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Action News is a local television newscast format in the United States.

First conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it is characterized by a tight format with strict time limits on set packages, a focus on surrounding suburbs, and a focus on young talent.

It was a competitor to the "Eyewitness News" format.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,442 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area.

Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

WPVI-TV, channel 6, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

WPVI maintains studios located on City Line Avenue (US 1) in the Wynnefield Heights section of Philadelphia, and its transmitter is located in Philadelphia's Roxborough neighborhood.

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, and on the southwest by Delaware.

New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States.

New Jersey lies entirely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and is the third-wealthiest U.S. state by per capita income as of 2014.

Delaware is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic and/or Northeastern regions of the United States.

It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the northeast by New Jersey, and to the north by Pennsylvania.

The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor.