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WHYY-TV first got on air as the second educational television station in Pennsylvania (WQED in Pittsburgh was the first two years before) in September of 1957, broadcasting locally produced educational programs from the old WCAU studios. However, they weren’t on channel 12. The station started off on channel 35, which meant they didn’t have a lot of viewers, since they were a UHF station and most televisions of the era had no UHF tuners. WHYY-FM had already gotten on air three years before.

Philadelphia-born and internationally acclaimed musician Teddy Pendergrass has been working in the music industry since 1968, performing as both a drummer and singer. In 1976, he started his career as a solo artist and became the first black male singer to record five multi-platinum albums in a row.

- Waterway status update: it's once again ok to get wet in the Schuylkill (although we don't know why you'd want to), but it's probably a good idea to keep giving Wissahickon Creek a pass.

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If you're not busy watching the Phillies play the Mets tomorrow night at 7, there's plenty of other Philly-related activity on TV. Although Philadelphia native Krystal was ousted from the guilty pleasure reality show Beauty and the Geek (WB, 9 p.m.), current Philly medical resident Chuck remains— and he just may end up duking it out with übergeek Richard. Or, for your old school viewing pleasure, WFMZ has a full hour every weeknight of perpetual Temple graduation speaker Bill Cosby's old sitcom, The Cosby Show (WFMZ, 8 p.m). Unfortunately, the "Cousin Pam" years are currently in rotation, so you might want to skip this all together and tune into the Discovery Channel's "America's Volcanoes: Sitting on a Powder Keg" (DSC, 8 p.m.), which will make you stop fantasizing about catching a breeze on a California beach and kiss the dirty -- but rock-solid -- Philadelphia sidewalks.