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

WCAU (disambiguation)

WCAU may refer to:*WCAU, a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.*WPHT, a radio station broadcasting at 1210 kHz on the AM band in Philadelphia, previous call was WCAU...

WCAU, channel 10, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network

NBC

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, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

. WCAU has its studios on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

Bala Cynwyd is a community in Lower Merion Township which is located on the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia at US Route 1 . It was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but is commonly treated as a single community...

. It broadcasts a high definition

High-definition television

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 digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter in the Roxborough

Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 neighborhood. Its signal covers the Delaware Valley

Delaware Valley

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 area including Philadelphia, parts of central and southern New Jersey

New Jersey

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, and Delaware

Delaware

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.