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 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 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.

Besides the main news stories, KYW also carries a variety of other features.

After the deal was approved in February 1956, Westinghouse moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland, NBC renamed the Philadelphia stations WRCV ( AM ) and WRCV-TV, and both companies also transferred much of their respective on-air personnel and management to their new cities.

He also helped reformat the newscast and introduced the " walking anchor " to KYW that he was famous for at WCAU.

Westinghouse also used field reporters at its all-news stations, which included 1010 WINS New York, KYW Newsradio 1060 and KFWB News 98 Los Angeles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

* 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