KYW - 1999 - Eyewitness News at 5pm

Philly's best news opening. Ever.

[@UnrelatedArchives]

Epic open. Funny how the slots for the anchor L3 is swapped.

[@jwgreek8606]

The credits cutting into that opening SAVAGE! Besides, at the time it was that lameass Studios USA that briefly shut down Universal TV.

[@ASKconard]

Awesome era for KYW. Everything was perfect from 1999-2001.

[@jwgreek8606]

Not just for KYW but EVERYTHING!

[@johnissoevil]

This was my favorite opening for KYW-TV. What they used in the mid 80s with Danny Dark doing the voiceover comes in a close second.

[@Jean0987654321]

Turn to news by Gari?

[@Jumpboots_Jamstrang]

This is actually pretty epic.

[@RafaelYudhanto24]

0:03

[@RafaelYudhanto24]

0:03

[@johnissoevil]

@jrbarrie83 Westinghouse/CBS left everything alone, and KYW carried on with their traditional logo even after the merger. Viacom purchased the combined company, and 3 years later, they just had to change things up. I don't mind the CBS 3 branding, but had Viacom not come in and purchased the company, I'm sure KYW would still have the old logo and they'd still be using this package, or at least an updated version.

[@TVNewsMan4TVNewsMan4]

Without Action News, this is most certainly the best News Open in the Delaware Valley. Better than a lot of the WCBS news opens.

[@LaurenLover81]

All I can say is, these were desperate times for KYW. They were willing to try anything to get a bigger audience. I mean, this moment in time, in particular, tweaked stuff so many times. It wasn't until early 2003 that KYW started to turn around, let alone going from KYW3 to CBS3. Things really started taking off in September later that year, when Larry Mente and Alicia Lane joined CBS3. And now, CBS3 is on the heels of 6ABC, constantly beating them during non-sweeps periods at 11pm.

[@ArriettyMontgomery20]

The closing credits in the beginning are cut off. That's what happens when this was a CBS O&O station.

[@UnrelatedArchives]

I can never get a 6pm newscast that will start 1 minute after or 1 minute before the actual titled newscast starts.

[@itscringecat]

0:15 So, Ukee is Dawn, and Dawn is Ukee?

[@SigmaRho2922]

WBNS and KTUU used the same news theme as KYW.

[@WizardDuck]

This intro is awesome, but why did they have to cut off Sally Jessy Raphael's end credits? Also, I find the WLWT umbrella (at 1:57) funny for some reason.

[@jwgreek8606]

Look at my comment for my take

[@AriWeinstein]

LOL that's hilarious...