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Branding | PHL17, PHL17 CW |
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First air date | July 17, 1960 |
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Call sign meaning | Philadelphia |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 73879 |
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Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′30.9″N 75°14′21.9″W / 40.041917°N 75.239417°W |
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Website | phl17 |
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 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.
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