WCAU NewsCenter10 Last Newscast
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- Last newscast on WCAU TV as a CBS affiliate. Anchored from the update desk in newsroom as the set is readied for the overnight switch to NBC. Includes a look at the station's news vans and behind the scenes preps.
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Wonder why WCAU didn't keep the old "10" logo. It would have looked pretty slick next to the Peacock.
Darrell Lucus now it doesn't
CBS owns the property rights to the logo (an identical logo would be used by WALA until the early 2000s)
This newscast must’ve been taped on September 9, 1995.
May the woman in the video rest in peace (died in a car crash in 2001)
That was Siani Lee. I live just 10 minutes from where she was killed at an intersection when her car got hit by an oncoming vehicle.
Required by the CBS/Westinghouse merger in 1992-93. CBS owned WCAU/10; Westinghouse owned KYW/3. The combined company could not own both. CBS/Westinghouse decided to move to channel 3 and sell channel 10, giving NBC it's own network-owned station in Philadelphia. KYW had been an NBC affiliate since Day One, and WCAU CBS since Day One, so it was confusing for viewers.
RJ McAllister actually the switch was due to an agreement between CBS and Westinghouse to develop a partnership in which all Westinghouse stations would become CBS affiliates. As you noted CBS already owned WCAU and decided to sell it. Westinghouse would eventually buy CBS about a year after announcing the partnership.
@@joerouse7908 What I never understood was since CBS/Westinghouse already owned their owned station in Philly, WCAU, why didn't they sell KYW to NBC? It would have make things much easier for them, and less confusing for the viewers.
@@vmvm3857 It wasn’t quite that way. CBS owned WCAU, Westinghouse owned KYW. Westinghouse pursued the affiliation deal. The Group W broadcasting division was their big money maker and was keeping Westinghouse afloat; they were looking to expand that aspect of the business. Those stations were their cash cows so I doubt they would have wanted to sell one of them.
In order for KYW to become a CBS affiliate, CBS had to do something with WCAU. They found that if they sold it outright they would have to pay heavy taxes and so they wound up doing some horse trading with NBC involving their stations in Miami, Denver, and Salt Lake City in order to avoid that. This was all in the works BEFORE Westinghouse agreed to purchase CBS, and the station trade with NBC closed before Westinghouse’s purchase of CBS closed.
@@joerouse7908 That makes since I thought that the CBS/Westinghouse merger had already gone through at the time of the WCAU sale. Thanks for the response!
@@vmvm3857 It was in the process.CBS almost tanked and Westinghouse brought them out of the cellar. If channel 2 in Baltimore Maryland didn’t go with ABC,messing up WJZ 13 and stealing the ABC affiliation from them,CBS would have tanked due to the oncoming of FOX .
And unfortunately in Lancaster, PA, a few hours after the network switches in Philadelphia, the Lancaster cable system dropped KYW- and to a lesser extent, WPSG- while leaving the other Philadelphia stations on their system, WCAU, WPVI, WPHL, and WTXF. It's been slightly over 22 years since this happened.
I wonder what was the last CBS program to air on Channel 10 and the first NBC program to air on that station.
SNL was the last on KYW
Little did John Bolaris know that 7 years later, CBS would be signing his paycheck again during his tenure at former sister station WCBS-TV in New York. Great to have him back here in PA on Fox 29.
woah! so Philadelphia has two NBC stations? WCAU and KYW? wow! lucky them! i'm jealous!
WCAU switched from CBS to NBC.
KYW switched from NBC to CBS.
This happened because of CBS' new partnership with Group W, the broadcasting division of Westinghouse.
Justin Hill that's not why
DrSurprise that was also analog 10 news
The 2 stations double-switched
Justin Hill is correct. CBS entered into a partnership with Group W/Westinghouse that wound up becoming a merger. For tax purposes, NBC purchased WCAU from CBS in exchange for NBC’s O&Os in Denver and Salt Lake. And the licenses and transmission facilities of each network’s O&Os in Miami were swapped. It all took place at the exact same moment in time.
Ten Is….
The End of CBS 10!
Using Klein&'s 10 is.... campaign
Unfortunately, I missed The Big Switch. I shut my cable TV off because I couldn't afford it.
You could've used an antenna and got the channel for free...
The legendary John Bolaris!
And of course, Saturday mornings on WCAU were never the same because they switched from CBS cartoons to NBC teen sitcoms.
Saturday morning cartoons used to be a Saturday morning staple until congress wanted to kill it off with the Childrens' Television Act, which was, in my opinion, a dumb move, as more and more people are moving away from cable TV now, than they did when the act passed...
PBS was exempt from the Childrens' Television Act because most of their programming was E/I compliant childrens' cartoons and shows.
The final network to air traditional Saturday morning cartoons was The CW (with their Vortexx block).
Sinclair Broadcast tried to bring back traditional Weekday morning/Saturday morning cartoons in the form a syndicated block to air alongside the Litton E/I blocks on Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned Fox, CW, and MyNetworkTV stations. It was called "KidsClick" and lasted for two years.
@@Justin-Hill-1987 WE NEED SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS BACK.
@Jozar S. Me too.
@Jozar S. Here's my ideal lineup
10:00 AM - Where's Waldo? (2019)
10:30 AM - Cleopatra in Space
11:00 AM - Trolls: TrollsTopia
11:30 AM - The Mighty Ones
12:00 PM - Saved by the Bell
12:30 PM - NBA Inside Stuff (during season)
NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition
Hey, TomFoolerys, please upload the full NewsCenter 10 finale.
I wonder was this the last pay week for all employees under CBS when they switch
One thing I always wondered was why didn't 3 and 10 switch affiliation at 11pm that night after the primetime lineups. I know the networks switched right after Saturday Night Live ended for the last time on 3, perhaps the NBC affiliation contract over there was still in effect until 1am.
John Fenner you are right
if i remember kyw had to air saturday night live as their last nbc program and thats why the switch was at 1am.
WCAU NBC 10 owned by o&o
Jesse Jackson, Jr.? OH, the irony!
Hi sunshine
So...how many people were soooooooooooooooo confused that they actually called that number for help?
They could've just consulted the latest issue of TV Guide or the local newspapers, or their TV's Guide Plus on-screen guide. Not very many households had computers in the mid-1990s.