At 2:35, the two CBS-owned radio stations were in the same building. 1210 AM was WCAU once upon a long-ago time.

WOW 25 YEARS OF NBC 10 I DON'T BELEIVE THIS

From a 1994 article on the switch.... NBC made the deal because it needed an affiliate in Philadelphia, the nation's fourth largest market (Miami-Fort Lauderdale ranks 16th). CBS had _two_ Philadelphia stations - WCAU, which it owns, and KYW, because of a deal it made to transform all stations owned by Group W into CBS affiliates. NBC made a bid to buy WCAU. CBS suggested that in lieu of all cash, the antenna positions in Miami-Fort Lauderdale be part of the deal. The horse-trading expanded to include NBC stations in Denver and Salt Lake City and Group W.

One Year Later in September '96 in Birmingham, Alabama WBRC Channel 6 switched from ABC to FOX, a brand new ABC Station called "Alabama's ABC 33/40" WCFT 33 in Tuscaloosa and WJSU-TV 40 Anniston/Gadsden from CBS to ABC, WTTO 21 loss its affiliation to rival WBRC, and ended up the WB Television Network in February 1997.

In January 1995, the three major network affiliates in Baltimore switched their networks. WMAR 2 switched from NBC to CBS; WBAL 11 switched from CBS to ABC; WJZ 13 switched from ABC to NBC.

Before 1995, NBC was carried in Philadelphia by KYW-TV Channel 3 (now a CBS O&O)!

Even WPVI (the ABC affiliate) had some changes too. By 1996, they were owned by Disney.

At that same time KYW became CBS 3 after being NBC 3. And now NBC 10 you guys are also part of NBC-Universal while KYW is part of CBS-Viacom and WPVI your former neighbors on City Avenue are owned by the Walt Disney Company.

Don't forget about Saved By The Bell, California Dreams, Saturday Night Live featuring The Weekend Update, and all of NBC's iconic soap operas in 1995.

I remember the promos for the switch over. I didn’t understand why they were doing it but it was okay for me. R.I.P. Siani Lee.

My grandmother was very confused by that....

Expanding on what I said earlier about "Cheers," its whole run (in Philadelphia) was on KYW. It ran from 1982-93,and the switch was still more than 2 years away when the last episode ran.

Lol...Did anybody else notice how they OPENED this particular newscast with the "IMPACT" Version 1 theme song?... So cool...one of the BEST theme songs, first aired on WTVT/FOX-13 in Tampa, FL

This happened on my 42nd birthday

It was my 42nd birthday when channels 3 and 10 swapped affiliations

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I hope Birmingham does the same retrospective for WBRC this coming September.

wow it been 25 yrs.

1:04 - Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! It wasn't the NFL as the main reason for NBC to buy WCAU. NBC had to buy WCAU because in 1994 KYW (then an NBC affiliate), which was owned by Westinghouse, reached a deal to have all the channels carry CBS broadcasting. By FCC rules, two stations cannot air the same network in the same city. Therefore NBC needed to find a new home and was able to reach one with WCAU. Interestingly, the switch came one year after Fox bought out WTXF (they were owned by Paramount Stations Group in the early 90s but carried Fox programming) when it appeared that Fox may buy out WGBS (now WPSG). WPSG (now a CW affiliate) later was bought by Paramount (now part of ViacomCBS) and is now the sister station of KYW.

MY Big Switch was 5 years ago, when I switched from Microsoft Windows to Apple Macintosh, and switching from Android to iPhone.

At 1:33, "Cheers" was already off the air, having exited in 1993.

A friend of mine living near Philly has heard rumors that later this year (2022), the call letters of WCAU would be changed to WDSS-TV, in honor of NBC founder David S. Sarnoff. Is this true?

This was all part of the fallout after Fox got half of the Sunday afternoon NFL TV package. Fox then bought New World Television, which owned 12 stations thst had been affiliated with ABC, NBC, or (mostly) CBS (BTW, CBS previously had the NFL package Fix acquired). CBS also lost a few other stations, so it was then that Westinghouse bought CBS. As the merged entity had two stations in Philly, one had to go. Logic might have dictated that NBC might have bought Westinghouse's KYW Channel 3, to avoid an affiliation swap, but it was WCAU Channel 10 that was sold.

Channel 10 is now NBC10 Pass it On!!

You lost The Price is Right, but still got some good shows.

WCAU became NBC because Westinghouse who own KYW made a affiliate deal with CBS and as a result, CBS had to sell WCAU at market value. The CBS deal came because Westinghouse was upset that WJZ in Baltimore lost it's ABC affiliation because of a deal made with E.W.Scripps over WMAR. Westinghouse was originally trying to work out a deal with ABC.

I still don’t understand why it happened. CBS and NBC are competitors so why would one become the other and why would the other agreed to switch?

Ten Is…. The Big Switch to NBC!

Well isn't this only half the story. In 1995 Westinghouse bought CBS. So KYW could no longer be an NBC affiliate could it?

NBC10 Philadelphia Number I in News information local.. state and Abroad and Philly live with Aunyea is a Gem best kept Secret.. she covers it all in the Community locally and abroad as well

On July 14, 1994, Group W signed an affiliation deal with CBS. This created a major problem in Philadelphia. CBS planned to sell channel 10 to NBC, but tax reasons forced the sale to be canceled. In November 1994, it was announced that the NBC stations in Salt Lake City (channel 2) and Denver (channel 4), along with the allocation for channel 4 in Miami, would be traded to CBS in exchange for channel 10 and the channel 6 allocation in Miami. In March 1995, CBS announced the acquisition of WPRI (channel 12) in Providence, which was the last move that was made before Westinghouse bought CBS in November of that year. As a result of that deal, CBS was forced to sell WPRI to a third party in order to protect WBZ (channel 4) in Boston, which had joined CBS back in January. CBS would sell off its station in Salt Lake City in 2007.

Fox was also interested in 10 at least since the Eagles are part of the NFC since this newscast referenced the 1993 outbid with 10 not carrying football in 94-95 season, Fox did look at 57 but ended up buying 29 instead

You need to change your call letters! Because K-POP group BTS will sue you.