Can’t wake up with Wakeup News June 3, 2009
Posted by Chris Stover in Journalism, Philadelphia.Tags: CBS3, CW Philly, Natasha Brown
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Following the news of the Philadelphia Bulletin’s folding yesterday, the CW Philly followed it up with the announcement that the station is halting its morning newscast.
The CW Philly Wake Up News, which airs from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., will broadcast its last show on June 26. Eyewitness News This Morning, anchored by Ukee Washington and Liz Keptner, will continue to air its normal time — 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. — but will add two hours, which will air on the CW.
CBS3's Natasha Brown
This means the three-person crew who hosted Wake Up News — anchor Natasha Brown, traffic guy Sean Murphy and meteorologist Christa Quinn — will be somewhat displaced. Brown, who also reports for CBS3, will move to the field for the morning show. Murphy and Quinn will serve as back-ups.
CBS3 began consolidating the CW a few months ago, adding the aforementioned personalities to the CBS3 bios page and making the CW Philly’s Web site a Web page hosted on cbs3.com.
GOOD
That was the only morning news show I liked. None of the other
stations even mention Delaware. I think CBS 3 sucks, they can’t report
worth a shit. Should headline Pukie Washington.
CW Philly tv station, I will never watch another program on your channel
again, You Suck
I will miss that trio. I enjoyed shawn’s irreverent comments with tasha and christa as the straight men – this is a throw back to when monica – rick – and dave – were together. What and good wake me up they were. A simple news cast is always best. If it ain’t broke…
This was the only morning news show I watched. Natasha, Christa, and Sean you will be missed!!
Natasha, Christa, and Sean were a team. Get them back on the air!!!!
Amen, john. The CW Philly Wake Up News was a team of real persons who actually interacted with each other. Yeah, informing us about the latest few new Philly murders that occurred overnight might have been a grim task, but they mixed in enough of the human interest and the bizarre to make it worth the listen. Natasha is an excellent anchor, not the gossip talker that CBS3 wants to make her into. Christa always came across “real,” and Sean…well, the guy was a great third part of the trio. He could make interesting the ongoing sameness of morning traffic reporting, plus the irreverent crack here, a bit of mugging for the camera there. You tie it all together when they would interact on-camera occasionally, and you’ve got a newscast worth watching. Now? CBS3 puts some gossip show on until 7, and then there’s the news show with a studio populated by perfectly coiffed newsreader-bots who have on too much makeup. CW had my attention every weekday morning before, but not anymore. Now none of the morning local newscasts are worth anything, so I crunch my breakfast to SportsCenter or the Weather Channel. Thanks, CBS3, for nothing.
I started watchign CW philly wake up news 2 years ago and I would set my alarm clock early before I wake up for school to watch it. I watch it while I eat breakfast getting ready for school and I was almost cryign to see it gone. I loved how they made the show entertaining, the other news shows are boring. I wish I can hear “Good morning everyone I’m Natasha Brown glad to have you with us on this….” again. I want KRista Sean And Natasha Working together again. I watched the show for over 2 years every day.