that it would be tax-free. While CBS shareholders retained a 72% ownership stake in the combined company, Entercom was the surviving entity, separating WCBS radio (both 880 and FM 101.1) from WCBS-TV. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. As part of the agreement with CBS, Entercom

5978-469: The WCBS Audacy stream began to carry Mets broadcasts within the team's broadcast territory. Later that year, the station became the flagship for Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball , replacing longtime home WOR . WCBS served three stints as the radio flagship of the Yankees, with the most recent running from 2002 until 2013. The station had previously carried the Yankees from 1939 to 1940 (when

6100-473: The Wawa Welcome America events alongside Jacqueline London and then would officially debut as London's co-anchor on July 10, a few days after his original announced debut date of June 26. In the interim period between Rosenfeld's departure and Shropshire's arrival, morning anchor Keith Jones shifted down to weeknights to co-anchor with London at 6 and 11 p.m. while either he or London would anchor

6222-432: The all-news format on WCBS effective August 26, citing that "the headwinds facing local journalism nationwide made it essential to strategically reimagine how we deliver the news for the most impact", and that it would therefore focus exclusively on WINS moving forward. Audacy entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Good Karma Brands , under which the ESPN Radio programming of WEPN-FM would move to WCBS, and

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6344-485: The audience. Many blame this as the primary reason WCAU did not succeed in competing with KYW. The all-news format on WCAU lasted only three years. In contrast, the other CBS all-news stations experienced success and stability with the format. In 1995, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making WCBS a sister station to its longtime archrival WINS. In October 2000, WCBS made another move, from CBS corporate headquarters at 51 West 52nd Street (the building known as " Black Rock ") to

6466-400: The average and end above it. As part of its 25-year TV contract, WCAU took over free-to-air broadcast rights for Phillies baseball games from MyNetworkTV affiliate WPHL-TV beginning in the 2014 season , including its Opening Day game and selected games aired on the station. Some games may air on WTXF , per the national broadcast agreement between Major League Baseball and Fox Sports . As

6588-619: The broadcast rights to the pre-merger National Football League. That arrangement lasted until 1994 , when Fox acquired the NFC contract and with it, the Eagles games to WTXF. After being traded to NBC, only select games where the Eagles hosted an American Football Conference opponent would air on WCAU from 1995 to 1997 , when CBS regained the NFL. Since 2006 , Eagles games broadcast nationally by NBC Sports have aired on WCAU, mostly Sunday Night Football contests but also Super Bowl LII , which saw

6710-478: The case of WNBC, it no longer uses "L.A. Groove" as its news theme as of 2016). On July 11, 2016, beginning with the 4 p.m. newscast, WCAU became the seventh NBC-owned station to begin using ArtWorks' "Look N" graphics package following WNBC, WTVJ, WVIT, KXAS-TV, WMAQ-TV and WRC-TV. On October 21, 2018, WCAU moved to their new studios within the Comcast Technology Center, beginning with

6832-424: The case to come to trial. Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson's book The Murrow Boys asserted that WCBS executive Arthur Hull Hayes admitted on the stand the station's overall ratings, not Faulk's specifically, had slipped. The controversy became the subject of the 1975 CBS television movie Fear on Trial , based in part on Faulk's autobiography of the same name. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, WCBS evolved into

6954-495: The chance to give Fox a VHF station in the nation's fourth-largest market too much to resist. Had WCAU become a Fox station, it would have retained its status as the "home" station of the NFL 's Philadelphia Eagles . The station had carried Eagles games since 1950, and had carried the majority of Eagles games since CBS won the rights to NFL games in 1956. Indeed, Fox had cut its affiliation deal with New World because it had recently won

7076-404: The deal, channel 22's call letters were changed to WDAU-TV (WDAU's call letters were changed again to WYOU in 1986). Soon afterward, the FCC ruled that the Bulletin could not keep both stations due to a large signal overlap in the Lehigh Valley. Although the Bulletin had only bought a minority stake in channel 22, the FCC ruled that this stake was so large that the two stations were effectively

7198-540: The eastern United States and Eastern Canada. First signing on in September 1924, the station had been an affiliate and owned-and-operated flagship of the CBS radio network for much of its existence, and held the call letters WCBS from 1946 to 2024. In 1967, the station began an all-news format, competing primarily with WINS (1010 AM). WCBS later became a sister to WINS after CBS's merger with Westinghouse Broadcasting ;

7320-433: The expense of WCBS; whereas in 2022, before the addition of WINS-FM, the two stations were neck-and-neck in revenue earnings (WCBS earning $ 30.9 million to WINS' $ 31.6 million). Following the addition, that number plummeted the following year to $ 29.7 million (more damningly, creating a further gap against WINS-AM/FM's $ 40 million). By 2024, it had become clear the move was draining listeners from WCBS, with

7442-516: The facility until the 1995 sale to NBC. On January 16, 2014, it was announced that WCAU and sister station WWSI would move to the then-under-construction Comcast Technology Center on Arch Street in Center City, which was built by NBC parent Comcast. This 59-story building became the tallest building in Philadelphia, and is now recognized as the tallest building in the United States outside of New York and Chicago. After several weeks of off-air tests, WCAU and WWSI officially moved all on-air operations to

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7564-674: The first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

7686-505: The first stations to undertake the plan (known as a " Local News Service " agreement) as an effective way to deal with the difficulties in costs in news operations. WCAU later announced in September 2012, that it would be leaving the Local News Service agreement with WTXF and KYW-TV (which entered the agreement by 2010) and use its own helicopter. The new helicopter, dubbed "SkyForce 10", debuted on February 25, 2013. WCAU became

7808-493: The flagship New York chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) broadcasters' union. After Faulk and WCBS came under pressure from anti-Communist group Aware, Inc. , Faulk and attorney Louis Nizer sued Aware, Inc. for libel, a case often considered one of the key turning points in the battle against McCarthyism . Faulk was supported by fellow CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow , who

7930-437: The fourth and last English-language television station in the Philadelphia market to begin broadcasting its local news programming in high-definition on December 10, 2008, starting with its 4 p.m. newscast. On September 12, 2011, WCAU expanded its weekday morning newscast to 4:30 am, along with the launch of a new midday newscast at 11 am, and the reduction of The 10! Show to a half-hour program. On December 6, 2011,

8052-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

8174-429: The leading bidders for WCAU. NBC had wanted to own a station in Philadelphia for many years; for most of the broadcasting era, Philadelphia was the largest market where NBC didn't own a station. It briefly succeeded in 1956, when it extorted Westinghouse into exchanging channel 3 (then called WPTZ-TV) and KYW radio for NBC's Cleveland stations, WTAM-AM - FM and WNBK television . However, after Westinghouse complained,

8296-430: The less-powerful WPEN and WCAU-FM, with the latter being renamed WPEN-FM; it is now WMGK . The Bulletin kept its FM station, renaming it WCAU-FM to match its new AM sister. The newspaper also kept its construction permit for channel 10, renaming it WCAU-TV. WCAU-TV went on the air March 1, 1948, as Philadelphia's third television station with an initial test pattern on Channel 10. It carried its first CBS network show on

8418-505: The local news ratings for the first time in decades. Since 2003, WCAU has had to fend off a spirited challenge from a resurgent KYW-TV for second place in the Philadelphia ratings; Channel 3's resurgence was fueled in part by luring Mendte away from channel 10. WCAU used music based on "Channel 2 News", written by Dick Marx for WBBM-TV in Chicago (the de facto official music for CBS' O&O stations) and variations on it from 1982 until

8540-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

8662-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

8784-409: The maximum permitted by the FCC. Studios also moved into the CBS headquarters at 485 Madison Avenue, on the corner of 52nd Street . The station featured a mix of local interest programming along with dramas, comedies, news, sports, and music programs from CBS's national feed. As time went by, WABC turned more and more to the national programming provided by CBS and its affiliates, and its broadcast day

8906-586: The name to News 10 , with anchors Ken Matz, Renee Chenault and reporter Siani Lee anchoring a special newscast the morning of September 10, 1995, explaining the station's new identity and the affiliation switch. The station's news operation was renamed again, this time to NBC 10 News , beginning with the 11 p.m. newscast on September 11, 2000. On December 10, 2005, WCAU took over production of WPHL-TV (channel 17)'s nightly half-hour 10 p.m. newscast after that station shuttered its in-house news department and laid off its entire news and production staff; this new newscast

9028-518: The new facility on October 21, 2018. However, some technical and other operations, and the base and staging for the station's live news vehicles, will remain in Bala Cynwyd for the time being. From 1965 to 1986, WCAU-TV was the only network-owned station in Philadelphia. As such, it was the only station in the city that did not heavily or moderately preempt network programming. Channel 10 did, however, run an hour of Saturday morning cartoons during

9150-468: The new format and turn the station's low ratings around. The format debuted on August 28, 1967 – although on WCBS-FM , because a small airplane had crashed into and destroyed WCBS's AM antenna tower just a few hours earlier. Its original roster of anchors included Charles Osgood , Ed Bradley , Robert Vaughn and Pat Summerall . Later anchors included veteran newscaster Lou Adler , Jim Donnelly, Harvey Hauptman, Bill Lynch, and Gary Maurer. Initially,

9272-399: The new graphics package officially premiered on July 19 of the same year, beginning with the 11 a.m. newscast (sister Telemundo station WWSI also debuted the same package on that date). On January 22, 2022, WCAU launched a new 24-hour streaming channel made exclusively for NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock , dubbed as "NBC Philadelphia News" featuring the simulcasts and encores of

9394-431: The newscast as Action News at 10 on PHL 17 . From 2001 to 2005, WPPX-TV rebroadcast some of WCAU's newscasts. On November 13, 2008, Fox Television Stations and NBC Local Media entered into an agreement to test a system that would allow Fox-owned stations and NBC-owned stations to pool their news resources ranging from shared video to any aerial video from a helicopter. WCAU and Fox owned-and-operated station WTXF were

9516-497: The newspaper's WPEN radio stations (950 AM), now WKDN , and 98.1 FM, later WCAU-FM and now WOGL . The picture changed dramatically in 1947, when The Philadelphia Record folded. The Bulletin inherited the Record ' s " goodwill ", along with the rights to buy the radio station WCAU (1210 AM, now WPHT ) and the original WCAU-FM (102.9 FM, now WMGK ) from their longtime owners, brothers Isaac and Leon Levy. The Bulletin sold

9638-454: The outlet was known as WABC); and from 1960 to 1966, a period that included a time in which the team was owned by CBS Inc., which purchased a majority interest in the Yankees in 1964. The broadcaster sold the club to a group led by George Steinbrenner in 1973. Until WFAN began broadcasting its all-sports format in 1987, WCBS was the primary outlet for CBS Radio Network coverage of professional sports events, including Major League Baseball and

9760-942: The primary overflow outlet for sister station WFAN (AM) and WFAN-FM 's coverage of the NFL 's New York Giants , the National Basketball Association 's Brooklyn Nets , and the National Hockey League 's New Jersey Devils . When the Mets moved to WCBS, Entercom allowed WFAN to split its AM and FM feeds to accommodate such conflicts—WFAN also broadcasts New York Yankees baseball, which it acquired from WCBS in 2014. The station continued continuous news coverage on its web feed when sports events could not be streamed due to NFL and NBA restrictions. (MLB allowed its local radio partners to stream games once again in 2019 after several years of exclusivity via MLB.com . There are no NHL radio blackouts.) In 2022,

9882-656: The process in 1972, when Godfrey's weekday morning variety show came to an end. The station built a reputation as an all-news powerhouse during the 1970s, and continued with an all-news format until August 2024. Although WINS has usually received the higher Arbitron ratings of the two all-news stations, WCBS typically had the better ratings in the suburbs because of its stronger, non-directional signal, unlike WINS's directional pattern. Its traffic reports and news coverage included more of Long Island and Westchester County than WINS did, and it occasionally allowed room for longer interviews and analysis pieces than WINS. The station

10004-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

10126-541: The programming of WEPN-FM , due to the expiration of GKB's LMA for the station with Emmis Communications . WHSQ, before the end of its all-news programmming, carried a mix of local and ESPN Radio national programming, The station is the flagship of the New York Mets Radio Network ; as the rights are owned by Audacy rather than Good Karma Brands, they are not part of the LMA and the station's advertising

10248-545: The recently formed Federal Radio Commission (FRC) decided that movable stations were too difficult to regulate. On November 11, 1928, WABC and WBOQ were formally consolidated as WABC-WBOQ, and the FRC's General Order 40 moved the combined operation to a "clear channel" frequency of 860 kHz. WABC-WBOQ became a part-time network affiliate of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), which actually wanted

10370-751: The rights to the National Football Conference , where the Eagles play; New World owned a large number of CBS affiliates. Fox jumped into the bidding as well in case New World's bid fell through. However, Viacom , which bought Paramount in mid-1994, opted instead to sell WTXF-TV to Fox, making WTXF-TV a Fox O&O—and hence the new "home" of the Eagles. This led New World to pull out of the bidding war for WCAU as well, effectively handing channel 10 to NBC. While KYW-TV's sister stations in Boston and Baltimore switched to CBS in January 1995,

10492-400: The sole NBC affiliate in the market. WMGM-TV was sold to Univision Communications in 2017 and is now a primary True Crime Network affiliate; it also relays sister station and Univision network O&O WUVP-DT (channel 65) on its third digital subchannel. Channel 10 was originally located at 1622 Chestnut Street in Center City along with its sister radio stations. The building, which

10614-625: The start of the 2010s. In February 2014, WCAU became the second television station in Philadelphia (behind Fox O&O WTXF-TV) to expand its weekday morning newscast to three hours, with addition of a half-hour at 4 am; this newscast was canceled in 2016 but revived on July 31, 2017. In conjunction with this, they switched its music to the "L.A. Groove" theme that has been in use by sister stations KNBC in Los Angeles, KNSD in San Diego, KNTV in San Francisco and by WNBC in New York City (in

10736-442: The station announced a partnership with public broadcasting stations WHYY-FM - TV as part of a larger effort by NBCUniversal to partner with nonprofit news organizations following its acquisition by Comcast. On September 15, 2012, The 10! Show ended its run after ten years. On September 17, 2012, WCAU's midday newscast expanded to one hour. Their morning newscast starts at 4 a.m. Former morning anchor Vai Sikahema may be

10858-467: The station had a curated playlist made available on the streaming service since its April 2020 launch. In March 2023, the station officially announced that Fred Shropshire, an anchor with WCNC-TV in Charlotte , had been hired to take over the 6, 7 and 11 p.m. anchor spots left open due to Rosenfeld's departure. However, he would not begin at the station until July 4 co-hosting the station's coverage of

10980-653: The station locally owned. Comcast bought the other 49% in early 2013. In March 2013, NBCUniversal announced that it would buy Telemundo affiliate WWSI from ZGS Communications for $ 20 million, giving WCAU a duopoly partner, as with several other NBC O&Os. The sale was completed on June 2 of that year. In August 2012, NBC Owned Stations Group rebranded channel 10, to reflect the Look F package. On February 14, 2014, WCAU, along with nearby NBC affiliate WBAL-TV in Baltimore, began to be shown on Comcast cable systems in

11102-559: The station moved to the frequency it occupied until it shut down permanently, 880 kHz. On September 8, 1946, the call sign of a station in Springfield, Illinois, was changed from WCBS to WCVS . This allowed WABC in New York to change to WCBS on November 2, 1946, to identify more closely with its parent network, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). It also helped avoid confusion with the rival network of

11224-421: The station ran news only during drive time periods, and maintained an MOR format during midday and overnight hours. Within a couple of years, it expanded all-news programming to much of the broadcast day, still excepting overnights. "Newsradio 88" began its transformation into an all-news format in 1970, when the overnight American Airlines -sponsored Music Till Dawn ended in January of that year, and completed

11346-478: The station seeing a new low in the Nielsen Audio market ratings with just a 1.5 in the June 2024 books, a cume of 679,400 people (significantly behind WINS' 1,538,800), and the station ranking 24th place in the 25-54 demographic ratings, far behind WINS' ranking of 11th place (and a steep drop from 2022, when WCBS ranked 18th, just one spot behind WINS). On August 12, 2024, Audacy announced that it would end

11468-644: The station would change its call letters to WHSQ. Good Karma Brands had been operating WEPN-FM under an LMA with its owner Emmis Communications , and did not plan to renew its contract when it expired at the end of August 2024. The station produced a three-hour retrospective special, WCBS 880 News: The People, the Moments, and the Events that Shaped our Lives , highlighting the history of WCBS and featuring appearances by station alumni. The station formally ended its news format at 12:01 a.m. on August 26, 2024, preceded by

11590-587: The station would drop its NBC affiliation and shut down its news operation on January 1 , 2015, presumably due to WCAU claiming market exclusivity (Atlantic City is part of the Philadelphia market). Following an hour-long documentary focusing on the station's history and staff entitled NewsCenter 40: The Stories Behind the Station , WMGM-TV then began carrying programs from the Soul of the South network, while WCAU became

11712-492: The station's branding; in January 1995, the longtime moniker of Channel 10 News was eliminated in favor of NewsCenter 10 , which coincided with the debut of a reconstructed newsroom facility. During this time, new cuts of the Palmer News Package were used alongside an aqua blue and purple graphical package, and a black-and-white logo with no references to any network affiliation. After the sale closed, NBC changed

11834-567: The station's most recognizable current personality. A former Philadelphia Eagle, Sikahema is one of several former NFL stars who have gone on to become sports news anchors (other notable examples include Jim Hill of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and Len Dawson of KMBC-TV in Kansas City ). While Sikahema anchored the sportscasts on WCAU-TV weeknights, on-air personalities from NBC Sports Philadelphia have anchored sports on weekends in recent years, owing to Comcast owning NBC through NBCUniversal since

11956-405: The station's newscasts as well as the station's original content made for the channel. The new streaming channel comes following the announcement they would have a simultaneous rollout of streaming news channels with its sister stations in Chicago, Miami and Boston beginning on that date, with channels in New York and Los Angeles followed suit on March 17. Prior to the launch of the streaming channel,

12078-485: The station. WCAU, as both a CBS and NBC station, has also aired Philadelphia's pro sports teams through their network coverage as well. On January 2, 2014, Comcast and the Philadelphia Phillies announced a 25-year, $ 2.5 billion TV contract, including WCAU and Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (now NBC Sports Philadelphia ); although it averaged $ 100 million a year, it was structured to begin below

12200-478: The struggling network. The Levy brothers were shareholders and directors at CBS for many years. Due to this long relationship, channel 10 signed on as CBS's third television affiliate. In the late 1950s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed northern Delaware , South Jersey , and the Lehigh Valley into the Philadelphia market. The Bulletin realized that channel 10's original tower, atop

12322-605: The swap was delayed in Philadelphia when CBS discovered that an outright sale of channel 10 would have forced it to pay capital gains taxes on the proceeds from the deal. To solve this problem, CBS, NBC and Group W entered into a complex ownership and affiliation deal in November 1994. To make the deal for WCAU an even trade, NBC transferred KCNC-TV in Denver and KUTV in Salt Lake City (a station that NBC had only acquired earlier that year) to CBS in exchange; additionally,

12444-426: The switch a year later. The programming shift was a gradual one just as it had been at WCBS, with the stations running all-news most of the day while some local and network non-news programming remained at first. KMOX, which had been programming a talk radio format for several years was left unaffected, though it would later evolve into a news/talk station. In Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, CBS-owned stations had

12566-581: The team's appearance in the 2001 NBA Finals ). Since then, 76ers games was moved to ABC (WPVI locally) and ESPN . During its run as a CBS station, all 76ers games that were broadcast as part of that network's NBA broadcast contract from 1973 to 1990 aired on channel 10, including the team's victory in the 1983 NBA Finals . In 2015, WCAU assumed the local English broadcast rights of the Blue Cross Broad Street Run , held every first Sunday of May, taking over from ABC O&O WPVI after

12688-440: The two stations were differentiated in their style and extent of coverage. In 2017, CBS Radio would merge with Entercom (now Audacy), ending the ownership of WCBS by CBS. In 2022, WCBS began to combine its operations with WINS. In August 2024, Audacy announced that it would end WCBS's all-news format after 57 years, and enter into an LMA with Good Karma Brands to operate the station under a sports format; in particular, it subsumed

12810-522: The variety show Arthur Godfrey Time remained a weekday mid-morning staple. Eventually, WCBS gained a foothold in local news coverage (WOR and WNEW's strengths), bolstered by its standing as CBS's flagship radio station. During the 1960s, CBS chairman William S. Paley , concerned about the station's low ratings, started a process that led to the creation of a news radio format that would become known as "Newsradio 88". Paley hired Clark B. George, then vice-president and general manager of WCBS-TV , to create

12932-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

13054-567: Was a pioneering station in New York, and was one of the first commercial radio stations to broadcast from remote locations including horse races and yachting events. In December 1926, WABC, a station located in Asheville, North Carolina, changed its call sign to WWNC . Grebe took advantage of this to modify his station's call sign to one that reflected a change in ownership to the Atlantic Broadcasting Company, and it

13176-511: Was a repeat of Walker, Texas Ranger , which began at 10 p.m. on September 9, 1995. Although the radio stations had dropped the WCAU calls some years before, NBC dropped the -TV suffix from channel 10's callsign soon after it assumed control. In January 2011, the Philadelphia-based cable and media company Comcast acquired a 51% majority stake in WCAU's parent company, by then known as NBC Universal, which effectively makes

13298-561: Was also revealed that previous 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. anchor team Keith Jones and Erin Coleman would take over the anchoring duties for the morning show. Sikahema and Davidson's last day anchoring the broadcast was on September 17, 2020, with Jones and Coleman taking over the next day. On December 23, 2022, Jim Rosenfield left NBC10 after nine years at the station to head home to New York and pursue other opportunities. In July 2021, WCAU testing its "Look S" graphics package in their sponsor plugs; but

13420-520: Was announced that on December 17 "the new super power 5 kW station WABC, formerly WAHG, took to the air... from 113 West 57th St." debuting with a "gala concert". On March 26, 1925, a second station, WBOQ, standing for "Borough of Queens", had been licensed to A. H. Grebe & Company on 1270 kHz. Grebe's Atlantic Broadcasting Company eventually was licensed for four New York City-area stations: WABC, WBOQ, plus portable stations WGMU and WRMU. The two portable stations were deleted on July 31, 1928, after

13542-481: Was called WB 17 News at 10, Powered by NBC 10 . On July 25, 2006, the program was renamed My PHL 17 News, Powered by NBC 10 to correspond with WPHL's then-pending switch to MyNetworkTV. This newscast competed with the 10 p.m. newscasts on WTXF (channel 29, which is produced in-house) and WPSG (channel 57, which is produced by KYW-TV). On September 14, 2012, WCAU produced its final edition of WPHL's newscast. The next day WPVI officially took over production and rebranded

13664-601: Was given the rights to use the brand and trademarks for WCBS along with sister stations WCBS-FM, KCBS (AM) in San Francisco, and KCBS-FM in Los Angeles for a 20-year period after which Entercom (or succeeding entity) would be required to relinquish using those call-letters. Before the merger with Entercom, CBS Radio operated nine of the country's largest all-news radio stations: WCBS, WINS, KNX, WBBM, KYW, KCBS, WBZ in Boston , WWJ in Detroit, and KRLD in Dallas . (As part of

13786-425: Was hosted by Bob Hall and sponsored by American Airlines . During this time WCBS featured well-known personalities including Arthur Godfrey , future CBS News President Bill Leonard , author Emily Kimbrough , and folk singer Oscar Brand . In the 1950s, one of the stations daytime hosts, John Henry Faulk , was part of an anti-blacklisting wing (including CBS newsman Charles Collingwood ) that assumed leadership of

13908-523: Was influenced by CBS's growing interest in news programming. In 1939, the broadcasting operations were moved across 52nd Street from the headquarters to the new CBS Studio Building . On June 15, 1940, the generally unused WBOQ call sign was eliminated from the station's dual call signs, and it became just WABC. In 1941, due to the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA),

14030-443: Was less tightly formatted than WINS, and formatted at half-hour cycles instead of 20-minute cycles. Also unlike WINS, WCBS did not change anchors every thirty minutes during its daily schedule. Instead, each solo anchor or anchor team on weekdays had a set shift from 5   a.m. until 8   p.m., with two anchors switching every one or two hours after that. On weekends, anchors also alternated every hour. WCBS's switch to all-news

14152-573: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, now houses Institute of Contemporary Art . In 1952, WCAU-AM-FM-TV moved to a new facility in the Main Line suburb of Bala Cynwyd . The studio, located on Monument Road at City Avenue, was a state-of-the-art television center, and the first building in the nation to be constructed specifically for mainly television productions, though WCAU's radio stations were also based out of

14274-428: Was reluctant to include KYW-TV in the deal since it had been a very distant third in the Philadelphia ratings for more than a decade. In contrast, WCAU was a solid runner-up to ABC -owned station WPVI-TV (channel 6). Ultimately, CBS decided to affiliate with channel 3 and sell channel 10, ending a 47-year relationship (including 37 years of ownership) with the station. NBC and New World Communications then emerged as

14396-607: Was the first move in CBS Radio's long-term plans to convert its group of AM stations to some form of news programming. Along with WCBS, the group was then composed of KNX in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, WCAU in Philadelphia , KMOX in St. Louis , WEEI in Boston , and KCBS in San Francisco. Once WCBS had been established in the format, CBS began to work on the rest of its AM outlets. KCBS, KNX, and WBBM all transitioned in 1968. WEEI adopted an all-news format in 1974, and WCAU made

14518-416: Was the ratings leader in Philadelphia for most of the time from the late 1940s until the 1960s, when it was surpassed by KYW-TV's Eyewitness News . The station then remained a strong second until the 1970s, when WPVI-TV's Action News bumped channel 10 down to third place. WCAU struggled through the late 1970s while most of its CBS sister stations dominated the ratings, but has since recovered and has been

14640-414: Was the station's news director from 1948 until he left the station in the early 1960s. John Facenda , who later gained fame as the voice of NFL Films , was the station's main anchorman from shortly after it signed on until 1973. At the time he retired, he had been a main anchor longer than anyone in Philadelphia; he has since been passed by WPVI's Jim Gardner . Soon after joining the station, Facenda sold

14762-519: Was tipped off to Faulk's plight by Carl Sandburg . According to Murrow biographer Joe Persico, Murrow gave Faulk the money he needed to retain Nizer as his lawyer. Faulk finally won the case in 1963, in the meantime becoming a popular radio personality in his native Texas, and later, a national television personality as a regular in the cast of the country music/humor variety show Hee Haw . WCBS fired Faulk because of declining ratings while he waited for

14884-552: Was with the station from 1979 until 2024, when the station ended all-news programming. WCBS's promotional work was the inspiration for the title of the Fountains of Wayne album Traffic and Weather , according to an interview the New Jersey–based band gave to the station. In 2019 , WCBS became the new flagship station for Major League Baseball 's New York Mets , succeeding WOR. For several years prior, WCBS had served as

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