1932 - As W3XE, Channel 3 was an experimental television station owned by Philco Corporation.
1939 - The station operated from the Philco Corporation plant at C & Tioga street in Philadelphia.
November 11, 1939 - W3XE broadcast a nighttime college football when Temple University was at home playing against Holy Cross College.
May 2, 1940 - W3XE took a photo taking of Connie Parkinson & unidentified male actor.
June 1940 - W3XE became the first local television station in the United States to televised the entire Republican National Convention, which took 62 hours of coverage.
January 1, 1941 - W3XE broadcast the Mummers Parade for the first time.
July 1, 1941 - W3XE received a commercial license-the third television station in the United States, and the first television station in Philadelphia-as WPTZ.
September 1, 1941 - The station officially signed on the air for the first time, when Philco moved WPTZ’s studios to the penthouse suite of the Architect’s Building, at 17th & Sandom streets in downtown Philadelphia, while retaining master control facilities at Philco plant.
Late 1941 - The station significantly cut back operations after the U.S. entered World War II.
January 26, 1942 - Channel 3 premiered a live broadcast daytime soap opera: “Last Year’s Nest”, which was the U.S. first daytime soap opera.
1945 - Channel 3 returned to a full schedule.
1946 - Channel 3 became one of the three stations in the United States that premiered NBC’s regular television service, and full broadcasting was resumed.
1946 - Channel 3 premiered its daily afternoon half-hour program: “The Handy Man”.
January 1, 1947 - Channel 3 became the first commercial television station in Philadelphia to broadcast live coverage of the Mummers Parade.
Early 1947 - Channel 3 premiered its bubble event program: “Pleased to Meet You”.
February 1947 - WPTZ premiered its first cooking program: “TV Matinee”, which was hosted by Florence Hanford.
Late 1947 - WPTZ moved into unused space at 1619 Walnut Street in Center City, where KYW radio was housed.
Late 1947 - WPTZ premiered its discussion program: “Open House”, which was hosted by Roy Neal.
March 20, 1950 - Channel 3 premiered its local cooking show: “Deadline for Dinner”, which hosted by Ernie Kovacs.
February 23, 1953 - Westinghouse Electric Corporated purchased WPTZ for a then-record ofg $8.5 million.
May 1955 - Westinghouse agreed to trade WPTZ to NBC, and WPTZ became an NBC owned-and-operated television station.
Late January 1956 - NBC took over operation at WPTZ.
February 13, 1956 - Channel 3 changed its call letters to WRCV-TV (in reference to the RCA-Victor record label), and soon after, the station reached its signal into the Lehigh Valley, most of Northern Delaware and southern New Jersey (including Atlantic City) into the Philadelphia market.
Late 1956 - The newscasts returned to Channel 3, this time for good.
1957 - Channel 3 moved to a new 1,100-foot (335 m) tower in Roxborough, and then added much of Delaware, the Lehigh Valley and Southern New Jersey to the station’s city-grade coverage, and with a new transmitter, the station broadcast in color for the first time.
1958 - Vince Leonard started anchoring Channel 3’s newscasts.
Early 1960 - Channel 3 was sold to RKO General.
1961 - Channel 3 premiered its children’s program: “Bertie the Bunyip”.
1963 - Bill Kuster joined the station as the principal weatherman, he would stay until January 1979.
August 1964 - The FCC renewed NBC’s licenses for WRCV-TV again-but this time, only on the condition.
June 19, 1965 - Westinghouse regained control of Channel 3, and changed its call letters to KYW-TV, which had moved from Cleveland, and it was owned by Group W at the time, and the station’s logo was changed, this time the logo was a distant “Stylized 3”, which would remain for 38 years.
Mid-Summer 1965 - Channel 3 news department, this time under news director Al Primo, created the Eyewitness News format, which would have the reporters actually presenting their stories instead of having anchors read them.
August 30, 1965 - The new version of Channel 3’s newscasts began with a new format: Eyewitness News. Started with the noon newscast anchored by Tom Snyder and Marciarose Shestack.
1967 - Malcolm Poindexter joined the station’s news team.
July 1972 - Channel 3 moved its studio to Independence Mall East, which would remain for 25 years.
Late 1972 - Jessica Savitch joined Eyewitness News as a general assignment report and weekend anchor.
1973 - Dick Sheeran joined the station as reporter.
1975 - Beverly Williams joined the station as weekend evening anchor, becoming the 1st African-American female anchor in Philadelphia television hisory.
1976 - Diane Allen joined the station, to host a weekly women’s program.
December 1, 1976 - Jack Jones joined the station, anchoring the noon weekday newscast, becoming the 1st African-American male anchor in Philadelphia television history.
1977 - Channel 3 premiered its local weeknight program: “Evening Magazine”.
August 19, 1977 - Jessica Savitch anchored her final broadcast at Channel 3, before she heading to NBC News.
Late Summer 1977 - Vince Leonard and Jack Jones started together anchoring the one-hour 6PM weeknight newscast.
1979 - Tom Lamaine joined the station part-time anchoring weather and sports.
1979 - Beverly Williams began anchoring the station’s noon weekday newscast.
Fall 1979 - Dick Standish joined the station as political reporter.
1980 - Walt Hunter joined the station as a crime reporter.
May 30, 1980 - After anchored over 2,000 newscasts, Vince Leonard had his final day at the station after more than two decades, long before he passed away on March 30, 2018.
1982 - Pat Ciarrocchi joined the station as the early weekday morning news anchor.
1982 - After three years, Diane Allen returned to the station, this time to be the primary anchor.
July 1986 - Ukee Washington joined the station as weekend evening sports anchor.
Late 1986 - Steve Bell joined the station to co-anchor the weekday evening newscasts.
1993 - Larry Kane joined the station as anchor.
September 9, 1995 - After 54 years, Channel 3 aired the final NBC program, which was a rerun of “Saturday Night Live”, which began at 11:30 p.m.
September 10, 1995 - Channel 3 became a CBS affiliate station, by becoming a CBS owned-and-operation station.
Early 1998 - KYW-TV rebranded all of its newscasts back to the Eyewitness News name.
July 1998 - Beasley Reece joined the station as sports director.
2000 - CBS purchased a deal with Viacom, brought KYW-TV under common ownership with Philadelphia’s UPN affiliate station, WPSG Channel 57, which relocated to the KYW building on Independence Mall.
January 2003 - The station finally retired their “Stylized 3” logo, and rebranded as CBS 3.
January 6, 2003 - Kathy Orr joined the station to do the weather forecast on the 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. weeknight newscasts.
January 6, 2003 - Marc Howard joined the station to be the sole anchor of the 11:00 p.m. weeknight newscast.
September 2003 - KYW-TV hired Larry Mandte and Alycia Lane to become the new top anchor team, anchoring both the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. weeknight newscasts.
2006 - When Viacom became the CBS Corporation, CBS retained all-related terrestrial broadcasting interests, including KYW-AM-TV and WPSG.
April 2, 2007 - KYW-TV and WPSG moved to a new broadcast complex located at 1555 Hamilton Street near Center City Philadelphia.
April 2, 2007 - KYW-TV became the third station in the Philadelphia television market to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high definition.
October 15, 2007 - Chris May joined the station as co-anchor of the weekend evening newscasts.
January 2008 - Chris May moved up to co-anchor the station’s 4:00 p.m. weekday newscast.
December 26, 2008 - Angela Russell left the station after 4 years.
June 12, 2009 - KYW-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, as part of America’s transition from analog to digital television.
October 19, 2009 - The station debut its half-hour weekday lunchtime talk show Talk Philly.
June 29, 2015 - The tradtional noon weekday newscasts returned to the station,
July 1, 2015 - Chris May, Kathy Orr and Beasley Reece were all fired from the station.
July 2, 2015 - Ukee Washington started co-anchor the 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. weeknight newscasts with Jessica Dean.
August 6, 2018 - After 7 years, KYW-TV relaunched a new 4:00 p.m. weekday newscast called CBS3 Eyewitness News @ 4, this time with Natasha Brown and Alexandria Hoff as anchors.
October 29, 2018 - Jessica Kartalija joined the station to co-anchor the 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. weeknight newscasts with Ukee Washington.
September 17, 2019 - After more than 8 years of doing the weather, Katie Fehlinger finally left the station to spend more time with her family.
