KYW-AM
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| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Branding | KYW Newsradio 1060 |
| Slogan |
All news. All the time. The newswatch never stops. |
| Frequency | 1060 kHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Repeater(s) | 94.1 MHz (WIP-FM HD2) |
| First air date | November 11, 1921 (in Chicago, moved to Philadelphia in 1934) |
| Format | All-news |
| Language(s) | English |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | A (Clear channel) |
| Facility ID | 25441 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°06′12.0″N 75°14′56.0″W / 40.103333°N 75.248889°W (NAD27) |
| Callsign meaning | No meaning; randomly assigned by the Department of Commerce |
| Former callsigns | KYW-KFKX (1928-1933) WRCV (1956–1965) |
| Affiliations |
CBS News Westwood One News Associated Press Bloomberg Radio |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (merger with Entercom pending) (CBS Radio East Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KYW-TV, WIP-FM, WOGL, WPHT, WPSG, WTDY-FM, WXTU |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | KYW Newsradio Website |
KYW (1060 AM), "Newsradio 10-60", is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation and broadcasts an all-news format. Its studios are located in Center City Philadelphia and its transmitter and two-tower directional antenna array are located in Lafayette Hill.
KYW is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, and also has had one of the more complicated histories. Located in Chicago, Illinois at its start in late 1921, it moved to Philadelphia in 1934. In 1956 the KYW call letters were transferred to a station in Cleveland, Ohio, only to be returned nine years later to their original Philadelphia home.
KYW uses HD Radio on its AM signal 24 hours a day. The station's programming is also available via a simulcast on the HD2 subchannel of sister station WIP-FM.
An assortment of local, national and global headlines are read at the top and bottom of each hour, with news summaries at the quarter hours immediately before a sports report. Besides the main news stories, KYW carries a variety of other features, and receives news reports and sound-bites, along with continuous coverage of breaking news, from ABC News Radio, NBC News Radio and CBS News.
An unusual characteristic of KYW is the playing of a recording of Teletype printers clattering in the background while KYW reporters announce at the studio. This is intended to allow listeners to immediately identify the station to which they are listening. However, the sound is not played during other times, such as commercials and taped news segments, including weather forecasts.
The Teletype sound, along with the slogans "All news, all the time", "The newswatch never stops", "Listen two, three, four times a day" and "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world", originated at WINS in New York City. KFWB Los Angeles and WMAQ Chicago also used this branding until they changed formats.
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