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	Famous 56.Com
		WFIL was such a large part of my life, that I found it appropriate to dedicate some web space to it.
		WFIL, was up until then, a "middle of the road" station, playing standards, with a little rock and roll mixed in.
		In 1977, WFIL changed formats, to reflect what management felt was the needs, and desires of the Philadelphia listening audience.
	www.famous56.com (1043 words)

	WPVI-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was owned by the Annenberg family's Triangle Publications, owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer with WFIL radio.
		The WFIL stations originally broadcast from the Widener Building in downtown Philadelphia.
		WFIL was the first station to sign on from the Roxborough neighborhood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WPVI (1666 words)

	WFIL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		WFIL is the name of a radio station, and also the former name of a television station, serving the American city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Located at 560 on the AM dial, WFIL is immediately adjacent to New York City's WMCA (at 570), and interestingly, the two stations have extremely similar histories: Both, for example, maintained Call For Action telephone help lines, being among the first radio stations in the United States to do so.
		WFIL was purchased in 1947 by Triangle Publications, Inc. which also owned The Philadelphia Inquirer, and joined the ABC Radio Network.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WFIL (700 words)

	WFIL studios
		The WFIL Studio was also used to illustrate the 1954 TV Stations: A Guide for Architects, Engineers and Management, a primer used to develop plans for many of the stations constructed during the mid-1950s and later.
		This addition made it possible for WFIL to consolidate all broadcast activities in one location and the radio operations were moved to 4548 Market Street from their previous location in the Widener Building in Center City.
		The WFIL Studio, although less than 50 years old, has a place of exceptional importance in the 20th century history of the United States for being a virtually intact example of the earliest type of new construction for television station use, no others of which have been documented to be as early.
	uchs.net /HistoricDistricts/wfil.html (1801 words)

	Joe Novenson, a Broadcast Pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It was as a newsman at WDAS radio being the air name, "Barry Roberts." By 1941, he was working as a free-lance announcer on WCAU, a narrator on KYW and as an actor in a local soap opera broadcast over WFIL, the station that would be his home for the next 30 years.
		He was in the Army Air Corps and until the war's conclusion in 1945, he flew as a navigator-bombardier with the 12th Air Force, out of France and out of North Africa.
		He over the years held over posts at the WFIL stations including sales, public relations and as Public Affairs Director, a position he held until his retirement in 1971.
	www.geocities.com /broadcastphilly/novenson.html (505 words)

	American Bandstand
		After Clark was hired by WFIL Steck offered him a summer replacement slot on the station's FM band, but not before the veteran program director, who envisioned the coming age of television, admonished the young announcer that he was crazy to even consider returning to radio--particularly FM radio, which was then considered a broadcasting graveyard.
		One of the country's oldest commercial broadcasters, WFIL was founded as WFI in 1922, became an affiliate of the fledgling American Broadcasting Company in 1943, and was purchased in 1945 by Triangle Publications Inc., a blossoming communications empire owned by Walter Annenberg, the wealthy son of a publishing magnate.
		By then, WFIL was one of over three hundred ABC-affiliated radio stations, but those numbers were illusory, for when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifted its four-year ban on the establishment of new TV stations that summer, network sponsors abandoned radio in favor of television.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/j/jackson-bandstand.html (5122 words)

	WFIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		WFIL, currently a Christian talk station, started out as two separate stations owned by competing department stores but sharing a frequency.
		The station operated by Strawbridge & Clothier was WFI; that by Lit Brothers was WLIT.
		Through much of it's lifespan, WFIL was an important Top 40 rock station until the surge in popularity of FM radio and album-oriented rock.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/philalmanac/wfil.html (86 words)

	A History of the WFIL Stations
		In 1943, WFIL introduced the "Studio Schoolhouse" series which was the first in-school listening program in the nation and which has continued, uninterrupted throughout the school year, ever since.
		WFIL management's presentation, through the city's committee, of the broadcasting advantages of selecting Philadelphia for the site of both large political conventions in 1948 was an important factor in the Site Committees' selecting Philadelphia for their 1948 conventions.
		WFIL AM & FM were the first Philadelphia stations, in January 1958, to broadcast stereophonic sound and WFIL-TV in March of this year introduced the first video-tape unit.
	www.broadcastpioneers.com /wfilhistory.html (2334 words)

	Tagzania: Items by wfil
		AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Science New Delhi user wfil
		stock footage wildfilms still library india delhi user wfil
		You'll guess what a bildua means in Basque
	www.tagzania.com /user/wfil (58 words)

	RWonline - RW Special Report
		Around that same time, in 1993, the suburban township of Whitemarsh, Pa., in which both stations were located, expressed a desire for the land where WFIL sat, to use as a recreational area.
		Around that corner is the WFIL transmitter room, featuring the primary Harris DX-10, rack equipment and a backup Nautel Amphet 10.
		Because the WFIL towers here are 100 feet shorter than at the old location, in the fall of 1995 the station was allowed to compensate by retuning and increasing power from 5 kW full time to 7.1 kW during the day and 8.3 kW at night.
	www.rwonline.com /reference-room/special-report/walk_through.shtml (1418 words)

	Radio in Pennsylvania, Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The other event occurred on January 20, 1935, when a newly merged WFIL went on the air, replacing WFI and WLIT.
		In the years that followed, WFIL retained an affiliation with NBC Blue, which became a separate Blue Network in 1943 and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) two years later.
		WFIL itself was acquired in 1946 by the Philadelphia Inquirer, which soon added WFIL-TV, the station that in 1957 brought Dick Clark's American Bandstand to a national television audience.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/radio/page3.asp?secid=31 (474 words)

	2005 National Radio Club Convention
		Both the WFIL and WNTP day patterns feature two "egg-shaped" lobes toward the northwest and southeast, while the night patterns are basically the same but without the lobes to the northwest.
		WFIL must run 7.1 kiloWatts daytime and 8.3 kiloWatts at night to satisfy their licensed 5 kW because the towers are only 251 feet tall, or 51 degrees at 560 kHz.
		At WFIL, two programs are local, while the rest come from the parent company, Salem Corrmunications, which now owns 107 stations.
	www.nrcdxas.org /convention/05nrccon (2912 words)

	WFIL-TV Big Guys
		In 1945, Philadelphia Inquirer publisher Walter Annenberg decided to purchase WFIL Radio in Philadelphia from the Lits Brothers Department store.
		However, Annenberg was really attracted to the fact that WFIL Radio had the right to build a television station, a medium Walter thought would be a powerful tool.
		Two of his creations were the WFIL Schoolhouse (also with a radio version) and the University of the Air.
	www.geocities.com /broadcastpioneers/wfilguys.html (913 words)

	A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond
		This was WFIL, 5000 big watts down at the bottom of the dial at 560, owned by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Broadcasting, and it arrived out here in Whitemarsh Township sometime in the late 1940s.
		It would be another two decades - September of 1966, to be precise - before the sleepy middle-of-the-road WFIL would be reborn as "Famous 56," soon to be the number one station in Philadelphia through the late sixties and most of the seventies.
		The old WFIL site met the wrecking ball a few years back, and today its 47 acres are split between Whitemarsh Township's new McCarthy park and playing fields for the local schools.
	www.fybush.com /site-031016.html (1177 words)

	Banana
		Joe's guests at WFIL's 1975 marathon was John Lennon.
		Photos #2 and #3 were not sent to the library for archiving.
		WFIL used to get all the big stars to visit the station.
	www.bananajoeradio.com /radioarchives.htm (1381 words)

	Dr. Francis Davis, a Broadcast Pioneer
		Roger Clipp at the WFIL stations hired him to be part of the news staff for WFIL Radio.
		He was the city's first on-air Meteorologist and for the next 25 years, he did the weather at the WFIL stations.
		Francis Davis continued to serve at Drexel all during his WFIL days as Instructor, then Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor and finally as a full Professor of Physics.
	www.angelfire.com /tv2/broadcastpioneers/davis.html (1221 words)

	RT4044 - The Randy Roberts Collection!
		Their knowledge of the music, the artists, and their electric personalities would make WIBG a lasting memory to those who listened to Radio 99.
		Donald D. Rose is heard "laughin' and scratchin'" on Famous 56 WFIL in 1970.
		Note also the Call for Action promo, a reminder of a time when the privilege of owning a broadcast license (even a little AM license!) required broadcasters to generate clever programming to meet their responsibilities to the public interest.
	www.reelradio.com /rrc (1222 words)

	Geator! A Tribute to Jerry Blavat
		In the mid-seventies he was heard on WFIL (560AM) on occasions like New Years' Eve.
		Ron Turner, keeper of the WFIL flame at Famous 56.com, has the Geator live from Memories in Margate in 1986.
		WFIL, an ABC affiliate, was owned by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications, which syndicated the show coast-to-coast in 42 markets.
	home.eznet.net /~gc/geator (2701 words)

	Deborah Adams, a Broadcast Pioneer
		Chair of the Board of Directors of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, Shelly Gross (he was a staff announcer at WFIL & WFIL-TV and later co-owner of the Valley Forge Music Fair) e-mailed: "Deb Adams had an administrative job at Channel Six when I joined in early 1949.
		She combined her talents and was named Advertising Manager of the export division of DuPont.
		From there, she moved to the WFIL stations as Merchandising Director.
	broadcastpioneers.tripod.com /wfil/debadams.html (875 words)

	aircheck archive
		A Montage Of News Elements, And Voices From WFIL.
		WFIL Crossfire - September 25, 1983 - Jim O'Brien Tribute
		WFIL 20th Anniversary Special - September 18, 1986
	famous56.com /jockair (274 words)

	Phil Sheridan, a Broadcast Pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Born on Tuesday, September 2, 1919, Phil Sheridan was an institution in Philadelphia radio for decades.
		He began his broadcasting duties in 1942 but is probably best known as the Top Rated WFIL Radio Morning Man with his “Rise and Shine Show,” which started on Friday, February 6, 1953.
		Phil Sheridan was born in Frankfort, Indiana and went to the University of Illinois for two years where he studied chemical enginner.
	xena.lunarpages.com /~broadc3/sheridan.html (910 words)

	WFIL, a Broadcast Pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This is a print ad that WFIL Radio ran in early 1935.
		By the way, this is how the ad ran.
		As it says: WFIL is the merger of WLIT and WFI, two of Philadelphia's pioneer stations.
	phillybp.my100megs.com /wfil35.html (183 words)

	The Original Uncle Ricky Top 40 Radio Repository Collection
		As I have noted before, reverb seemed to be primarily an east coast phenomenon in the format, and WFIL does not disappoint in this regard.
		Any classic station of the great top-40 era is OK with me, but the ones that combine music, personality, promotion, and on-air production into a "powerhouse" image are my favorites.
		The only other station I think was better, (my all time favorite) is WFIL in Philadelphia circa 1965 to 1968.
	www.reelradio.com /ricky (4210 words)

	Untitled Document
		Description: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle relating to a series of her talks on poetry broadcast by WFIL radio (Philadelphia).
		Description: Fanmail received by Katherine Biddle regarding her series of talks on poetry broadcast by WFIL radio, Philadelphia.
		Description: Typescript of WFIL radio talk by Katherine Biddle re her recently published choral poem, "Lament for the Stolen" (1938).
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/biddlek/series6.htm (3900 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Dick Clark, disc jockey
		After graduating from Syracuse University, he became a news anchor at WKTV/Utica.
		He moved to Philadelphia in 1952 to work for WFIL radio and television.
		Clark was hosting a record-hop program on WFIL in 1956 when he was asked to take over a local television show called Bandstand.
	www.radiohof.org /discjockey/dickclark.html (217 words)

	LEXSEE 28 F
		Under the "basic transaction", Capital Cities would acquire from Triangle Publications, Inc., WFIL (AM, FM and TV), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WNHC (AM, FM and TV), New Haven, Connecticut; and KFRE (AM, FM and TV), Fresno, California and Triangle's television program Syndication Business.
		There is rather proposed a decrease in regional concentration, particularly in Pennsylvania but also in the other relevant areas.
		Third, on the national level, the proposed increase in the audiences which Capital Cities stations would reach is offset by an equally substantial increase in the competition to which Capital Cities would be subjected -- a factor clearly relevant under Section 73.636(a)(2) of the Rules.
	www.uiowa.edu /~cyberlaw/FCCOps/1971/28F2_80.htm (6062 words)

	Photos from Professor Roberts' Attic
		Photo 08 - Unidentified student apparently reading a newscast in Studio B. Photo 09 - Roger Clipp, general manager of the WFIL stations, presents a check to build the original WRTI studios in Thomas Hall to then Temple University provost, later president, Dr. Millard Gladfelter.
		This photo appeared in a WFIL Promotional Booklet, "Working Together." It dates from about 1952 and promotes how the WFIL stations and Temple University operate a "cooperative program." The caption reads, "Students use disk as well as Ampex and Magnecorder tape recorders to help them analyze production errors."*
		Photo 29 - At WFIL radio, during a Temple Supervised Educational Radio Show.
	www.wrti.com /wrti/jbr2/jbr2.htm (1372 words)

	Home Page of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Francis Davis & George Koehler on WFIL's roof
		WFIL's Dr. Francis Davis & the "Princess" phone
		The History of the WFIL Stations by Roger Clipp
	members.fortunecity.com /broadcastpioneers/index2.html (246 words)

	RWonline - RW Special Report
		So it fell to the city's second TV station, WFIL(TV) Channel 6, to inaugurate the use of Roxborough for broadcasting.
		In 1947, WFIL put up a 600-foot guyed tower on an open piece of land off Ridge Pike, and an era had begun.
		Just down the street, WFLN(FM) at 95.7 MHz built its own self-supporting tower and signed on as the city's first independent FM station the same year.
	www.rwonline.com /reference-room/special-report/03_roxborough.shtml (1493 words)

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