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Channel Surfing November 4, 2003
Last night was the first installment of "Carol's
Story," documenting KYW (CBS3) personality Carol
Erickson's battle with breast cancer.
Erickson, who was working as the weekend morning news and
weather anchor will be replaced by a several anchors while she gets
treatment. Erickson has
worked for KYW since 1978. The
stations will be working overtime on election night. Channels 3, 6, and 10 will be providing expanded newscasts at
11 p.m. CN8 will have a two
hour special from 8-10 p.m. Doylestown’s Jeremy “The Beav” Beaver was one of the first prospective disc jockeys to audition for the midday slot on WYSP 94.1-FM last week. The rock station is holding an open casting call to find a disc jockey to take over the 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. shift. According to station spokesperson Karin Buck, WYSP has received hundreds of entries since the station started accepting tapes a couple of weeks ago. John Welbourn of the Eagles took a turn behind the microphone and John Kruk of the Phillies is expected to go to bat in the near future. For more information, go to www.wysp.com According
to a source in the WPVI newsroom, many at Channel 6 believe that
longtime weekend news anchor Rob Jennings is the top choice to join Lisa
Thomas Laury on the weekday 5 p.m. newscast.
Thomas-Laury recently returned to the air after being on medical
leave for almost a year. Marc
Howard left WPVI for KYW in August of 2002. “Joe Cool”
LaSalle University alum Ralph Garman struck gold as the host of
“The Joe Schmo Show.” Last week’s finale was the highest rated show in Spike TV
history with 3.4 million viewers.
WCAU (NC10) personalities Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz, Bill
Henley, Amy Freeze, Doug Kammerer, Dave Warren, Tracy Davidson, Vince
DeMentri, and Denise Nakano will be on hand for the “Lifestyle and
Technology Expo” at the Fort Washington Expo Center this weekend from
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. “Passions”
stars Chrystee
Pharris and James Hyde will appear Saturday and Ryan McPartlin and Heidi
Mueller will be there on Sunday. More Traffic Toys
With traffic becoming the new “weather,” KYW is adding
“Real Time Traffic” to its arsenal.
KYW is the only station that has a full-time traffic reporter on
staff, Bob Kelly. The
traffic reporters on the other stations are employed by traffic
companies. “Rockin” Ron Cade of the “Elvis & Friends” show on WOGL 98.1 is hosting an Elvis Tribute concert at the Knights of Columbus in Levittown Saturday, November 22 at 8 p.m. Go to www.memphismemoriesproductions.com for ticket information. |