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Full-power digital · channel 17 · PHILADELPHIA, PA
| Facility ID | 73879 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | TRIBUNE MEDIA COMPANY |
| Community of licence | PHILADELPHIA, PA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 40.04192, -75.23942 |
| Effective radiated power | 645 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 389 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://phl17.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 16
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W03CJ-D | 3 | LPT | |
| WPVI-TV | 6 | DTV | WPVI TELEVISION (PHILADELPHIA), LLC |
| facility 794768 | 8 | LPD | |
| WPPT | 9 | DTV | LEHIGH VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| facility 794230 | 11 | LPD | |
| facility 794162 | 12 | LPD | |
| WDUM-LD | 16 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| WPHA-CD | 24 | DCA | WBC LLC |
| WTXF-TV | 25 | DRT | FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, LLC |
| WCAU | 28 | DTV | NBC TELEMUNDO LICENSE LLC |
| WELL-LD | 29 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| KYW-TV | 30 | DTV | CBS BROADCASTING INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WPHL-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WPHL-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.