Editing Philadelphia (section)

===Television===
In the 1930s, [[KYW-TV|W3XE]], an experimental station owned by [[Philco]], launched as Philadelphia's first television station. In 1939, the station became the nation's first [[NBC]]'s first affiliate, and later became [[KYW-TV]], the Philadelphia television market's [[CBS]] affiliate. In 1952, WFIL, later renamed [[WPVI-TV|WPVI]], premiered the television show ''Bandstand'', which later became the nationally broadcast ''[[American Bandstand]]'' hosted by [[Dick Clark]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ogden |first=Christopher |year=1999 |title=Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=New York |isbn=0-316-63379-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/legacybiographyo00ogde }}</ref> In the 1960s, [[WCAU|WCAU-TV]], WFIL-TV, and [[WHYY-TV]] were founded.<ref name="Media" />

Each of the nation's commercial networks has an affiliate in Philadelphia: [[KYW-TV]] 3 (CBS), [[WPVI-TV]] 6 ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), [[WCAU]] 10 (NBC), [[WPHL-TV]] 17 ([[The CW]] with [[MyNetworkTV]] on DT2), [[WFPA-CD]] 28 ([[UniMás]]), [[WTXF-TV]] 29 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), [[WPSG]] 57 (Independent), [[WWSI]] 62 ([[Telemundo]]), and [[WUVP-DT]] 65 ([[Univision]]). The region is served also by [[public broadcasting]] stations [[WPPT (TV)|WPPT-TV]] in Philadelphia, [[WHYY-TV]] in [[Wilmington, Delaware]] and Philadelphia, [[WLVT-TV]] in the [[Lehigh Valley]], and [[NJTV]] in [[New Jersey]].<ref name=TVstations>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvb.org/Public/MarketsStations/Markets/MarketProfile.aspx?@IP_IDENTITY_MCID=0000022835 |title=Market Name: Philadelphia, PA |website=tvb.org |publisher=Television Bureau of Advertising, Inc. |access-date=January 17, 2018 |archive-date=January 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118181221/https://www.tvb.org/Public/MarketsStations/Markets/MarketProfile.aspx?@IP_IDENTITY_MCID=0000022835 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Since September 2024, Philadelphia is the nation's largest television market where at least one of the six English networks are shown at a station not owned by a particular network's associated parent company. The major Spanish language networks are Univision ([[WUVP-DT]]), UniMás ([[WFPA-CD]]), and [[Telemundo]] ([[WWSI|WWSI-TV]]).<ref name=TVstations/>

As of 2023, the Philadelphia [[media market]] is the [[List of television stations in North America by media market|fifth-largest]] in North America with over 7.8 million viewers<ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/791926/leading-tv-markets-united-states/ "Leading TV markets in the United States in 2022/2023, by number of viewers"], [[Statista]]</ref>
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