WCAU TV
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | NBC 10 (general) NBC 10 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Count On It. |
| Channels |
Digital: 34 (UHF) (to move to 28 (UHF) and share with WWSI) Virtual: 10 () |
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NBCUniversal (NBC Telemundo License LLC) |
| Founded | September 1946 |
| First air date | May 23, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Where Cheer Awaits You (derived from former sister radio station, now WPHT) |
| Sister station(s) |
WWSI Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia The Comcast Network |
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| Former affiliations | CBS (1948–1995) |
| Transmitter power | 700 kW 618 kW (CP) |
| Height | 400.1 m (1,313 ft) 399.8 m (1,312 ft) (CP) |
| Facility ID | 63153 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′30″N 75°14′11″W / 40.04167°N 75.23639°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
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WCAU Studios
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| Location | 1618-22 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°57′19″N 75°10′27″W / 39.95528°N 75.17417°WCoordinates: 39°57′19″N 75°10′27″W / 39.95528°N 75.17417°W |
| Built | 1931 |
| Architect | Harry Sternfeld; Multiple |
| Architectural style | Modern Movement, Art Deco |
| NRHP Reference # | 83002281 |
| Added to NRHP | January 27, 1983 |
WCAU, virtual channel 10 (UHF digital channel 34, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal (a division of the locally-based media firm Comcast), and operates as part of a duopoly with Atlantic City, New Jersey-licensed Telemundo owned-and-operated station WWSI (channel 62). The two stations share studios on Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd, along the Philadelphia/Montgomery County line; WCAU's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
In 1946, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin secured a construction permit for channel 10, naming its proposed station WPEN-TV after the newspaper's WPEN radio stations (950 AM, now WKDN, and 98.1 FM, later WCAU-FM and now WOGL). The picture changed dramatically in 1947, when The Philadelphia Record folded. The Bulletin inherited the Record's "goodwill", along with the rights to buy the radio station WCAU-AM (1210 AM, now WPHT) and the original WCAU-FM (102.9 FM) 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.
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