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WPHL-TV: History, Measurement & Companies

WPHL-TV (channel 17), branded as PHL17, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW. The station also maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. Owned and operated by The CW's parent company, Nexstar Media Group, WPHL-TV maintains studios in the Wynnefield section of West…

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WPHL-TV topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Measurement and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around WPHL-TV.

Related topics
115
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
125
Extracted relationships
274
Concept neighborhoods
40
Bridge connections
125

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Tribune Broadcasting ownership · 34 topics
Overview · 31 topics
U.S. Communications ownership · 20 topics
Early history · 8 topics
Nexstar ownership and CW switch · 7 topics
Providence Journal Company ownership · 6 topics
New Taft Broadcasting ownership · 5 topics
Subchannels · 2 topics
Local programming · 1 topics
Notable former on-air staff · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
Nexstar Media Group · (Tribune Media Company)
Affiliations
17.1: The CW · 17.2: Antenna TV/MyNetworkTV · for others, see § Subchannels
Branding
PHL17, PHL17 CW
Call sign meaning
Philadelphia; also IATA code for Philadelphia International Airport
Channels
Digital: 17 (UHF), shared with WUVP-DT · Virtual: 17
ERP
645 kW · 1,000 kW (CP)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early history

U.S. Communications ownership

Providence Journal Company ownership

New Taft Broadcasting ownership

Tribune Broadcasting ownership

Nexstar ownership and CW switch

Local programming

Notable former on-air staff

Subchannels

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How WPHL-TV connects Entity context

The extracted context around WPHL-TV shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, WPHL-TV → Adams, After, American Viscose Corporation, AVC, Baltimore, Baltimore Colts, Big, Carpenter Jr, Communications Corporation, Daniel, December, FCC, In, In November, It, Katz, May, Monday, One, Overmyer Another extracted example is WPHL-TV → Air, As, AVC, Beyond, Bill Giles, Bill O'Brien, Dance Party USA, Dancin, Eddie Bruce, Immediately, In, It, June, Later, O'Brien, Pete Rose, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies, ProJo. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

WPHL-TV

Top relations

related to U.S. Communications ownership · 42
WPHL-TV → Adams, After, American Viscose Corporation, AVC, Baltimore, Baltimore Colts, Big, Carpenter Jr, Communications Corporation, Daniel, December, FCC, In, In November, It, Katz, May, Monday, One, Overmyer
related to Providence Journal Company ownership · 31
WPHL-TV → Air, As, AVC, Beyond, Bill Giles, Bill O'Brien, Dance Party USA, Dancin, Eddie Bruce, Immediately, In, It, June, Later, O'Brien, Pete Rose, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies, ProJo
related to From WB to MyNetworkTV · 27
WPHL-TV → Atlanta, Comcast, Comcast SportsNet, For, Fox Television Stations, KTWB-TV, May, MyNetworkTV, MyPHL17, NBC, NBC Sports Philadelphia, On January, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies, Seattle, The, The CW, The WB, Tribune Broadcasting
related to New Taft Broadcasting ownership · 26
WPHL-TV → At, By, Dudley Taft, Dudley Taft Communications, Five, Grant Broadcasting System, June, MCA, Milton Grant, News, Odyssey, Odyssey Partners, Odyssey's, On July, Philadelphia, ProJo, Randy Smith, Seven, Taft, Taft Broadcasting
related to WPHL-TV: Independent station relaunch · 26
WPHL-TV → Aaron Jerome Katz, After, Among, August, Channel, Company, Delaware, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, It, January, June, Katz, Len Stevens, May, Philadelphia, September, Sid Mark, The, The Philadelphia Television Broadcasting
related to Acquisition · 24
WPHL-TV → Broadcasting, Days, Dudley Taft, FCC, Great American Communications Company, High Point, In, January, KYW-TV, Mummers Parade, New Year's Day, New York City, North Carolina, November, Taft, Taft Broadcasting, The, The WB, Tribune, Tribune Broadcasting
related to Inquirer News Tonight · 23
WPHL-TV → After, August, Buffalo, Cincinnati, December, In January, Inquirer, Inquirer News Tonight, Its, Jim Watkins, Jonathan Storm, Knight-Ridder, KR Video, Other, September, The, The Inquirer, The Inquirer's, The Newspaper Guild's, The Philadelphia Inquirer
related to WB17 News at Ten and news outsourcing · 17
WPHL-TV → After, December, In, Inquirer News Tonight, June, KYW-TV, National League, Philadelphia Eagles, Phillies, Steve Highsmith, Ten, The, The WB, This, Toni Yates, WB17 News, WPSG
related to Newscasts · 15
WPHL-TV → Action News, After, EyeOpener, Initially, It, Morning Dose, PHL17, September, The, Tribune, WCAU, WCAU-produced, WPHL's, WPVI's, WPVI-TV
related to Subchannels · 10
WPHL-TV → In, June, October, Philadelphia, Roxborough, The, United States, Univision, WUVP, WUVP-DT

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

station channel philadelphia 17 new news broadcasting newscast tribune group phillies company stations taft games television air cw 10 communications

WPHL-TV relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 274 structured relationships around WPHL-TV. Examples in this analysis include WPHL-TV → Affiliations → 17.1: The CW and WPHL-TV → Affiliations → 17.2: Antenna TV/MyNetworkTV. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WPHL-TVAffiliations17.1: The CW1.00infobox
WPHL-TVAffiliations17.2: Antenna TV/MyNetworkTV1.00infobox
WPHL-TVAffiliationsfor others, see § Subchannels1.00infobox
WPHL-TVBrandingPHL17, PHL17 CW1.00infobox
WPHL-TVCall sign meaningPhiladelphia; also IATA code for Philadelphia International Airport1.00infobox
WPHL-TVChannelsDigital: 17 (UHF), shared with WUVP-DT1.00infobox
WPHL-TVChannelsVirtual: 171.00infobox
WPHL-TVERP645 kW1.00infobox
WPHL-TVERP1,000 kW (CP)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFacility ID738791.00infobox
WPHL-TVFirst air dateJuly 17, 1960 (1960-07-17)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer affiliationsIndependent (1960–1962, 1965–1995)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer affiliationsDark (1962–1965)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer affiliationsUnited (1967)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer affiliationsThe WB (1995–2006)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer affiliationsMyNetworkTV (2006–2023, now on 17.2)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer call signsWKDN-TV (CP, 1954–1959)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer call signsWPCA-TV (1959–1962)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer channel numbersAnalog: 17 (UHF, 1960–2009)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVFormer channel numbersDigital: 54 (UHF, 2002–2009)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVHAAT324 m (1,063 ft)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVHAAT321 m (1,053 ft) (CP)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVLicensing authorityFCC1.00infobox
WPHL-TVOwnerNexstar Media Group1.00infobox
WPHL-TVOwner(Tribune Media Company)1.00infobox
WPHL-TVPublic license informationPublic file1.00infobox
WPHL-TVPublic license informationLMS1.00infobox
WPHL-TVTransmitter coordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
WPHL-TVWebsitephl17.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around WPHL-TV bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Philadelphia, Stations and Channel. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • WPHL-TV
    • Philadelphia
    • Stations
    • Channel
    • Station
    • New
    • Tribune
    • Independent
    • Broadcasting
    • Company
    • Group
    • Cw
    • News
  • wphl-tv
    • Philadelphia
    • Stations
    • Channel
    • Station
    • New
    • Tribune
    • Independent
    • Broadcasting
    • Company
    • Group
    • Cw
    • News
  • television station
    • New
    • Air
    • Broadcasting
    • Philadelphia
    • Communications
    • Wphl-tv
    • Taft
    • Independent
    • Company
    • Group
    • Stations
    • First
  • philadelphia
    • Games
    • Broadcast
    • Wphl-tv
    • Phillies
    • Station
    • Three
    • Became
    • Cw
    • Season
    • Broadcasting
    • Uhf
    • Sports
  • the cw
    • Mynetworktv
    • Wb
    • Stations
    • Tribune
    • Philadelphia
    • Acquired
    • Group
    • Wphl-tv
    • Broadcasting
    • New
    • Uhf
    • Independent
  • nexstar media group
    • Communications
    • Acquired
    • Taft
    • Station
    • Tribune
    • Uhf
    • Wphl-tv
    • Broadcasting
    • One
    • Broadcast
    • Philadelphia
    • New
  • west philadelphia
    • Games
    • Broadcast
    • Wphl-tv
    • Phillies
    • Station
    • Three
    • Became
    • Cw
    • Season
    • Broadcasting
    • Uhf
    • Sports
  • independent stations
    • Uhf
    • Three
    • Wphl-tv
    • Stations
    • Sale
    • Station
    • Communications
    • Television
    • Tribune
    • Two
    • New
    • Mynetworktv

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For WPHL-TV, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects WPHL-TV with Tribune Broadcasting ownership. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
WPHL-TV — Tribune Broadcasting ownership · splits 91 ⟂ 35
WPHL-TV — Overview · splits 94 ⟂ 32
WPHL-TV — U.S. Communications ownership · splits 105 ⟂ 21
WPHL-TV — Early history · splits 117 ⟂ 9
WPHL-TV — Nexstar ownership and CW switch · splits 118 ⟂ 8
WPHL-TV — Providence Journal Company ownership · splits 119 ⟂ 7
WPHL-TV — New Taft Broadcasting ownership · splits 120 ⟂ 6
WPHL-TV — Subchannels · splits 123 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

WPHL-TV

Nodes126
Edges125
Triples274
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015873
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around WPHL-TV to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Measurement & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — WPHL-TV · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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