KYW - Break, 1986

Let's do a rundown of the promos and spots, nearly all local:

1.) David Hasselhoff and Stephanie Kramer track down Jack The Ripper, who can apparently now time travel. If there is a list of bad TV movies I have to see, "A Bridge Across Time" surely tops it.

2.) Evening Magazine with a Joan Rivers profile, where she speaks of replacing Johnny Carson. (heh heh heh...) KYW wasn't exactly a well-funded or well-run station in 1985-86 and the graphics do show it. They also show the 3 next to the Proud N, which is unusual. (The 3 was VERY rarely used alongside any NBC logo.)

3.) Jerry Penacoli with the tease for what's coming up at 11. They've clearly gone to the "Turn To News" music and branding, but with nearly no on-screen graphics. Jerry mentions a blooper package; a similar one in the 2000s heavily milked the infamous Larry Mendte flooding blooper.

4.) Woolite. You make me feel brand new.

5.) A long Philadelphia Inquirer ad pimping the Sunday TV Week insert. It trumpets whopping 34 channel grids and a fancy-for-1985 VCR. Anyone know the voice? He did KYW-3 and Cartoon Network for a long while and he seems to voice nearly every negative campaign ad in the area.

6.) Gary Geers teases the Case Of The Shifty Sailor for The People's Court. Note the new time of 5pm, likely replacing news. Starting around the late 1980s, 3 and 10 only did half-hours at 5:30, ceding the full hour to Action News at the height of its dominance.

Category:

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• KYW
• 1986
• Jerry
• Penacoli
• Eyewitness
• News
• Woolite
• Gary
• Geers
• Peoples
• Court

[yerkeskid]

Great post, I remember Jerry Pennacoli. I actually liked KYW in the mid 80s more than Action News or WCAU, I know, Blasphemy! NBC had all of the great shows then from Cosby to Knight Rider and Saturday Night Live and Dead, TV stayed tuned on KYW NBC 3

[HulkieD]

As a kid I rarely watched KYW. They barely had news on (2 hours per day), and whenever they were on, 6 was (the family would not watch anyone else).

Of course I preferred the overall look of 10 to everyone else...

[MrSickofstupidity]

@Julius121081 go away you spamming troll

[stevefromPA2]

@ccarozzo75 Yes...I was working the night they brought him into Osteopathic Hospital..the test tube with a gerbal in it and cocaine on it broke in his ass...

[PatrickKingPhl]

Poor Jerry. He was the victim, along with several other local newscasters across the country of a pre-internet urban legend. Penn folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand documented the story in one of his books. Hell, it got him out of Philadelphia and out to Hollywood. Not a bad deal.

[ccarozzo75]

didn't Jerry put a gerbil up his ass?

[edm1820]

Man I had a big time crush on Stephanie Kramer back then... And I love the way the women just happens to have a bottle or woolite in her purse lol

[parkwyatt]

I agree: I thought "Bridge Across Time" was pretty good as TV movies go. Awesome VCR!

[ohpfinc]

Old School VCR at 2:25...Nostalgia WIN!

[BiscuitsMcGillicuddy]

Go away you troll.