Ah, the old KYW-TV with Jay Miltner as a staff announcer (don't remember Gordon Ward; I take it he may have left the station by the early 60's), Linn Sheldon (Barnaby), Clay Conroy (Woodrow the Woodsman), Open Circuits (one of the first call-in shows in TV history, starting in 1961), a young Dick Goddard doing weather reports, The Mike Douglas Show, The Early Show movie program, showing old movies on weekday afternoons, reruns of You Bet Your Life titled, The Best of Groucho, plus other programs. How great is this? Thank you for uploading this.
NBC coerced Westinghouse to swap stations. Westinghouse immediately complained to the FCC and an investigation was launched. When NBC applied for a renewal of WRCV-TV's (KYW's calls during NBC ownership) license in 1964, the FCC would renew it as long as the switch was reversed, which it did in 1965. There's one good thing about the reversal: news director Al Primo launched the "Eyewitness News" format as soon as the station returned to Philly. He created the 90-minute "Eyewitness" in 1959.
KYW orginated in Chicago, but subsequently moved to Cleveland and later Philadelphia. In 1965, KYW Channel 3 became WKYC, and WPTZ became KYW in the Quaker City in a complicated legal callsign change involving Westinghouse,NBC and the FCC.
While KYW originated in Chicago (On the Radio side)they were in Philadelphia from 1934-56.. An early experimental TV station eventually became WPTZ and was sold to Westinghouse. Both moved to Cleveland in 1956 as KYW Radio-KYW-TV in a swap between NBC and Westinghouse, which was reversed in 1965..KYW-TV and Radio moved back to Philadelphia and WKYC Radio and TV ended up in Cleveland,
KYW was engaged in Greater Cleveland. Channel 3 and KYW 1100 were popular. Notice that when NBC came back to town, they mimicked the call letters. WKYC stands for KY Cleveland. WKYC 1100 also retained the Sound 11 Survey. promoted itself as the Great K, and the DJ's remained the VIP's.
Yes, I knew that--I was keeping it short for the annoying 500-character limit. NBC coerced (bullied) Westinghouse by threatening to yank the affiliations of both KYW and WBZ, Westinghouse's NBC-TV affiliates, if Westinghouse didn't cooperate. Well, they cooperated, but they also (as you said) immediately complained to the FCC. I would've too if anyone had pushed me around like that. However, what I didn't know was what Al Primo did. Thanks for your note.
KYW was in Philly before Cleveland (until '56), but NBC wanted the channel 3 license in Philly, so they approached Westinghouse to exhange properties, Philly for Cleveland. But in '65, the FCC reversed the switch, sending NBC back to Cleveland,
@@gidzmobug2323 Sarnoff wanted the channel 3 license in Philadelphia. NBC didn't own a Philly property. But when Westinghouse wouldn't cooperate, NBC bullied Westinghouse into making the switch by threatening to yank the NBC affiliation from both KYW and WBZ. So, Westinghouse capitulated and went to Cleveland, taking the KYW call letters with them. Channel 3 in Philly became WRCV, I believe. Westinghouse formally complained to the FCC, told them what NBC did, and the FCC ordered the reversal. It took some time to do, but after 9 years in exile, Westinghouse was allowed to take KYW back to Philly, and NBC was ordered back to Cleveland.
I was a lat night TV Movie Host on WNBK Cleveland in 1951...the first late night TV show in the country. It was known as "Main Line Theater" and played terrible movies
There are clips of "Eyewitness" at KYW in Cleveland on TH-cam. Al Primo worked at other stations, such as sister-station WBZ, WIAT, and mosy notably WABC where he developed the more popular "happy talk" version of Eyewitness News.
Yes. And it has the most confusing callsign history I can think of.... KYW has been used in Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland. It has been in Philadelphia since 1965. On TV it was an NBC affiliate (run by Westinghouse), but at the end of the 1990s it switched to CBS and NBC in Philadelphia went to WCAU, channel 10. Lots of legal history etc. involved.
@Smelly Cat This particular sign-on was probably on a Sunday Morning. Monday-Friday they signed-on probably around 6:30 AM (Because of Today at 7) and Saturday at 6:30.
And for years the Westinghouse NBC affiliates got back at NBC by not carrying, believe it or else, the Tonight Show in Boston (WBZ-TV), in Cleveland, then in Philadelphia
Also, NBC planned to withold a primary affiliation with Westinghouse's newly-aquired station, KDKA in its home market of Pittsburgh. It had been a DuMont O&O as WDTV. For a few years, it was the only station in Pittsburgh, and was DuMont's powerhouse. When DuMont was losing cash, it sold WDTV for a quick cash infusion. It used it up and shuttered the network almost 10 yaers to the date of its launch in 1956.
Yes, but that switch didn't happen until 1965; it was at that time that WPTZ in Philadelphia took on its current call letters (KYW), while NBC's new Cleveland outlet took on its current call letters (WKYC).
R.I.P. Gordon Ward, the staff announcer on this sign-off :(
Ah, the old KYW-TV with Jay Miltner as a staff announcer (don't remember Gordon Ward; I take it he may have left the station by the early 60's), Linn Sheldon (Barnaby), Clay Conroy (Woodrow the Woodsman), Open Circuits (one of the first call-in shows in TV history, starting in 1961), a young Dick Goddard doing weather reports, The Mike Douglas Show, The Early Show movie program, showing old movies on weekday afternoons, reruns of You Bet Your Life titled, The Best of Groucho, plus other programs. How great is this? Thank you for uploading this.
NBC coerced Westinghouse to swap stations. Westinghouse immediately complained to the FCC and an investigation was launched. When NBC applied for a renewal of WRCV-TV's (KYW's calls during NBC ownership) license in 1964, the FCC would renew it as long as the switch was reversed, which it did in 1965.
There's one good thing about the reversal: news director Al Primo launched the "Eyewitness News" format as soon as the station returned to Philly. He created the 90-minute "Eyewitness" in 1959.
Plus KYW-TV Cleveland was the ancestral home of the Mike Douglas Show.
It started in Cleveland, moved to Philly, then Hollywood.
It later came to Philadelphia and became a CBS affiliate in 1995 on my 42nd birthday!
KYW orginated in Chicago, but subsequently moved to Cleveland and later Philadelphia. In 1965, KYW Channel 3 became WKYC,
and WPTZ became KYW in the Quaker City in a complicated legal
callsign change involving Westinghouse,NBC and the FCC.
While KYW originated in Chicago (On the Radio side)they were in Philadelphia from 1934-56..
An early experimental TV station eventually became WPTZ and was sold to Westinghouse. Both moved to Cleveland in 1956 as KYW Radio-KYW-TV in a swap between NBC and Westinghouse, which was reversed in 1965..KYW-TV and Radio moved back to Philadelphia and WKYC Radio and TV ended up in Cleveland,
Thanks for the clarification. As a native of South Jersey, I never knew that KYW was anything other than a Philadelphia station.
KYW was engaged in Greater Cleveland. Channel 3 and KYW 1100 were popular.
Notice that when NBC came back to town, they mimicked the call letters.
WKYC stands for KY Cleveland. WKYC 1100 also retained the Sound 11 Survey. promoted itself as the Great K, and the DJ's remained the VIP's.
Yes, I knew that--I was keeping it short for the annoying 500-character limit. NBC coerced (bullied) Westinghouse by threatening to yank the affiliations of both KYW and WBZ, Westinghouse's NBC-TV affiliates, if Westinghouse didn't cooperate. Well, they cooperated, but they also (as you said) immediately complained to the FCC. I would've too if anyone had pushed me around like that. However, what I didn't know was what Al Primo did. Thanks for your note.
KYW was in Philly before Cleveland (until '56), but NBC wanted the channel 3 license in Philly, so they approached Westinghouse to exhange properties, Philly for Cleveland. But in '65, the FCC reversed the switch, sending NBC back to Cleveland,
Why was the trade reversed?
That's what I like to know too
@@gidzmobug2323 Sarnoff wanted the channel 3 license in Philadelphia. NBC didn't own a Philly property. But when Westinghouse wouldn't cooperate, NBC bullied Westinghouse into making the switch by threatening to yank the NBC affiliation from both KYW and WBZ. So, Westinghouse capitulated and went to Cleveland, taking the KYW call letters with them. Channel 3 in Philly became WRCV, I believe. Westinghouse formally complained to the FCC, told them what NBC did, and the FCC ordered the reversal. It took some time to do, but after 9 years in exile, Westinghouse was allowed to take KYW back to Philly, and NBC was ordered back to Cleveland.
Gordon Ward...would later head to Toledo and become longtime news anchor at WTOL-TV
I remember him well.
This is great thanks for uploading it on TH-cam.
Remember when they used to sign off at Night,
and You was almost out
Of Beer anyway?
I was a lat night TV Movie Host on WNBK Cleveland in 1951...the first late night TV show in the country. It was known as "Main Line Theater" and played terrible movies
There are clips of "Eyewitness" at KYW in Cleveland on TH-cam.
Al Primo worked at other stations, such as sister-station WBZ, WIAT, and mosy notably WABC where he developed the more popular "happy talk" version of Eyewitness News.
KYW Cleveland is now WKYC Cleveland
KYW Cleveland,Ohio
Yes. And it has the most confusing callsign history I can think of.... KYW has been used in Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland. It has been in Philadelphia since 1965. On TV it was an NBC affiliate (run by Westinghouse), but at the end of the 1990s it switched to CBS and NBC in Philadelphia went to WCAU, channel 10. Lots of legal history etc. involved.
3 and 10 switched affiliations on the day of my 42nd birthday so now we all celebrate our birthdays on the same day
June 19, 1965 at sign-on..Probably at around 6:30 AM
@Smelly Cat This particular sign-on was probably on a Sunday Morning. Monday-Friday they signed-on probably around 6:30 AM (Because of Today at 7) and Saturday at 6:30.
videoholiccollection--
Thank you; I was always curious to find out when KYW in Cleveland became WKYC.
And for years the Westinghouse NBC affiliates got back at NBC by not carrying, believe it or else, the Tonight Show in Boston (WBZ-TV), in Cleveland, then in Philadelphia
KYW 3 IS NOW WKYC TV 3 NBC OWN BY TEGNA
Very cool.
Also, NBC planned to withold a primary affiliation with Westinghouse's newly-aquired station, KDKA in its home market of Pittsburgh. It had been a DuMont O&O as WDTV. For a few years, it was the only station in Pittsburgh, and was DuMont's powerhouse. When DuMont was losing cash, it sold WDTV for a quick cash infusion. It used it up and shuttered the network almost 10 yaers to the date of its launch in 1956.
Does anybody know exactly what year the KYW-TV call letters moved from Cleveland's channel 3 to Philadelphia's Channel 3?
KYW Group W was in Cleveland from 1956 to 1965; TV 3, Radio 1100 AM, and FM 105.7 too.
isnt KYW-TV channel 3 in Philadelphia
Yes, but that switch didn't happen until 1965; it was at that time that WPTZ in Philadelphia took on its current call letters (KYW), while NBC's new Cleveland outlet took on its current call letters (WKYC).
Between 1956-65 WPTZ-KYW Radio became WRCV-WRCV-TV. The call letters went from WRCV to KYW at the swap in 1965.