Harris Faulkner - $6 million. Then, in September 2003, the station lured Larry Mendte away from WCAU. This, however, was not the only instance of Dunn and Friend's behavior affecting the work environment at the station. The new building, which is wired for high definition newscasts, is the fourth studio in the station's 75-year history. 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. 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. She is also called as Renee Y. Chenault. 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. What many people don't know is that the character was loosely based on a member of the KYW-TV news team. For most of the 1970s, KYW-TV traded first place with WFIL/WPVI. The network's morning show, CBS This Morning, aired a story about the suspensions, and reported that the third party investigationto be carried out by CBS parent company Viacom VIAB 0.0% . You can also catch her investigative "FOX43 Finds Out" consumer reports. [36] She has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau. Like most affiliates that preempt underperforming network programs, KYW-TV used the preemptions in order to gain an increase in local advertising rates which potentially come with ratings increases. During the CATV era of the 1970s and into the 1980s, KYW was carried as far south into Ocean Pines, Worcester County.[90]. Mr. Leonard, who had been battling liver cancer, died Friday, March 30, in Las Vegas, where he lived in retirement. Channel 3 relocated its entire operation to the Wyndmoor transmitter facility during World War II, when the station aired little programming. The 5:00p.m. news was moved to 4:00, and Howard moved off the 11:00p.m. newscast to anchor with Denise Saunders. 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? News Anchor, Reporter & Host: Pennsylvania, USA sxxxxxj@kywnewsradio.com: Shara Dae Howard: Editor/Producer/ Reporter: Pennsylvania, USA . Also in 2003, KYW-TV became a factor in the Philadelphia news race for the first time in over 20 years. 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. Former CBS Philly news executive Brien Kennedy sued the company, saying he was fired for cooperating in an internal investigation about Dunn's attitudes. 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. 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. One month later in November 2021, former WMAQ sports anchor Siafa Lewis was named Brown's new co-anchor. In September 2021, Peterson would depart the station after four years to explore another career path. Also seen on the air during that time were future talk show host Tom Snyder and Marciarose Shestack. 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Westinghouse bought CBS outright in late 1995, making KYW-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station. 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. 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). She got married to Chaka Fattah in the year 2001. interest. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate WPSG (channel 57). 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. In May 1955, Westinghouse agreed to trade WPTZ and KYW radio to NBC in exchange for WNBK television and WTAM-AM-FM in Cleveland, and $3 million in cash compensation. CBS 3 (KYW-TV)'s meteorologist Katie Fehlinger announced that she will be leaving the station. 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. KYW had to scramble to get its news anchors on the air. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'marrieddivorce_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_2',196,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-marrieddivorce_com-medrectangle-3-0'); She took her education from different institutions. 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. Meet the WQAD News 8 Team Jon Diaz Jon Diaz joined the News 8 team over the summer of 2022 as an anchor for our 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. 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. . A half-hour noon newscast was resurrected following the September 1995 switch to CBS. For the rest of its tenure as an NBC affiliate, KYW-TV was the network's lowest-rated major-market affiliate during a very prosperous period for NBC as a whole. 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. In 2009 the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphiainducted Chenault-Fattah into their Hall of Fame. Channel 3 dominated the ratings for the rest of the 1960s, but faced a new challenger after WFIL-TV introduced Action News to Philadelphia. In April 2007, KYW-TV became the third Philadelphia television station to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high definition; the switch coincided with the station's move from its former Independence Mall studios to its new facility on Hamilton Street. Eddie Kadhim is a general assignment reporter and anchor for FOX 29 News. 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. NBC traded KCNC-TV in Denver and KUTV in Salt Lake City (which NBC had acquired earlier that year) to CBS in return for WCAU, which for legal reasons would be an even trade. Primo took the concept with him to New York City's WABC-TV in 1968, albeit an improved version that introduced the concept of chatter among the anchors ("happy talk"). NBC realized WRCV-TV's existing tower was inadequate for this enlarged market. 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. The station is hiring Leila Rahimi on a per-diem basis for the sports department. 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 lawsuit was ultimately settled in October 2016, though no specific details of the settlement were revealed to the public. On October 21, 2014, CBS and Weigel Broadcasting announced the launch of a new digital subchannel service called Decades, scheduled to launch on all CBS-owned stations in 2015, including on KYW-TV on channel 3.2. 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[14] By October 1961, the purchase of KTVU, and the contingent sale of the WRC stations, had collapsed following objections from NBC's existing San Francisco affiliate, KRON-TV; the WRCV-WNAC trade itself was not affected, but the transactions involving NBC and RKO, along with other related applications by both companies, had been set for hearings by the FCC the preceding May. Starting Nov. 15, Siafa Lewis will anchor Eyewitness News at 4PM with Natasha Brown. In his memoir titled "Mort Crim Anchored. While KYW-TV was a poor third, CBS-owned WCAU-TV (channel 10) was a solid runner-up to long-dominant ABC-owned WPVI-TV. Our moderator will be Jay Lloyd, long-time KYW Newsman. KYW-TV News Anchors and Reporters Coverage: Philadelphia Affiliation: CBS: Alycia Lane KYW-TV Anchor * Jericka Duncan KYW-TV Reporter * No longer with Network. CBS 3 itself was mentioned as having been affected by the actions of Dunn and Friend on several occasions. I've had the privilege of covering big, breaking national news stories in addition to sharing heartfelt . [89], In Maryland, KYW is carried in Cecil County and portions of the upper Eastern Shore along the US 301 corridor. Afternoon anchor Ian Bush will move to morning co-anchor, joining Carol. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 26. Ciarrocchi served as anchor of the weekday morning and noon news for almost two decades. It was the longest continuously-used logo in Philadelphia television history until 2006, when WPVI-TV's simple "6" logo passed it. 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. CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for a minority stake in KYW-TV. Renee graduated from Johns Hopkins University and majored in political science.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[728,90],'marrieddivorce_com-box-3','ezslot_1',187,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-marrieddivorce_com-box-3-0'); Renee Chenault-Fattahis a former co-anchor of the WCAUNBC 10 Newsweeknights in Philadelphia at 4 and 6 p.m. She was born on October 12 of 1957, in Littleton, Colorado in the United States. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- WKYC Channel 3 anchor and reporter Will Ujek said farewell to the station over the weekend. On February 2, 2009, KYW's news department began broadcasting a 10pm newscast on sister station WPSG. 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. 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