He anchors NBC10 News at 5, which (as of January 2014) airs Monday through Friday from 5pm to 6pm. In New Jersey, KYW (and the majority of Philadelphia stations) were carried in more places in central and northern New Jersey during the CATV era of the 1970s and 1980s. The two most notable employee layoffs were Leslie Van Arsdall and weekday morning traffic anchor Chandler Lutz.[64]. 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 the Philco plant. 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. In 2000, the combined company was purchased by Viacom. 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 the preempted programs aired on WMGM-TV, which served as the NBC affiliate for Atlantic City until 2014. Gene Crane(1948) Bill Baldini(1964) Edie Huggins(1966) Terry Ruggles(1974) Sheela Allen-Stephens(1977) Cherie Bank(7/1979) Steve Levy(1982) John Blunt(1984) LuAnn Cahn(1987) It also abandoned the longstanding Eyewitness News branding after 26 years and experimented with giving each newscast a different title: the morning news became known as Newsday, the weekday 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. news as Newsbeat, and the nightly 11:00 and weekend 6:00 p.m. newscasts as The News (the former as The News Tonight; the latter broadcasts, respectively, as The News Saturday and The News Sunday). In 2005, KYW-TV ditched "News In Focus" in favor of another "Channel 2 News"-based tune, "The Enforcer" (a.k.a. Philco engineers created much of the station's equipment, including cameras. Gregg Murphy, who has roamed the stands at Citizens Bank Park as part of NBC Sports Philadelphiaâs Phillies television crew since 2012, and longtime Eagles reporter Derrick Gunn were among those let go by the network this week as part of nationwide cuts by parent company NBC ⦠Channel 3 has had a long history of carrying Philadelphia-area sports teams through NBC and CBS. 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 was Baltimore's NBC affiliate, WMAR-TV. Connors, meanwhile, joined the 11 a.m. weekday newscast in July 2018, having previously worked on the weekend morning news broadcast. KYW-TV used music packages based on KYW radio's musical signature until 2003, even in the period immediately after rebranding as "CBS 3". [66] However, New York local channels are available on DirecTV and Dish Network in Plumsted and all of Ocean County. NBC10 . 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. Group W hoped to gain the trust of viewers who already associated KYW radio with high-quality news. Anzio Williams, vice president of news at NBC10 and Telemundo62, meanwhile, said NBC 10 stands to "benefit greatly" from putting Jimenez, who speaks Spanish and is of Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Italian descent, on the news team. Lester Holt (Anchor) Nightly News. It then became one of three stations (along with WNBT and Schenectady, New York's WRGB, now 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. [2], On July 1, 1941, W3XE received a commercial license—the third in the United States, and the first outside of New York City—as WPTZ. Keith Jones is a multi regional- Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award winning News Anchor and Reporter for WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since July 2012. KYW-TV cooperates with sister station WCBS-TV in the production and broadcast of statewide New Jersey political debates. Latest Headlines. 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. [60], 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. It continued to heavily preempt NBC programming, much to the network's chagrin. During this period, KYW maintained an unusually low local news output for a Big Three network station in a Top 10 market and, at two hours per day for much of its waning years with NBC, among the lowest out of the Group W stations; channel 3 discontinued its noon newscast to accommodate lower-rated NBC Daytime programs at the start of 1991, and scaled its early-evening newscast down to a half-hour at 6:00 to carry first-run syndicated programs during the entirety of the 5:00 p.m. hour in September 1992. Their daughter Allison stars in HBOâs âGirlsâ. Like other CBS-owned stations, KYW-TV offers a web-only newscast called CBS 3 At Your Desk, shown daily. [23] To solve this problem, CBS, NBC and Group W entered into a complex ownership/affiliation deal in late 1994. Required fields are marked *, Complaints / Suggestions / Queries? Parents, Family Background & Education : Jacqueline is a native of Chicago. By showing up with the Flyers you have made the Eagles problems less annoying! ⦠Jessica Dean, who had joined CBS 3 just two years earlier and anchored alongside May, Orr and Reece, was the only member of their broadcast team to avoid being fired. [37] Primo used the cue "007" from the film From Russia with Love as the theme. Taryn’s knowledge of the game is impeccable. Westinghouse bought CBS outright in late 1995, making KYW-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station. 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.[22]. This proved to be 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, in 1977, WPVI beat KYW-TV in most timeslots by a wide margin during a sweeps period. Within a few years, Group W's other television stations had adopted the format. [33], KYW-TV and WPSG both shifted their frequencies on August 1, 2019 as part of the FCC's 5G network spectrum reallocation, with KYW-TV shifting from channel 26 to channel 30, and experiencing technical issues with over-the-air reception due to the repack. A very nice personality. The station's digital channel is multiplexed: On October 21, 2014, CBS and Weigel Broadcasting announced the launch of a new digital subchannel service called Decades, scheduled to launch on all CBS-owned stations in 2015, including on KYW-TV on channel 3.2. It’s great to see someone strive to do their best, work for it, and succeed. Great Work Taryn! Scandals That Brought Down High-Profile News Anchors By Carmen Ribecca AND Nicki Swift / Feb. 19, 2016 8:22 pm EST / Updated: Dec. 25, 2017 11:19 am EST WCAU'S NBC-10 NEWS TEAM. She also has a few prominent internships on her resume that include a stint at NBC10 as part of the Investigators team and as part of the Today Show, an NBC show taped in New York. The FBI ultimately decided while the evidence regarding the Kammerer hack was credible, it was not strong enough to warrant additional charges against Mendte,[56] who pleaded guilty to the charges regarding Lane. 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. [21] 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. Peter Busch is a multiple EMMY award winning journalist who anchors NBC2 News at 5, 5:30, 6 and 11pm. Kathy Orr, weekend weathercaster at WCAU, also moved to channel 3. Feels like family! The email only came to light due to the revelation that the account it was sent to was one Eisen shares with his wife Suzy Shuster. [61] Additionally, meteorologist Carol Erickson resigned after a 37-year career at the station to focus more on her animal rights advocacy. November 2, 2020 Claudia Meyer-Samargia. Business. However, almost immediately after the trade was finalized, Westinghouse complained to the FCC and the United States Department of Justice about NBC's alleged coercion and a lengthy investigation was launched. An NBC10 reporter and anchor was arrested Friday and charged in a domestic-related assault involving his girlfriend, according to a report by the station. [32][33][34] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3. All February long at NBC Sports Philadelphia, join us as we share stories celebrating the history of Black athletes in our city. He retired from the NFL in 1994. [40], Morning meteorologist Katie Fehlinger left the station on September 17, 2019 after more than eight years in order to spend more time with her family and pursue other professional ventures. At one point, in the fall of 1980, KYW-TV preempted NBC's entire morning schedule after the Today show. 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"). The two stations share studios on Hamilton Street north of Center City; KYW-TV's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. ", Learn how and when to remove this template message, National Museum of American Jewish History, 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, W3XE/WPTZ-TV's early history, from the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, Another page on W3XE/WPTZ's early history, from the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, "Westinghouse buys WPTZ (TV) for record $8.5 million. âShe always looks nice,â remarks my mom while watching the nightly news on Channel 10. Your email address will not be published. Peter Busch is a multiple EMMY award winning journalist who anchors NBC2 News at 5, 5:30, 6 and 11pm. The WPVI team covers the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware area like no one else. In Plumsted Township, Ocean County, KYW is carried in lieu of WCBS-TV as Plumsted is served by Comcast's Garden State system (based out of Mount Holly, Burlington County) which does not carry any New York City stations. It was the longest continuously-used logo in Philadelphia television history until 2006, when WPVI-TV's simple "6" logo passed it. Zachry is an energetic reporter & anchor at NBC 10. While this concept was at least a decade ahead of its time, it was not enough to stop the ratings slide. For the television station in, Television station in Pennsylvania, United States, Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with, "NBC, WBC trade properties in Cleveland, Philadelphia. Click on their name to find out about them. A Delaware County district court judge has dismissed all the charges against former NBC10 reporter Dray Clark, stemming from an alleged domestic assault last month. Popular anchor Natalie currently works for NBC News, where she is an anchor for the Today Show, as well as appearing on Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News. 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 their midday newscast at 11:00 a.m. while WTXF does not air a newscast at noon). The following is a list of the members of WCAU's NBC-10 News team. The only major change came in February 1998, when the CBS Eye was placed in front of the "3". She is passionate about making sure her viewers know whatâs happening in their community. In a case of especially bad timing, Crim left for WBBM-TV in Chicago in May 1977, and Savitch left for NBC News three months later. WCAU, virtual channel 10 (UHF digital channel 28), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, as part of a duopoly with Mount Laurel, New Jersey-licensed Telemundo owned-and-operated station WWSI (channel 62); NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of ⦠Preempted network programming was usually lower-rated daytime game shows, soap operas, or reruns of prime time programs with an average of two hours per day. by Marathi.TV Editorial Team; Mar 6, 2020 Dec 30, 2020; 7 Comments; Jessica Boyington May 30, 1985. I love the fact that the Flyers are using a “home grown” talent. Meet the NBC2 News staff. 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. 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. After the affiliation and ownership swap on September 10, 1995, WNBC did not object to their now NBC co-owned sister station WCAU continuing to be carried in southern Middlesex County on Comcast (then Channel 39), though Comcast did not restore the now CBS-owned KYW to the system for another twelve years. Absolutely beautiful. KYW is also available to Comcast cable customers in Ocean County on channel 256, being moved there from channel 3 in early 2008. P.S. I find it amazing to see a female host for the Flyers. The following is a list of the members of WCAU's NBC-10 News team. [11] 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. Prior to her run on TV news, Boyington graduated from Rowan University with a bachelorâs degree in radio and television in 2008, and was Miss New Jersey USA 2006. The deal brought KYW-TV under common ownership with Philadelphia's UPN station, WPSG, which relocated to the KYW Building on Independence Mall. Westinghouse had moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland after the swap, and channel 3 became KYW-TV upon the company regaining control of the Philadelphia outlets. 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 the helm of the evening newscasts, while the more familiar personalities were relegated to weekends and mornings. [31] On January 16, 2015, Decades started after eight minutes of a test pattern that occurred first with the CBS Philly Plus ticker and then one minute later with a test pattern without the CBS Philly Plus ticker. Ps – props to Barkann, Amy Fadool and Ricky Bo too! Channel 3's ratings went into rapid decline. [16] 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. Learn more about each member of the 6abc news team with exclusive bios. KYW was removed from Storer systems in Middlesex County on September 1, 1993. [15], 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. WCAU'S NBC-10 NEWS TEAM. For most of the next 20 years, KYW-TV was a very distant third behind WPVI-TV and WCAU-TV. She officially joined NBC Sports Philadelphia in the summer of 2018 as a multi-platform reporter and host. The 4:00 p.m. timeslot on KYW was given to the Dr. Phil program. [17][18] Following nearly a year of appeals by NBC, Westinghouse regained control of WRCV-AM-TV on June 19, 1965. The WPVI team covers the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware area like no one else. Davidson makes sure Delaware Valley residents are informed and educated with the most complete information as she is a tireless consumer advocate. Williams was a substitute anchor for Tom Brokaw on âNBC Nightly Newsâ before taking over as anchor in 2004. Pages in category "Philadelphia television reporters" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. Both sets of talents have earned her multiple Emmy awards. I nod my head in agreement after turning to the TV and admiring news anchor Jacqueline London, whose shiny hair, flawless skin and perfectly applied (but, yet, not overpowering) makeup is a fresh approach to the traditional "news anchor" look. Rosemary Connors is an Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for NBC10 News. You can ⦠After more than 25 years, Sikahema plans to say goodbye to viewers in November. Kathy Orr, weekend weathercaster at WCAU, also moved to channel 3. As with many stations, KYW-TV also had to launch the new frequency on a lower power. Weekday anchor Rosemary Connors announced last month that she and husband Ben Cross are also expecting their first child â a boy â who is set to arrive in April. Howard Reig (1921â2008) announcer for NBC Nightly News since the Tom Brokaw era. Saunders left the station in 2004 and was replaced by Angela Russell. She graduated in 1998 from Newtonâs Council Rock High School. He anchors NBC10 News Today, which airs Monday through Friday from 4 to 7am, and co-hosts The Lineup on Apple TV and Roku.He also files reports for NBC News. Top Searches Holiday Gifts. From 1965 to 2003, KYW-TV's logo was a distinct "Stylized 3" in the font made famous by Group W (which introduced in 1963 upon the introduction of the Westinghouse Broadcasting's corporate imaging, while the station was still in Cleveland, now Tegna-owned WKYC). With less than 24 hours until Election Day 2020, NBC News and MSNBC are taking a look back ⦠"The CBS Enforcer Music Collection") also composed by Frank Gari. Jessica Boyington Salary, Age, Husband, Wiki, Photos, Measurements, Bio. The previous summer, it persuaded WPVI-TV's longtime 5:00 p.m. anchor, Marc Howard, to jump ship to anchor its 11:00 news. ", "Philadelphia circle is complete," and "Nine-year history of that trade in Philadelphia. The 4:00 p.m. newscast moved back to the 5:00 p.m. timeslot with The Oprah Winfrey Show ending in 2011 and WPVI starting its own hour-long 4:00 p.m. newscast. As a result, channel 3 stayed in the ratings basement. NBC10 tells The Philadelphia Business Journal that viewers can expect a new style of a morning show for Coleman and Jones. Personal Life, Family Background & Trivia : Coleman is blessed with a loving ⦠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 the Community College of Philadelphia[25] and near Fairmount Park. 3 merry-go-round. Introduction : Katherine Zachry, also known as Katy Vandegrift, is a successful news anchor and reporter who⦠Read More » Katy Zachry Age, Wiki, Bio, Married, Husbandã NBC 10 Traffic ãSalary NBC10 adds new morning weekend anchor to news team. KYW-TV 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. Longtime NBC 10 anchor, Vai Sikahema, will be retiring from his role with the TV station later this year. As a father of two girls, it is good for them to see anything is possible for them as far as careers go. Taryn Hatcher is an American sports host and reporter who currently works for NBC Sports Philadelphia. I really enjoyed Teryn as the morning jost on Sportsnet, and then *poof* – I didn’t see her anymore. The host of Fox News "Special Report with Bret Baier", Baier is making a name for himself as one of the five top-rated news anchors in the U.S. The production arm of Westinghouse Broadcasting was partially responsible for 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 Philadelphia in 1965, and then taped at Independence Mall East until 1978), The David Frost Show and the Westinghouse franchise Evening Magazine (with was broadcast on non-Westinghouse owned stations airing their own versions of the latter show as PM Magazine). Katy, a native of Connecticut, grew up in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Learn more about each member of the 6abc news team with exclusive bios. 552 x 252 jpeg 34kB. I love the Flyers there the best and you make them a lot better. View this post on Instagram Welcoming a baby brother to the pack in April 2020 ð We decided this past summer we were ready to start a family... and here we are 5+ months later ð #BabyBoy #BabyCross #LoveLoveLove @cross.benjamin KYW-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 30), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. NBC News NOW is an online streaming network from NBC News where users can find the latest stories and breaking news on world news and US news. Channel 3 relocated its entire operation to the Wyndmoor transmitter facility during World War II, when the station aired little programming. 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. Then, in September 2003, the station lured Larry Mendte away from WCAU. Lucy Bustamante is a morning news anchor for NBC10 and breaking news anchor for Telemundo62. She hold a bachelor's degree in English and textual studies from Syracuse University. Only CBS. NBC10 anchor and former Philadelphia Eagle Vai Sikahema will retire from his morning news post later this year, the station confirmed Thursday. Kane anchored the 11:00 p.m. broadcast solo, while Stahl anchored the 6:00 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). Mort Crim also joined as an anchor during that period, forming what native Philadelphians called the "Camelot of television news". Traffic & Transportation. 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 a CBS-owned station). Channel 3 had been broadcasting from Independence Mall East since July 1972. [43], 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 a "dyke". Mike Jerrick Good Day Philadelphia anchor on WTXF-TV; Larry Kane (retired), WPVI-TV, WCAU-TV and KYW-TV; Megyn Kelly, Fox News; Gayle King, CBS This Morning; Hoda Kotb, current co-anchor of NBC's Today Show; Ted Koppel, NBC News; Nicole Lapin (news anchor), CNN, CNN Pipeline, Headline News; Matt Lauer, The Today Show; Jim Lehrer (deceased), The Newshour with Jim Lehrer ⦠KYW-TV was effectively separated from its radio counterpart in November 2017, when CBS Radio merged into Entercom. But, I was watching the Flyer’s game and *poof* – there she was. The investigation revealed that he had hacked Lane's email account at 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 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. 1 year ago. John Boruk is out at NBC Sports Philadelphia after 13 years with the company. To this day, KYW-TV insists that it "moved" to Cleveland in 1956 and "returned" to Philadelphia in 1965—in fact, some staffers who worked at KYW-TV in Cleveland (talk show host Mike Douglas, meteorologist Dick Goddard, and news anchor Tom Snyder among them) moved to Philadelphia along with the call letters.[20]. He was Chief White House Correspondent for the station. Comcast added KYW's HD feed to its lineups in Ocean and southern Middlesex counties, as well as the borough of Roosevelt, and its Lambertville area system in Hunterdon County on August 22, 2012 on Channel 903.[65]. [63] 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. Jose Diaz-Balart (Anchor) Kate Snow (Anchor) America's Got Talent (2006-) Terry Crews (Host season 14-present) Simon Cowell (Judge seasons 11-present) Sofia Vergara (Judge season 15-present) Howie Mandel (Judge seasons 5-present) Heidi Klum (Judge season 8-present) The Voice (2011-) Carson Daly (Host seasons 1-present) Kelly Clarkson ⦠The station signed on for the first time on September 1, becoming the first licensed television station in Pennsylvania. [4] The WPTZ call letters are now used for the NBC affiliate in Plattsburgh, New York. Download MyTeams Today! Nik Z. doesn't do suits and ties. Sikahema, who rose to fame playing with the Philadelphia Eagles, had been with the station for 26 years. 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. [68], This article is about the television station that used the WPTZ callsign from 1941 to 1956. Her position was covered in the interim by fellow meteorologists Matt Peterson, Lauren Casey and Kate Bilo, former KYW meteorologist and current WJZ meteorologist Chelsea Ingram, and those from outside the station that were auditioning for the job including former WCAU Chief Meteorologist Tammie Souza and former KNSD weekend meteorologist Llarisa Abreu. Like most affiliates that preempt underperforming network programs, KYW-TV used the preemptions in order to gain an increase in local advertising rates which potentially come with ratings increases. KYW-TV was the only Philadelphia market station participating in the "Analog Nightlight" program, and did so through July 12, 2009. Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 â October 23, 1983) was an American television news presenter and correspondent, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Katy Zachry Married. interest. NBC News' Brian Williams and CNN's Chris Cuomo came in just behind Logan as the fourth and fifth most-liked, respectively. [39] She has since joined CNN as a correspondent for the network's Washington bureau. RKO would also acquire NBC's WRC-AM-FM-TV in Washington, D.C. in 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. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is one of the world's oldest television stations. Jacqueline London is an Emmy winning news anchor for the Philadelphia based news network NBC 10. Jacqueline London is an Emmy winning news anchor for the Philadelphia based news network NBC 10. Despite being suspended from CBS News after airing an erroneous Benghazi report in November, "60 Minute's" Lara Logan was the third most-liked newscaster and the #1 most-liked female anchor. [6] NBC took over operation of WPTZ and KYW in late January 1956;[7] on February 13, 1956, channel 3's call letters were changed to WRCV-TV (in reference to the RCA-Victor record label; KYW radio adopted the WRCV calls as well).[8]. 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. Longtime NBC 10 anchor, Vai Sikahema, will be retiring from his role with the TV station later this year. From its radio counterpart in November 2020. 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