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10 unusual facts about KYW


KYW

WKYC, a television station (channel 3) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried the KYW-TV callsign from 1956 to 1965

WKYW, a radio station (1490 AM) licensed to Frankfort, Kentucky, United States, which has carried the WKYW callsign since December 2007

KYW-TV, a television station (channel 3) licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, which has carried the KYW-TV callsign since 1965

WTAM, a radio station (1100 AM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried the KYW callsign from 1956 to 1965

WMJI, a radio station (105.7 FM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried the KYW-FM callsign from 1956 to 1965

Paul Deanno

Previously, Paul worked as the Chief Meteorologist for WTVJ-TV (NBC6) in Miami, FL, and also worked as a meteorologist at KOMO-TV in Seattle, KYW-TV in Philadelphia, KENS in San Antonio, KREM (TV) in Spokane, and KDRV in Medford.

Paul Moriarty

Moriarty worked as an investigative journalist at KYW-CBS-3 for 17 years protecting consumer rights and investigating unscrupulous or unethical businesses.

Percy Dovetonsils

Kovacs created the character for his program Three to Get Ready on WPTZ in Philadelphia (the station that is now KYW-TV).

Three to Get Ready

Three to Get Ready, sometimes billed as 3 to Get Ready, TV series featuring Ernie Kovacs which aired November 27, 1950 to March 28, 1952 ­Monday-Friday mornings on Philadelphia station WPTZ

WNXY-LD

In 2006, WNXY-LP was granted the right to flash cut to channel 43 after the digital transition, due to predicted interference with KYW-TV in Philadelphia, which broadcasts on channel 26.


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Mary Stoker Smith

Mary was the co-anchor of WB 17 News at Ten at WPHL-TV until December 17, 2005, when she joined KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a general assignment reporter and a weekend evening anchor.

Nicole Brewer

Nicole Brewer joined CBS 3’s Eyewitness News team on April 1, 2008 as the first local TV reporter reporting primarily for a website, CBS3.COM and as a contributor to Wake Up News on The CW Philly, Vice-President and News Director Susan Schiller has announced.

Paul Moriarty

Before KYW-CBS 3, Moriarty was a news producer at WCAU-TV.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Ukee Washington

On November 11, 2011, a performance was aired on KYW-TV where Washington joined the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale, of which he is a former member, and the "Facebook Volunteer Choir" at the Zion Baptist Church in north Philadelphia in singing God Bless America, in tribute to America's military veterans.

WKVP

The station took the branding of "IQ 106.9" (for "Intelligence quotient"), and intended to go after CBS Radio's mainstay stations in Philadelphia, KYW (all-news) and WPHT (talk), with a combination of news, information, and conservative-leaning talk that at times would have an irreverent, us-against-them tone.