Several organizations, such as KYW Radio and the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, consciously use the term " Greater Philadelphia " to assert that Philadelphia is the center of the region, referring to the less urbanized areas as " Philadelphia's countryside ".

KYW is owned by the CBS Radio unit of CBS Corporation, and has broadcast an all-news format since 1965.

KYW is currently the easternmost station in the United States whose callsign begins with the letter K. It is also one of three such stations in Pennsylvania, the other ones being KQV and sister station KDKA, both in Pittsburgh.

KYW is also re-broadcast by sister station WIP-FM on its HD-2 digital sub-channel.

KYW assigns schools in the metropolitan area a number which is then announced when they are closed for a snow day or other event.

From Independence Mall, this is KYW Newsradio 1060, a CBS Radio station serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

At: 30 past the hour, the recording is slightly different, with Covington announcing that " the newswatch never stops " ( borrowed from sister station WINS ), and that KYW is " the news authority in Philadelphia.

This is KYW, the newscenter on your radio dial, and now heard Online at the new cbsphilly. com on the CBS Philly app for iPhone and Android.

A noticeable ' trademark ' of KYW is the constant sound of Teletype machines printing in the background.

This sound plays constantly during times when the news is being read by a KYW reporter at the headquarters.

WEPN has a highly directional signal, due primarily to the fact that there is another 50, 000 watt station on the 1050 channel, CHUM a few hundred miles to the northwest in Toronto, and yet another 50, 000 watt station, KYW, in Philadelphia next door on the dial at 1060 AM.

KYW in Philadelphia is the easternmost station with a K call sign.

Ashley is also a business news anchor on the CBS Morning news, WCBS in New York City, WBBM in Chicago, KYW in Philadelphia, WTSP in Tampa, KFMB in San Diego and many other CBS affilitates across the country.

In Philadelphia's African American community, WDAS is the FM equivalent to the perennially popular KYW Newsradio 1060.

The full list includes KCBS ( AM ) in San Francisco, KNX ( AM ) in Los Angeles, KRLD ( AM ) in Dallas, WBBM ( AM ) in Chicago, WWJ ( AM ) in Detroit, KYW ( AM ) in Philadelphia, WCBS ( AM ) and WINS ( AM ) in New York, WNEW-FM in Washington, D. C., and WBZ ( AM ) in Boston.

Most of the station's programming during this time was ethnic, though for a time contemporary Christian music station WJLT ( 1060 AM, now WQOM ) leased WKOX's overnight hours to extend its programming ( at that time, 1060 signed off overnight to protect KYW in Philadelphia ).

The KYW call letters originally went from Philadelphia to Cleveland in 1956, and back to Philadelphia with the reversal, with NBC renaming the Cleveland stations WKYC AM / FM / TV.

* 21 September: KYW ( AM ), shortly after relocating back to Philadelphia, institutes an all-news format patterned after WINS ( AM ).

NBC took over the Philadelphia stations, rechristening 1060 AM as WRCV ( for the RCA-Victor record label ), and Westinghouse moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland.

On September 21, 1965, shortly after Westinghouse regained control of 1060 AM, the newly-rechristened KYW once again dropped its NBC radio affiliation and was converted into one of the first all-news stations in the country.

Westinghouse Electric announced it was purchasing CBS in 1995, and upon its completion KYW became a sister station to its long-time rival, CBS-owned WGMP ( 1210 AM, now WPHT ).

From 1986 until 1998, KYW had been broadcasting using the C-QUAM AM Stereo system, but abandoned C-QUAM AM Stereo about the time of the CBS-Westinghouse merger and went back to the standard AM mode ( in mono ).

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, owner of Philadelphia's NBC radio affiliate KYW ( 1060 AM ), purchased WPTZ in 1953 for a then-record price of $ 8. 5 million.

* KYW ( AM ), a radio station ( 1060 AM ) licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, which carried the KYW callsign from 1921 to 1956 ; and has again since 1965

Newspaper accounts of the era report on a number of other drama experiments by America's commercial radio stations: KYW broadcast a season of complete operas from Chicago starting in November 1921.

Donahue began his career in 1957 as a production assistant at KYW radio and television in Cleveland.

Channel 4 nearly lost its NBC affiliation in 1955 when Westinghouse balked at NBC's initial offer to trade sister stations KYW radio and WPTZ television ( now KYW-TV ) in Philadelphia in exchange for the network's radio and television combination in Cleveland, Ohio.

She stayed in Philadelphia after graduation, hired as a reporter at KYW radio.

But the network was seeking to purchase Westinghouse's Philadelphia stations, KYW radio and WPTZ-TV ( now KYW-TV ).

In 1927 Westinghouse aligned its four radio stations ( KYW, KDKA in Pittsburgh, WBZ in Boston, and WBZA in Springfield, Massachusetts ) with the NBC Blue Network, which originated from former sister station WJZ ( the present-day WABC ) in New York City.

In March 1941, KYW changed frequencies to 1060 kHz as part of a nationwide shift of radio frequencies mandated by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement.

KYW and the other Westinghouse radio stations remained with NBC after RCA was ordered by the FCC to break up its radio networks, aligning with the former Red Network ( the predecessor of modern-day NBC ) in 1942.

Following nearly a year of appeals by NBC, Westinghouse regained control of WRCV-AM-TV on June 19, 1965 and subsequently restored the KYW call letters to the radio station ( the television station became KYW-TV at this point ).

KYW has been one of the highest-rated radio stations in the country since then and has been the market leader in Philadelphia for much of that time.

In June 1955 Westinghouse agreed to trade WPTZ and KYW radio to NBC in exchange for Cleveland's WNBK television and WTAM-AM-FM, and $ 3 million in cash compensation.

When NBC took over in February 1956, channel 3's call letters were changed to WRCV-TV ( for the RCA-Victor record label ; KYW radio adopted the WRCV calls as well ).

Group W's parent, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, purchased CBS in 1996, making CBS's Philadelphia radio stations sisters to WCAU-AM / WPHT's longtime rival, KYW radio.

It briefly succeeded in 1956, when it extorted Westinghouse into exchanging channel 3 ( then called WPTZ-TV ) and KYW radio for NBC's Cleveland stations, WTAM-AM-FM and WNBK television.

* WTAM, a radio station ( 1100 AM ) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried the KYW callsign from 1956 to 1965

Westinghouse launched three more radio stations in 1921: WJZ, originally licensed to Newark, New Jersey, in September ; WBZ, first located in Springfield, Massachusetts, in October ; and KYW, originally based in Chicago, in November.

Insull, who had been a founder of station KYW, sold his interest in the station.

KYW acquired a television counterpart when Westinghouse bought WPTZ ( channel 3 ) -- the nation's third commercial television station and NBC's second television affiliate -- in 1953.

NBC had to seek a waiver for the swap since KYW and NBC Radio's New York City flagship, WRCA ( now sister station WFAN ) were both clear channel stations ; at the time, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) normally did not allow common ownership of clear-channel stations with overlapping nighttime coverage.

In addition, a television program entitled KYW Newsradio 1060 This Morning aired from 5 a. m. to 8 a. m. on sister station WPSG in the early 2000s, adapting KYW's " clock " to television.

That station, under its original WCAU call letters, attempted to compete with KYW in all-news programming during the late 1970s but failed, dumping the format after only three years.

The former KYW Building on Independence Mall East, used by the station from 1972 to 2007.

The system was originally created by the City of Philadelphia but was taken over by KYW when no other station volunteered to distribute the information.

Weekend movie marathons, usually hosted by local personalities ( or KYW / WPSG staff like Sean Murphy ), have become normal, and the station recently broadcast the Philadelphia version of " Gimme the Mike!