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WCAU

WCAU (channel 10) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Mount Laurel, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo outlet WWSI (channel 62); it is also sister to regional sports network NBC Sports Philadelphia.

For broadcast stations that previously used the WCAU call sign, see WCAU (disambiguation).

NBC 10

September 1946

May 23, 1948 (1948-05-23)

  • WPEN-TV (1946–1947)
  • WCAU-TV (1947–1995)

  • Analog: 10 (VHF, 1948–2009)
  • Digital: 67 (UHF, 1998–2009), 34 (UHF, 2009–2019)

CBS (1948–1995)

Taken from WCAU radio, randomly assigned

FCC

63153

745 kW

399.8 m (1,311.7 ft)

40°2′30.1″N 75°14′10.1″W / 40.041694°N 75.236139°W / 40.041694; -75.236139

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

WCAU and WWSI share studios in the Comcast Technology Center on Arch Street in Center City, with some operations remaining at their former main studio at the corner of City Avenue and Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd. Through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WCAU's spectrum from a tower in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

Location

1622 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

39°57′19″N 75°10′27″W / 39.95528°N 75.17417°W / 39.95528; -75.17417

1931

Harry Sternfeld; Multiple

Modern Movement, Art Deco

83002281[14]

January 27, 1983

– anchor

Tracy Davidson

– anchor

Keith Jones

Out-of-market carriage[edit]

WCAU is carried in central and southern New Jersey on certain cable systems that generally receive local channels from New York. It is available from Comcast in select towns in southern Middlesex County, on digital channel 253, being moved there in December 2007 from analog channel 10 to "preserve bandwidth". In Monmouth County, WCAU is carried on Optimum Monmouth and Monmouth/Wall. All of Ocean County receives WCAU on Comcast and Cablevision systems, and for Ocean County Comcast subscribers, WCAU is on digital channel 253, for the same reasons above.


Comcast transmits WCAU to most of Sussex County in Delaware, except for Fenwick Island as the town uses former TCI (now Comcast) service, on channel 10. It is the only Philadelphia local channel remaining on the Limited Analog Service. Mediacom and Verizon FiOS do not broadcast WCAU in Sussex County.


Comcast and Blue Ridge Communications also carry WCAU in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Official website