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KYW-TV (channel 3), branded CBS Philadelphia, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside independent station WPSG (channel 57). The two stations share studios on Hamilton Street north of Center City ...
Ulysses Samuel "Ukee" Washington III (born August 20, 1958) is an American news co-anchor for the weekday evening newscast on KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He currently anchors CBS News Philadelphia on CBS 3 at 5,6 and 11 PM and 8pm on sister station WPSG-TV. Washington originally co-anchored the opening segment of CBS3 @ 4pm along with ...
From 2003 to mid-2008, he was the lead anchor of the 6pm and 11pm newscasts for KYW-TV (Channel 3), the CBS O&O in Philadelphia. After nearly two decades in last place, Mendte led the station to compete with first place WPVI-TV (Channel 6). [2]
Between 1958 and 1965, fourth-ranked Philadelphia housed CBS-owned WCAU-TV (channel 10) and NBC-owned WRCV-TV (channel 3, now KYW-TV), a station which NBC had acquired two years earlier through a trade with Westinghouse Broadcasting in return for NBC's television and radio stations in Cleveland.
Jack Jones (TV journalist) John Wesley Claver Jones (November 12, 1949 – March 5, 1991), was an American journalist who became the first African-American news anchor in the Philadelphia television market. Described by KYW-TV weatherman Tom Lamaine in 1991 as "a profile in courage and encouragement to those who" were "afflicted with cancer ...
The Philadelphia market, however, posed an immediate logistical issue as KYW-TV would replace CBS-owned WCAU-TV; consequently, both NBC and Fox made offers for WCAU-TV, while CBS expressed interest in conducting an asset swap. [117] In September 1994, Fox agreed to purchase existing Philadelphia affiliate WTXF-TV. [122]
He was an evening news anchor for the Philadelphia TV station KYW-TV (an NBC affiliate at the time), from the mid-1980s until he moved to New York City in 1990, and also did double duty during his final two years at KYW as host of their local talk show People Are Talking. [2] He later relocated to Hollywood in 1992.
KYW may refer to: KYW (AM), a radio station (1060 AM) licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, which carried the KYW callsign from 1921 to 1956; and has again since 1965. WPHI-FM, a radio station that carries the FM simulcast of KYW. KYW-TV, a television station (channel 30, virtual 3) licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...