Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: WGAL-TV began operations on March 18 , 1949 on channel 4 as the fourth television station in Pennsylvania and the first outside Philadelphia beating WDTV ( now KDKA-TV ) in Pittsburgh which began operations in November of that year .
Simplified: WGAL-TV first appeared on television on March 18 , 1949 on channel 4 as the fourth television station in Pennsylvania .