WKYC-TV History Slideshow

[MrTrashcan1]

I was born in 1956 grew up in Philly during the swap period when Ch. 3 was WRCV (owned I believe by RCA) & remember when KYW came back to Philly with Mike Douglas & the start of Eyewitness News. I went to school in Cleveland in the mid-70s suspecting that WKYC had something to do with KYW just by the similarity of the calls. By then 1100AM was WWWE, an MOR station, & the FM affiliate was WWWM (M105), progressive rock. I remember winning Cavaliers tickets by calling 3WE from my dorm room.

[bhilcu1]

RIP Mike Douglas

[maherite1977]

Ah, yes, Gordon Ward...before he became a fixture at WSPD-TV (now WTVG-TV) in Toledo.

[bhilcu1]

The hosts for WKYC's Job Fair "83" were WKYC alumnis Judd Hambrick and Dave Patterson! Of course Dave Patterson is also a former WEWS news anchor who teamed up with Judd's brother John Hambrick and anchored with WEWS's recently retired chief news anchor Ted Henry.

[bhilcu1]

The v/o for the WKYC-TV Channel 3 ID was the deceased Jay Miltner.

[bhilcu1]

I was wondering does anybody know who the announcer in the opening was?

[gymnastix]

I had read that Mike Douglas first produced his syndicated weekday program from Cleveland at this station, before moving to Philadelphia, then to Los Angeles.

I think I was too young to recall the Cleveland era, mostly watched during the Philly years.

Does anyone know when Douglas' show left Cleveland for the "City Of Brotherly Love?"

[gymnastix]

My earliest memory of Mike's show is it's what I was watching (on WBZ-TV, Channel 4, the Boston NBC affiliate then) when President Kennedy was assassinated; even though the most famously-remembered TV bulletins with the news (by Walter Cronkite) occurred on CBS, during "As The World Turns."

Most ABC affiliates (at least West of the Mississippi), I think, were airing a rerun of "Father Knows Best" when the bad news broke on on 11/22/1963.

[gymnastix]

I think Douglas' show also once came to Boston, to tape a week of shows. I seem to recall my Mom speaking about it with a next-door neighbor.

I'll never forget the weeks of "The Mike Douglas Show" co-hosted by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Sonny & Cher.

Mike was great. He could talk with anybody about anything, always presented a very casual, entertaining show (with no agenda)!

[TimL2005]

gymnastix: While the offrcial swap with KYW/WKYC occured at 5AM Saturday, September 19, 1965, WKYC/NBC allowed KYW Philly to continue to use the Cleveland Studios for "The Mike Douglas Show for a few months while KYW built its own studios to house the Douglas Show,The first week that the Mike Douglas Show originated in Philadelphia was the week of September 30, 1965..

[gymnastix]

Thank you.

Then when I was watching Mike's show November 22, 1963, it WAS still from Cleveland.

Amazing. And do I feel even older now.

Oh, I should have also mentioned the reason "The Mike Douglas Show" aired on Boston's WBZ-TV was because 'BZ was one of the chain of Group W//Westinghouse stations, over which Douglas' show, for the most part anyway, aired.

Group W was dissolved, among the myriad of other media mergers & dissolutions since the 1970s, but basically absorbed by CBS/Viacom.

[gymnastix]

By the way, TimL2005, I was only five years old when President Kennedy was shot, and that day I happened to be watching "The Mike Douglas Show" was because I was (for the first half of my kindergarten year in school) scheduled in the morning session.

So I was, thankfully, at home by afternoon when the news broke. In the second half of the school year, I was in the afternoon session of "kiddie garden."

I'm so grateful I was with my Mom (not in school) getting bad news such as that.

[Buckpenn]

I just saw this vid on Cleveland Classic Media. Yes, WKYC will be 60 years old come October.