Newscasts
In September 2002, KYW radio and KYW-TV launched a weekday morning news program called KYW NewsRadio This Morning on WPSG. Originally anchored by KYW anchor Beth Trapani, the broadcast was essentially an embellished radio newscast with simple graphics and video borrowed from KYW-TV. Trapani was succeeded by Ed Abrams who gave way in turn to Lesley Van Arsdall. The news did surprisingly better than expected but the effort would be short-lived. The show aired its final broadcast on May 30, 2005. The following day, a new program called WakeUPNews, produced by Traffic Pulse, premiered in the four-hour time slot previously held by KYW NewsRadio This Morning. The newscast carried on into WSPG's affiliation with The CW, adopting new graphics on September 18, 2006 and de-emphasizing the spacing in the name which formed a reference to its former affiliation, becoming simply Wake Up News.
To compete with WPHL-TV and WTXF-TV, KYW-TV began to produce a 10:00 newscast for WPSG on February 2, 2009, Eyewitness News at 10 on The CW Philly. This partnership would extend into the mornings, as on June 29, 2009, Wake Up News was canceled and replaced with a two-hour extension of KYW-TV's Eyewitness News This Morning.
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