17 Facts About WKYC

WKYC is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc Its studios are located on Tom Beres Way, and its transmitter is located in suburban Parma, Ohio.

WKYC accomplished another first in Cleveland television history by becoming the first station in Northeast Ohio to broadcast in high-definition in 1999.

On September 23,2019, WKYC debuted a new logo, began referring to their production operations as "WKYC Studios"—an umbrella brand encompassing their on-air and digital platforms, and began incorporating more lifestyle and human interest reports in their newscasts ; the station now utilizes the "3" brand for general entertainment programming.

WKYC-TV continued to air The Mike Douglas Show for many years after both the host and the program moved to Philadelphia, where it remained until 1978.

On July 1,2011, WKYC became Cleveland's television outlet for the Ohio Lottery's daily drawings, as well as its Saturday night game show Cash Explosion; the rights returned to the lottery's former longtime broadcaster WEWS-TV on July 1,2013.

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WKYC was the over-the-air home of Major League Baseball games involving the Cleveland Indians from the 2006 season to an unknown date.

WKYC provided studio operations for regional sports network SportsTime Ohio —owned by the team itself until 2013—which aired the remainder of the team's games on cable and satellite and simulcast the games broadcast by WKYC.

WKYC aired select Cleveland Cavaliers games broadcast through NBC's broadcast rights to the NBA from 1990 to 2002.

Many WKYC alumni went on to long and successful careers with NBC; most notably, current Today weather anchor Al Roker served as WKYC's chief weatherman from 1978 to 1983.

From 1973 to 1984, WKYC tried to use the Action News branding several times while using the music and graphics associated with the other NBC-owned stations, which employed the NewsCenter name.

WKYC adopted a new logo and a new slogan called "Turn to 3"; the accompanying jingle was composed by Frank Gari.

WKYC even managed to push WJW's popular morning newscast into second place.

On May 22,2006, WKYC-TV became the second television station in the Cleveland market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high-definition.

Park on the east side of Cleveland was named for Helen Simpson, an advertising and promotions manager at WKYC, who was murdered in 1972 on her way home from work.

On May 10,2021, channel 3 honored alumnus Al Roker—who was in Cleveland reporting on the city's reopening efforts following the COVID-19 pandemic—by naming the radar tower on top of the WKYC building the "Roker Tower", with WKYC chief meteorologist Betsy Kling presenting him a plaque to commemorate the occasion live on the Today Show.

WKYC shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.

WKYC was carried on cable channel 3 in London prior to 1974, but was bumped to make room for Paris, Ontario's CKGN-TV, on channel 3 at the time, and the flagship for the newly launched Global network of stations across Ontario.