(On August 29, 1975, the Bell were playing a televised contest against the Southern California Sun in Anaheim. Martinez officially joined the broadcast on June 17 as Humphries' co-anchor. [52] On October 30, 2010, News Corporation and Cablevision reached a deal, ending the dispute and restoring WTXF, WNYW, WWOR, and the three News Corp-owned cable channels to Cablevision's lineup. Alex Holley joined the FOX 29 News team in the summer of 2014 as co-host of “Good Day Philadelphia.”. Only one month later in September, the original Viacom agreed in principle to merge with Paramount. [28] Several months earlier, Fox entered into a multi-station, multi-year partnership with New World Communications. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation. In southern Delaware, WTXF (along with Washington, D.C. sister station WTTG) is available to Mediacom customers in the Millsboro area, and to Comcast customers in much of the rest of Sussex County. Over the past two decades, Sue has presented forecasts outdoors in … Meanwhile, in late October 1993, Paramount announced plans to create a new network, the United Paramount Network (UPN), which it would co-own with Chris-Craft Industries. Soon after, he hosted CNBC's America After Hours, and moved to WTXF as the morning host on Good Day Philadelphia before coming to the Fox News Channel in 2002. ", Learn how and when to remove this template message, group composed of the station's executives and employees, 1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, "For the record–Station authorizations, applications–New tv stations", "Roxborough Tower Farm, Philadelphia PA (part II): Fox Tower", "May 2015 Newsletter: 50 years of Channel 29", "Eight new grants; Philadelphia, other TV cities get CPs", "WIP returns ch. The Taft purchase created a large debt load for TVX, and as a result, the company sold a number of its smaller stations. Both transactions involving Viacom and Fox closed on August 25, 1995; three weeks later on September 10, WCAU-TV and KYW-TV swapped their affiliations. Sue Serio joined the FOX 29 News team in 1997 as weather anchor for "Good Day Philadelphia." The source of that success, Driscoll said, is Good Day Philadelphia's "cast of characters," which includes Jerrick, Holley, reporter Steve Keeley, weatherperson Sue Serio, and others. The overall branding of news at this point was Fox News Philadelphia or just Fox News; it is possible that potential viewer confusion with the Fox News Channel played a part in the station's rebranding back to "Fox 29" in 2003. [41] On September 20, 2014, WTXF debuted weekend editions of the Good Day Philadelphia morning newscast (under the title #Fox29Weekend) at 8:00 a.m., which ran for two hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays. "Paramount: Let the bidding begin. WIP radio, then owned by Gimbels department store, was granted an FCC construction permit in November 1952 as part of a wave of UHF station applications and assignments following a four-year-long freeze on permit awards. View production, box office, & company info. [5] Intended to be called WIP-TV, this station did not make it to air as WIP relinquished its construction permit in May 1954.[6]. There is no satellite carriage of the station outside of the Philadelphia market. edition. However, the station passed on picking up any of channel 48's shows, most of which went to WPHL-TV. WTXF-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The broadcast is currently followed by an hour-long weekend edition of the locally produced daily entertainment program The Q hosted by Good Day Philadelphia contributor Quincy Harris.[47][48]. The stations share reporters for stories occurring in New Jersey. Channel 29 ran programs from Taft's archive, such as Hanna-Barbera cartoons, which from 1979 onward were distributed by Worldvision Enterprises (which Taft had purchased), and later on the Quinn Martin library. WIBF-TV struggled at first, in part because it signed on only a year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required television manufacturers to include UHF tuning capability. WIBF-TV was the first commercial UHF station in Philadelphia, and the first of three UHF independents in the Philadelphia market to sign on during 1965, with WPHL-TV (channel 17) and WKBS-TV (channel 48) both making their debuts in September. On March 29, 2010, WTXF expanded Good Day once again with the start time moved back by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m. On September 8, 2010, anchor Kerri-Lee Halkett went on a personal leave; a WTXF representative said that Halkett would return to the station in mid-October of that year. [30] Almost simultaneously, Viacom bought WGBS-TV and made it Philadelphia's UPN outlet. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company, owner of ABC and WPVI-TV, announced its intent to buy WTXF's parent company, 21st Century Fox, for $52.4 billion; the sale excluded the Fox Television Stations unit (including WTXF), the Fox network, Fox News, Fox Sports 1 and the MyNetworkTV programming service, which were transferred to a separate company.[31][32].
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