I'm looking for some info and want to see if any diehard Philly newsies or anyone have some answers.
Going back to the days when KYW-3 was NBC and WCAU was CBS. I found a 1990 write up in The Philadelphia Inquirer. It was talking about
KYW-3 ratings down after a certain sweeps period. They had the numbers in there, and the 6pm news was a rating point behind WCAU. The 11pm
tied with WCAU.
What I want to know is with affiliated with NBC at that time, was KYW 3 ever competitive? Does anybody know if there were times with NBC
having some good programming helped KYW leaped to #2, or was it always dead-last? As for WCAU it was owned by CBS and I'm sure CBS
had to be happy with their performance vs. NY, LA, Chicago O&O were not doing so well.
Just wanted to know if anyone who knows Philly, have some stories or details about the market before the 1995 CBS/NBC switch.
Looking at some of the old KYW-3 videos it does seem like KYW-3 News was solid off course there are different eras. I see some like The News Tonight era.