Donovan's expertise in consumer issues is now being put to use at KYW-TV where he developed the 3-On Your Side consumer unit. In addition, a television simulcast of KYW's 5 to 8 a.m. block called KYW Newsradio 1060 This Morning aired on co-owned WPSG (channel 57) in the early 2000s, adapting KYW's "news blocks" to television. Interact with KYW Newsradio: News tips for the KYW Newsroom: desk@kywnewsradio.com or 855-KYW-NEWS (599-6397) Comments or complaints about something you heard: newsprgm@kywnewsradio.com. Russell left the station on December 26, 2008. Contact Us. The experiment with different newscast names ended after almost three years in 1994, just before it became a CBS station, when the station began calling its newscasts KYW News 3, with familiar Philadelphia anchors Larry Kane (from rival WCAU-TV) and Stephanie Stahl (from Miami's WSVN) coming on board. The next day, on July 1, it was announced that Ukee Washington would be moved from mornings to weeknights to co-anchor with Dean (marking the second time that Washington would be shifted to anchoring weeknights as he had previously anchored the 5 p.m. newscast with Dawn Stensland), while Kate Bilo would take over Orr's slots and become the station's Chief Meteorologist, with morning meteorologist Katie Fehlinger also reporting for the noon newscast, replacing Bilo. [39] She has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau. His work at KYW has earned him eleven Emmy Awards and an additional fifteen Emmy nominations. After the affiliation and ownership swap on September 10, 1995, WNBC did not object to their now NBC co-owned sister station WCAU continuing to be carried in southern Middlesex County on Comcast (then Channel 39), though Comcast did not restore the now CBS-owned KYW to the system for another twelve years. This byline is for a different person with the same name. [43], In January 2008, 6 and 11 p.m. news anchor Alycia Lane was fired weeks after she was arrested in New York City the month prior for hitting a female police officer and calling her a "dyke". Restaurants. 1. If a situation arises to where CBS programming is preempted by local news coverage, the programs can be shifted to sister station WPSG. Mendte had been the lead anchor at that station when it defeated WPVI in the ratings for the first time in 30 years. [6] NBC took over operation of WPTZ and KYW in late January 1956;[7] on February 13, 1956, channel 3's call letters were changed to WRCV-TV (in reference to the RCA-Victor record label; KYW radio adopted the WRCV calls as well).[8]. [60], On June 30, 2015, station management fired longtime lead anchor Chris May, Chief Meteorologist Kathy Orr, and Sports Director Beasley Reece without any advance warning in a move that shocked many viewers. However, at the time NBC was far less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks and was rather perturbed at losing valuable advertising in the nation's fourth-largest market. No description has been provided for this business. Phone: 1-888-225-5322; TTY: 1-888-835-5322; ASL Video Call: 1-844-432-2275; ASL Call Portal (Web) Fax: 1-866-418-0232; Contact Us Twitter; Facebook; Youtube; Flickr; Instagram At one point, in the fall of 1980, KYW-TV preempted NBC's entire morning schedule after the Today show. Channel 3 used an updated version written in 2003 for New York City sister station WCBS-TV. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with CW East Coast flagship WPSG (channel 57). In September of the same year Don Bell would return to CBS3 to take over Reese's former position as Sports Director and weeknight sports anchor, leaving Fox Sports 1 after previously having been a weekend sports anchor at CBS3 from 2005 to 2010. Philco engineers created much of the station's equipment, including cameras. [19] Group W, as Westinghouse's broadcasting division was known by this time, took over a transmitter facility far superior to the one it relinquished in 1956. KYW-TV was the only Philadelphia market station participating in the "Analog Nightlight" program, and did so through July 12, 2009. When full broadcasting was resumed, the station reactivated its studio in the Architect's Building, remaining there until 1947. [53] The firing came as a result of the arrest being the second incident that Lane was involved in within a year. About Us. Then the next pattern is a man holding a Zappos ad, then back to an original W3XE Philco test pattern with "KYW-TV Philadelphia" added at the bottom for about 90 seconds, and then fades to the final screen with the famous CBS eyemark and the word "Goodbye" in the corporate CBS typeface on the bottom. For most of the next 20 years, KYW-TV was a very distant third behind WPVI-TV and WCAU-TV. In April 2007, KYW-TV became the third Philadelphia television station to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high definition; the switch coincided with the station's move from its former Independence Mall studios to its new facility on Hamilton Street. MEDIA ACTION GUIDE Updated January 2019 TV STATIONS CBS 3 – Eyewitness News 1555 Hamilton Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 John Wilson, News Director Email – wilson@kyw.com Phone (215) 977-5333 Website www.cbsphilly.com Email – newsdesk@cbs3.com 6ABC WPVI-TV 4100 City Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19131 Tom Davis, News Director Phone (215) 878-9700 #21 News Tip Line:#6abc … For most of the 1970s, KYW-TV traded first place with WFIL/WPVI. Westinghouse had moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland after the swap, and channel 3 became KYW-TV upon the company regaining control of the Philadelphia outlets. When the station began operations as W3XE, it was based within Philco's production plant, at C and East Tioga streets in North Philadelphia, c… The production arm of Westinghouse Broadcasting was partially responsible for the preemptions, as channel 3 (along with its sister stations in the Group W chain) aired shows produced and syndicated by Group W, such as The Mike Douglas Show (whose production moved from Cleveland to the Walnut Street studio Philadelphia in 1965, and then taped at Independence Mall East until 1978), The David Frost Show and the Westinghouse franchise Evening Magazine (with was broadcast on non-Westinghouse owned stations airing their own versions of the latter show as PM Magazine). Additionally, the two stations cooperate in the gathering of news in New Jersey where their markets overlap; sharing reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. Biden lays out COVID-19 strategy on first full day in office; National Guard allowed to rest in Capitol during shifts again [4] The WPTZ call letters are now used for the NBC affiliate in Plattsburgh, New York. The station signed on for the first time on September 1, becoming the first licensed television station in Pennsylvania. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, along with CW station WPSG (channel 57) and several radio stations, including KYW (1060 AM). Near Me. The change proved successful, as KYW moved ahead of WCAU at 11:00 and came within a point of knocking off WPVI in the time slot. but during the changes later in 1991, production was moved over to Hubbard Broadcasting's All News Channel, where they were produced until 2000. Kane anchored the 11:00 p.m. broadcast solo, while Stahl anchored the 6:00 p.m. report, first with Bruce Hamilton, then with Pittsburgh's Don Cannon (though due to potential confusion with a local radio DJ also named Don Cannon, he went under his birth name of Don Clark while at KYW; he left in 1998 for sister KDKA). KYW-TV, channel 3, is a CBS owned and operated television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The new building, which is wired for high definition newscasts, is the fourth studio in the station's 75-year history. http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/station/cbs-3/, Philadelphia Weather: Fire Department Shares Safety Tips With Biting Cold Temperatures Here To Stay. 19 likes. Also in 2003, KYW-TV became a factor in the Philadelphia news race for the first time in over 20 years. In a case of especially bad timing, Crim left for WBBM-TV in Chicago in May 1977, and Savitch left for NBC News three months later. KYW-TV, channel 3, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. KYW was removed from Storer systems in Middlesex County on September 1, 1993. As compensation for the loss of stations, NBC and CBS traded broadcasting facilities in Miami. View larger map. On September 3, 2018, Decades was replaced by Start TV. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. However, in 1977, WPVI beat KYW-TV in most timeslots by a wide margin during a sweeps period. KYW-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 30), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Then, in September 2003, the station lured Larry Mendte away from WCAU. On October 19, 2009, KYW dropped its noon newscast in favor of launching a local talk show called TalkPhilly, which left WPVI as the only station in the market to run a noon newscast (WCAU airs their midday newscast at 11:00 a.m. while WTXF does not air a newscast at noon). Other Television Stations Nearby. The investigation revealed that he had hacked Lane's email account at the station and had not only been secretly reading thousands of Lane's emails from her account during and after her employment at the station on multiple occasions, but also passing them on to gossip columnists. KYW-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. After being rebuffed by Westinghouse on several occasions, NBC threatened to drop its affiliation from WPTZ and Westinghouse's other NBC television affiliate, WBZ-TV in Boston, unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade. ", Learn how and when to remove this template message, National Museum of American Jewish History, 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, W3XE/WPTZ-TV's early history, from the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, Another page on W3XE/WPTZ's early history, from the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, "Westinghouse buys WPTZ (TV) for record $8.5 million. During this period, KYW maintained an unusually low local news output for a Big Three network station in a Top 10 market and, at two hours per day for much of its waning years with NBC, among the lowest out of the Group W stations; channel 3 discontinued its noon newscast to accommodate lower-rated NBC Daytime programs at the start of 1991, and scaled its early-evening newscast down to a half-hour at 6:00 to carry first-run syndicated programs during the entirety of the 5:00 p.m. hour in September 1992. In 2000, the combined company was purchased by Viacom. Remember to … However, after Westinghouse offered to sell CBS a minority stake in KYW-TV, CBS agreed to move its affiliation to channel 3 and put channel 10 up for sale.[22]. Over the years, NBC contracted independent stations WPHL-TV, WTAF-TV/WTXF-TV, WKBS-TV, and WGTW-TV to air programs preempted by channel 3; most of the preempted programs aired on WMGM-TV, which served as the NBC affiliate for Atlantic City until 2014. 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