213-680: WCBS-TV (channel 2), branded CBS New York , is a television station in New York City , serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York –licensed independent station WLNY-TV (channel 55). The two stations share studios within the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan ; WCBS-TV's transmitter
426-459: A "Rundown" of stories to come. A new, bold and italicized "2" logo, contained in a blue or white slanted box alongside the CBS eye, replaced the long-running Futura "2" used in some form since the 1980s; the overall station branding switched from New York's Channel 2 to simply CBS 2 at this point, remaining the primary brand of the station to this day. After a year, little to no progress in the ratings
639-449: A "dyke". The firing came as a result of the arrest being the second incident that Lane was involved in within a year. A previous incident in May 2007 saw Lane be penalized after it was learned that she had sent a photo of herself in a bikini via the station's email to her friend, NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen . The email only came to light due to the revelation that the account it was sent to
852-402: A "gritty, down-to-earth" style newscast, termed Nightcast . At this point, the station was sharing studio space with CBS Sports (after previously sharing street-side studios with CBS' then-morning newscast, The Early Show ). It also began usage of two different music packages from Edd Kalehoff (who had composed WNBC's "We're 4 New York" campaign and "NBC Stations" package that was in use at
1065-645: A "news for the people" approach similar to that of her previous employer, WNBC. The Kalehoff-produced themes were replaced with the John Hegner-produced "News in Focus" which sister KCBS had used starting in 1997 (and had replaced just days before WCBS adopted the package). Several pieces of "WCBS Grand" have since been recycled by Kalehoff as music cues on The Price Is Right under the title "Grandeur". The graphics and logo mainly became blue and silver, with that color motif remaining to this day (albeit with
1278-541: A (expletive) idiot?" In October 2016, just six months into her tenure at the station, Thomas was told in a meeting with Kennedy and Cronan that her contract with the station would not be renewed and she left at the end of the month. 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". Solomon would depart
1491-448: A CBS affiliate; NBC moved all of its programming locally to WCAU after the program ended. Westinghouse bought CBS outright in late 1995, making KYW-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station. This made Philadelphia the largest television market to be affected by the affiliation switches. In 2000, the combined company was purchased by Viacom . The deal brought KYW-TV under common ownership with Philadelphia's UPN station, WPSG, which relocated to
1704-498: A CBS producer, while rivals WABC-TV and WNBC-TV led with an important vote in the U.S. House on stem cell research . On May 27, 2004, Doctor fired popular sports anchor Warner Wolf, three months before his contract expired, without giving Wolf a chance to say goodbye on air. This incident was widely panned by several newspapers, including the New York Daily News , and the move alienated and angered many viewers. Wolf
1917-404: A CBS-owned station). Channel 3 used an updated version written in 2003 for New York City sister station WCBS-TV. The change to "News In Focus" came just after KYW began branding itself "CBS 3". In 2005, KYW-TV ditched "News In Focus" in favor of another "Channel 2 News"-based tune, "The Enforcer" (a.k.a. "The CBS Enforcer Music Collection") also composed by Frank Gari . Also in 2003, KYW-TV became
2130-529: A commercial construction permit and program authorization as WCBW. The station went on the air at 2:30 p.m. on July 1, one hour after rival WNBT (channel 1, formerly W2XBS), making it the second authorized fully commercial television station in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued permits to CBS and NBC at the same time and intended WNBT and WCBW to sign on simultaneously on July 1, so no one station could claim to be
2343-569: A commercial license—the third in the United States, the first outside of New York City, and the first not owned and operated by a network—as WPTZ. The station signed on for the first time on September 1, becoming the first licensed television station in Pennsylvania. 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
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#17328023462402556-525: A construction permit for a digital fill-in translator on channel 22, to be licensed to Plainview, New York , which would serve portions of eastern and central Long Island where WCBS-TV's signal is affected by the presence of WFSB , a CBS affiliate in Hartford, Connecticut , which also broadcasts on channel 33. In 2016, WCBS-TV returned to transmitting from One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. On October 21, 2014, CBS and Weigel Broadcasting announced
2769-483: A contract dispute with channel 2. Rosenfield replaced Ernie Anastos , who moved to WNYW in July 2005. On August 22, 2005, WCBS-TV launched its new Doppler weather radar named "Live Doppler 2 Million". It has one million watts of power, and is live, compared to other dopplers in the market which are delayed by about 15 minutes. "Live Doppler 2 Million" was the punch line of a joke on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and
2982-631: A decade between Irish immigrants and Black people for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground. At least 120 people were killed. Eleven Black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of Blacks to flee. The Black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865. The White working class had established dominance. It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history . In 1886,
3195-403: A different title: the morning news became known as Newsday , the weekday 5:30 and 6 p.m. news as Newsbeat , and the nightly 11 p.m. and weekend 6 p.m. newscasts as The News (the former as The News Tonight ; the latter broadcasts, respectively, as The News Saturday and The News Sunday ). It also started using a theme based on the five-note musical sounder of its radio sister, one of
3408-533: A factor in the Philadelphia news race for the first time in over 20 years. The previous summer, it persuaded WPVI-TV's longtime 5 p.m. anchor, Marc Howard, to jump ship to anchor its 11 p.m. newscast. Kathy Orr, weekend weathercaster at WCAU, also moved to channel 3. Then, in September, the station lured Larry Mendte away from WCAU. Mendte had been the lead anchor at that station when it defeated WPVI in
3621-577: A fairly wide margin. On April 11, 2007, WCBS-TV became the third New York City television station to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high-definition . In May 2008, WCBS led WNBC by an even wider margin. However, its longtime No. 1 noon newscast's ratings fell behind WABC, the only other station to offer a noon newscast in the New York area. WCBS has been unable to regain the lead at noon since, although they were still second in New York City among
3834-465: 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. When full broadcasting was resumed, the station reactivated its studio in the Architect's Building, remaining there until 1947. WPTZ then moved into unused space at 1619 Walnut Street in Center City, where KYW radio was housed. What
4047-527: A local version and partner of the CBSN service. CBS News New York can be accessed from cbsnewyork.com, cbsnews.com, and their respective mobile and streaming apps. On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged ; WCBS and WLNY therefore became part of ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global ). Upon becoming commercial station WCBW in 1941, the station broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell. Most of
4260-514: A minority stake in KYW-TV. As compensation for the loss of stations, NBC and CBS traded broadcasting facilities in Miami. The deal officially took effect at 1 a.m. on September 10, 1995. The final NBC program aired on KYW-TV was a rerun of Saturday Night Live , which began at 11:30 p.m. on September 9, 1995, the day that channel 3 ended its 54-year affiliation with the network and became
4473-545: A new 1,100-foot (335 m) tower in Roxborough. 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. The new transmitter enabled channel 3 to broadcast in color for the first time. However, almost immediately after the trade was finalized, Westinghouse complained to
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#17328023462404686-523: A part of the colony of New York . It became a center of slavery , with 42% of households enslaving Africans by 1730. Most were domestic slaves ; others were hired out as labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York's economy through the labor of slaves throughout the port, and the banking and shipping industries trading with the American South . During construction in Foley Square in
4899-622: A partnership with The Weather Channel , with meteorologists from the cable channel often appearing on-air with existing WCBS-TV meteorologists. WCBS-TV also received information from The Weather Channel, in addition to using its radars and satellite imagery. The Weather Channel featured updates with WCBS for New York City's weather on its Evening Edition program with one of the WCBS meteorologists, and forecast intros on WCBS began with "now time for your exclusive forecast from CBS 2 and The Weather Channel". On July 7, 2008, this partnership ended when it
5112-429: A point of knocking off WPVI in the time slot. Saunders left the station in 2004 and was replaced by Angela Russell. Russell left the station on December 26, 2008. The 4 p.m. newscast returned to the 5 p.m. timeslot due to The Oprah Winfrey Show ending and WPVI starting its own hour-long 4 p.m. newscast in 2011. The 4 p.m. timeslot on KYW was given to Dr. Phil . For the last decade, KYW-TV has waged
5325-480: A purchase price of $ 55 million, creating a duopoly with WCBS-TV. The company announced that it would add additional on-air staff and expand WLNY's local news programming (at the time, that station had only an 11 p.m. newscast). The FCC approved the sale on January 31, 2012, and CBS took control of the station on March 30. WLNY suspended its own news operations the previous day and began airing WCBS-TV produced newscasts on July 2, 2012. WCBS-TV as of February 2012 has
5538-415: A reporter, and later co-anchor alongside Leonard. Mort Crim also joined as an anchor during that period, forming what native Philadelphians called the "Camelot of television news". 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. However, in 1977, WPVI beat KYW-TV in most timeslots by
5751-519: A reputation as a despotic leader. He instituted regulations on liquor sales, attempted to assert control over the Dutch Reformed Church , and blocked other religious groups from establishing houses of worship. In 1664, unable to summon any significant resistance, Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to English troops, led by Colonel Richard Nicolls , without bloodshed. The terms of the surrender permitted Dutch residents to remain in
5964-468: A result of Sandy, and the economic losses in New York City were estimated to be roughly $ 19 billion. The disaster spawned long-term efforts towards infrastructural projects to counter climate change and rising seas, with $ 15 billion in federal funding received through 2022 towards those resiliency efforts. In March 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the city was confirmed. With its population density and its extensive exposure to global travelers,
6177-567: 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. As regulators sifted through that multi-level transaction, Philco Corporation, the original operators of WPTZ and by this point owned by the Ford Motor Company , interjected itself into the dispute by first protesting
6390-593: A shift from the longtime Eyewitness News format to a more community-based focus, featuring more in-depth reporting. The rebranding was part of a larger-scale rebranding of CBS-owned stations; KYW-TV uses a green version of the CBS stations' graphics package, in part as a nod to the Philadelphia Eagles, but also serving to distinguish the station from other television news entities that primarily use blue. On August 31, 2023, CBS News Philadelphia NOW on The CW Philly aired its final broadcast on WPSG due to
6603-416: A speech denying the request, which was paraphrased on the front page of the New York Daily News as "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD." The Municipal Assistance Corporation was formed and granted oversight authority over the city's finances. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into
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6816-457: A spirited battle with WCAU for second place behind WPVI. 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. On August 6, 2018, the station relaunched a new 4 p.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 p.m. which
7029-535: 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. 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. CBS News Philadelphia became the full-time branding of KYW-TV's news operation on April 12, 2023, coinciding with
7242-446: A very profitable decision at first, as KYW-TV was either first or second in the Philadelphia television ratings for most of the 1960s and 1970s. However, the station (and NBC) faltered in the late 1970s, and by 1980, KYW-TV was the lowest-rated network affiliate in Philadelphia. It stayed in the ratings basement even when NBC rebounded to become the nation's most-watched network by 1985. For the rest of its tenure as an NBC affiliate, KYW-TV
7455-426: A virtual set. 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 its midday newscast at 11 a.m. while WTXF does not air a newscast at noon). On June 26, 2015, TalkPhilly aired its final broadcast due to declining ratings and was reverted to a traditional noon newscast
7668-411: A weatherman in Miami, as they phased out John Bolaris , who had rejoined WCBS in 2002. On June 25, 2007, Wragge and Johnson added the 11 p.m. newscast to their duties, trading places with Dana Tyler and Jim Rosenfield on the noon program; Tyler and Rosenfield continued to co-anchor the 6 p.m. newscast. Rosenfield left WCBS in May 2008 and was replaced with recently hired weekend anchor Don Dahler . In
7881-521: A web-only newscast called CBS 3 At Your Desk , shown daily. Shortly after Westinghouse regained control of KYW-TV in 1965, news director Al Primo popularized the Eyewitness News format and branding. This format has the reporters actually presenting their stories instead of having an anchor read them. Primo used the cue "007" from the film From Russia with Love as the theme. Within a few years, Group W's other television stations had adopted
8094-518: A week. Among its early programming were Harriet Lee (1931), The Television Ghost (1931–1933), Helen Haynes (1931–1932), and Piano Lessons (1931–1932). Because W2XAB was broadcasting its video on 2750 kc and audio separately on W2XE at 6120 kc in the shortwave band in 1931, the experimental station's signal could be received in nearby states beyond the New York metropolitan area, as far away as Boston and Baltimore . In Allentown, Pennsylvania , some 80 miles (130 km) distant,
8307-466: A weekend sports anchor at CBS3 from 2005 to 2010. On May 27, 2020, KYW-TV laid off more than twelve Eyewitness News employees and on-air personnel in response to several factors affecting the station's parent company ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global), including a corporate restructuring due to the merger of Viacom and CBS Corporation in December 2019 and the decline of advertising revenue in
8520-480: A wide margin during a sweeps period. In a case of especially bad timing, Crim left for WBBM-TV in Chicago in May, and Savitch left for NBC News three months later. Channel 3's ratings went into rapid decline. The station tried to stop the decline by adopting a new format called "Direct Connection", with reporters assigned to "beats" such as medical, consumer, entertainment and gossip, among others. While this concept
8733-471: Is multiplexed : New York City New York , often called New York City or NYC , is the most populous city in the United States , located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors . The city comprises five boroughs , each coextensive with a respective county . The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and
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8946-467: Is an established safe haven for global investors. As of 2023 , New York City is the most expensive city in the world for expatriates and has by a wide margin the highest U.S. city residential rents; and Fifth Avenue is the most expensive shopping street in the world. New York City is home by a significant margin to the highest number of billionaires , individuals of ultra-high net worth (greater than US$ 30 million), and millionaires of any city in
9159-442: Is located at One World Trade Center . WCBS-TV's history dates back to CBS' opening of experimental station W2XAB on July 21, 1931, using the mechanical television system that had been more-or-less perfected in the late 1920s. Its first broadcast featured New York Mayor Jimmy Walker , Kate Smith , and George Gershwin . The station had the first regular seven-day broadcasting schedule in American television, broadcasting 28 hours
9372-739: Is now KYW-TV has been based in Center City ever since. 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. The WPTZ call letters are now used for the NBC affiliate in Plattsburgh, New York . 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. NBC had long sought an owned-and-operated television station in Philadelphia,
9585-829: Is now partnered with Calvi weekday mornings and at noon. In the February 2011 Nielsen sweeps period, WCBS-TV's 11 p.m. newscast unseated WABC-TV for first place in total households in that timeslot. WABC continued to lead in the key demographics at 11 pm. WCBS-TV quickly lost its lead at 11 p.m. after WABC-TV regained its status as No. 1 at 11 p.m. in the May 2011 sweeps. WABC-TV has since kept its No. 1 status at 11 pm. Recently, WCBS-TV has fallen back to third place due to an increase in ratings at WNBC. On March 12 and 13, 2020, WCBS-TV's evening newscasts were produced by Los Angeles sister station KCBS-TV, and its morning newscasts originated from KPIX-TV in San Francisco, after
9798-583: The 1980 World Series . 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
10011-810: The Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes . Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall , a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants . In 1831, New York University was founded. Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York during the 1830s and 1840s, including William Cullen Bryant , Washington Irving , Herman Melville , Rufus Wilmot Griswold , John Keese , Nathaniel Parker Willis , and Edgar Allan Poe . Members of
10224-453: The CBS Eye was placed in front of the "3". The logo was finally retired after KYW-TV rebranded as CBS 3 . Despite its status as NBC's largest affiliate, KYW-TV spent much of the thirty years that followed the 1965 trade reversal preempting many NBC programs, choosing to air local or syndicated programming instead. The production arm of Westinghouse Broadcasting was partially responsible for
10437-659: The Community College of Philadelphia and near Fairmount Park. The new building, which is wired for high definition newscasts, is the fourth studio in the station's 75-year history. Channel 3 had been broadcasting from Independence Mall East since July 1972. KYW-TV was effectively separated from its radio counterpart in November 2017, when CBS Radio merged into Entercom (now Audacy ). On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global ). From 1965 to 2003, KYW-TV's logo
10650-909: The Crown , with as many as 10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the British occupation, the largest such community on the continent. When the British forces evacuated New York at the close of the war in 1783, they transported thousands of freedmen for resettlement in Nova Scotia , England, and the Caribbean . The attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin , and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776. Shortly after
10863-487: The Mississippi River with "K" call signs. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is Pennsylvania's oldest television station. 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. Philco engineers created much of the station's equipment, including cameras. When
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#173280234624011076-742: The New York City Fire Department and 71 law enforcement officers. The area was rebuilt with a new World Trade Center , the National September 11 Memorial and Museum , and other new buildings and infrastructure, including the World Trade Center Transportation Hub , the city's third-largest hub. The new One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and the seventh-tallest building in
11289-604: The New York metropolitan area , the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area . New York is a global center of finance and commerce , culture , technology , entertainment and media , academics and scientific output , the arts and fashion , and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations , international diplomacy . With an estimated population in 2023 of 8,258,035 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km ),
11502-1000: The Northwest Passage to the Orient for the Dutch East India Company . He sailed up what the Dutch called North River (now the Hudson River), named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange . Hudson claimed the region for the Dutch East India Company. In 1614, the area between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay was claimed by the Netherlands and called Nieuw-Nederland (' New Netherland '). The first non–Native American inhabitant of what became New York City
11715-676: The RCA-Victor record label; KYW radio adopted the WRCV calls as well). 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. NBC realized WRCV-TV's existing tower was inadequate for this enlarged market. In 1957, channel 3 moved to
11928-609: The Stamford, Connecticut , studios of YES Network, which were otherwise dark due to the delay of Major League Baseball's upcoming season due to the pandemic , before moving back again to the Broadcast Center, beginning on April 17, with the morning newscast. From 1956 until 1993 , WCBS-TV carried most New York Giants games through the network's coverage of the National Football League . CBS lost
12141-576: The Statue of Liberty , a gift from France , was dedicated in New York Harbor. The statue welcomed 14 million immigrants as they came to the U.S. via Ellis Island by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a symbol of the United States and American ideals of liberty and peace. In 1898, the City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city),
12354-709: The Stonewall riots were a series of violent protests by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village . They are widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights . Wayne R. Dynes , author of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality , wrote that drag queens were
12567-502: The Westinghouse Electric Corporation announced it was buying CBS. By the end of 1995, Channel 2's ratings were in last place for the first time in its history, while WNBC's ratings had risen to second place – a pecking order that would remain in place for eleven years. The station's news branding change from Channel 2 News to just 2 News during that time, contributed to the station's last-place finish in
12780-467: The World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993, knocked most of the area's stations off the air for a week. WCBS-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, at 2 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station moved its digital signal from its pre-transition UHF channel 56, which was among
12993-612: The steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River , killing 1,021 people. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire , the city's worst industrial disaster, killed 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards. New York's non-White population was 36,620 in 1890. New York City
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#173280234624013206-532: The waterfronts since Dutch colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the natural relief in topography has been evened out, especially in Manhattan. KYW-TV KYW-TV (channel 3), branded CBS Philadelphia , is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States, serving as
13419-619: The "CBS 2" branding, along with sister stations KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and WBBM-TV in Chicago, while retaining a unique and distinctive logo. WCBS-TV's over-the air signal was not affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center . Unlike its competitors, channel 2 had long maintained a full-powered backup transmitter at the Empire State Building after moving its main transmitter to
13632-509: The "first". WCBW's initial broadcast was the first local newscast aired on a commercial station in the country. Its assigned frequency was 60–66 MHz, now known as channel 3 but then referred to as Channel 2 in the 1940–46 alignment of the VHF band. Program schedules were irregular through the summer and early fall of 1941. Regular daily operations began on October 29 and WCBW received a full broadcast license , its construction permit and commercial program authorization on March 10, 1942. After
13845-616: The (expletive) up", stop smiling so much and to not fake a Southern accent even though Thomas is originally from Oklahoma. Additionally, it was revealed that Dunn had sent several messages to Kennedy with just a one-word message regarding Thomas: "Unwatchable". 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 and stop producing any promotional material featuring Thomas. Additionally, during another meeting Dunn turned to Cronan and in front of several other staff members asked her "Are you
14058-416: The 1990s, the African Burying Ground was discovered; the cemetery included 10,000 to 20,000 graves of colonial-era Africans, some enslaved and some free. The 1735 trial and acquittal in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger , who had been accused of seditious libel after criticizing colonial governor William Cosby , helped to establish freedom of the press in North America . In 1754, Columbia University
14271-418: The 19th century, the city was transformed by both commercial and residential development relating to its status as a national and international trading center , as well as by European immigration, respectively. The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 , which expanded the city street grid to encompass almost all of Manhattan. The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New York connected
14484-402: The 4 p.m. anchor positions and Washington took over as anchor alongside Jessica Kartalija until October 2021 when Brown returned as sole anchor. One month later in November, former WMAQ sports anchor Siafa Lewis was named Brown's new co-anchor. In April 2007, KYW-TV became the third Philadelphia television station to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high definition; the switch coincided with
14697-427: 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. 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
14910-417: The 6 p.m. newscast. Johnson and Marsh had anchored the 5 p.m. newscasts and signed off at 6 p.m. saying, "We'll see you at 11," but never got a chance to say goodbye on the air. The "massacre", as it has come to be known, was part of a move enacted by then-news director Bill Carey to boost ratings, although it came at a time when CBS was under pressure to boost revenues, having just merged with Westinghouse. It
15123-409: The British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York destroyed nearly 500 buildings, about a quarter of the structures in the city, including Trinity Church . In January 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York City the national capital. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of
15336-530: The Bronx , and Staten Island . Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District, Manhattan , New York City has been called both the world's premier financial and fintech center and the most economically powerful city in the world. As of 2022 , the New York metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan economy in the world , with a gross metropolitan product of over US$ 2.16 trillion. If
15549-516: The CBS Broadcast Center was closed for disinfection due to two employees testing positive for COVID-19 , with weathercasts being originated from the weather department's mobile broadcast unit. Newscasts resumed from the Broadcast Center that weekend; however, on March 18, the Broadcast Center was again shut down and production was transferred back to KCBS-TV. On March 20, WCBS-TV began to originate newscasts with their regular talent from
15762-441: The CBS network. In 1988, controversy involving an exchange between Jim Jensen and co-anchor Bree Walker , whose fingers and toes are fused together as a result of the condition ectrodactyly . After Walker did a report about her experience with the condition, Jensen asked Walker, on the air, if her parents would have aborted her had they known she would have been born with the condition. Walker kept her composure on air but soon left
15975-575: The County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens. The opening of the New York City Subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication. In 1904,
16188-603: The Dutch West India Company relinquished its monopoly over the fur trade, leading to growth in the production and trade of food, timber, tobacco, and slaves (particularly with the Dutch West Indies ). In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant began his tenure as the last Director-General of New Netherland. During his tenure, the population of New Netherland grew from 2,000 to 8,000. Stuyvesant has been credited with improving law and order; however, he earned
16401-544: The Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit , as charged by the Dutch West India Company , purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie , a small Lenape band, for "the value of 60 guilders " (about $ 900 in 2018). A frequently told but disproved legend claims that Manhattan was purchased for $ 24 worth of glass beads. Following the purchase, New Amsterdam grew slowly. To attract settlers,
16614-613: The Dutch instituted the patroon system in 1628, whereby wealthy Dutchmen ( patroons , or patrons) who brought 50 colonists to New Netherland would be awarded land, local political autonomy, and rights to participate in the lucrative fur trade. This program had little success. Since 1621, the Dutch West India Company had operated as a monopoly in New Netherland, on authority granted by the Dutch States General . In 1639–1640, in an effort to bolster economic growth,
16827-742: The FCC and the United States Department of Justice about NBC's alleged coercion and a lengthy investigation was launched. 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. 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 . RKO would also acquire NBC's WRC- AM - FM - TV in Washington, D.C. in
17040-481: The FCC the preceding May. In August 1964, the FCC renewed NBC's licenses for WRCV-AM-TV again—but this time, only on the condition that the 1956 station swap with Westinghouse be reversed. Both RKO General and Ford (through Philco) contested the FCC's decision initially, but soon each firm gave up their efforts and bowed out of the competition. Following nearly a year of appeals by NBC, Westinghouse regained control of WRCV-AM-TV on June 19, 1965. Westinghouse had moved
17253-621: The FCC's 1957 renewal of NBC's licenses for the WRCV stations. Then, in May 1960, Philco filed an application with the FCC to build a new station on channel 3. 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, however the transactions involving NBC and RKO, along with other related applications by both companies, had been set for hearings by
17466-502: The February 1996 sweeps period. On October 2, 1996, the station executed an unprecedented mass firing without any advance warning, citing the need to shake up its news operation. Seven people were fired: anchors John Johnson , Michele Marsh and Tony Guida; sports anchor Bernie Smilovitz (who promptly returned to his previous station, WDIV in Detroit); and reporters Reggie Harris, Roseanne Colletti and Magee Hickey. The firings came after
17679-441: The February 2007 ratings period, WCBS-TV finished second behind WABC-TV from sign-on to sign-off – its best showing in 16 years, although most of its newscasts still finished in third place at that time. By the November 2007 sweeps period, channel 2's local evening newscasts had overtaken WNBC for second place (mainly due to declining ratings at WNBC). It was channel 2's best news performance in 12 years, but it still trailed WABC-TV by
17892-734: The Giants' victory in Super Bowl XXI and loss in Super Bowl XXXV . In 1980, WCBS-TV aired Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals via an episode of CBS Sports Spectacular , where the New York Islanders won their first of four straight Stanley Cups . In 2021 and 2022, the station aired the New York City ePrix after the network acquired the rights to broadcast Formula E races. In 2002 , WCBS-TV acquired
18105-482: The Grand Central Station studios during the evening and give information and commentary on the attack. The WCBW special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes. But that special broadcast pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts. As CBS wrote in a special report to the FCC, the unscheduled live news broadcast on December 7 "was unquestionably
18318-538: The KYW Building on Independence Mall. 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. On April 2, 2007, KYW-TV and WPSG moved to a new broadcast complex located at 1555 Hamilton Street near Center City Philadelphia , across from
18531-511: The KYW call letters to Cleveland after the swap, and channel 3 became KYW-TV upon the company regaining control of the Philadelphia outlets. 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
18744-518: The Media" contest. On April 14, 2006, Dianne Doctor left WCBS-TV. The station decided to move its news department in a new direction under new general manager Peter Dunn, who axed "Shame on You" and "Eat at Your Own Risk". Doctor reportedly did not agree with the new plans, and opted to leave. The station has since overhauled its graphics and anchor lineup, winning praise from media observers. In early September 2006, WCBS-TV's weather department entered into
18957-597: The Native Americans and epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizeable population losses for the Lenape between 1660 and 1670. By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200. New York experienced several yellow fever epidemics in the 18th century, losing ten percent of its population in 1702 alone. In the early 18th century, New York grew in importance as a trading port while as
19170-480: The New York metropolitan area were its own country , it would have the tenth-largest economy in the world . Despite having a 24/7 rapid transit system , New York also leads the world in urban automobile traffic congestion . The city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by market capitalization of their listed companies: the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq . New York City
19383-628: The North Tower of the then-new World Trade Center in 1975. The station's coverage of the attacks was also simulcast nationally on Viacom (which owned CBS at the time) cable network VH1 that day. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, WCBS-TV was briefly the only full-coverage over-the-air television service operating in New York City, although the station lent transmission time to other stations who had lost their transmitters until they found suitable backup equipment and locations. The backup transmitter had been put into operation once before, when
19596-569: The Philco plant. The station originally broadcast from a tower in the Philadelphia suburb of Wyndmoor . It significantly cut back operations after the U.S. entered World War II , but returned to a full schedule in 1945. Channel 3 relocated its entire operation to the Wyndmoor transmitter facility during World War II, when the station aired little programming. It then became one of three stations (along with WNBT and Schenectady, New York 's WRGB , now
19809-716: The Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-Black population gradually developed in Manhattan. The New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate Black children. It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state . Free Blacks struggled with discrimination and interracial abolitionist activism continued. New York City's population jumped from 123,706 in 1820 (10,886 of whom were Black and of which 518 were enslaved) to 312,710 by 1840 (16,358 of whom were Black). Also in
20022-465: The United States . As the U.S. capital, New York City hosted the inauguration of the first President, George Washington , and the first Congress , at Federal Hall on Wall Street . Congress drafted the Bill of Rights there. The Supreme Court held its first organizational sessions in New York in 1790. In 1790, for the first time, New York City surpassed Philadelphia as the nation's largest city. At
20235-508: The addition of gold) with successive graphics packages, including the last several which have been shared with most of the other stations in the CBS O&;O group. After Doctor's arrival, WCBS placed a revived emphasis on hard news, while attempting to revive some elements of its glory days. For instance, in 2003 Arnold Diaz rejoined the station to revive "Shame on You", an Emmy Award –winning series of investigative segments. He had worked at
20448-723: The area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême ). A Spanish expedition, led by the Portuguese captain Estêvão Gomes sailing for Emperor Charles V , arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 and charted the mouth of the Hudson River , which he named Río de San Antonio ('Saint Anthony's River'). In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson rediscovered New York Harbor while searching for
20661-548: The beginning of the 1990s. By the mid-1990s, crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification , and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. New York City's population exceeded 8 million for the first time in the 2000 United States census ; further records were set in 2010 , and 2020 U.S. censuses. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley , emerged in
20874-587: The business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park , which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city. The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants, of whom more than 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, representing over a quarter of the city's population. Extensive immigration from the German provinces meant that Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860. Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing
21087-561: The city from New Jersey. The East River—a tidal strait —flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The Harlem River , another tidal strait between the East and Hudson rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. The Bronx River , which flows through the Bronx and Westchester County , is the only entirely freshwater river in the city. The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along
21300-425: The city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles , the nation's second-most populous city. With more than 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York City is one of the world's most populous megacities . The city and its metropolitan area are
21513-439: The city rapidly replaced Wuhan , China as the global epicenter of the pandemic during the early phase, straining the city's healthcare infrastructure. Through March 2023, New York City recorded more than 80,000 deaths from COVID-19-related complications. New York City is situated in the northeastern United States , in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston . Its location at
21726-576: The city's economy. The advent of Y2K was celebrated with fanfare in Times Square . New York City suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks . Two of the four airliners hijacked that day were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, resulting in the collapse of both buildings and the deaths of 2,753 people, including 343 first responders from
21939-794: The city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to hire a substitute, led to the Draft Riots of 1863 , whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class. The draft riots deteriorated into attacks on New York's elite, followed by attacks on Black New Yorkers after fierce competition for
22152-633: The colony and allowed for religious freedom. In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War , the victorious Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of what is now Suriname , which they had gained from the English, and in return the English kept New Amsterdam. The settlement was promptly renamed "New York" after the Duke of York (the future King James II and VII). The duke gave part of
22365-622: The colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley . On August 24, 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War , Anthony Colve of the Dutch navy seized New York at the behest of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and rechristened it "New Orange" after William III , the Prince of Orange . The Dutch soon returned the island to England under the Treaty of Westminster of November 1674. Several intertribal wars among
22578-513: 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"). It was this modified format that was emulated throughout the United States. Channel 3 dominated the ratings for the rest of the 1960s, but faced a new challenger after WFIL-TV introduced Action News to Philadelphia. For most of the 1970s, KYW-TV traded first place with WFIL/WPVI. In 1972, KYW-TV hired Philadelphia-area native Jessica Savitch as
22791-417: The development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens and Nassau County , with Wall Street leading America's place as the world's dominant economic power. The United Nations headquarters was completed in 1952, solidifying New York's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world. In 1969,
23004-455: The edited video was taken out of context and the personalities have a mutual respect for one another. Brewer left CBS 3 in June 2018 to spend more time with her family. 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. In a situation similar to
23217-406: The end of 1790, the national capital was moved to Philadelphia . During the 19th century, New York City's population grew from 60,000 to 3.43 million. Under New York State's gradual emancipation act of 1799, children of slave mothers were to be eventually liberated but to be held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed by their masters after
23430-530: The first station to broadcast a regularly scheduled feature film series, The Late Show . On August 11, 1951, WCBS-TV broadcast the first baseball game on color television , between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves from Ebbets Field . As were all color programs at the time, it was transmitted via a field-sequential color system developed by CBS. Signals transmitted this way could not be seen on existing black-and-white sets. The CBS color system
23643-408: The first synchronized sound wave for a television station in 1932, enabling W2XAB to broadcast picture and sound on a single shortwave channel instead of the two previously needed. On November 8, 1932, W2XAB broadcast the first television coverage of presidential election returns. The station suspended operations on February 20, 1933, as monochrome television transmission standards were in flux, and in
23856-521: The following Monday. In September 2018, Jessica Dean announced that she would be leaving the station after five years to pursue another assignment. She has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau. 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. On September 8, 2024, Kartalija would reveal on her Facebook page that she
24069-434: The format. Around this same time, sister station KYW radio became one of the first all-news radio stations in the country. 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. Also seen on the air during that time were future talk show host Tom Snyder and Marciarose Shestack. Primo took
24282-457: The founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island . In 1625, construction was started on a citadel and Fort Amsterdam , later called Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam), on present-day Manhattan Island. The colony of New Amsterdam extended from the southern tip of Manhattan to modern-day Wall Street , where a 12-foot (3.7 m) wooden stockade was built in 1653 to protect against Native American and English raids. In 1626,
24495-497: The helm of the evening newscasts, while the more familiar personalities were relegated to weekends and mornings. As a result, channel 3 stayed in the ratings basement. For most of what would be its last half-decade with NBC, channel 3 only aired two hours of news per day, an unusually low local news output for a Big Three network station in a Top 10 market and among the lowest of Group W's stations. Channel 3 discontinued its noon newscast to accommodate lower-rated NBC Daytime programs at
24708-511: The high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to channel 33, using virtual channel 2. Since the station qualified for the nightlight clause in the DTV Delay Act , WCBS kept its analog signal on for one month to provide public service announcements , starting at 3 p.m. on June 12 and permanently shutting it down during the early morning hours of July 13, 2009; this possibly made it
24921-473: The ice (and its subsequent retreat) contributed to the separation of what is now Long Island and Staten Island. That action left bedrock at a relatively shallow depth, providing a solid foundation for most of Manhattan's skyscrapers. The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay . Between New York City and Troy, New York , the river is an estuary . The Hudson River separates
25134-439: The infamous 1996 "Massacre" that had occurred at its sister O&O flagship station WCBS-TV in New York, May and Reece learned of their firings nearly three hours before they were scheduled to go on the air at 5 p.m. while Orr (who had been the chief meteorologist since 2003) was on vacation at the time she was notified of her firing. Jessica Dean, who had joined CBS 3 just two years earlier and anchored alongside May, Orr and Reece,
25347-586: The largest market where it did not own a station. It had made several offers over the years for the Philadelphia stations, but Westinghouse declined each time. After being rebuffed by Westinghouse on several occasions, NBC threatened to drop its affiliation from WPTZ and Westinghouse's other NBC television affiliate, WBZ-TV in Boston , unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade. NBC took over operation of WPTZ and KYW in late January 1956; on February 13, 1956, channel 3's call letters were changed to WRCV-TV (in reference to
25560-554: The last American stronghold in Manhattan, causing George Washington and his forces to retreat across the Hudson River to New Jersey , pursued by British forces. After the battle, in which the Americans were defeated, the British made the city their military and political base of operations in North America. The city was a haven for Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves who joined the British lines for freedom promised by
25773-654: The last full power NTSC broadcast television station in the United States to discontinue analog transmissions. Digital subchannel 2.2, branded as CBS New York Plus , was launched in November 2011 as a 24-hour news channel drawing upon the resources of WCBS-TV, WCBS radio (880 AM), WINS (1010 AM), and WFAN (660 AM) . The Plus service was eventually planned to be rolled out to CBS' other owned-and-operated stations, but only WCBS and KYW-TV in Philadelphia added Plus channel services. On December 12, 2011, CBS Television Stations announced its intent to purchase Riverhead, New York –licensed WLNY-TV (channel 55), later announced for
25986-861: The late 1960s, WCBS-TV went back and forth in first place with Channel 7, in a rivalry that continued through the 1970s. For much of the early 1980s, New York's "Big Three" stations took turns in the top spot. During this time, three of the longest-tenured anchor teams in New York – Jensen and Rolland Smith , WABC-TV's Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel , and WNBC-TV's Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons – went head-to-head with each other. On January 25, 1982, WCBS-TV debuted its 5 p.m. weekday newscast. WCBS-TV had many well-known personalities during this era: anchors Dave Marash , Rolland Smith, Michele Marsh and Vic Miles; meteorologists Frank Field and John Coleman ; reporters Meredith Vieira , Randall Pinkston , Tony Guida , John Stossel and Arnold Díaz and sportscaster Warner Wolf . Vieira, Pinkston and Guida later moved to
26199-426: The late spring of 2009. After the FCC allowed television stations owned by radio stations in the same city to use the same call letters as the radio station with the suffix "-TV", the call letters were changed to WCBS-TV on November 1, 1946. The change coincided with the renaming of CBS' New York radio stations, WABC (880 AM) and WABC-FM (101.1), as WCBS (now WHSQ ) and WCBS-FM . On February 26, 1951, WCBS-TV became
26412-527: The latter show as PM Magazine ). The network programs affected by the preemptions were usually lower-rated daytime game shows, soap operas, or reruns of prime time programs with an average of two hours per day. At one point, in the fall of 1980, KYW-TV preempted NBC's entire morning schedule after the Today show. 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
26625-463: The launch of a hybrid local/national news broadcast on several CBS-owned CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations, in addition to the debut of a brand-new modernized set for all Eyewitness News editions earlier in the day. The new broadcast's format was a hybrid consisting of live local news and weather reports from the Eyewitness News team and national news stories anchored on weekdays by Tom Hanson and on weekends by Traxson Griggs from
26838-564: The launch of a new digital subchannel service called Decades , scheduled to launch on all CBS-owned stations on May 25, 2015, including on WCBS-TV on channel 2.2. The channel is co-owned by CBS and Weigel (owner of CBS affiliate WDJT-TV in Milwaukee ), with Weigel being responsible for distribution to non-CBS-owned stations. It airs programs from the extensive library of CBS Television Distribution (now CBS Media Ventures ), including archival footage from CBS News . On September 3, 2018, Decades
27051-504: The local newspaper even listed W2XAB's daily program schedules, for example, as did the Ithaca Journal in upstate New York, 175 miles (282 km) northwest. Announcer-director Bill Schudt was the station's only paid employee; all other staff were volunteers. W2XAB pioneered program development including small-scale dramatic acts, monologues, pantomime, and the use of projection slides to simulate sets. Engineer Bill Lodge devised
27264-557: The local stations. Trout and Edwards were succeeded by Jim Jensen . Jensen had only come to WCBS-TV a year earlier (he had been at WBZ-TV in Boston), but was already well known for his coverage of Robert F. Kennedy 's 1964 campaign for the United States Senate. During the 1960s, WCBS-TV battled WNBC-TV (channel 4) for the top-rated news department in New York City. After WABC-TV (channel 7) introduced Eyewitness News in
27477-409: The longtime station personality through e-mails saying, "All he does is dance...dancing, 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? Sometimes he's just not speaking my language". This, however, was not the only instance of Dunn and Friend's behavior affecting
27690-478: 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, Philadelphia ; KYW-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Roxborough section. KYW-TV, along with sister station KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh , are the only CBS-affiliated stations east of
27903-504: The market's evening broadcasts at the time. WCBS elected to change the noon anchors again after approximately a year and put the noon broadcast in the hands of the morning news team; the then-current anchors were Maurice DuBois and Mary Calvi with John Elliott providing weather forecasts. DuBois has since switched to anchoring the weeknight 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts with Johnson (with Wragge moving to The Early Show ; he later returned to anchor WCBS's 6 p.m. weekday broadcast with Dana Tyler) and
28116-419: The most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London . The metropolitan area surpassed 10 million in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity . The Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance. Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and
28329-431: The most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time". Additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days of the war. In May 1942, WCBW (like almost all television stations) sharply cut back its live program schedule and the newscasts were cancelled, since the station temporarily suspended studio operations, resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films. This
28542-556: The mouth of the Hudson River , which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean , has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of the city is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island. During the Wisconsin glaciation , 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, the New York City area was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet . The erosive forward movement of
28755-496: The network acquired the AFC package from NBC in the 1998 season. From 1990 to 1995 , Philadelphia 76ers games also aired on Channel 3 by way of NBC's broadcast contract with the NBA . KYW-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours, 30 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 5 minutes each weekday; 4 hours, 5 minutes on Saturdays and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Sundays). KYW-TV cooperates with sister station WCBS-TV in
28968-527: The newscasts featured Hubbell reading a script with only occasional cutaways to a map or still photograph. When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, WCBW (which was usually off the air on Sunday to give the engineers a day off), took to the air at 8:45 p.m. that Sunday with an extensive special report. The national emergency even broke down the unspoken wall between CBS radio and television. WCBW executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as George Fielding Elliot and Linton Wells to come down to
29181-458: The newscasts more of a tabloid feel. While considerably watered down compared to Bill Applegate's work at WBBM-TV in Chicago, John Lippmann's work at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, Fox flagship WNYW, and Cheatwood's work at WSVN – and even compared to WSVN's sister station, WHDH in Boston—it was much flashier than had been seen on New York's "Big Three" affiliates. He also retooled the 11 p.m. report as
29394-445: The only " transgender folks around" during the June 1969 Stonewall riots. The transgender community in New York City played a significant role in fighting for LGBT equality. In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. Growing fiscal deficits in 1975 led the city to appeal to the federal government for financial aid; President Gerald Ford gave
29607-440: The over-the-air rights to New York Yankees baseball games, replacing Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW. The games, produced by the new YES Network , remained on the station until the 2004 season ; the rights moved to UPN affiliate (now MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station) WWOR-TV beginning in 2005 . It also aired any Yankees or Mets games as part of CBS' MLB broadcast contract from 1990 to 1993. The station's signal
29820-401: The period immediately after rebranding as "CBS 3". That year, it adopted "News in Focus" by composer John Hegner as its theme song. This package, like the majority of themes for CBS' owned-and-operated stations, is based on "Channel 2 News", written in 1975 for WBBM-TV in Chicago (known as "I Love Chicago, Chicago, My Home"; ironically, WCAU-TV used music based on this theme for its last decade as
30033-546: The preempted programs aired on WMGM-TV , which served as the NBC affiliate for Atlantic City until 2014. However, at the time NBC was far less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks and was rather perturbed at losing valuable advertising in the nation's fourth-largest market. Like most affiliates that preempt underperforming network programs, KYW-TV used the preemptions to gain an increase in local advertising rates which potentially come with ratings increases. This proved to be
30246-651: The preemptions, as channel 3 (along with its sister stations in the Group W chain) aired shows produced and syndicated by Group W, such as The Mike Douglas Show (whose production moved from Cleveland to the Walnut Street studio in Philadelphia in 1965, and then taped at Independence Mall East until 1978), The David Frost Show and the Westinghouse franchise Evening Magazine (which was broadcast on non-Westinghouse owned stations airing their own versions of
30459-482: The premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States . As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. In 2021, the city was home to nearly 3.1 million residents born outside the U.S., the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world. New York City traces its origins to Fort Amsterdam and a trading post founded on Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists around 1624. The settlement
30672-545: The presence of personalities such as Maria Shriver , Maury Povich , Ron Hunter, Stan Bohrman, and Patrick Emory, Eyewitness News stayed in the ratings basement. For most of the next 20 years, KYW-TV was a very distant third behind WPVI-TV and WCAU-TV. 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. In 1993, production
30885-434: The presence of rats and roaches, as well as food temperature issues. Despite this and other attempts at fixes, the ratings did not significantly improve under Doctor's watch. Doctor was criticized for airing "Shame on You" and "Eat at Your Own Risk" segments ahead of major stories. She also came under fire when channel 2 led its 11 p.m. newscast of May 24, 2005, with a story and exclusive video of actor Burt Reynolds slapping
31098-583: The process of changing from the limited mechanical operation to an all-electronic system. W2XAB returned with an all-electronic system in 1939 from a new studio complex in Grand Central Station and a transmitter located at the Chrysler Building broadcasting on channel 2. W2XAB transmitted the first color broadcast in the United States on August 28, 1940, although it was not black and white compatible. On June 24, 1941, W2XAB received
31311-530: The production and broadcast of statewide New Jersey political debates. 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. Additionally, the two stations cooperate in the gathering of news in New Jersey where their markets overlap; sharing reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. Like other CBS-owned stations, KYW-TV offers
31524-431: The ratings for the first time in 30 years. 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 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The 5 p.m. news was moved to 4 pm, and Howard moved off the 11 p.m. newscast to anchor with Denise Saunders. The change proved successful, as KYW moved ahead of WCAU at 11 p.m. and came within
31737-446: The regular season, some Jets games are rotated with WNBC (through NBC Sunday Night Football ), WNYW (through NFL on Fox and Thursday Night Football ), WABC-TV (through Monday Night Football ), WPIX (through Monday Night Football , if WABC-TV is not airing them and select TNF telecasts not carried by Fox's package it shares with NFL Network), and in rare cases, WWOR-TV (through Monday Night Football ). The station has aired
31950-646: The rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) to Fox in 1994 , resulting in Giants games moving to WNYW; currently, Giants preseason games are carried by NBC owned-and-operated station WNBC (with WWOR-TV being served as an overflow station if the Summer Olympics conflicts with the preseason schedule). After a 5-year absence, the NFL returned to CBS and WCBS-TV in 1998 through a package of American Football Conference (AFC) games;
32163-406: The start of 1991. Additionally, long after 5 p.m. newscasts became standard in major markets, channel 3 scaled back its early-evening news block to a half-hour at 6 p.m. to carry first-run syndicated programs during the entirety of the 5 p.m. hour in September 1992. The experiment with different newscast names ended after almost three years in 1994, just before it became a CBS station, when
32376-562: The station a month later after three years to become a meteorologist at NBC station WTVJ in Miami. Bilo then appeared in Abreu's former morning and noon position until March 20, 2023, when she officially announced via social media that she would be permanently in that spot and filling in at other times only if asked to. Exactly a week later, Grant Gilmore announced in a tweet that he would be leaving Tampa Bay CBS affiliate WTSP and joining KYW as their newest meteorologist. On July 18, 2022,
32589-432: The station after four years to explore another career path. In February 2022, his spot on weekends would be filled permanently by Souza while Peterson became a fill-in for any vacationing meteorologist. In May 2022, weekend evening meteorologist Lauren Casey would also depart the station to work with Climate Central to focus on the science behind global climate change. On September 26, 2022, Andrew Kozak would officially join
32802-410: The station and had not only been secretly reading thousands of Lane's emails from her account during and after her employment at the station on multiple occasions, but also passing them on to gossip columnists. In a public statement, Mendte said that his actions were rooted in a feud that started after he ended a "flirtatious and improper" relationship with Lane. Additionally, it was learned that Mendte
33015-434: The station and several other CBS-owned CW affiliates dropping the network and becoming independent stations the next day, September 1. The station continues to air an hour-long newscast, but it is now fully produced by KYW and airs weeknights at 8 p.m. 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
33228-529: 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. Kane anchored the 11 p.m. broadcast solo, while Stahl anchored the 6 p.m. report, first with Bruce Hamilton, then with Pittsburgh's Don Cannon (though due to potential confusion with a local radio DJ also named Don Cannon, he went under his birth name of Don Clark while at KYW; he left in 1998 for sister KDKA). Also during this time,
33441-511: The station began operations as W3XE, it was based within Philco's production plant, at C and East Tioga streets in North Philadelphia , complete with a small studio and transmitter. 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. On July 1, 1941, W3XE received
33654-451: The station currently airs New York Jets preseason games and most regular season games, along with occasional Giants games, usually when the team plays host to an AFC opponent at MetLife Stadium (or, since 2014, through the 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any Giants games where they play another NFC team that are moved from Fox to CBS). The station also aired occasional Jets games when they played at home to an NFC team from 1970 to 1993. During
33867-623: The station entered into an agreement with the Franklin Institute to use weather data collected by the Institute for use in on-air forecasts, branded as the Franklin Institute Forecast . A half-hour noon newscast was resurrected following the September 1995 switch to CBS. The Eyewitness News name was restored in early 1998. KYW-TV used music packages based on KYW radio's musical signature until 2003, even in
34080-512: The station from 1973 to 1995, leaving to serve a similar investigative role at ABC News . In December 2005, Diaz once again departed, this time leaving for WNYW. Another segment was "Eat at Your Own Risk", which highlighted unsafe conditions at New York-area restaurants. Ironically, the cafeteria at the CBS Broadcast Center was cited for violations by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene . Violations included
34293-559: The station had been negligent in preventing Mendte from divulging her personal information and photos to columnists. The lawsuit was ultimately settled in October 2016, though no specific details of the settlement were revealed to the public. CBS 3 also made headlines in June 2013 when video surfaced on YouTube of weekend morning anchor Nicole Brewer and meteorologist Carol Erickson appearing to exchange on-air jibes at each other during their weekend morning newscasts. Station management said
34506-556: The station in 2019 to join CNBC and is now currently a reporter with CNN. Several more Black reporters would leave the station at this time including Justin Finch who is now a reporter for ABC, and Steve Patterson who would leave and become a reporter for NBC. 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
34719-552: The station on December 10, 2021, and it was announced that she would be returning to the morning newscast the following Monday. 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
34932-428: The station that were auditioning for the job including former WCAU Chief Meteorologist Tammie Souza and former KNSD weekend meteorologist Llarisa Abreu. On February 10, 2020, Abreu was officially announced as taking Fehlinger's position at KYW; however, she unofficially started at the station a day earlier due to Peterson taking a day off as he had been working earlier that week. In September 2021, Peterson would depart
35145-430: The station to do the 4 p.m. newscast & take over Casey's position on weekend evening editions. Bilo announced via social media in December 2022 that she would step down as Chief Meteorologist and scale back her schedule to be able to spend more time with her family. Bill Kelly, former chief meteorologist at WJLA-TV in Washington, would be hired by KYW to become the new chief meteorologist in January 2023 and Abreu left
35358-413: The station's move from its former Independence Mall studios to its new facility on Hamilton Street. On February 2, 2009, KYW began to produce a nightly prime time newscast at 10 p.m. for sister station and then-CW affiliate WPSG, Eyewitness News at 10 on The CW Philly . This would continue until July 18, 2022, when the broadcast was modified as CBS News Philadelphia NOW on The CW Philly to recognize
35571-402: The station. The incident took place shortly before Jensen's entry to drug rehabilitation . As the 1990s began, Channel 2 found itself increasingly losing its ratings share to WNBC. On August 31, 1992, Channel 2 debuted its one-hour weekday morning newscast, this time with the anchor team of Morry Alter and Lisa Rudolph, Jay Trelease with traffic, and Craig Allen with weather. In late 1994 Jensen
35784-599: 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. If a situation arises to where CBS programming is preempted by local news coverage, the programs can be shifted to sister station WPSG. Channel 3 has had a long history of carrying Philadelphia-area sports teams through NBC and CBS. 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
35997-463: The time NBC Television Newsreel (premiering in February 1948) was simply film with voice narration. In 1950, the name of the nightly news was changed to Douglas Edwards with the News , and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast." The broadcast
36210-431: The time), one for the normal newscasts titled "WCBS Grand", which began alongside the debut of the 4 p.m. news, and another package especially intended for Nightcast . It did not work, and Cheatwood was gone by 2002 in favor of New York veteran news director Dianne Doctor. The station became simply CBS 2 , and gradually phased out the tabloid elements, the Information Network, and Nightcast . In its place, Doctor introduced
36423-426: The time, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and KPIX-TV in San Francisco). CBS was initially skeptical about including KYW-TV in the deal. 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. 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. NBC emerged as
36636-597: The top all-news stations in the country and the highest-rated radio station in Philadelphia for most of the last 40 years; indeed, their news director during this era was previously at KYW radio. Group W hoped to gain the trust of viewers who already associated KYW radio with high-quality news. However, neither of these fixes worked—mainly 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
36849-475: The wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic . 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. Several off-camera personnel such as floor directors, engineers, and editors were also laid off. The two most notable employee layoffs were weekend evening sports anchor Lesley Van Arsdall and weekday morning traffic anchor Chandler Lutz. Lutz returned to
37062-482: The war, expanded news programs appeared on the WCBW schedule—renamed WCBS-TV in 1946—first anchored by Milo Boulton and later by Douglas Edwards . On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began anchoring CBS Television News , a regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the rudimentary CBS network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 p.m. and was the first regularly scheduled network television news program featuring an anchor. The NBC television network's offering at
37275-443: The war, the FCC re-allocated the television and FM bands. WCBW closed down its operation on the old channel 2 at the end of February 1946 (the 60–66 MHz band had been re-allocated to WPTZ in Philadelphia as channel 3) to move to a new channel 2 at 54–60 MHz. It quickly began operation on the new frequency, where it remained from the spring of 1946 for the next 63 years until the end of analog full power television service in
37488-499: The weather forecasting was officially branded as NeXt Weather in accordance with a branding plan for O&O weather forecasts to either be branded as NeXt Weather or First Alert Weather . KYW went with NeXt Weather due to competitor WCAU branding their forecasts First Alert Weather for several years. On September 12, 2022, the station launched an additional hour-long newscast in the 9 a.m. time slot, Eyewitness News @ 9AM (currently CBS News Philadelphia @ 9AM ). The program
37701-692: The winner for channel 10, having fought a bidding war against New World Communications and Fox. While WJZ-TV and WBZ-TV switched to CBS in January 1995, the swap was delayed in Philadelphia when CBS discovered that an outright sale of channel 10 would have forced it to pay massive taxes on the proceeds from the deal. To solve this problem, CBS, NBC and Group W entered into a complex ownership/affiliation deal in late 1994. 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. CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for
37914-501: The work environment at the station. When current KTTV Good Day LA anchor Brooke Thomas was hired by KYW to become anchor of the morning newscast in April 2016 to replace Erika von Tiehl who had left the station a month earlier, many had thought that she was a great addition to co-anchor alongside Jim Donovan. According to Cronan, however, neither of the two executives liked Thomas. The day after her debut, Friend had called Cronan and verbally berated her, directing her to tell Thomas to "shut
38127-415: The world by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet (541.3 m), a reference to the year of U.S. independence . The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and popularizing the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. New York City
38340-409: The world. In 1664, New York was named in honor of the Duke of York (later King James II of England ). James's elder brother, King Charles II , appointed the Duke as proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland , including the city of New Amsterdam , when the Kingdom of England seized it from Dutch control. In the pre-Columbian era , the area of present-day New York City
38553-422: Was Juan Rodriguez , a merchant from Santo Domingo who arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–14, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch colonists. A permanent European presence near New York Harbor was established in 1624, making New York the 12th-oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States , with
38766-440: Was heavily affected by Hurricane Sandy in late October 2012. Sandy's impacts included flooding that led to the days-long shutdown of the subway system and flooding of all East River subway tunnels and of all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel . The New York Stock Exchange closed for two days due to weather for the first time since the Great Blizzard of 1888 . At least 43 people died in New York City as
38979-523: Was Baltimore's NBC affiliate, WMAR-TV . This deal, which was spurred by an affiliation agreement between Fox and New World Communications , did not sit well with Westinghouse, who felt betrayed by ABC after nearly half a century of loyalty. As a safeguard, Group W intensified a search (which had begun prior to WJZ's affiliation loss) for affiliation deals of its own. 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
39192-414: Was a distinct "Stylized 3" in the font 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.) It was the longest continuously-used logo in Philadelphia television history until 2006, when WPVI-TV's simple "6" logo passed it. The only major change came in February 1998, when
39405-411: Was a prime destination in the early 20th century for Blacks during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City had the largest urban African diaspora in North America. The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition . The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height. New York City became
39618-453: Was also abandoned, in favor of a more "traditional" newscast. The "club" remix of the WBBM theme would continue to be used until early 2000. In 2000, Joel Cheatwood , creator of the 7 News format at WSVN in Miami, was appointed as the station's news director. At his suggestion, the newscasts were rebranded from News 2 to the CBS 2 Information Network, using "content partners" such as U.S. News & World Report and VH1. He also gave
39831-432: Was also hacking into the email of another coworker at the station, current WRC-TV chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer. The FBI ultimately decided that while the evidence regarding the Kammerer hack was credible, it was not strong enough to warrant additional charges against Mendte. Mendte did, however, plead guilty to the charges regarding Lane. In September 2008, Lane filed a lawsuit against Mendte and KYW-TV, claiming that
40044-460: Was also part of a major reconstruction of the newscast, culminating in the May 1997 rebranding to News 2 ; two months prior, Warner Wolf had returned to the station, having left in 1992 for WUSA-TV , the CBS affiliate in Washington. When the News 2 name was put in place, a format change was also instituted, going for a faster-paced newscast with more stories; this was reinforced by reminders that News 2 had "More news in less time, every time" and
40257-513: 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 revelation was uncovered as part of an independent investigation into the allegations that were leveled against former CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves from 2018. CBS 3 itself
40470-406: Was anchored by Natasha Brown and from its initial launch until July 26, 2024, it aired in a unique format: the first half hour aired from 9 to 9:30 a.m. on KYW, the station's website and the CBS News Philadelphia streaming service while the entire hour aired on the website and streaming service exclusively. The 9:30–10 a.m. slot on CBS3 was occupied by The Drew Barrymore Show , whose broadcast format
40683-421: Was announced that The Weather Channel had been sold to NBCUniversal (owner of competitor WNBC). On November 6, 2006, WCBS-TV made a personnel change on its noon and 5 p.m. newscasts. Former sports director and anchor Chris Wragge became co-anchor of both programs, along with newly hired Kristine Johnson; both replaced Roz Abrams and Mary Calvi on those newscasts; Abrams' contract was allowed to lapse, and Calvi
40896-428: Was at least a decade ahead of its time, it was not enough to stop the ratings slide. By the time Jones departed for WLS-TV in Chicago in 1979 and Leonard left for KPNX in Phoenix in 1980, Eyewitness News had crashed into last place. 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. Despite
41109-450: Was founded. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765, as the Sons of Liberty organization emerged in the city and skirmished over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. The Battle of Long Island , the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War , was fought in August 1776 within modern-day Brooklyn. A British rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776 eliminated
41322-412: Was inhabited by Algonquians , including the Lenape . Their homeland, known as Lenapehoking , included the present-day areas of Staten Island , Manhattan , the Bronx , the western portion of Long Island (including Brooklyn and Queens ), and the Lower Hudson Valley . The first documented visit into New York Harbor by a European was in 1524 by explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano . He claimed
41535-428: Was made, so this format was done away with; a new "virtual studio" format (involving CGI being used to depict sections of the news studio that did not exist in reality), alongside bright, orange and white graphics and a "club" remix of WBBM-TV's "This is Chicago, Chicago's My Town" theme (which the station has used in various forms for all but a few years since 1982) was tried out. This did not work either, so this approach
41748-490: Was mentioned as having been affected by the actions of Dunn and Friend on several occasions. One high-profile instance involved the promotion of Ukee Washington from morning news anchor to lead evening anchor in 2015 after Chris May was fired. 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
41961-425: Was modified, starting with the show's third season onward, to allow stations to air the show as two half-hour episodes which could be broadcast separately or back-to-back. KYW followed the separation format in airing the show while sister station WPSG carries both episodes in back-to-back format Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 3 am. On July 29, 2024, a scheduling change was announced as The Drew Barrymore Show
42174-413: Was moved over to Hubbard Broadcasting 's All News Channel , where they were produced until 2000. In 1991, KYW-TV rebranded itself as "KYW 3" after being known on-air as simply "channel 3" for most of its history (except for the "Direct Connection" era, when it was known as "3 For All"). It also abandoned the longstanding Eyewitness News branding after 26 years and experimented with giving each newscast
42387-436: Was moved to 3 pm, replacing Family Feud and airing in the back-to-back format with the full hour-long newscast airing in its entirety on CBS3. The 3 a.m. airings on WPSG are not affected by the change. On September 9, 2024, Janelle Burrell became the new lead anchor of the 9 a.m. newscast as Brown moved to anchoring the 5 p.m. newscast alongside Ukee Washington in the wake of Jessica Kartalija's departure. KYW-TV launched
42600-468: Was named New Amsterdam in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653. The city came under English control in 1664 and was temporarily renamed New York after King Charles II granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York , before being permanently renamed New York in November 1674. New York City was the U.S. capital from 1785 until 1790. The modern city was formed by the 1898 consolidation of its five boroughs : Manhattan , Brooklyn , Queens ,
42813-573: Was no longer with KYW and CBS as a whole after an 18-year career at both WJZ and KYW, though at the time the reason for her being let go was unknown. Morning meteorologist Katie Fehlinger left the station on September 17, 2019, after more than eight years to spend more time with her family and pursue other professional ventures. Her position was covered in the interim by fellow meteorologists Matt Peterson, Lauren Casey and Kate Bilo, former weekend morning meteorologist and current WBAL meteorologist and traffic reporter Chelsea Ingram, and those from outside
43026-470: Was occupied by reruns of Family Feud (which airs on sister station WPSG) until August 3, 2018. In an interesting twist, Family Feud repeats returned to the 3 p.m. slot on September 11, 2023, and would air in that time slot until July 29, 2024, when they would be replaced by The Drew Barrymore Show , while Dr. Phil repeats (as the show had ended its run in May) departed KYW and would move to WPHL at 4 pm. In May 2020, Brown and Hoff were removed from
43239-420: Was one Eisen shares with his wife Suzy Shuster . In June 2008, 6 and 11 p.m. news anchor Larry Mendte, who was Alycia Lane's co-anchor until her firing five months earlier, was himself fired from the station after police conducted a raid of his home and seized his computers due to an investigation by both law enforcement authorities and CBS 3. The investigation revealed that he had hacked Lane's email account at
43452-447: Was primarily due to the fact that much of the staff had either joined the service or were redeployed to war-related technical research, and to prolong the life of the early, unstable cameras which were now impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts. In May 1944, as the war began to turn in favor of the Allies, WCBW reopened the studios and the newscasts returned, briefly anchored by Ned Calmer , and then by Everett Holles. After
43665-433: Was reassigned to weekends as the sole evening anchor. Calvi co-anchored on mornings with Rob Morrison. More changes came on December 25, 2006, as John Elliot was introduced as the new morning and noon meteorologist, replacing Audrey Puente , whose abrupt breach-of-contract demotion led to her being allowed to become the new chief meteorologist at WWOR-TV less than two weeks later. WCBS-TV also hired Lonnie Quinn , who had been
43878-599: Was renamed the CBS Evening News when Walter Cronkite replaced Edwards in 1962. Edwards remained with CBS News with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988. In the 1950s through the mid-1960s, WCBS-TV's local newscasts were anchored by CBS News correspondents Robert Trout (at 7 pm) and by Don Hollenbeck and later Douglas Edwards (at 11 pm). Beginning in 1965, production of local news broadcasts on WCBS-TV and other CBS-owned television stations, which had been previously produced by CBS News, were taken over by
44091-439: Was replaced by the much younger Chris Wragge , who was brought in from NBC affiliate KPRC-TV in Houston . On June 1, 2005, Jim Rosenfield rejoined the station to anchor the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts with Roz Abrams , who joined channel 2 the previous year after an 18-year run at WABC-TV. The son of a former CBS executive, Rosenfield had worked at the station from 1998 to 2000 before moving to WNBC (to anchor Live at Five ) after
44304-444: Was replaced on 2.2 by Start TV . (Decades returned to the New York market in October 2019, when it was added to WNYW channel 5.5 as part of an agreement between Weigel and Fox Television Stations ). As a result of the 2016–17 FCC spectrum incentive auction , WCBS-TV moved its digital signal from channel 33 to channel 36 on August 1, 2019. On December 12, 2018, WCBS-TV in cooperation with CBS Interactive , launched CBSN New York -
44517-434: Was ridiculed on the popular Opie and Anthony radio show. The station renamed the radar in 2006 to "Live Doppler". The station also uses the VIPIR radar processing software. Coincidentally, transportation reporter Arthur Chi'en was fired from the station three months earlier after mistakenly using expletives live on the air in response to someone from Opie and Anthony disrupting his live report as part of their "Assault on
44730-399: Was scrapped after the FCC embraced the alternative RCA all-electronic dot sequential system, which was fully compatible with the existing monochrome television standard, late in 1953. However, CBS telecast few programs in color, either locally or through the network, until the mid-1960s when color television sets became more affordable to the American public. In May 1997, the station adopted
44943-427: Was taken off the anchor desk and demoted to host of a Sunday morning public-affairs show, Sunday Edition . He also hosted a few episodes of the regular Sports Update show on Sunday nights at 11:30 pm. At the time, Jensen had served as an anchor longer than anyone in New York television history (he has since been passed by WABC-TV's Beutel and WNBC's Scarborough). In 1995, Jensen was forced to retire shortly after
45156-415: Was the network's lowest-rated major-market affiliate during a very prosperous period for NBC as a whole. It continued to heavily preempt NBC programming, much to the network's chagrin. 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 . Under
45369-442: Was the only member of their broadcast team to avoid being fired. Additionally, meteorologist Carol Erickson resigned after a 37-year career at the station to focus more on her animal rights advocacy. 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
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