Forty-one-year Philly news veteran moves from WCAU to oversee journalism at the CBS duopoly there.
The former director of content at WTSP Tampa is tapped to lead CBS News and Stations’ CBS-CW duopoly.
Brandin Stewart Named GM Of KYW-WPSG
He joins from NBC where he was vice president of sales for NBC/Telemundo’s Chicago properties, including WMAQ, WSNS Telemundo Chicago and the company’s Chicago national spot sales office.
KYW-WPSG Hold All-Day Cancer Telethon
KYW, WPSG Run McDonald House Telethon
Margaret Cronan Named KYW News Director
The news veteran is returning to the CBS Philadelphia O&O to lead the news efforts there and at co-owned WPSG.
Exclusives
The former GM of WCCO Minneapolis will succeed Jon Hitchcock at the helm of KYW and WPSG. Kennedy joined the CBS Television Stations in 2003 (when the group was known as the Viacom Television Stations Group).
Localism Recap: March 27
KYW Raising Funds For Ronald McDonald House
KYW News Adds Citizen ‘Weather Watchers’
CBS’s Philadelphia duopoly of KYW and WPSG (CW) expanded its weather team last week with the addition of a new resource — a team of citizen weather observers who have signed up to join the stations’ Eyewitness Weather Watchers group. As members, the Weather Watchers, who already number more than 100, will help the stations’ […]
Philadelphia Skyline Turns Pink For A Month
The CBS Local Media stations in Philadelphia (DMA 4) — KYW (CBS), WPSG (CW), KYW-AM, WOGL-FM, WIP-AM-FM, WPHT-AM and CBSPhilly.com — raised more than $225,000 Thursday for the American Red Cross relief effort in the wake of the tornado in Moore, Okla., as part of their “Operation Brotherly Love: Helping Moore” event. Volunteers and on-air […]
Co-owned KYW-WPSG’s 14-hour phone fundraiser benefits local Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Student-Produced Sitcom To Air On WPSG
CBS-owned CW affiliate WPSG Philadelphia (DMA 4) will air Off Campus, a half-hour sitcom produced by students in Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, as part of its programming this fall. All three episodes of the all-student production, including the premiere of season three, will air Nov. 5-26. Off Campus features […]
