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In Philadelphia, the wrecking ball is leveling the famed "Concrete Donut" at City Line and Monument, the round studio building that WFIL radio and TV built in 1964 as its state-of-the-art new home. That building replaced the building at 46th and Market that went up in the late forties as one of the first purpose-built TV studios (and the eventual birthplace of "American Bandstand"); by the turn of the century, though, the building had become too cramped for the former WFIL-TV, now WPVI Channel 6. The ABC-owned station built another state-of-the-art building last year right next door to the 1964 building, and the pressing need for more parking on the site meant the end for the "Concrete Donut," shown here in a photo from last September, just after WPVI moved out.
WFIL radio moved out in the early seventies, when longtime owner Triangle sold the radio stations; today's WFIL operates from the Whitemarsh Township studio and transmitter site of its longtime archrival WIBG, now WNTP 990, which would have been unthinkable forty years ago. <snip>
