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107-680: The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of over-the-air television stations , and on select cable television providers through a local affiliate of the network and IPTV . Antenna TV broadcasts 24 hours a day in either 480i standard definition or 720p high definition depending on market. Tribune Broadcasting announced the formation of Antenna TV on August 30, 2010, with television stations owned by Tribune and Local TV LLC (an Oak Hill Capital Partners -controlled holding company that Tribune had been co-managing since 2008, in an agreement that remained in place until Tribune completed its outright acquisition of

214-607: A digital subchannel as a secondary. Throughout the station's three of its first four decades on the air, WPHL had a tremendous professional sports presence—at various points holding the broadcast rights to the Phillies (1971–82 and 1993–98, and through the production of Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia–now NBC Sports Philadelphia –from 2009 to 2013; as of 2014 , WPHL airs overflow Phillies games when both NBC Sports Philadelphia and primary overflow outlet NBC Sports Philadelphia+ are carrying other games and present over-the-air carrier WCAU

321-750: A broadcast partner of either sports syndication service, some of its stations (notably among them, WHNT-TV in Huntsville, Alabama and WOAI-TV in San Antonio ) preempt programming carried by the network in order to carry college sports events produced by either the Raycom Sports -operated ACC Network or the Sinclair-owned American Sports Network / Stadium . While these preemptions typically occur on Saturday afternoons, in many instances, such stations may preempt certain programs aired within

428-542: A consortium headed by attorney Aaron Jerome Katz and two real estate men. The station returned to the air on January 31, only to go dark again on June 14, when an application for the sale of channel 17 was finally filed with the Federal Communications Commission . The station's cameras were lent to WHYY-TV , the new public television station in Wilmington, Delaware , to allow that station to operate before

535-644: A different programming strategy geared towards adults, gradually dropping children's programming and cartoons . It focused more on movies, off-network drama series, recent off-network sitcoms and sports. The station also aired several hours of religious programming each day. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, WPHL was known on-air as "The Great Entertainer," with voiceovers provided by announcer 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

642-493: A lower bit rate adequate for multiplexing of up to three subchannels, while the main channels of CBS, NBC and CW stations are usually transmitted in the higher resolution 1080i format, which before advances in multiplexer technology, utilized a larger bit rate size that was more susceptible to causing pixelation of multiple subchannels). However, not all of the charter affiliates added Antenna TV at its launch either to allow stations to reconfigure their bandwidth or to assure

749-471: A morning news program concept by Tribune Broadcasting that originally debuted in May 2011 on Houston sister station KIAH , featuring a mix of news, lifestyle, entertainment and opinion segments. Local news, weather, and traffic segments are featured along with local reports presented by five multimedia journalists; however, much of EyeOpener (which was previously produced at Tribune Company's Chicago headquarters)

856-445: A multi-year agreement with Carson Entertainment , marking the first time that full episodes from that era of The Tonight Show would be shown on television (outside of excerpts aired as part of the clip series Carson's Comedy Classics ) since his retirement in May 1992. The broadcasts – which began airing on January 1, 2016 under the network-substituted title Johnny Carson , as NBC holds ownership of The Tonight Show title and

963-623: A new digital broadcast network, Rewind TV , focusing on sitcoms from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, serving as a complementary sister network to and incorporating programming from that timespan that were previously shown on Antenna TV. Rewind TV began operations on September 1, 2021, with Nexstar Media as the launch station group, making the network available to 50 million households in the United States. Media market A media market , broadcast market , media region , designated market area (DMA) , television market area , or simply market

1070-558: A newly created network, The CW . Concurrent with the announcement, it signed a ten-year affiliation agreement with 16 of Tribune's 19 WB-affiliated stations. However, in the case of Philadelphia, The CW's affiliation went to the city's UPN station, CBS-owned WPSG (which was part of an affiliation deal with 11 of CBS' UPN stations). It would not have been an upset had WPHL been chosen as the area's CW affiliate, however. The network's officials were on record as preferring The WB and UPN's "strongest" stations for their new network, and Philadelphia

1177-584: A schedule revamp in January 2015; the Antenna TV Theater block – which by that point, had been relegated to Saturday and Sunday mornings – ended on December 27, 2015, preceding a similar revamp that occurred six days later on January 1, 2016. Movies returned to the lineup in May 2016 as part of a marathon on racing films. As of February 2016, Antenna TV has current or pending affiliation agreements with television stations in 133 media markets (including 48 of

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1284-403: A scheduled donation of equipment could be transferred and the station's own equipment did not function properly. The Philadelphia Television Broadcasting Company, headed by Katz and advertising executive Len Stevens, was approved to purchase the station in mid-1964. After receiving approval to boost its effective radiated power from 12,000 to 626,000 watts, the new owners returned channel 17 to

1391-456: A syndication afterlife. Drama series, which occupied a limited amount of the network's schedule for the first few months on the air, later expanded with an October 2011 programming realignment, with crime drama, mystery and suspense programs airing in an evening block on Saturdays, which included It Takes a Thief , Adam-12 , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , S.W.A.T. and Kraft Suspense Theatre ; some of these programs are also aired during

1498-523: Is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content. They can coincide with or overlap with one or more metropolitan areas , though rural regions with few significant population centers can also be designated as markets. Conversely, very large metropolitan areas can sometimes be subdivided into multiple segments. Market regions may overlap, meaning that people residing on

1605-530: Is available on Cablevision 's analog service on its systems in Ocean and Monmouth counties. On Comcast in Ocean and southern Middlesex counties, WPHL is available in standard definition on digital cable 255. Comcast had carried the station on analog channel 17 until February 2008, when it was moved to digital only to "preserve bandwidth". Comcast added WPHL's HD signal to its lineups in Ocean and Southern Middlesex counties,

1712-401: Is ill-suited for digital broadcasting. In these cases, the outlying areas of a TMA may only be served by cable and satellite, or perhaps by small translators . (There are some cases, such as that of Olean, New York , where a sizable number of independent stations operate, but none carry any major network affiliation unless they operate as translators. Because of this, Olean is considered part of

1819-684: Is interrupted for four hours on Christmas morning by its broadcast of the Yule Log (a filmed loop of logs burning inside a fireplace at Gracie Mansion set to a soundtrack of Christmas music, which first aired on co-owned New York City affiliate WPIX in December 1966). Since the network began carrying most of the surviving episodes of the Johnny Carson run of The Tonight Show to its schedule in January 2016, many of these marathons have been followed by Tonight Show episodes featuring guests who starred in

1926-548: Is pre-produced at the studios of Dallas – Fort Worth sister station KDAF and is also distributed on Tribune-owned stations in three other markets that provide their own localized content. The WCAU-produced 10 p.m. newscast ended on September 14, 2012, with WPHL entering into a new agreement with ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI-TV to produce Action News at 10 on PHL17 . The newscast's weekday editions are currently anchored by Sharrie Williams and Gray Hall. Williams became sole anchor on January 12, 2022, when her co-anchor of

2033-632: Is preoccupied by NBC network commitments), the Flyers (1991–98) and the 76ers (1982–95), as well as covering local college basketball and football , with games featuring teams from the Philadelphia Big 5 ( La Salle Explorers , Penn Quakers , Saint Joseph's Hawks , Temple Owls and Villanova Wildcats ). After the station joined The WB, it released many of its sports contracts in order to concentrate on its network programming obligations. The station aired syndicated college football and basketball games from

2140-486: Is the first in-house newscast since the closure of its former news department at the end of 2005. The station's news studio was rebuilt, and the tri-caster formerly used was replaced with switchers, along with other equipment. The team then began producing independent news reports for the Delaware Valley. On October 22, 2018, PHL17 Morning News expanded to a three-hour newscast from 5 to 8 a.m., when Eye Opener , which

2247-582: Is the third ABC owned-and-operated station involved in a news share agreement, following KGO-TV in San Francisco (which produces independent station KOFY-TV's 9 p.m. newscast) and WTVD in Durham (which produced CW affiliate WLFL 's 10 p.m. newscast until June 27, 2022 ) and was later joined in 2014 by KABC-TV in Los Angeles (which produces independent station KDOC-TV 's 7 p.m. newscast). On September 8, 2014,

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2354-500: Is used by advertisers to determine how to reach a specific audience . In countries such as the United States, media regions are defined by a privately held institution without government status; in countries such as the United Kingdom , government-run television stations map their own regions. A Television Market Area ( TMA ) is a group of counties in the United States covered by a specific group of television stations . The term

2461-583: Is used by the U.S. Government's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate broadcast, cable, and satellite transmissions, according to the Code of Federal Regulations , at 47 CFR § 76.51 and FCC.gov. The TMAs not only have full control over local broadcasts, but also delineate which channels will be received by satellite or cable subscribers ( "must-carry" rules ). These market areas can also be used to define restrictions on rebroadcasting of broadcast television signals. Generally speaking, only stations within

2568-494: The 2018 FIFA World Cup and Thursday Night Football pre-empting regularly scheduled newscasts on the main channel. In March 2020, new owner Nexstar Media Group brought the network to markets in which it owned stations that did not already have a pre-existing affiliate at the time of their purchase of Tribune. At the start of the fall of 2020, it began to wind down contracts with direct competitors MeTV and COZI TV on their existing stations to increase carriage of Antenna TV,

2675-810: The 2022 season , WPHL and WPVI shared local broadcast rights to the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer , with WPVI producing the telecasts. The contract ended when MLS terminated all regional television deals, replacing them with one single Apple TV+ contract. As of the 2018–2019 season , WPHL covers the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League , carrying all home games and select away games. In 1994, WPHL entered into an agreement with local daily newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer to broadcast an Inquirer -branded prime time news program. The half-hour Inquirer News Tonight

2782-678: The Buffalo, New York market despite none of that city's major signals reaching the city from 70 miles [110 km] away.) Conversely, a geographically small market such as Erie, Pennsylvania may have stations where their signal spills well over into neighboring TMAs (most of Chautauqua County, New York , is closer to Erie than Buffalo, but the county is also located within the Buffalo DMA). Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) also maintained similar areas for television ratings, each called an "area of dominant influence" (ADI), which were first created in 1966. For

2889-666: The NBCUniversal Syndication Studios and Disney Media Distribution 's 20th Television libraries with competing Weigel Broadcasting -owned digital broadcast network and primary rightsholder MeTV (with Antenna TV gaining access to Universal's program library in the fall of 2011, after those shows were removed from the Retro Television Network , and access to 20th Television's library via its April 2012 acquisition of WKRP in Cincinnati with other series from

2996-723: The NFL 's Philadelphia Eagles . Also, it usually wins the rights to air one or two regular season Eagles games on Monday or Thursday nights due to the NFL's anti-siphoning rule requiring games airing on cable to be available on an over-the-air station in each team's home market; by rule, the NFL sells syndication rights of local teams' games. The station's news partner, WPVI-TV, has the right of first refusal on Monday night games due to its parent company ( Disney ) being majority owner in ESPN, but generally defers to standard ABC programming. From 2018 season until

3103-545: The Sinclair Broadcast Group and partner companies Deerfield Media , Cunningham Broadcasting , Howard Stirk Holdings , Tegna Inc. , Red River Broadcasting and Media General to add Antenna TV to stations in 26 markets (including many large and mid-sized markets where the network did not previously have an affiliate, including Pittsburgh ; Baltimore ; Nashville, Tennessee ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Green Bay, Wisconsin and Savannah, Georgia ). On January 6, 2016,

3210-590: The Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group film library (including Columbia Pictures , TriStar Pictures , Sony Pictures Classics , Screen Gems , Triumph Films , and the television rights to the Embassy Pictures library). The film roster did not concentrate on films from any specific era, meaning any film from the 1930s to as late as the early 2000s could be featured on the network's schedule, although from 2014 to 2015,

3317-575: The Tribune Company . On November 2, 1993, Tribune and the Warner Bros. Television division of Time Warner announced the formation of The WB Television Network . Due to the company's minority interest in the network (initially 12.5%, before expanding to 22%), Tribune chose to affiliate the majority of its independent stations with the upstart network, resulting in WPHL-TV becoming a network affiliate for

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3424-519: The USA Network called Dance Party USA , whose host, Dave Raymond, was better known as the Phillie Phanatic mascot seen during Phillies games. Those shows marked the on-air debut of a young girl from nearby Voorhees, New Jersey , named Kelly Ripa . In the summer of 1982, WKBS went on the market after its owner, Field Communications , decided to exit broadcasting. The Providence Journal Company

3531-600: The United States , radio markets are generally a bit smaller than their television counterparts, as broadcast power restrictions are stricter for radio than TV, and TV reaches further via cable. AM band and FM band radio ratings are sometimes separated, as are broadcast and cable television ratings. Market researchers also subdivide ratings demographically between different age groups, genders , and ethnic backgrounds, as well as psychographically between income levels and other non-physical factors. This information

3638-466: The WB 17 News at Ten in late 1996. Even after WPHL took its newscast in-house, it still remained far behind WTXF in the ratings. In the fall of 2005, WPHL announced that its news department would be shut down; the final 10 p.m. newscast produced by WPHL aired on December 9, 2005. The following day, production of the 10 p.m. newscast was turned over to NBC O&O WCAU through a news share agreement. This newscast

3745-534: The Wynnefield section of West Philadelphia ; it maintains a channel sharing agreement with Vineland, New Jersey –licensed Univision station WUVP-DT (channel 65), under which the two stations transmit using WPHL-TV's spectrum from a tower in the Roxborough antenna farm . Radio station WKDN of Camden, New Jersey , received a construction permit for channel 17 as WKDN-TV on January 27, 1954. After not building

3852-482: The monochrome era of the 1950s and early 1960s, a Sunday prime time lineup of sitcoms from the 1990s, and a weeknight prime time lineup of comedies from the 1970s; with the exception of the black-and-white program block (which was reduced to once a week and moved to Friday nights, where it remained – except for a brief sabbatical from January to April 2013 – until being dropped completely in November of that same year) and

3959-535: The syndication arm of ESPN involving the Mid-American Conference (football, owing to Temple being a football-only member of the league) and Big East Conference (basketball) until 2009, when WPVI took over rights. WPHL also aired Big Ten Conference games (owing to Penn State 's large fan base in the area) until the creation of the Big Ten Network on cable in 2007. WPHL has aired preseason games of

4066-505: 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 (the Antenna TV subchannel the station currently carries is branded with a modified version of their 1970s/80s "Great Entertainer" logo). The new owners restored some cartoons to the schedule. In 1991, the Taft group sold channel 17 to

4173-522: The 1950s to the early 2000s and (as of January 2018) includes shows such as Murphy Brown ; Newhart ; Wings ; My Two Dads ; Family Ties ; Sabrina the Teenage Witch ; Growing Pains ; I Dream of Jeannie ; Bewitched ; The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ; Mr. Belvedere ; Head of the Class ; Mork & Mindy ; The Hogan Family ; and Silver Spoons . While several series on

4280-455: The 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s over to its new spinoff/sister network Rewind TV , while (primarily) focusing itself on shows from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. From the network's launch in January 2011 until May 2016, Antenna TV aired feature films under the umbrella title Antenna TV Theater . In addition to access to television series owned by Sony Pictures Television, the agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment also included access to movies from

4387-465: The 1993–1994 television season, there were 209 ADIs in the continental United States. Arbitron stopped offering a television ratings service in late 1993. Nielsen Audio (previously Arbitron) maintains smaller areas for radio stations ; each is called an Arbitron Radio Metro . Whereas a typical TMA may cover ten counties, an Arbitron market generally covers two to four, and a TMA may contain two to four separate Radio Metros. There are 302 Radio Metros in

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4494-420: The 5 p.m. newscast on WPVI, Rick Williams (no relation), was promoted to anchor of the 11 p.m. newscast, replacing long-time anchor Jim Gardner . Gardner stepped down from the broadcast after 45 years to begin a semi-retirement in which he would only anchor the 6 p.m. newscast, fully retiring from WPVI on December 21 after anchoring his final 6 p.m. newscast and handing over to his successor Brian Taff, who started

4601-500: The 50 largest markets) encompassing 43 states and the Washington, D.C. , covering 88% of the United States. The network is offered to prospective affiliates on a barter basis, an agreement in which the station will get the programming at little or no cost in exchange for giving a certain amount of commercial time to the network. Despite this arrangement, some larger television markets without stations owned by Tribune did not affiliate with

4708-479: The Antenna TV affiliation went to digital subchannels of Local TV-owned Fox affiliates KDVR and KTVI , rather than on Tribune-owned The CW affiliates KWGN-TV and KPLR-TV – which were operated alongside KDVR and KTVI under local marketing agreements – in order to address bandwidth concerns as the two Tribune outlets already maintained subchannels carrying This TV (ABC, Fox, and MyNetworkTV stations transmit their main signals by default in 720p , which provides

4815-583: The CW affiliation held by WJZY when the latter switched to Fox on July 1, 2013) began carrying Antenna TV on digital subchannel 18.2 on August 15 of that year. WSTR-TV in Cincinnati added the network on January 1, 2016, displacing GetTV on its 64.2 subchannel, one month after the network terminated its affiliation with low-power outlet WOTH-CD 2 to expand its coverage within the market. On November 17, 2015, Tribune announced that it had signed affiliation agreements with

4922-553: The Johnny Carson-era Tonight Show episodes in part behind the newfound interest from affiliates, which helped its station portfolio gain ground with competitor MeTV (which has the most affiliates of any American digital multicast network). As a result of these and other agreements stemming from the Carson acquisition, by August 2016, the network had expanded its reach to 86% of U.S. households. Individual programs aired by

5029-496: The KXNW purchase due to existing syndicated programming rights held by CBS -affiliated sister KFSM-TV for its MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel (which now acts as a KXNW simulcast) and the station's main signal being transmitted in 1080i, which precluded a launch of a third subchannel without affecting picture quality. Some affiliates (such as KTLA in Los Angeles ) aired preview blocks of Antenna TV programming on their primary channel in

5136-585: The Providence Journal Company sold WPHL-TV to a consortium headed by Dudley S. Taft, a third-generation broadcaster from Cincinnati . 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 Taft's former Philadelphia station, WTAF-TV (which Taft had sold to TVX Broadcast Group in early 1987), including general manager Randy Smith. The new ownership scrapped

5243-581: The Saturday night drama block (which was reduced to Saturday evenings only, and was later replaced by movies in September 2013), most of these blocks were dropped on March 26, 2012. Antenna TV's program schedule relies on the extensive library of films and television programming currently owned by Sony Pictures , which comprises more than 270 television series and over 4,000 films. The network maintains an Eastern Time Zone schedule, with individual programs airing at

5350-576: The United States, but not all areas of the country are covered. In 2009, Nielsen began offering radio ratings in competition with Arbitron, starting in those markets ranked 101st and smaller. WPHL-TV WPHL-TV (channel 17) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW . The station also maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV . Owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group , WPHL-TV has studios in

5457-546: The affiliate station has used as part of their main branding in the past (for example, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia uses a variant of the logo it used from 1976 to 1987, under the brand "Channel 17, The Great Entertainer"). The network's original continuity announcer was Gary Owens , who served in that capacity until his death on February 12, 2015, although promos that he voiced beforehand continued to air until that September. John B. Wells also provided promotional continuity from November 2011 to July 2015. Shadoe Stevens became

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5564-579: The affiliated subchannel's carriage on cable providers when the network launched locally. Fox affiliate KSTU in Salt Lake City , NBC affiliate WHO-DT in Des Moines, Iowa (both owned by Local TV at the time) and CW affiliate WDCW in Washington, D.C. (owned by Tribune) debuted the network on their digital subchannels later during January 2011; while NBC affiliate KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City did not add

5671-822: The air on September 17, 1965, as independent station WPHL-TV. It was the third UHF independent to sign-on in Philadelphia that year, two and a half weeks after WKBS-TV (channel 48) and four months after WIBF-TV (channel 29, later WTAF and now WTXF-TV ). After merging with U.S. Communications Corporation in 1967 WPHL-TV became the flagship station for their station group. U.S. Communications also operated WATL in Atlanta , WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh , WXIX-TV in Cincinnati and KEMO-TV (now KOFY-TV ) in San Francisco . The station produced and aired numerous local television shows over

5778-657: The assumption of $ 2.7 billion in Tribune debt. The deal received significant scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for hearing and leading Tribune to terminate the deal and sue Sinclair for breach of contract . Following the Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Media Group of Irving, Texas , announced its purchase of Tribune Media on December 3, 2018, for $ 6.4 billion in cash and debt. The sale

5885-749: The borough of Roosevelt in Monmouth County and Lambertville in Hunterdon County on August 22, 2012, on digital channel 907. The station was removed from Comcast's Central New Jersey systems altogether on June 26, 2019, due to Fox invoking exclusivity, only allowing MyNetworkTV O&O WWOR-TV to be carried on those systems. After the station swtched to The CW in 2023, it returned to the Central Jersey Comcast lineups. WPHL's Antenna TV, This TV (both were already carried as subchannels of WPIX) and Tango Traffic (now GeoTraffic) subchannels were added to

5992-436: The center of the market region. However, geography and the fact that some metropolitan areas have large cities separated by some distance can make markets have unusual shapes and result in two, three, or more names being used to identify a single region (such as Wichita – Hutchinson, Kansas ; Chico – Redding, California ; Albany – Schenectady – Troy, New York ; and Harrisburg – Lebanon – Lancaster – York, Pennsylvania ). In

6099-429: The day that the new service was launched, September 5, 2006. As a result, it did not air the final two weeks of The WB's programming. On October 4, 2010, the station removed the "My" portion of the branding as many affiliates of the network began dropping references to MyNetworkTV due to it becoming more of a prime time programming service than a true television network. WPHL retains the multi-shaded 'blue TV' component of

6206-423: The decade of their original broadcast; it included a weekday afternoon block of sitcoms from the 1950s, a weekend afternoon block of 1960s sitcoms (including the early 1970s sitcom, The Partridge Family ), a Saturday night lineup of drama series (a genre of television programs which had previously aired on the network in very limited form on Sunday mornings only), an overnight block of classic television series from

6313-414: The edge of one media market may be able to receive content from other nearby markets. They are widely used in audience measurements , which are compiled in the United States by Nielsen Media Research . Nielsen has measured both television and radio audiences since its acquisition of Arbitron , which was completed in September 2013. Markets are identified by the largest city, which is usually located in

6420-556: The episodes air (depending on the quarterly schedule, partially or wholly) opposite the current edition of Tonight in much of the United States – consist of episodes that originally aired from 1972 to 1992; episodes produced after September 1980 that ran 60 minutes in length (per a clause in Carson's renegotiated contract with NBC that reduced the running time of Tonight by a half-hour) air weeknights, while 90-minute episodes produced before September 1980 air on weekends. In 2021, Antenna TV would slide its non-Carson library of shows from

6527-609: The facility, the station sold the permit to the Young People's Church of the Air, owned by Percy Crawford , for $ 40,000 in February 1959. The call letters were changed to WPCA-TV, reflecting both his initials and the name of his long-running broadcast ministry; the city of license was changed from Camden to Philadelphia in March 1960. Promising a lineup of religious programs and family entertainment,

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6634-541: The featured marathon program. The acquisition also resulted in the network running fewer marathons that run into the late prime time and overnight hours (among the few exceptions was 2017's "All of All in the Family Marathon," a five-day-long, Thanksgiving weekend stunt of all 205 All in the Family episodes [commemorating the show's then-pending departure from Antenna TV], which included Carson episodes featuring stars of

6741-661: The first of which was WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York . The group also began to disallow MeTV personalities such as Svengoolie from appearing on their stations in Chicago ( WGN-TV and WGN ). In July 2016, Tribune was considering, with the network's success, adding a sister network which would take shows that draw older audiences, in an arrangement that proposed refocusing Antenna TV around shows targeting younger audiences. By April 26, 2021, this idea had evolved and Nexstar Media, successor to Tribune Broadcasting, announced that it would launch

6848-501: The first time in its history upon The WB's January 11, 1995, debut. In September of that year, the station changed its on-air identity to "WB 17". For most of The WB's run, WPHL was one of the network's strongest affiliates. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation (which split from Viacom in December 2005) and Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment (the division that operated The WB) announced that they would dissolve UPN and The WB and merge both networks' stronger programming onto

6955-526: The former as guests that aired in Carson ' s network-designated timeslots between the nighttime blocks of AITF episodes). The network also marks the occurrence of an actor's recent death (either an established or character actor ) with an "in memoriam" bumper shown during breaks between certain programs, and an occasional afternoon-long marathon showcasing episodes of that artist's television series roles – either guest appearances, episodes of series in which

7062-512: The group in December 2013) serving as its initial charter affiliates; Tribune originally intended to launch the network on January 3, 2011, but executives later chose to push the date of its debut two days ahead of schedule. Antenna TV was launched on January 1, 2011, at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone (the late evening of December 31, 2010, in other U.S. time zones), initially debuting on seventeen Tribune-owned stations and thirteen stations owned by Local TV. The first program to air on Antenna TV

7169-482: The lead-up to the launch date. In the wake of Universal Sports converting from a digital broadcast to a cable and satellite service on January 1, 2012, most stations affiliated with that network signed affiliation agreements with Antenna TV (or MeTV) to serve as a replacement. To date, Antenna TV has had three instances of switching affiliates in the same market. In Honolulu , Hawaii , the network moved from charter affiliate KUPU (one of only two stations that carried

7276-535: The library being added in January 2015) and rights to select program titles from Warner Bros. Television Distribution , and MGM Television (which includes series produced by Filmways and United Artists Television , but does not include content owned by its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer prior to the 1986 acquisition of films and television programs produced directly by MGM by Ted Turner ) with Antenna TV sister network This TV. The network's series programming primarily covers sitcoms – along with some select drama series – from

7383-483: The location of an A&P supermarket. The station offered a schedule of off-network drama series , sitcoms , old movies , sports and religious programs. It also ran NBC and ABC programs that KYW-TV (channel 3, now a CBS owned-and-operated station) and WPVI-TV (channel 6) had respectively preempted until the fall of 1976, and again from the fall of 1977 to the summer of 1983. The Providence Journal Company bought channel 17 in 1979. At that point, WPHL sought

7490-486: The marathons regularly carried by the network are those of Hazel and Father Knows Best that have respectively aired on Mother's Day and Father's Day annually since 2011 (in the former case, the exceptions were in 2015 and 2016, when it aired marathons of One Day at a Time , Family Ties and Sanford and Son on those holidays); it also airs a 48-hour marathon of holiday -themed episodes of its various series from Christmas Eve until Christmas night, which

7597-453: The most viewers. There are 210 Nielsen DMAs in the United States, 70 of which are metered (in other words, viewership in these markets are estimated automatically instead of through the archaic diary system still in use in the smaller markets). TMAs may cover a much larger area than the stations that serve it, especially since the digital television transition . This is particularly true in markets that have hilly or mountainous terrain that

7704-482: The network also announced an agreement with E. W. Scripps Company -owned WMYD in Detroit , which picked up the affiliation in February 2016, six months after WADL disaffiliated from Antenna TV, which briefly left Detroit as the largest market where the network did not have an affiliate. Sean Compton, president of strategic programming and acquisitions for Tribune Broadcasting, credited Antenna TV's acquisition of rights to

7811-465: The network have been widely syndicated on other television outlets in the United States and abroad, some series featured on the network (such as Hazel , Evening Shade , Soap , Doogie Howser, M.D. and Small Wonder ) have not been seen on television – at least, in the U.S. – for several years or have been syndicated on a fairly inconsistent basis, and a few (such as The Paul Lynde Show and Lotsa Luck ) were too short-lived to have ever had

7918-434: The network may be substituted if a station other than that which serves as the market's Antenna TV affiliate holds the local syndication rights; as an example, from April 2012 to November 2013, KTLA aired a rebroadcast of that station's weeknight 6:00 p.m. newscast on Monday through Thursdays over its 5.2 subchannel, in place of the network's broadcast of Married... with Children (which it aired in an hour-long block and

8025-771: The network on its primary channel, the other being KXNW, which is the only affiliate that continues to do so) to the secondary subchannel of NBC affiliate KHNL in May 2012, as KUPU was not available on cable television in areas of the state outside the Honolulu metropolitan area whereas KNHL has widespread cable penetration. WJZY in Charlotte, North Carolina , which served as its original affiliate for that market, replaced Antenna TV on its 46.2 subchannel with Movies! (a network part-owned by Fox Television Stations , which bought WJZY in April 2013) on July 1, 2014; WCCB (which, incidentally, assumed

8132-464: The network that was not owned by its then-parent company News Corporation (which became 21st Century Fox in June 2013 after spinning off most of its non-entertainment properties). It is also the only major station in Philadelphia that is not owned by its respective network. In July, WPHL rebranded itself as "MyPHL17", reviving the station's former "PHL 17" moniker. WPHL began airing MyNetworkTV programming on

8239-468: The network until 2015. Tribune Broadcasting planned to launch Antenna TV in all markets with stations owned by Tribune and, as part of a co-management agreement between the two groups that existed at the time of the network's launch, Local TV. Tribune's flagship WGN-TV in Chicago serves as the flagship station of the network. In Denver and St. Louis , two of the markets where Tribune maintains duopoly ,

8346-416: The network until April 21, 2011, on a new third digital subchannel (it has since been moved to that station's second subchannel). The final Tribune/Local TV market to add the network was Fort Smith, Arkansas , where Fayetteville, Arkansas -based MyNetworkTV affiliate KXNW began carrying the network on January 5, 2012, as an overnight secondary service; Antenna TV was unable to launch in the market prior to

8453-464: The network's logo as part of the station's own logo. Before the move of the broadcast rights of the Phillies in 2014 to WCAU-TV , another version of the logo was used where the "p" in "phl" was replaced with the hat insignia "P" from the logo of the Philadelphia Phillies. Sinclair Broadcast Group entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $ 3.9 billion, plus

8560-448: The network's main announcer in July 2015. Antenna TV also runs occasional marathons of series to which it holds rights through its content agreements on major occasions. Prior to "Antenna TV Theater" ' s discontinuation, the network also aired movie marathons on Valentine's Day , Memorial Day , Veterans Day (until 2013) and Super Bowl Sunday (until 2015) and racing day in 2016. Among

8667-555: The network's primary national sponsors. Many Antenna TV affiliates also use the allotted advertising time to feature localized promotions, ranging from upcoming programming seen on that affiliate's other digital channels, to newspaper and vehicle dealership advertisements, to community service announcements. The network does not display a digital on-screen graphic during its programs, but allows affiliates to incorporate their own bug during Antenna TV programming; many stations that follow this practice utilize modified versions of logos that

8774-519: The network's prime time lineup, either to allow the affiliated subchannel to serve as an alternate feed of the partner sports service in lieu of the parent station's main channel or a co-owned/co-managed sister station, or to carry programs aired by a major broadcast network with which the station maintains a primary affiliation so the events can air on the main channel. Conversely, several stations, mainly affiliated with Fox, have moved their local news to their Antenna TV subchannel due to sports events like

8881-453: The network). This discontinued when the Three's Company spinoffs were replaced with Saturday Summerthons. After losing the rights to All in the Family in 2018, Antenna TV acquired rights to the sequel series Archie Bunker's Place . On August 12, 2015, Tribune Broadcasting announced that it had acquired the rights to all surviving episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson through

8988-525: The newscast was expanded to an hour, making it only the second hour-long 10 p.m. newscast in Philadelphia other than that of competitor WTXF. Competitor station WPSG also had an hour-long newscast, CBS News Philadelphia NOW on The CW Philly from July 2022 until August 2023; however, it was a hybrid local/national news program and not fully produced locally like Action News at 10 on PHL17 . On March 9, 2015, WPHL launched an independently-produced half-hour 5:30 a.m. newscast titled PHL17 Morning News . It

9095-400: The next evening. Hall was the weekend morning anchor on WPVI until March 2022 when he was chosen to become Sharrie Williams' co-anchor for the 10 p.m. newscast in addition to his solo anchoring a 6:30 p.m. streaming-only edition. The weekend editions use the same staff (anchor Walter Perez , sports anchor Gabriella Galati and meteorologist Brittany Boyer) as WPVI's weekend evening newscasts. It

9202-571: The person was a regular cast member, or both. Antenna TV has program licensing agreements with Sony Pictures Entertainment (which includes series produced by Columbia Pictures Television , TriStar Television and their merged production unit Columbia TriStar Television (which was reorganized as Sony Pictures Television in 2002), Screen Gems , and ELP Communications (including predecessors Tandem Productions , ELP Communications ), CBS Media Ventures , and DLT Entertainment. The network also shares broadcast rights to classic television programs from

9309-457: The program. Another blow occurred in October 1995 when weekend weatherman Bill Elias was fired following the revelation of his involvement with a local crime family (he had given mob boss John Stanta's bodyguards a videotape of a mob funeral in 1993, to pick targets from another crime family to kill); he had previously lost his job at WTXF over this. WPHL took full control of the newscast, changing to

9416-545: The provider's Southern Middlesex County system on November 27, 2012 (found with a rescan of a digital tuner) but have not been mapped into the Comcast digital boxes or DTAs. There is no satellite coverage of WPHL outside of the Philadelphia market. During the 1970s and 1980s, WPHL was a regional superstation available in New York City and portions of Long Island , as well as the large majority of New Jersey. In New Jersey, WPHL

9523-442: The same day or during the same week in different timeslots. Starting in April 2013, Antenna TV gradually scaled back its film telecasts in favor of additional blocks of classic television series (particularly on weekday mornings, where Antenna TV Theater originally ran as a six-hour block from approximately 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time at the network's launch). Movies were eliminated from weekdays entirely as part of

9630-479: The same hour, airing the shorter-lived spinoffs of Three's Company ( The Ropers and Three's a Crowd ) with the parent show being relegated to the first half-hour of the hour-long block (differing from the network's normal double-episode scheduling for its series) once they cycle back onto the schedule (the cycling of The Ropers and Three's a Crowd ended with a January 2015 programming realignment that saw both series given their own separate weekend-only runs on

9737-487: The same market area can be rebroadcast. The only exception to this rule is the " significantly viewed " list. Virtually all of the United States is located within the boundaries of exactly one TMA. A similar term used by Nielsen Media Research is the Designated Market Area (DMA), and they control the trademark on it. DMAs are used by Nielsen Media Research to identify TV stations that best reach an area and attract

9844-582: The same time in the remainder of the country, though by effect, aired locally in earlier time slots from the Central Time Zone westward. As is common with digital multicast networks, advertisements featured during commercial breaks on Antenna TV primarily consist of direct marketing for products featured in infomercials and particularly during its Saturday morning children's programming, public service announcements ; satellite provider Dish Network and insurance company Progressive Corporation are currently

9951-484: The station signed on July 17, 1960, making it Philadelphia's first commercial UHF station. WPCA-TV struggled amid the low penetration of UHF tuners prior to the 1964 passage of the All-Channel Receiver Act and Crawford's unexpected death in an October 1960 car accident. The station went silent August 1, 1962, having operated just two years. When channel 17 went silent, its sale was immediately announced to

10058-452: The vast majority of the films that aired on the network were pre-1980s releases. During 2014, the network shared film content with sister network This TV (a movie-oriented broadcast network, whose transfer of operational control and partial ownership to Tribune from Weigel Broadcasting in November 2013 has partly influenced Antenna TV's removal of films); on certain occasions, a movie that aired on Antenna TV's film block would air on This TV on

10165-436: The week in limited form during the late afternoon and overnight hours. The Saturday drama block was discontinued in September 2012, with drama series on Saturdays being moved to the late afternoon hours and movies replacing them in prime time on that night. Drama series are now only seen on Saturday morning as of January 2017. In a rarity for television, Antenna TV has rotated a television series and its spinoffs on its schedule in

10272-594: The years, including kids' favorite the Wee Willie Webber Colorful Cartoon Club and Dr. Shock 's back-to-back shows Mad Theater and Horror Theater . In the summer of 1975, WPHL-TV moved from its original studio facility at 1230 East Mermaid Lane in the suburb of Wyndmoor , which had been the station's base since its 1960 debut, to its current studio on Wynnefield Avenue in the Wynnefield suburb of West Philadelphia . The building had once been

10379-442: Was The Three Stooges ' first short Woman Haters as part of a marathon of short films involving the comedy trio (which became an annual New Year's Day tradition on the network that aired until 2015, originally airing as an all-day marathon before being reduced to airing only on New Year's Day morning in 2013). On October 1, 2011, Antenna TV introduced block programming scheduling for most of its programs, organized by genre and

10486-509: Was a hybrid newscast that integrated the conventions of a typical television news program with contributions from the newspaper's personnel. However, the format failed to make any headway against WTXF's established prime time newscast; behind-the-scenes issues with Knight-Ridder (the Inquirer ' s owner at that point), including newspaper staffers' wariness of being on TV and compensation and contract issues, as well as general mismanagement, doomed

10593-537: Was also a station heavy on local sports, as it aired games featuring Major League Baseball 's Philadelphia Phillies until 1982, the NBA 's Philadelphia 76ers from 1982 to 1995 and the NHL 's Philadelphia Flyers in the 1990s. From October 1981 to August 1987, the WPHL studios hosted a weekday afternoon dance show called Dancin' On Air , hosted by Eddie Bruce, as well as a spin-off on

10700-473: Was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog era UHF channel 17. In Pennsylvania, WPHL was carried on Comcast cable systems in Harrisburg, York and Lancaster ; however, it was not available in high definition . It was available on South Central Pennsylvania cable systems for four decades; indeed, for most of The WB's run, it

10807-683: Was among those who were bidding for channel 48's license. Had it won, Journal would have merged WPHL's and WKBS' schedules under the WKBS license and channel allocation, while selling the channel 17 license to either a religious or educational broadcaster. However, the Journal Company's bid was still far below Field's asking price. With no takers willing to give Field what it wanted for the station, WKBS-TV ceased operations one year later on August 29, 1983, and WPHL picked up various syndicated programs, cartoons, movies and production equipment from WKBS. In 1987,

10914-436: Was completed on September 19, 2019. In May 2023, CBS News and Stations announced that its CW affiliates, including Philadelphia station WPSG, would cease their affiliation with the network in September 2023 and become independent stations. A month later, Nexstar Media Group announced that WPHL would take over the CW affiliation for the Philadelphia market on September 1. The station continues airing MyNetworkTV programming on

11021-468: Was later replaced by Morning Dose , was canceled. In September 2019, PHL17 Morning News expanded again by an additional hour to run from 5 to 9 a.m. WPHL-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 54, which

11128-401: Was one of the few markets where the affiliates of both networks were both relatively strong. WPHL was slated to revert to its previous independent status, but on May 15, 2006, Tribune announced that it would affiliate channel 17 (and two other WB affiliates that were not included in the CW affiliation deal) with MyNetworkTV, making WPHL the largest station in terms of market size affiliated with

11235-546: Was partially renamed to 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 upcoming switch to MyNetworkTV. On December 10, 2008, WCAU began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition , and the WPHL newscast was also included in the HD upgrade. The newscast was renamed once again on October 4, 2010, as phl17 News at 10, Powered by NBC 10 . On October 31, 2011, WPHL began airing Eye Opener ,

11342-487: Was shown locally at 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time Zone ), as the local rights to the sitcom were held by Anaheim, California -based independent station KDOC-TV . When Soap replaced Married... on the network's Sunday evening lineup in May 2011, during the latter's original run on Antenna TV, a rebroadcast of KTLA's early evening newscast which aired on that night was dropped in order to allow Soap to air locally. In markets where an Antenna TV-affiliated station acts as

11449-621: Was that market's default WB affiliate (the network's programming aired in off-hours on local station WPMT). On June 26, 2019, it was discontinued on those Comcast systems. It is also carried in Milford , Pike County (which is part of the New York City television market). In Maryland , WPHL is carried on cable in Cecil County . In New Jersey, WPHL is carried in parts of Hunterdon , Middlesex , Monmouth, Ocean , Somerset and Warren counties. It

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