WKYC-TV History Slideshow

A History of WKYC-TV 3 in slideshow format with audio of various WNBK/WTAM/KYW/WKYC clips, including commercials or mentions of NBC Monitor, Bob and Ray, Blaushield Chevrolet, Carling Red Cap Ale and Sterling Carpet..The slides run out before the audio but this is the first tme I've tried something like this..WKYC will celebrate its 60th anniversary later this year..Included in the slides are:
Barnaby
Woodrow
Pete French
Mike Douglas
Jim Graner
Wally Kinnan
Bud Dancy

and many others..

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[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?"

[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..

[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]

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.

[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]

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)!