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 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.

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.

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 ).

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!

Westinghouse built FM sister stations for WBZ / WBZA, KDKA, KYW, KEX and WOWO, all of which were on the air by the end of the decade.

Mendte occasionally writes for the print version of the magazine, for which he wrote an article on his life after he was let go by KYW.

In 1965 he was promoted to News Director Philadelphia's KYW-TV where he launched the Eyewitness News format ( the name itself had been used for some years before that by Westinghouse's TV stations for its local newscasts, and in fact was first used by KYW itself in 1959 when it was based in Cleveland, Ohio ), and in 1968 he took the format with him to his new job at WABC-TV, the ABC outlet in New York City.

The station never caught up to established all-news outlet KYW, and by 1980 was making moves to reclaim its heritage as a talk and sports leader.

The CBS Radio Network provides newscasts at the top of the hour, regular updates at: 31 past the hour, the popular Newsfeeds for affiliates ( including WCBS and KYW ) at: 35, and breaking news updates when developments warrant, often at: 20 and: 50 past the hour.

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 ).

KYW receives news reports and sound-bites, plus continuous coverage of breaking news from ABC News Radio and NBC News Radio as well as CBS News.

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.

In purchasing channel 10 in 1958, CBS cited NBC's then-ownership of WRCV-TV ( as KYW was called ) and WRCA-TV in New York City in its successful effort to obtain an FCC waiver.

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.

He began working in radio in 1922 as a pianist on KYW ( Chicago ) and moved on to CBS, where he created music for such radio shows as The Whistler, Suspense, Meet Corliss Archer, My Favorite Husband, Broadway Is My Beat, Our Miss Brooks and The Screen Guild Theater.

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.

, CBS Radio operates ten of the country's largest all-news radio stations: WCBS, KNX, WBBM, WINS, KCBS, KYW, and WWJ, KRLD and WNEW-FM, WBZ-AM

As of January 2012, CBS Radio operates eight of the largest all-news stations in the country — WINS, KYW, WCBS, WBBM, KNX, WNEW-FM in Washington, KCBS in San Francisco, and WWJ in Detroit.

She came to Philadelphia in 1997 as an anchor for KYW, then anchored CBS News Saturday Morning for a year and a half.

Like its former Westinghouse ( now CBS Radio ) sister stations ( and fellow all-news stations ) WINS in New York and KYW in Philadelphia, KFWB had a running teletype sound effect in the background during regular newscasts.

A year later, CBS merged with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, thus making 1210 AM a sister station to its ancient rival, KYW.

With this move, the higher-rated KYW became the flagship station of CBS Radio's Philadelphia cluster.

Some all-news stations, like KYW, WBBM and WCBS, carry sports, and all-news stations may occasionally carry public affairs programs, simulcasts of TV news magazine or political affairs shows like 60 Minutes and Face the Nation, and national radio shows revolving around news such as the CBS News Weekend Roundup.

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.