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WKYC (channel 3) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. Its studios are located on Tom Beres Way (a section of Lakeside Avenue in Downtown Cleveland named after the station's longtime political reporter who retired in 2016), [2] [3] and its transmitter is located in suburban Parma, Ohio.
The earliest known use of the Eyewitness News name in American television was on April 6, 1959, when KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV) – at the time, based in Cleveland and owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting – launched the nation's first 90-minute local newscast (under the title Eyewitness), which was combined with the then 15-minute national newscast. [1]
NBC would later sell off the WKYC radio stations in 1972, [10] 51 percent of WKYC-TV in 1990, [11] and then the remaining 49 percent in 1999. With the FCC encouraging the networks to expand their owned-and-operated holdings to include UHF stations , NBC purchased WBUF in Buffalo, New York, in 1955 and WKNB (now WVIT ) in New Britain ...
James Francis Donovan III (July 17, 1956 – October 26, 2024) was an American radio and television personality who served as sports director and news anchor for WKYC channel 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was the radio voice of the Cleveland Browns Radio Network from 1999 to 2023.
It sold the radio stations in 1972, but kept WKYC-TV until 1990, when majority control of the station was sold to Multimedia, Inc. (which later merged with the Gannett Company in 1995); NBC remained minority owner of WKYC-TV until 1999 when it sold its remaining interest to Gannett. NBC continued to pursue efforts to acquire an owned-and ...
James R. Graner (February 21, 1919 – January 15, 1976) was the weeknight sports anchor for Cleveland NBC affiliate KYW-TV (later WKYC) beginning in 1957. He also served as color commentator for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network, most notably alongside Cleveland sportscaster Gib Shanley.
White joined WKYC-TV Channel 3, Gannett's NBC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio in 1999. White is also inducted into the Ohio Radio and Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame. On December 12, 2008, White opted to leave WKYC as a result of his contract not being renewed. The two parties could not come to an agreement on the financial terms of a new ...
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