Crim discussed attending the "Anchorman" premiere, his time in Philadelphia, and more with Eyewitness News anchor Jim Donovan. After this incident, Chenault-Fattah left the station on February 24, 2016. [88] However, New York local channels are available on DirecTV and Dish Network in Plumsted and all of Ocean County. Northeast Monmouth County Comcast subscribers (Eatontown) once had KYW and the other Philadelphia stations on cable, as well. Sometimes he's just not speaking my language".[73]. [4], Williams has one adult daughter named Amani. The 4:00p.m. timeslot on KYW was given to the Dr. Phil program. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- WKYC Channel 3 anchor and reporter Will Ujek said farewell to the station over the weekend. Malcolm Poindexter (1967) Robin Mackintosh (9/1970) Beverly Williams (1975-81/89-) Marge Pala (1978) Carol Erickson (1978-84/91) Tom Lamaine (1979) Dick Standish (1979) Walt Hunter (1980) 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. Renee graduated from Johns Hopkins University and majored in political science. Both of them had a divorce with their partners before. Later, she was hired as a reporter at KYW radio after graduating from college. Several off-camera personnel such as floor directors, engineers, and editors were also laid off. [3] Williams had previously filed a complaint to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission shortly after being terminated as weekend anchor. In 1982 Pat joined CBS3 Eyewitness News on KYW-TV where Pat hosted weekday newscast alongside Ukee Washington. 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). 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. She then started to work as a clerk for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. 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. He is .more. 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. 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. Then, in May 1960, Philco filed an application with the FCC to build a new station on channel 3. Williams took a brief two-year leave from television news but then joined WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut where she was weekend anchor. 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. ", "Philco drops off of ch. 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. Jackie anchors FOX43 Morning News every weekday from 7 to 10 am. In 1972, KYW-TV hired Philadelphia-area native Jessica Savitch as a reporter, and later co-anchor alongside Leonard. 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). [27][28][29], On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).[30]. Westinghouse bought CBS outright in late 1995, making KYW-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station. For most of the 1970s, KYW-TV traded first place with WFIL/WPVI. 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. Contests. Tom Brokaw. The lawsuit was ultimately settled in October 2016, though no specific details of the settlement were revealed to the public. [42][43][44][45], On September 12, 2022, the station launched an additional hour-long newscast in the 9 a.m. time slot, Eyewitness News @ 9AM. 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. It is currently second in most timeslots, while WPVI continues to dominate with its newscasts despite having its digital signal on interference-prone channel 6. 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. 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. CBS-owned KYW Philadelphia has a new addition to its anchor team. 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. Let's take a look back at TV broadcasters over the years and see how they have changed. 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. [71] Among those laid off were general assignment reporter Crystal Cranmore, South Jersey Bureau reporter Cleve Bryan, and general assignment reporter/fill-in anchor Chantee Lans. In 1993, production was moved over to Hubbard Broadcasting's All News Channel, where they were produced until 2000. 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The Audacy-owned station announced former Director of News & Programming Steve Butler, longtime morning news anchor Harry Donahue, and longtime afternoon anchor Steve Nikazy as its newest members. Signal Hire. Having seen its quartet of top-rated anchors move on, KYW-TV attempted a reformat of its newscasts, hiring new talent from outside the Philadelphia market to take center stage. She also worked at KYW-TV where she served as co-anchor of Evening Magazine for two years until it was canceled. Her replacement Rahel Solomon also found herself in Dunn and Friend's crosshairs when they stated in messages and meetings with Kennedy that she too needed to be let go for bizarre reasons, including that they "didn't like her face". [83], KYW-TV and WPSG both shifted their frequencies on August 1, 2019 as part of the FCC's 5G network spectrum reallocation, with KYW-TV shifting from channel 26 to channel 30, and experiencing technical issues with over-the-air reception due to the repack. 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. Talking about her media career, she joined the station in September of 1991. The station signed on for the first time on September 1, becoming the first licensed television station in Pennsylvania. 2021 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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 following is a list of the members of KYW's "CBS-3 Eyewitness News" team. The deal brought KYW-TV under common ownership with Philadelphia's UPN station, WPSG, which relocated to the KYW Building on Independence Mall. 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