Because no young woman had ever done this in a major market, Jessica Savitch was a phenomenon. 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]. Brooke was a TV news anchor from Oklahoma who was then working in Dallas. This proved to be a very profitable decision at first, as KYW-TV was either first or second in the Philadelphia television ratings for most of the 1960s and 1970s. Jay Scott Smith will move parttime to afternoon anchor, while former WCAU-TV anchor Denise Nakano takes middays. 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. The others include WPVI-TV Action News anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury and former KYW TV Eyewitness News anchors Alycia Lane and Beverly Williams if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'marrieddivorce_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_5',601,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-marrieddivorce_com-medrectangle-4-0'); Renee was fired from the station for seven months following her husband's indictment. Connie Chung turns 70 on August 20th. There she served as a reporter and an anchor. 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. Entercom announces a revamped weekday on-air lineup for KYW Newsradio, Philadelphia's trusted source for news and information. There, he anchored the noon report. From 1990 to 1995, Philadelphia 76ers games also aired on Channel 3 by way of NBC's broadcast contract with the NBA. 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. 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. She got married to Chaka Fattah in the year 2001. 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. This would continue until July 18, 2022, when the broadcast was modified to become CBS News Philadelphia NOW on The CW Philly to recognize the launch of a hybrid local/national news broadcast on several CBS-owned CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations, in addition to the debut of a brand new modernized set for all Eyewitness News editions earlier in the day. 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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. [82][83][84] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3. [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. Renee has a net worth of about $950,000, but her salary is kept a secret. It was this modified format that was emulated throughout the United States. NBC 5 Chicago lead sports anchor Siafa Lewis is leaving the station for a news anchor job at the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia, NBC 5 announced Tuesday. ", "NBC-Westinghouse swap approved; FCC stirs Justice Dept. Additionally, the two stations cooperate in the gathering of news in New Jersey where their markets overlap; sharing reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. ${paramValue} on Audacy: Listen to Free Radio Online | Music, Sports, News, Podcasts She then started to work as a clerk for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Signup for our Hollywood and pop culture newsletter. For over 20 years, Tamron Hall has worked as a broadcast journalist. KYW-TV, along with sister station KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, are the only CBS-affiliated stations east of the Mississippi River with "K" call signs. If a situation arises to where CBS programming is preempted by local news coverage, the programs can be shifted to sister station WPSG. He grew up in West Philadelphia and traveled the world as a member of the Philadelphia Boys Choir. Abrams has been a staple in the newsroom from his arrival, and his experience spans even further. KYW is also available to Comcast cable customers in Ocean County on channel 256, being moved there from channel 3 in early 2008. 888 votes. Station management said the edited video was taken out of context and the personalities have a mutual respect for one another. KYW-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. While this concept was at least a decade ahead of its time, it was not enough to stop the ratings slide. Jobs Near Me - Jobs at abc27. [16] Both RKO General and Ford (through Philco) contested the FCC's decision initially, but soon each firm gave up their efforts and bowed out of the competition. To this day, KYW-TV insists that it "moved" to Cleveland in 1956 and "returned" to Philadelphia in 1965in fact, some staffers who worked at KYW-TV in Cleveland (talk show host Mike Douglas, meteorologist Dick Goddard, and news anchor Tom Snyder among them) moved to Philadelphia along with the call letters. The 4:00p.m. timeslot on KYW was given to the Dr. Phil program. Fehlinger shared the news on Twitter Friday (September 6): Fehlinger, who worked the morning said that her 2:30 am alartm was always going to have a shelf life, and now it's time. Linda Swinford Linda is News 8's newest. WTXF-TV (a.k.a. Alycia Lane, a weekend anchor at Miami's WTVJ, was added to complement Mendte, and they became the station's new top anchor team, anchoring KYW's 6:00 and 11:00p.m. newscasts. 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. She is also called as Renee Y. Chenault. During the CATV era of the 1970s and into the 1980s, KYW was carried as far south into Ocean Pines, Worcester County.[90]. 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. 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 in 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). [24] To solve this problem, CBS, NBC and Group W entered into a complex ownership/affiliation deal in late 1994. According to former station manager Brien Kennedy, although Dunn had approved of Washington's promotion to lead anchor (as Dunn had been there as station manager from 2002 to 2004) there were several instances when Dunn would speak harshly about the longtime station personality through e-mails saying, "All he does is dancedancing, dancing" and in a 2016 budget meeting incident (which was related by Kennedy and former news director Margaret Cronan) Dunn said of Washington: "He's not doing that 'jive talking' anymore? Channel 3 dominated the ratings for the rest of the 1960s, but faced a new challenger after WFIL-TV introduced Action News to Philadelphia. Chung came into the limelight as the first woman to co-anchor "CBS. She also worked at KYW-TV where she served as co-anchor of Evening Magazine for two years until it was canceled. It began in 1932 as W3XE, an experimental station owned by Philadelphia's Philco Corporation, at the time and for some decades to come one of the world's largest manufacturers of radio and television sets. Meet the Team. Talking about her media career, she joined the station in September of 1991. The logo was finally retired after KYW-TV rebranded as CBS 3. Ciarrocchi served as anchor of the weekday morning and noon news for almost two decades. This format has the reporters actually presenting their stories instead of having an anchor read them. [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. Also seen on the air during that time were future talk show host Tom Snyder and Marciarose Shestack. Renee Chenault-Fattah is a former co-anchor of the WCAU NBC 10 News weeknights in Philadelphia at 4 and 6 p.m. She was born on October 12 of 1957, in Littleton, Colorado in the United States. [3] Williams had previously filed a complaint to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission shortly after being terminated as weekend anchor. As compensation for the loss of stations, NBC and CBS traded broadcasting facilities in Miami. Comcast's Central New Jersey systems that service portions of the New York market, including the aforementioned Middlesex County municipalities as well as Roosevelt, that were then part of Storer Cable had previously carried KYW-TV during its NBC affiliation on channel 3 before moving to it channel 37 in the late 1980s where it remained until 1993. Under the terms of Westinghouse's deal with CBS, KYW-TV began carrying the entire CBS schedule in pattern with no preemptions except for extended breaking news or severe weather coverage. Chris May, a Little Rock native and a versatile, experienced journalist, anchors the most-watched newscasts in the state of Arkansas: Channel 7 News at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 on . She has got 5500 followers on Facebook. Her career began in Chicago as a reporter for WFLD-TV before joining MSNBC and NBC News in 2007. Ian Bush will move from afternoons to mornings to co-anchor alongside Carol MacKenzie. 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. 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. In Plumsted Township, Ocean County, KYW is carried in lieu of WCBS-TV as Plumsted is served by Comcast's Garden State system (based out of Mount Holly, Burlington County) which does not carry any New York City stations. 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 11:00a.m. while WTXF does not air a newscast at noon). [89], In Maryland, KYW is carried in Cecil County and portions of the upper Eastern Shore along the US 301 corridor. Despite its status as NBC's largest affiliate, KYW-TV spent much of the thirty years that followed the 1965 trade reversal preempting many NBC programs, choosing to air local or syndicated programming instead. She is also called as Renee Y. Chenault. 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. This article is about the television station that used the WPTZ callsign from 1941 to 1956. Ward . [20], On June 16, 1994, Baltimore sister station WJZ-TV lost its affiliation with ABC after that network announced a deal with the E. W. Scripps Company to switch three of Scripps' television stations to ABC; one of the Scripps-owned stations joining ABC was Baltimore's NBC affiliate, WMAR-TV. This, however, was not the only instance of Dunn and Friend's behavior affecting the work environment at the station. 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