Updated Info on Kyw
At:30 past the hour, the recording is slightly different, announcing that KYW is “the news authority in Philadelphia.”
KYW is a class A AM radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Within a few years, Group W’s other television stations had adopted the format. Around this same time, sister station KYW radio became one of the first all-news radio stations in the country.
KYW-TV used music packages based on KYW radio’s musical signature until 200 That year it adopted “News in Focus”, by composer John Hegner as its theme song. The experiment with different newscast names ended in 1994, just before it became a CBS station, when the station began calling its news operation “News 3″. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, owner of Philadelphia’s NBC radio affiliate KYW , purchased WPTZ-TV in 195
In late 1955, Westinghouse traded WPTZ-TV and KYW radio to NBC in exchange for Cleveland’s WNBK television and WTAM-AM - FM.
The former KYW Building on Independence Mall East, used by the station from 1972 to 200
At the top of every hour, a recording of Dick Covington is played announcing the following information: “All news, all the time. From Independence Mall, this is Newsradio KYW 1060 Philadelphia, a CBS Radio station, serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.”
KYW is located on the 10th floor, while WYSP occupies the 9th floor. The station moved into these studios in March, 200 KYW is currently the easternmost station in the United States whose callsign begins with the letter K. KYW currently receives news reports and sound-bites, plus continuous coverage of breaking news from ABC Radio and CNN Radio as well as CBS Radio.
At:30 past the hour, the recording is slightly different, announcing that KYW is “the news authority in Philadelphia.”
KYW began in 1921 in Chicago.
KYW’s studios are currently located, along with sister station 91 WYSP at 400 Market Street in downtown Philadelphia.
KYW is always on with breaking news alerts and a full offering of other e-mail news updates.
