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 a class A AM radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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

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.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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 ).

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!

* 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

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

Only four radio stations east of the Mississippi River have call letters which start with K: KQV and KDKA in Pittsburgh, KYW in Philadelphia ( though the KYW callsign has in the past been used in Chicago and Cleveland ), and KFIZ in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

But stations with three-letter call signs and stations west of the Mississippi River starting with a W and east of the Mississippi River starting with a K – such as WRR in Dallas and WHB in Kansas City, plus KQV and KYW in Pennsylvania, all licensed before the 1930s – have been permitted to keep their call signs.

Though the partnership came to an end in 1926, with Westinghouse buying out Edison's interest in KYW, Insull's interest in broadcasting did not stop there.

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.

The program premiered on KYW in Cleveland on December 11, 1961, and featured a mix of light banter with guests and musical performances, along with more-serious interviews with prominent newsmakers.

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.

KYW's early format elements were shared with WINS, such as the distinctive teletype sound effect playing in the background ( no longer done at KYW ), and the slogans " All News, All the Time ", " The Newswatch Never Stops ", " Listen 2, 3, 4 times a day " and " You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world ".

At: 02,: 12,: 22,: 32,: 42 and: 52 after the hour, traffic & transit reports (" on the twos ") are introduced with car horns sounding the first five notes of the KYW jingle.

A decade later, the FCC forbade common ownership of two or more clear channel stations with overlapping nighttime coverage, though the commission allowed Westinghouse to keep WBZ, KYW, KDKA and WOWO together under a grandfather clause.

WBZ / WBZA, KDKA and KYW became affiliates of NBC's Red Network while WOWO, which had a secondary affiliation with the Blue Network, fell back on its primary relationship with CBS.

KYW went all-news six months later on September 12, three months after Westinghouse regained control of the station ( see The 1956 Trade with NBC, below ).

But in New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, CBS had to compete with Westinghouse-owned stations ( WINS, KFWB and KYW, respectively ) which had adopted all-news programming before the CBS stations did.

While the Los Angeles stations made the switch within days of each other, WCAU in Philadelphia went to the format in 1975, giving KYW a ten-year headstart with the audience.