WPVI-TV

WPVI-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, WPVI maintains studios located on City Line Avenue. WFIL radio had been an ABC radio affiliate dating back to the network's existence as the NBC Blue Network. However, WFIL-TV started out carrying programming from the DuMont Television Network, as ABC had not yet ventured into broadcast television. When the ABC television network debuted on April 19, 1948, WFIL-TV became its first affiliate. Channel 6 joined ABC before the network's first owned-and-operated station, WJZ-TV in New York City (now WABC-TV), signed on in August of that year. However, it retained a secondary affiliation with DuMont until that network shut down in 1956.