WCAU
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HAAT | 399.8 m (1,311.7 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′30.1″N 75°14′10.1″W / 40.041694°N 75.236139°W |
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WCAU (channel 10) is a
WCAU and WWSI share studios in the
History
As a CBS station (1946–January 1995)
In 1946, the
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 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 a "sneak preview" basis on March 3,[3] but the official opening of the station was not until May 23, 1948.[4] 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 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 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
Switch from CBS to NBC (1994–January 1995)
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 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
However,
As an NBC-owned station (January 1995–present)
While KYW-TV's sister stations in Boston and Baltimore switched to CBS in January 1995. 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.[6] 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, 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 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 the station locally owned.[7] 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.[8] The sale was completed on June 2 of that year.[9] 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
On April 16, 2014,
Studios
WCAU Studios | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
Coordinates | 39°57′19″N 75°10′27″W / 39.95528°N 75.17417°W |
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Built | 1931 |
Architect | Harry Sternfeld; Multiple |
Architectural style | Modern Movement, Art Deco |
NRHP reference No. | 83002281[14] |
Added to NRHP | January 27, 1983 |
Channel 10 was originally located at 1622
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.[15] After several weeks of off-air tests, WCAU and WWSI officially moved all on-air operations to 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.[16]
Programming
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
Wawa Welcome America
In July 2016, Comcast announced that they would take over as presenting sponsor of the
Sports programming
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 the station. WCAU, as both a CBS and NBC station, has also aired Philadelphia's pro sports teams through their network coverage as well.
Philadelphia Phillies
On January 2, 2014, Comcast and the
Philadelphia Eagles
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 the broadcast rights to the pre-merger National Football League. That arrangement lasted until
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.
Philadelphia Flyers
WCAU has free-to-air rights to 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.
Philadelphia 76ers
Beginning in the
Broad Street Run
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 the 36th annual event in 2014.
News operation
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, 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 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 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 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 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 the 11 p.m. newscast on September 9, 1995, hours before the switch to NBC.[18] 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 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.[19] After the sale closed, NBC changed 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.[20]
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 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 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 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.[21] 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 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.[22] 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, 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.[23] 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.[24] Their morning newscast starts at 4 a.m.
Former morning anchor
). 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 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 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 the 6 p.m. newscast. The logo was also simplified to remove the redundant "NBC" text and streamline the
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 a content partnership with Philadelphia-based company Entercom Communications (which in 2021 officially became known as
On February 17, 2020, WCAU added 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.[26] 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 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.[27]
In July 2021, WCAU testing its "Look S" graphics package in their sponsor plugs; but 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 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, the station had a curated playlist made available on the streaming service since its April 2020 launch.[28]
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.[29] However, he would not begin at the station until July 4 co-hosting the station's coverage of 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.[30] 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 the 7 p.m. edition solo.
Notable current on-air staff
- Tracy Davidson – anchor
- Keith Jones – anchor
Notable former on-air staff
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.[31]
- Diane Allen[32]
- Donald Barnhouse (deceased)[32]
- Suzanne Bates (later with WBZ-TV in Boston, now owns a speech firm in Boston)[32]
- Pat Battle (now at WNBC in New York City)[32]
- John Bolaris (later at WCBS-TV and WTXF-TV)
- Tom Brookshier (later with CBS Sports, deceased)[33]
- Ron Burke (now with WPBF in West Palm Beach, Florida)[32]
- Bill Campbell (deceased)[32]
- Renee Chenault-Fattah
- Herb Clarke – meteorologist (1958-1997) (deceased)[32]
- Gene Crane(deceased)
- Lori Delgado[34]
- Vince DeMentri[35] (later with WPIX and WICS in Springfield, IL)[36]
- Herb Denenberg (deceased)[32]
- Howard Eskin (now at WTXF-TV)
- John Facenda (deceased)[32]
- Frank Ford (deceased)
- Amy Freeze (later at WFLD in Chicago and WABC-TV in New York, now at Fox Weather)
- Doreen Gentzler (anchored at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. until retiring in November 2022)[32]
- Mike Golic (now with ESPN)[32]
- Judd Hambrick[32]
- Edie Huggins (deceased)[37]
- Larry Kane (was most recently with the Comcast Network until it ceased operations in 2017)[32]
- Tim Lake (now with WTEN in Albany)[38]
- Siani Lee (later with KYW-TV, now deceased)[32]
- Don Lemon (later anchor/reporter at CNN)[39]
- Gene London – children's entertainer (deceased)
- J. J. Maura (deceased)[40]
- Jade McCarthy (later with ESPN, now at NBC Sports Boston)
- Ed McMahon (later with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, now deceased)[32]
- Jillian Mele (now at WPVI-TV)[41]
- Al Meltzer (sports anchor, 1978–1998) (deceased)
- Larry Mendte (anchor, 1996–2003; now with WABC in New York)[32]
- Barney Morris (deceased)
- Kathy Orr (was Chief Meteorologist at KYW-TV, now at WTXF)[32]
- Ralph Penza (later with WNBC in New York City, deceased)
- Terry Ruggles[32](retired from television)
- Jim Rosenfield – anchor (Left station in 2022)
- Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz– meteorologist (retired)
- Phillip Sheridan
- Fred Sherman (deceased)[42]
- Vai Sikahema (Former sports anchor & morning anchor, retired in November 2020)
- Tammie Souza
- Stephanie Stahl (now Medical Specialist with KYW-TV)[32]
- Chuck Stone (deceased)
- Mike Strug (retired)[43]
- Michael Tuck – news anchor (1974–1978; later worked in San Diego) (deceased)[44]
- Bill Vargus (later with WTXF-TV)
- Jane Velez-Mitchell (later with KCAL-TV in Los Angeles)
- Lou Wagner
- Jack Whitaker (deceased)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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10.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WCAU-TV | Main WCAU programming / NBC |
10.2 | 480i | COZI-TV | Cozi TV | |
10.3 | NBCLX | LX Home | ||
10.4 | OXYGEN | Oxygen |
On October 25, 2010, WCAU introduced its own version of WNBC's
Analog-to-digital conversion
WCAU signed on its digital signal on December 4, 1998. The station shut down its analog signal, over
On April 13, 2017, it was revealed that the over-the-air spectrum of sister station WWSI has been sold in the FCC's
Out-of-market carriage
WCAU is carried in central and southern New Jersey on certain cable systems that generally receive local channels from New York. It is available from Comcast in select towns in southern
Comcast transmits WCAU to most of
Comcast and Blue Ridge Communications also carry WCAU in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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