source: kyw1060.com - Winter 2002
KYW Newsradio 1060 has been serving
listeners in the Philadelphia region with "All News, All the
Time" since September 21, 1965, when a staff of newly assembled news
anchors, reporters and editors launched the format that has since become a
radio powerhouse in Philadelphia.
Since then, KYW Newsradio has become
THE news source that more than 1.5 million listeners tune to each week for
the latest on local, national and international news; weather; sports, and
traffic. For most of its years, KYW Newsradio has enjoyed an unprecedented
run as the market's top-rated radio station.
The station began in Chicago on
Armistice Day, 1921. Only the seventh radio station in the United States
to start broadcasting, KYW -- jointly owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting
(Group W) and the Edison Company -- immediately began airing performances
of the Chicago Opera Company. For the first time, great music was
available to thousands outside the concert halls. Ownership of radios in
Chicago jumped from 1,300 to more than 20,000 from the time the opera
broadcasts were announced to the close of the season. In its quest to
serve all segments and interests of the community, KYW also was the first
station to broadcast major football games.
In 1934, the station moved to what
was then the nation's third largest market: Philadelphia. Here it
continued its reputation for excellence in community coverage, most
notable the station's on-the-spot coverage of the Hindenburg disaster on
June 6, 1937. A KYW broadcaster described the inferno from a telephone
booth. His historic description was carried over both NBC's red and blue
networks.
KYW also served as the nerve center
for the NBC network broadcasts of the 1940 Republican National Convention
and the 1948 Republican and Democratic national conventions in
Philadelphia.
During World War II, KYW was cited
for numerous accomplishments on the home front, among them War Bond
Drives. The station continued to grow as a cultural force as well,
sponsoring and broadcasting fine musical programs, literary reviews,
dramatic shows and educational programs.
In January 1956, KYW moved to
Cleveland; then, returned to Philadelphia in June, 1965, and launched its
all-news service just three months later. KYW Newsradio was one of the
pioneers in the format: the second all-news station in the country,
following the lead of its Group W sister station WINS Radio in New York by
six months. Under the "all news" umbrella, KYW Newsradio
continued its great tradition of public service programming and community
involvement.
In the years since, KYW Newsradio and
its skillful team of news professionals have brought the events that have
shaped our community directly to the listeners. From the Moon landing to
the MOVE shoot-out; from school teacher strikes to school snow closing
numbers, KYW Newsradio has been there, leading the pack with
award-winning, around-the-clock news service.
Today, KYW Newsradio, an Infinity
Broadcasting radio station, is the market leader -- the most-listened-to
radio station in the Philadelphia region -- and an integral part of the
community and daily life in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
KYW
1060 AM
Format: All News
24/7
website: www.kyw1060.com
CBS / Infinity
KYW
offers up an all day news format and is a sister station to WIP /
YSP / PHT
101 South Independence
Mall East
Philadelphia PA 19106
215-238-4700
