", "The great swap takes place June 19; Westinghouse, NBC return to original properties. [62], In June 2008, 6 and 11 p.m. news anchor Larry Mendte, who was Alycia Lane's co-anchor until her firing five months earlier, was himself fired from the station after police conducted a raid of his home and seized his computers due to an investigation by both law enforcement authorities and CBS 3. 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. Harris is scoring a yearly salary of $400,000. Contents 1 Career 2 Lawsuit 3 Personal life 4 References Career [ edit] Williams majored in Social Sciences at Portland State University and began her career at KGW-TV|KGW as a reporter. Verizon FiOS carries KYW in Upper Freehold Township, while the rest of the county gets only New York City area stations on FiOS, except for portions of southern Howell Township, which get WPVI from the Ocean County feed. KYW is a class A AM radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [17][18] Following nearly a year of appeals by NBC, Westinghouse regained control of WRCV-AM-TV on June 19, 1965. KYW-TV was the only Philadelphia market station participating in the "Analog Nightlight" program, and did so through July 12, 2009. In 1993, production was moved over to Hubbard Broadcasting's All News Channel, where they were produced until 2000. Station management said the edited video was taken out of context and the personalities have a mutual respect for one another. 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. Mort Crim also joined as an anchor during that period, forming what native Philadelphians called the "Camelot of television news". ", "Now TV has a consent decree" and "What RCA-NBC consented to. This is a return home for Lewis who was born in West Germany but raised in South Jersey. 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. While WJZ-TV and WBZ-TV switched to CBS in January 1995, the swap was delayed in Philadelphia when CBS discovered that an outright sale of channel 10 would have forced it to pay massive taxes on the proceeds from the deal. The station signed on for the first time on September 1, becoming the first licensed television station in Pennsylvania. Channel 3 has had a long history of carrying Philadelphia-area sports teams through NBC and CBS. KYW will follow the separation format in airing the show while sister station WPSG will carry both episodes in back-to-back format Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 3 a.m.[47], KYW-TV launched a streaming news service, CBSN Philly (a localized version of the national CBSN service) on January 30, 2020, as part of a rollout of similar services across the CBS-owned stations. However, in 1977, WPVI beat KYW-TV in most timeslots by a wide margin during a sweeps period. Age: 83. [69] Additionally, meteorologist Carol Erickson resigned after a 37-year career at the station to focus more on her animal rights advocacy. 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. Because no young woman had ever done this in a major market, Jessica Savitch was a phenomenon. From 1981 to 1986, Beverly was reporter and anchor for CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly after NBC took control of channel 3, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed the Lehigh Valley, most of northern Delaware and southern New Jersey (including Atlantic City) into the Philadelphia market. interest. Mr. Leonard, who had been battling liver cancer, died Friday, March 30, in Las Vegas, where he lived in retirement. Brooke was a TV news anchor from Oklahoma who was then working in Dallas. After that, she attended the University Of Pennsylvania Law School and achieved a degree in J.D. A little more than a month after veteran news anchor Denise Nakano left NBC10, she has joined KYW Newsradio 1060-AM. Mendte had been the lead anchor at that station when it defeated WPVI in the ratings for the first time in 30 years. In addition, Lauren has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million, identical to Tamika Hendrix, as the forecaster for the renowned news program. 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. Channel 3 had been broadcasting from Independence Mall East since July 1972. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate WPSG (channel 57). [24] To solve this problem, CBS, NBC and Group W entered into a complex ownership/affiliation deal in late 1994. 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). Kane anchored the 11:00p.m. broadcast solo, while Stahl anchored the 6:00p.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). 3 merry-go-round. Lutz returned to the station on December 10, 2021 and it was announced that she would be returning to the morning newscast the following Monday.[72]. CBS 3 itself was mentioned as having been affected by the actions of Dunn and Friend on several occasions. She is also called as Renee Y. Chenault. PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) After nearly 24 years, KYW Newsradio's multifaceted and beloved reporter, editor and anchor Mark Abrams has announced his retirement from broadcast journalism. 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). Contact Us. At one point, in the fall of 1980, KYW-TV preempted NBC's entire morning schedule after the Today show. 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", "Philadelphia circle is complete," and "Nine-year history of that trade in Philadelphia. Beth Farnsworth . Group W hoped to gain the trust of viewers who already associated KYW radio with high-quality news. CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for a minority stake in KYW-TV. Lake joined Chenault in 2003 as co-anchor at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. She had spent eight years co-anchoring newscasts at 11 and 6, with Larry Mendte and Ken Matz. Linda Swinford Linda is News 8's newest. [27][28][29], On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).[30]. Former reporter and fill-in anchor at KYW-TV in Philadelphia and KRON-TV in San Francisco. The lawsuit was ultimately settled in October 2016, though no specific details of the settlement were revealed to the public. After the pattern was displayed on screen for a lengthy amount of time, the image cut to the CBS logo, with the text "Goodbye" below, before transmission ceased. Pricing; API; Companies; . Lewis' last day is Nov. 4. [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. Crim discussed attending the "Anchorman" premiere, his time in Philadelphia, and more with Eyewitness News anchor Jim Donovan. However, the station (and NBC) faltered in the late 1970s, and by 1980, KYW-TV was the lowest-rated network affiliate in Philadelphia. Also during this time, the station entered into an agreement with the Franklin Institute museum to utilize weather data collected by the Institute for use in on-air forecasts, branded as the Franklin Institute Forecast. The 4:00p.m. timeslot on KYW was given to the Dr. Phil program. [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. This article is about the television station that used the WPTZ callsign from 1941 to 1956. 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. Her husband Chaka is also the father of two children, both sons: Frances Fattah and Chaka Fattah Jr. from his previous marriage. 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. Let's take a look back at TV broadcasters over the years and see how they have changed. "It's been a true honor to inform Northeast Ohioans for the last decade," he told. First published on November 16, 2021 / 9:46 AM. 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. According to Cronan, however, neither of the two executives liked Thomas. Williams solo anchored the weekend evening news for eight years expanding from 1992 to 2000. The scathing report details improper. In February 2023, the station began to slowly phase out the Eyewitness News name again to follow a rebranding affecting all CBS O&Os as all newscasts incorporated CBS News Philadelphia as their identity moving forward. Meade is the lead news anchor for her self-titled show, the Morning Express with Robin Meade. 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 switch coincided with the station's move from its former Independence Mall studios to its new facility on Hamilton Street. [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]. This format has the reporters actually presenting their stories instead of having an anchor read them. Channel 3 relocated its entire operation to the Wyndmoor transmitter facility during World War II, when the station aired little programming. Starting Nov. 15, Siafa Lewis will anchor Eyewitness News at 4PM with Natasha Brown. It also abandoned the longstanding Eyewitness News branding after 26 years and experimented with giving each newscast a different title: the morning news became known as Newsday, the weekday 5:30 and 6:00p.m. news as Newsbeat, and the nightly 11:00 and weekend 6:00p.m. newscasts as The News (the former as The News Tonight; the latter broadcasts, respectively, as The News Saturday and The News Sunday). In a public statement, Mendte said that his actions were rooted in a feud that started after he ended a "flirtatious and improper" relationship with Lane. For the television station in Plattsburgh, New York, that currently uses this callsign, see, Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with, 2021 investigation of racism, homophobia and sexism, "NBC, WBC trade properties in Cleveland, Philadelphia. 6ABC) continues to dominate with its newscasts despite having its digital signal on interference-prone channel 6. Renee graduated from Johns Hopkins University and majored in political science. They are listed by seniority. Bloodletting at CBS 3 Eyewitness News on Wednesday. [82][83][84] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3. Kennedy stated to Dunn that he was not in agreement with the sentiment expressed by Dunn. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is Pennsylvania's oldest television station. 11. Megyn Kelly is one of the most experienced journalists in this list of top 12 hottest female anchors in the world. Several off-camera personnel such as floor directors, engineers, and editors were also laid off. In his memoir titled "Mort Crim Anchored. Renee has a net worth of about $950,000, but her salary is kept a secret. She's also a former Miss Ohio, starting her broadcasting career in her home state. [36] She has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau. 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