"I'm a Philly guy through and . [89], In Maryland, KYW is carried in Cecil County and portions of the upper Eastern Shore along the US 301 corridor. She also worked at KYW-TV where she served as co-anchor of Evening Magazine for two years until it was canceled. Williams took a brief two-year leave from television news but then joined WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut where she was weekend anchor. When the jury in the trial had announced that it had reached a verdict in the case, the station had to get their anchors in place in studio to go live with the report. When full broadcasting was resumed, the station reactivated its studio in the Architect's Building, remaining there until 1947. [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. 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. Channel 3 had been broadcasting from Independence Mall East since July 1972. The deal brought KYW-TV under common ownership with Philadelphia's UPN station, WPSG, which relocated to the KYW Building on Independence Mall. Shortly after Westinghouse regained control of KYW-TV in 1965, news director Al Primo popularized the Eyewitness News format and branding. On August 6, 2018 the station relaunched a new 4:00p.m. newscast called CBS3@4 anchored by Natasha Brown and Alexandria Hoff with lead anchor Ukee Washington appearing in the opening segment, moving Dr. Phil to 3:00p.m. which was occupied by reruns of Family Feud (which airs on sister station WPSG) until August 3, 2018. In February 2000, Williams was dropped as weekend anchor in favor for Denise Saunders and reassigned to Senior Correspondent for the station. 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. 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. Tom Brokaw. It would be the station's coverage of Bill Cosby's rape trial in April 2018 that would be the most damning case of Dunn and Friend's inherent bias. One month later in November 2021, former WMAQ sports anchor Siafa Lewis was named Brown's new co-anchor. 11. I've had the privilege of covering big, breaking national news stories in addition to sharing heartfelt . 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. She received the Clarion Award from Women Communications, Inc and was honored for her work with Girl Scouts of the USA and National Association of Black Journalists. Notably, in 1986 the station chose to preempt NFL coverage so as not to compete against WCAU airing a Philadelphia Eagles game, choosing instead to air the film The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.[31]. In New Jersey, KYW (and the majority of Philadelphia stations) were carried in more places in central and northern New Jersey during the CATV era of the 1970s and 1980s. Click on their name to find out about them. Birthplace: Webster, South Dakota, United States of America. [75] Furthermore, a candidate that was being considered to be hired at the station was according to Dunn "too gay for Philadelphia", a reason that sounds bizarre considering that Donovan himself is openly gay.[76][77]. Ultimately, in April 2021, both Friend and Dunn were fired from their positions at the network due to the revelations of their egregious behaviors not just at KYW, but across the entire CBS network.[78]. She is also called as Renee Y. Chenault. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate WPSG (channel 57). Our moderator will be Jay Lloyd, long-time KYW Newsman. Born on 18 November 1970, she is 46 years of age but hasn't shown any sign of aging till now. On May 28, 2002, Williams filed a lawsuit against KYW alleging discrimination based on her race, sex, and age. On-Air Advertising. 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. Lewis most recently anchored news and sports at the WMAQ Chicago. You can click. Additionally, the two stations cooperate in the gathering of news in New Jersey where their markets overlap; sharing reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. [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. Contests. Saunders left the station in 2004 and was replaced by Angela Russell. 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. ${paramValue} on Audacy: Listen to Free Radio Online | Music, Sports, News, Podcasts In 2005, KYW-TV ditched "News In Focus" in favor of another "Channel 2 News"-based tune, "The Enforcer" (a.k.a. On America Live this afternoon, host Megyn Kelly brought on "special witness" Bill Hemmer - co-anchor of America's Newsroom - to discuss the lawsuit former KYW anchor Alycia Lane . "The CBS Enforcer Music Collection") also composed by Frank Gari. The deal officially took effect at 1:00a.m. on September 10, 1995. [4], Williams has one adult daughter named Amani. 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). WPTZ then moved into unused space at 1619 Walnut Street in Center City, where KYW radio was housed. Her husband Chaka is a politician in Pennsylvania. From 1981 to 1986, Beverly was reporter and anchor for CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1965 to 2003, KYW-TV's logo was a distinct "Stylized 3" in the font, now called "Anklepants", made famous by Group W. (Group W had introduced the font, and the logo, in 1963 upon the introduction of Westinghouse Broadcasting's corporate imaging while the station was still in Cleveland. 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. 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. CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for a minority stake in KYW-TV. [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. 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]. It continued to heavily preempt NBC programming, much to the network's chagrin. 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. This is a return home for Lewis who was born in West Germany but raised in South Jersey. 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. In 1972, KYW-TV hired Philadelphia-area native Jessica Savitch as a reporter, and later co-anchor alongside Leonard. In the '70s, in major TV markets, anchors were men. From 1990 to 1995, Philadelphia 76ers games also aired on Channel 3 by way of NBC's broadcast contract with the NBA. By Kevin Kinkead. . [27][28][29], On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).[30]. Philco then moved WPTZ's studios to the penthouse suite of the Architect's Building, at 17th and Sansom streets in downtown Philadelphia, while retaining master control facilities at the Philco plant. Group W hoped to gain the trust of viewers who already associated KYW radio with high-quality news. Her position was covered in the interim by fellow meteorologists Matt Peterson, Lauren Casey and Kate Bilo, former KYW weekend morning meteorologist and current WBAL fill-in meteorologist Chelsea Ingram,[38] and those from outside the station that were auditioning for the job including former WCAU Chief Meteorologist Tammie Souza and former KNSD weekend meteorologist Llarisa Abreu. According to Cronan, however, neither of the two executives liked Thomas. In his memoir titled "Mort Crim Anchored. 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. However, neither of these fixes workedmainly because of putting unknown anchors Bruce Hamilton (who had previously anchored in Orlando at WESH and WCPX, and after his stint here, returned to Florida at Jacksonville's WJXX and WJXT) and Jennifer Ward (previously of Toronto's CFTO) at the helm of the evening newscasts, while the more familiar personalities were relegated to weekends and mornings. 6ABC) continues to dominate with its newscasts despite having its digital signal on interference-prone channel 6. Just a few weeks later, Dunn sent Friend to conduct a meeting with Cronan and within minutes of the meeting starting Dunn told her that the station needed to fire Thomas. 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. The station is hiring Leila Rahimi on a per-diem basis for the sports department. KYW is also available to Comcast cable customers in Ocean County on channel 256, being moved there from channel 3 in early 2008. Her career began in Chicago as a reporter for WFLD-TV before joining MSNBC and NBC News in 2007. Chung came into the limelight as the first woman to co-anchor "CBS. It was the longest continuously-used logo in Philadelphia television history until 2006, when WPVI-TV's simple "6" logo passed it. [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-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. It stayed in the ratings basement even when NBC rebounded to become the nation's most-watched network by 1985. [17][18] Following nearly a year of appeals by NBC, Westinghouse regained control of WRCV-AM-TV on June 19, 1965. Now she's the New Chief of Foreign Affair Correspondent . Reporter Lauren Casey Salary 2022 Update. [1] She was brought back in hopes of bringing in more ratings to the station which had low ratings compared to rivals WCAU-TV and WPVI-TV. [49], 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". Anchors Natasha Brown Janelle Burrell Jan Carabeo Jim Donovan Siafa Lewis Joe Holden Jessica Kartalija Ukee Washington Health Stephanie Stahl Meteorologists Bill Kelly Kate Bilo Llarisa Abreu. Fox 29) leads in prime time programming. KYW-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. KYW went with NeXt Weather due to competitor WCAU branding their forecasts First Alert Weather for several years. According to its latest report, the BU CTE Center said it has diagnosed 345 former NFL players with CTE out of 376 . Renee graduated from Johns Hopkins University and majored in political science. However, in 1977, WPVI beat KYW-TV in most timeslots by a wide margin during a sweeps period. [9][10] On September 22, 1959, the Justice Department issued a decision which, in part, forced NBC to divest WRCV-AM-TV by the end of 1962. By continuing with us, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. 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. Harris Faulkner - $6 million. 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. Sade is the anchor for WABC-popular TV's Eyewitness News at 5:00 and 11:00 a.m. she joined the Eyewitness team in 2003 both as a reporter and anchor of Eyewitness News at Noon. Westinghouse bought CBS outright in late 1995, making KYW-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station. She left the station in November 1981. 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. It's studios are located @ 400 Market Street in Center City (downtown . 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. A half-hour noon newscast was resurrected following the September 1995 switch to CBS. 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). Because no young woman had ever done this in a major market, Jessica Savitch was a phenomenon. 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. Starting Nov. 15, Siafa Lewis will anchor Eyewitness News at 4PM with Natasha Brown. After that, she attended the University Of Pennsylvania Law School and achieved a degree in J.D. KYW-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. 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. In 2019, Kennedy was fired by Dunn and Friend for what they claimed to be poor performance in his job at the station. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- WKYC Channel 3 anchor and reporter Will Ujek said farewell to the station over the weekend. The legendary Journey of the real Ron Burgundy," Crim takes readers through his 45-year career in broadcasting, including his time at KYW-TV in Philadelphia. In September 2018, Jessica Dean announced that she would be leaving the station after five years to pursue another assignment. It significantly cut back operations after the U.S. entered World War II, but returned to a full schedule in 1945. RKO would also acquire NBC's WRC-AM-FM-TV in Washington, D.C. in a separate but related sale, and NBC would replace Washington in its TV station portfolio with then-independent station KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area, to be purchased separately by the network. 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. [68], 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. Then, in September 2003, the station lured Larry Mendte away from WCAU. 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. As a result, channel 3 stayed in the ratings basement. 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. ", "Now TV has a consent decree" and "What RCA-NBC consented to. 2021 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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. [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. Anchor Mort Crim was part of what was known in the 1970s as the "Dream Team." As compensation for the loss of stations, NBC and CBS traded broadcasting facilities in Miami. The tower was co-owned with WFIL-TV (channel 6, now ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI-TV) and added much of Delaware, the Lehigh Valley, and southern New Jersey to the station's city-grade coverage. Former CBS Philly news executive Brien Kennedy sued the company, saying he was fired for cooperating in an internal investigation about Dunn's attitudes. In January 2021, two high ranking executives within CBS 3's parent company Paramount Global (which at the time was known as ViacomCBS) were placed on administrative leave after an investigation was opened due to an article in the Los Angeles Times revealing that CBS Television Stations president Peter Dunn and senior vice president David Friend (who was also the news director at WCBS-TV) were accused of creating a hostile work environment for other news managers and anchors/reporters at other CBS O&O stations by making several racist, sexist and homophobic remarks and purposefully using unfair tactics to prevent Black journalists from being hired or promoted. Northern and portions of central Middlesex County, with the exception of South Plainfield never received any other Philadelphia station except WKBS, WPHL, and WTAF (now WTXF), which have been removed since the late 1980s. Chenault is one of several minority females who has anchored evening weekday newscasts in the state of Philadelphia. The 9:3010 a.m. slot on CBS3 is occupied by The Drew Barrymore Show, whose format has been modified for its current third season to allow stations to air the show as two half-hour episodes which can be broadcast separately or back-to-back. 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. KYW Newsradio Inducts Three New Members Into Its Hall of Fame | Barrett Media November 16, 2021 / 9:46 AM This article is about the television station that used the WPTZ callsign from 1941 to 1956. abc27 Newsletters. 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? 888 votes. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Additionally, during another meeting Dunn turned to Cronan and in front of several other staff members asked her "Are you a (expletive) idiot?" [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. For over 20 years, Tamron Hall has worked as a broadcast journalist. Bloodletting at CBS 3 Eyewitness News on Wednesday. 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. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, owner of Philadelphia's longtime NBC Radio affiliate KYW, purchased WPTZ in 1953 for a then-record price of $8.5 million. It then became one of three stations (along with WNBT and Schenectady, New York's WRGB, now a fellow CBS affiliate) that premiered NBC's regular television service in 1946, although all three stations did share occasional programs just before and during the war. Dunn, a former CBS3 general manager, was also alleged to have described Washington as "just a jive guy." The report triggered an outpouring of support for the popular anchor, who joined KYW in 1986 as a sports anchor, moving to news 10 years later. Russell left the station on December 26, 2008. Daily News Update Weather Forecast Breaking News Severe Weather Contests & Promotions. Several off-camera personnel such as floor directors, engineers, and editors were also laid off. The station signed on for the first time on September 1, becoming the first licensed television station in Pennsylvania. Former reporter and fill-in anchor at KYW-TV in Philadelphia and KRON-TV in San Francisco. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'marrieddivorce_com-box-4','ezslot_3',198,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-marrieddivorce_com-box-4-0'); Renee Chenault-Fattah is a married woman. KYW is a class A AM radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NBC realized WRCV-TV's existing tower was inadequate for this enlarged market. In May 2020, Brown and Hoff were removed from the 4 p.m. anchor positions and Washington took over as anchor alongside Jessica Kartalija until October 2021 when Brown returned as the sole anchor. The new transmitter enabled channel 3 to broadcast in color for the first time. Faulkner is currently hosting as a news anchor on the Fox Report. From 1948 to 1989, through NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball, select Philadelphia Phillies contests were aired on channel 3, which included their victory in the 1980 World Series. 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. Friel is a graduate in Political Science from San Diego State University. Williams solo anchored the weekend evening news for eight years expanding from 1992 to 2000. She then started to work as a clerk for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. 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. However, the anchor prefers to keep her assets and other . When the two stations broadcast a statewide office debate, such as Governor or U.S. Senate, they will pool resources and have anchors or reporters from both stations participate in the debate. 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. 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. 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