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15 Facts About KYW-TV

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KYW-TV is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the CBS network.

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At one point, in the fall of 1980, KYW-TV preempted NBC's entire morning schedule after the Today show.

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However, the station faltered in the late 1970s, and by 1980, KYW-TV was the lowest-rated network affiliate in Philadelphia.

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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.

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KYW-TV was effectively separated from its radio counterpart in November 2017, when CBS Radio merged into Entercom .

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Under the terms of Westinghouse's deal with CBS, KYW-TV began carrying the entire CBS schedule in pattern with no preemptions except for extended breaking news or severe weather coverage.

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7.

KYW-TV cooperates with sister station WCBS-TV in the production and broadcast of statewide New Jersey political debates.

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In 1972, KYW-TV hired Philadelphia-area native Jessica Savitch as a reporter, and later co-anchor alongside Leonard.

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For most of the next 20 years, KYW-TV was a very distant third behind WPVI-TV and WCAU-TV.

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In 1991, KYW-TV rebranded itself as "KYW 3" after being known on-air as simply "channel 3" for most of its history .

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KYW-TV used music packages based on KYW radio's musical signature until 2003, even in the period immediately after rebranding as "CBS 3".

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Also in 2003, KYW-TV became a factor in the Philadelphia news race for the first time in over 20 years.

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KYW-TV's has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau.

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14.

In September 2008, Lane filed a lawsuit against Mendte and KYW-TV, claiming that the station had been negligent in preventing Mendte from divulging her personal information and photos to columnists.

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KYW-TV has been carried on Comcast in southern Middlesex and Monmouth counties in New Jersey since December 2007 on digital cable channel 256 in the Middlesex County municipalities of Plainsboro, South Brunswick, Monroe, Cranbury, Jamesburg, Helmetta, Spotswood, and East Brunswick as well as the Monmouth County borough of Roosevelt.

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