WPHT is a CBS Radio station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania broadcasting on 1210 kHz. The station broadcasts with 50 kW power omnidirectionally, and uses the nickname " The Big Talker 1210." The station is owned by CBS Radio. Its transmitter is located in Moorestown Township, New Jersey. WPHT's studios are located at 2 Bala Plaza in Bala Cynwyd, PA.
The station first began broadcasting in May 1922 as WCAU, a 250-watt station operating out o...
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WPHT is a CBS Radio station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania broadcasting on 1210 kHz. The station broadcasts with 50 kW power omnidirectionally, and uses the nickname " The Big Talker 1210." The station is owned by CBS Radio. Its transmitter is located in Moorestown Township, New Jersey. WPHT's studios are located at 2 Bala Plaza in Bala Cynwyd, PA.
The station first began broadcasting in May 1922 as WCAU, a 250-watt station operating out of electrician William Durham's home on 19th and Market Streets. It is Philadelphia's third-oldest radio station, having signed on two months after WIP and WFIL. In 1924, WCAU was sold to law partners Ike Levy and Daniel Murphy. Murphy later bowed out in favor of Ike's brother, Leon.
The station began its long association with CBS in 1927, when it was one of 16 charter affiliates of a network called the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. The network struggled to find advertisers, however, and William S. Paley -- who had previously...
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