Also, "time will be the worst thing. A lot of people will be late for work in a snowstorm," he said. Davidson said she would take public transportation — both the Comcast Center and the Comcast Technology Center can be accessed through Suburban Station — but the trains don't run in the middle of the night when she has to be there.
NBC10 said in a statement that the stations "are providing a stipend to employees who have to work from our new facility and as a result, pay the city wage tax.
The stipend is based on employee's residential address to help offset taxes as well as commuter costs" such as public transit and parking.
Many things can go wrong with a new studio, NBC10 and Telemundo62 officials say. The lighting might be bad or the new control room software could go wrong.
So the rehearsals over the last month are important, though they can complicate employee lives. On Thursday, Davidson's shift began at a. At about 8 a. Meeting up with the rest of the NBC10 morning crew at the Comcast Technology Center, Davidson and the others did a one-hour rehearsal at 9 a. Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo. According to UPI, they were "the first news service to supply news to broadcasters. In the spring of that year, the station was back on the scene with a new variety show called, "95 Minutes From Broadway.
The broadcast got its names from the fact that Philadelphia was 95 minutes by train from New York City. It contained performances by well-known nationally recognized talent who happened to be in the Quaker City. It features people like Sophie Tucker and Georgie Jessel. Mac Harry McIllvain was the show's host. During June of , the FCC held hearings to consider revising station power and frequency. Testimony came from many industry leaders including Dr.
That would allow another station to also operate on their frequency. Under the terms of the Havana Treaty which was ratified while these hearing were under way, WCAU would change frequency from to Levy's testimony which was read from a prepared statement gave the history of WCAU. Levy said that Philadelphia as the United States' third largest city would not have a Class 1-A assignment.
Levy called attention to the public service aspects of WCAU and pointed out that the company invested large sums of money in its facility.
He also mentioned the pioneering work that the station had done. He asserted that the station was the only Class 1-A station in the city and in the eastern part of the station of Pennsylvania. Levy also pointed out that the station is operated by its owners. Levy stated that it was his belief that the FCC should increase the number of Class 1-A stations beyond its current number of 25 so that deserving stations such as his could serve the public.
Levy also uttered that he thought WCAU deserved a better frequency allocation. Levy said that would eliminate the most important part of the company's objection. He did say that there might be adverse reaction from advertisers if the station was lowered to a Class 1-A status. He added that the station recently purchased 2, shares of CBS stock. WCAU kept its clear channel status and in , they were part of a group of clear channels petitioning the government for an increase in power.
The FCC denied that motion. In October of , citing a desire "to confine our interests to network holdings," the Levys sold the station to J. David Stern and his newspaper, the Philadelphia Record. It sold for six million dollars, the largest station sale in radio history up to that time. The Record announced plans for the construction of a large broadcasting center on the southwest corner of Broad and Spring Garden Streets, encompassing the entire block south to Buttonwood.
The plant was never constructed. The Levys each owned The remainder of the station's stock at that time was William Paley at The sale of these two properties did not go to the Record newspaper. The Bulletin purchased for approx. However, the news leaked out and the ceremonies were moved to the home of the parents of Broadcast Pioneers member Steve Sacks.
Steve was 11 years old at the time. It is believed that this was part of the contractual agreement to sell the stations in They did stay on the station's board of directors even after they had no more managerial control. In , Dr. He recalled the early days in the twenties when he knew changes were have to be made. He said:. We were making money. They were supplying all the station's income, but we were not building anything. Most of our commercial accounts were not of the best and I was convinced that we had to have substantial advertisers selling accepted goods and service if we were to build a strong, going business.
Some websites refer to this sale as selling the stations back to CBS. There were business affiliations but ownership and management were separate. Since that time, the back lot where "Action in the Afternoon" originated from has been sold off for office space. Reportedly, they had the biggest and possibly best-informed broadcast news department in the area WIP might have argued that point. WCAU went all-news radio in but abandoned that format three years later. Many industry people believed that CBS just didn't have their heart in the all news operation.
Actually, WCAU still had telephone-talk but it was much more news oriented. Money does talk. For several years, the station went through many different management types, and each time someone new took over, they tinkered with the format. More news, less news, all news. Listeners didn't have a clue what WCAU was airing and with that went the "dial habit. By , the station came back to what it did best, telephone-talk.
A new crop of hosts became known to the Philadelphia market led by former Mayor Frank Rizzo. The station at There are no six letter calls on AM anywhere in the United States.
The format flip plans were hush-hush and few at the station were "in the know. The format change shocked many broadcast experts. However, it was a cost-cutting move. This change also affected the history of Philadelphia.
With Frank Rizzo no longer having a platform, he decided that he would give running for mayor another shot in Rizzo held that office for two terms as a Democrat during the seventies.
He switched parties in the eighties and ran as a Republican but lost. It was close. However, the campaign would have a big difference. This time, the GOP political machine didn't support him. He bucked the politicians and won the nomination. He would die as a candidate. Many say yes, but many think no. Much of the station's schedule was filled with syndicated sports programming, designed for smaller markets. They also kept the Phillies broadcasts and college basketball. The ratings were never what they expected and the format was dumped by new owners Westinghouse Broadcasting who purchased CBS.
Again the station tried a talk format with local programming including Don Lancer in the evenings. Don was transferred from now sister station KYW.
Lancer later returned to KYW. It secured an affiliation with CBS through the influence of the Levy brothers, who continued to work for the newspaper as consultants. 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. 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.
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 a duopoly. As such, it was the only station in the city that did not heavily or moderately preempt network programming.
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