[42][43][44][45], On September 12, 2022, the station launched an additional hour-long newscast in the 9 a.m. time slot, Eyewitness News @ 9AM. In September 2021, Peterson would depart the station after four years to explore another career path. ", "The great swap takes place June 19; Westinghouse, NBC return to original properties. A native of Minnesota, Mr. Leonard came to Philadelphia from Indianapolis in 1958 to anchor a 15-minute news program on Channel 3 when it was WRCV-TV, according to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia. [85] The analog-to-digital conversion commenced when the station cut to a reproduction of an original W3XE test pattern, with a voiceover announcing the switch to digital. Scott Hennessee . Channel 3's newscasts, anchored by Vince Leonard starting in 1958 (during its stint as NBC-owned WRCV-TV), had long been second behind WCAU-TV, but the new format catapulted KYW-TV to first place. [71] Among those laid off were general assignment reporter Crystal Cranmore, South Jersey Bureau reporter Cleve Bryan, and general assignment reporter/fill-in anchor Chantee Lans. [3] Williams had previously filed a complaint to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission shortly after being terminated as weekend anchor. KYW-TV cooperates with sister station WCBS-TV in the production and broadcast of statewide New Jersey political debates. GoGoMag.com & TVHeads.com are not affiliated with ABC, Al Jazeera America, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, ESPN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Sports, NBC, NFL Network, The Weather . In May 2022, weekend evening meteorologist Lauren Casey would also depart the station to work with Climate Central to focus on the science behind global climate change. On April 2, 2007, KYW-TV and WPSG moved to a new broadcast complex located at 1555 Hamilton Street near Center City Philadelphia, across from the Community College of Philadelphia[26] and near Fairmount Park. In 1941, it began sharing programs with W2XBS (later WNBT and now WNBC) in New York City, becoming NBC's second television affiliate, and creating a link between the station and the network that would last for 54 years. On October 29, 2018, Dean's position as Ukee Washington's co-anchor was filled by Jessica Kartalija who came from KYW's sister station, WJZ-TV in Baltimore. Nakano made the announcement on social media Tuesday, saying, "I'm excited. For the last decade, KYW-TV has waged a spirited battle with WCAU for second place behind WPVI. Station management said the edited video was taken out of context and the personalities have a mutual respect for one another. You can click. Additionally, during another meeting Dunn turned to Cronan and in front of several other staff members asked her "Are you a (expletive) idiot?" 6ABC) continues to dominate with its newscasts despite having its digital signal on interference-prone channel 6. The 4:00p.m. newscast moved back to the 5:00p.m. timeslot with The Oprah Winfrey Show ending in 2011 and WPVI starting its own hour-long 4:00p.m. newscast. Both stations share studios on Hamilton Street north of Center City, Philadelphia, while KYW-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Roxborough section. For most of the next 20 years, KYW-TV was a very distant third behind WPVI-TV and WCAU-TV. Former WJLA Chief Meteorologist Bill Kelly would be hired by KYW to become the new Chief Meteorologist in January 2023 and Abreu would be leaving the station a month later after three years for a new assignment in Florida. KYW-TV presently broadcasts 41 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 35 minutes each weekday; 4 hours, 5 minutes on Saturdays and 4 hours on Sundays). Mr. Leonard, who had been battling liver cancer, died Friday, March 30, in Las Vegas, where he lived in retirement. Megyn Marie Kelly- Fox News. Jay Scott Smith will move parttime to afternoon anchor, while former WCAU-TV anchor Denise Nakano takes middays. Leonard, Crim and Savitch were joined at the anchor desk in 1976 by native Philadelphian Jack Jones, who at WCAU-TV had become the city's first African-American news anchor. When current KTTV Good Day LA anchor Brooke Thomas was hired by KYW to become anchor of the morning newscast in April 2016 to replace Erika von Tiehl who had left the station a month earlier, many had thought that she was a great addition to co-anchor alongside Jim Donovan. [22] NBC emerged as the winner for channel 10, having fought a bidding war against New World Communications and Fox.[23]. A former KYW anchor, who left in 2018 to join CNN as a Washington correspondent, will now serve as the network's congressional correspondent.. Jessica Dean will transition into the new role . WTXF-TV (a.k.a. Irv Cross, of course, was not alone in misery among his former NFL brethren. The station originally broadcast from a tower in the Philadelphia suburb of Wyndmoor. In 1989, Williams rejoined KYW-TV as co-anchor of the 6 and 11pm newscasts with Steve Bell and KYW ran a "Beverly's Back" campaign in 1989. CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for a minority stake in KYW-TV. She anchored the now-defunct noon broadcast with Tim Lake for few years. C.J. Meade is the lead news anchor for her self-titled show, the Morning Express with Robin Meade. [24] To solve this problem, CBS, NBC and Group W entered into a complex ownership/affiliation deal in late 1994. She started her mediacareer after her master's degree. Her career began in Chicago as a reporter for WFLD-TV before joining MSNBC and NBC News in 2007. KYW is a class A AM radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. First published on November 16, 2021 / 9:46 AM. As a result, channel 3 stayed in the ratings basement. Click on their name to find out about them. ", "Philadelphia circle is complete," and "Nine-year history of that trade in Philadelphia. Also in 2003, KYW-TV became a factor in the Philadelphia news race for the first time in over 20 years. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- WKYC Channel 3 anchor and reporter Will Ujek said farewell to the station over the weekend. Several more Black reporters would leave the station at this time including Justin Finch who is now a reporter for ABC,[74] and Steve Patterson who would leave and become a reporter for NBC. [63], Additionally, it was learned that Mendte was also hacking into the email of another coworker at the station, current WRC-TV Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer. Like other CBS-owned stations, KYW-TV offers a web-only newscast called CBS 3 At Your Desk, shown daily. Russell left the station on December 26, 2008. Around this same time, sister station KYW radio became one of the first all-news radio stations in the country. [83], KYW-TV and WPSG both shifted their frequencies on August 1, 2019 as part of the FCC's 5G network spectrum reallocation, with KYW-TV shifting from channel 26 to channel 30, and experiencing technical issues with over-the-air reception due to the repack. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate WPSG (channel 57). KYW-TV's CBS Eyewitness News announced Monday that Llarisa Abreu will take over weekday mornings at the station from 4:30-7 a.m. Abreu comes to Philadelphia from San Deigo's KNSD, where she. [36] She has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau. A couple months later, Jones joined KYW-TV on December 1st of 1976. Channel 3 used an updated version written in 2003 for New York City sister station WCBS-TV. Crim discussed attending the "Anchorman" premiere, his time in Philadelphia, and more with Eyewitness News anchor Jim Donovan. Former CBS Philly news executive Brien Kennedy sued the company, saying he was fired for cooperating in an internal investigation about Dunn's attitudes. When the station began operations as W3XE, it was based within Philco's production plant, at C and East Tioga streets in North Philadelphia, complete with a small studio and transmitter. 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After NBC assumed the broadcast contract to what had become the American Football Conference of the NFL in 1970, the station also aired all Philadelphia Eagles games in which they played host to an AFC team, doing so until 1995; they resumed broadcasting Eagles games (again, usually when the team plays against the AFC team at home) after the station joined CBS when the network acquired the AFC package from NBC in the 1998 season. The 4 p.m. newscast has since been co-anchored by 6 p.m. co-anchor Susan Barnett. Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American television journalist and author, best known for being the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004). After this incident, Chenault-Fattah left the station on February 24, 2016. [67] Brewer left CBS 3 in June 2018 to spend more time with her family. Then in March 1995, she was promoted to the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news. [39] Bilo announced via social media in December 2022 that she would step down as Chief Meteorologist and scale back her schedule to be able to spend more time with her family. She then moved to Philadelphia in 1975 and joined KYW-TV as weekend anchor becoming the first black woman to anchor in the Philadelphia market. [40][41], On July 18, 2022, the weather forecasting was officially branded as NeXt Weather in accordance with a branding plan for O&O weather forecasts to either be branded as NeXt Weather or First Alert Weather. Ukee Washington was already in position to go on air but his usual co-anchor at the time, Jessica Dean, was not available. When Viacom became CBS Corporation in 2006 (after spinning off its basic cable networks and the Paramount film studio into a new Viacom), CBS retained all related terrestrial broadcasting interests, including KYW-AM-TV and WPSG. Tom Brokaw. [17][18] Following nearly a year of appeals by NBC, Westinghouse regained control of WRCV-AM-TV on June 19, 1965. The following is a list of the members of KYW's "CBS-3 Eyewitness News" team. The couple together has a daughter named Chandler Fattah. Mendte had been the lead anchor at that station when it defeated WPVI in the ratings for the first time in 30 years. Additionally, the two stations cooperate in the gathering of news in New Jersey where their markets overlap; sharing reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. There, he anchored the noon report. KYW is not available to Cablevision customers in Lakewood, Seaside Heights and southern Monmouth County, even though Cablevision carries other Philadelphia stations on these systems. 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[27][28][29], On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).[30]. Shortly after Westinghouse regained control of KYW-TV in 1965, news director Al Primo popularized the Eyewitness News format and branding. In September 2018, Jessica Dean announced that she would be leaving the station after five years to pursue another assignment. If a situation arises to where CBS programming is preempted by local news coverage, the programs can be shifted to sister station WPSG. NBC realized WRCV-TV's existing tower was inadequate for this enlarged market. KYW Newsradio Inducts Three New Members Into Its Hall of Fame | Barrett Media DirecTV and Dish Network do not carry any Philadelphia stations in any area outside the Philadelphia market. [81] On January 16, 2015, Decades started after eight minutes of a test pattern that occurred first with the CBS Philly Plus ticker and then one minute later with a test pattern without the CBS Philly Plus ticker. The revelation was uncovered as part of an independent investigation into the allegations that were leveled against former CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves from 2018. ", "Philco drops off of ch. You can watch the whole interview with Crim in the player above. Evening News Anchor. It is currently second in most timeslots, while WPVI continues to dominate with its newscasts despite having its digital signal on interference-prone channel 6. A previous incident in May 2007 saw Lane be penalized after it was learned that she had sent a photo of herself in a bikini via the station's email to her friend, NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen. This article is about the television station that used the WPTZ callsign from 1941 to 1956. It continued to heavily preempt NBC programming, much to the network's chagrin. She then started to work as a clerk for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. 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. Steve Keeley Steve Keeley is a general assignment reporter for "Good Day Philadelphia," weekdays from 4 to 10 a.m. Bob. Westinghouse bought CBS outright in late 1995, making KYW-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station. Williams solo anchored the weekend evening news for eight years expanding from 1992 to 2000. Pricing; API; Companies; . [70], On May 27, 2020, KYW-TV laid off more than twelve Eyewitness News employees and on-air personnel in response to several factors affecting the station's parent company ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global), including a corporate restructuring due to the merger of Viacom and CBS Corporation in December 2019 and the decline of advertising revenue in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. On February 2, 2009, KYW's news department began broadcasting a 10pm newscast on sister station WPSG. The station's digital channel is multiplexed: Digital subchannel 2.2, branded as CBS Philly Plus, was launched in November 2011 as a 24-hour news channel drawing upon the resources of KYW-TV, KYW radio (1060 AM), WPHT (1210 AM), and WIP (610 AM and 94.1 FM). Before Harris Faulkner was breaking barriers as the only African American woman to host a daily news show, she got her start as a news delivery - writing for the LA Weekly. Afternoon anchor Ian Bush will move to morning co-anchor, joining Carol. [61] The firing came as a result of the arrest being the second incident that Lane was involved in within a year. Download Our Apps. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley Kennedy stated to Dunn that he was not in agreement with the sentiment expressed by Dunn. Philadelphia is the nation's fourth-largest TV market, and CBS' station there KYW-TV Channel 3 has long trailed rivals ABC and NBC. She is also called as Renee Y. Chenault. [11] Several months later in early 1960, NBC announced it would trade the WRCV stations to RKO General in exchange for its Boston outlets, WNAC-AM-FM-TV. KYW was removed from Storer systems in Middlesex County on September 1, 1993. Orlando Sanchez joined the KGW team in Portland, Oregon, in September 2016 as sports anchor and sports reporter for KGW News, Sports Sunday and Friday Night Flights. This package, like the majority of themes for CBS' owned-and-operated stations, is based on "Channel 2 News", written in 1975 for WBBM-TV in Chicago (known as "I Love Chicago, Chicago, My Home"; ironically, WCAU-TV used music based on this theme for its last decade as a CBS-owned station). For over 20 years, Tamron Hall has worked as a broadcast journalist. Her bio and details about her work can be found on wiki pages and other websites. The previous summer, it persuaded WPVI-TV's longtime 5:00p.m. anchor, Marc Howard, to jump ship to anchor its 11:00 news. [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. [32] Primo used the cue "007" from the film From Russia with Love as the theme. Fox 29) leads in prime time programming. Former news open seen nightly at 11. Malcolm Poindexter (1967) Robin Mackintosh (9/1970) Beverly Williams (1975-81/89-) Marge Pala (1978) Carol Erickson (1978-84/91) Tom Lamaine (1979) Dick Standish (1979) Walt Hunter (1980) Among the central figures cited as being victimized by Dunn and Friend are long-time anchor Ukee Washington, who is Black, morning anchor Jim Donovan, who is openly gay, and former KYW news director and vice president Margaret Cronan. However, in 1977, WPVI beat KYW-TV in most timeslots by a wide margin during a sweeps period. 11. . The switch coincided with the station's move from its former Independence Mall studios to its new facility on Hamilton Street. Jessica Dean, who had joined CBS 3 just two years earlier and anchored alongside May, Orr and Reece, was the only member of their broadcast team to avoid being fired. [25] The final NBC program aired on KYW-TV was a rerun of Saturday Night Live, which began at 11:30p.m. on September 9, 1995, the day that channel 3 ended its 54-year affiliation with the network and became a CBS affiliate; NBC moved all of its programming locally to WCAU after the program ended. [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]. 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. ${paramValue} on Audacy: Listen to Free Radio Online | Music, Sports, News, Podcasts He broadcast beside Vince Leonard and Jessica Savitch. [12][13] As regulators sifted through that multi-level transaction, Philco Corporation, the original operators of WPTZ and by this point owned by the Ford Motor Company, interjected itself into the dispute by first protesting the FCC's 1957 renewal of NBC's licenses for the WRCV stations. Channel 3's ratings went into rapid decline. In 2005, KYW-TV ditched "News In Focus" in favor of another "Channel 2 News"-based tune, "The Enforcer" (a.k.a. The FBI ultimately decided that while the evidence regarding the Kammerer hack was credible, it was not strong enough to warrant additional charges against Mendte. It's studios are located @ 400 Market Street in Center City (downtown . Group W eventually struck an agreement to switch KYW-TV, WBZ-TV, and WJZ-TV to CBS (Westinghouse already had two CBS affiliates in its portfolio at the time, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and KPIX-TV in San Francisco). Now she's the New Chief of Foreign Affair Correspondent . Starting Nov. 15, Siafa Lewis will anchor Eyewitness News at 4PM with Natasha Brown. This came to an end when NBC O&O WNBC requested that Storer Cable's southern Middlesex County system stop carrying a second NBC affiliate in the New York market. Kathy Orr, weekend weathercaster at WCAU, also moved to channel 3. On February 2, 2009, KYW began to produce a nightly prime time newscast at 10:00p.m. for sister station and CW network flagship WPSG, Eyewitness News at 10 on The CW Philly. (Television News Anchor, Journalist and Co-Host of News Show 'Fox & Friends') 34 18 Birthdate: September 20, 1976 Sun Sign: Virgo Birthplace: Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States Ainsley Earhardt is an American journalist and television personality known for her association with Fox News. CBS 3 itself was mentioned as having been affected by the actions of Dunn and Friend on several occasions. [48] In January 2022, the streaming channel name was changed to CBS News Philly and later to CBS News Philadelphia in conjunction with a similar rebranding of the national service. One high-profile instance involved the promotion of Ukee Washington from morning news anchor to lead evening anchor in 2015 after Chris May was fired. The Plus service was eventually planned to be rolled out to CBS' other owned-and-operated stations, but only KYW-TV and WCBS-TV in New York City added Plus channel services.[80]. By Kevin Eck on Feb. 29, 2016 - 1:57 PM. Williams majored in Social Sciences at Portland State University and began her career at KGW-TV|KGW as a reporter. I've had the privilege of covering big, breaking national news stories in addition to sharing heartfelt . KYW went with NeXt Weather due to competitor WCAU branding their forecasts First Alert Weather for several years. Channel 3 relocated its entire operation to the Wyndmoor transmitter facility during World War II, when the station aired little programming. / CBS Philadelphia. In 2002 Chenault-Fattah was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Sy Snyder's Power 50" list of influential individuals in Pennsylvania politics. Reveal contacts of top KYW Newsradio managers and employees. When KYW-TV added Jessica Savitch as co-anchor, they weren't just adding a TV personality. [65], In September 2008, Lane filed a lawsuit against Mendte and KYW-TV, claiming that the station had been negligent in preventing Mendte from divulging her personal information and photos to columnists. In 1972, KYW-TV hired Philadelphia-area native Jessica Savitch as a reporter, and later co-anchor alongside Leonard. [37], Morning meteorologist Katie Fehlinger left the station on September 17, 2019, after more than eight years in order to spend more time with her family and pursue other professional ventures. The station tried to stop the decline by adopting a new format called "Direct Connection", with reporters assigned to "beats" such as medical, consumer, entertainment and gossip, among others. By continuing with us, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. In the late 1980s the station also produced news updates for USA Network, titled the USA Update; these were anchored by Steve Bell, who came to channel 3 in 1986 from ABC News, and other KYW staffers. As part of a national round of layoffs, the local station located on Spring Garden Street shed about a dozen newsroom and production jobs, with a number of anchors and reporters included. Shortly thereafter, Kennedy received a call from Dunn who told Kennedy, "You do have a diversity problem," which was a reference to the fact that both Washington and Brown are African-Americans. Station on December 1st of 1976 sentiment expressed by Dunn local news coverage, the programs be. 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