Veteran WBBM meteorologist Steve Baskerville may have forgotten his 25th year anniversary at the Chicago CBS O&O if it wasn’t for a gentle reminder, according to Time Out Chicago’s Robert Feder.

It wasn’t until I showed him a clip of my Sun-Times column reporting his arrival in 1987 that Baskerville realized he’d reached that milestone. “It slipped by me,” he said. “I’m really fortunate to stay employed so long. I made my Uncle B.C. proud. He thought the real security was learning how to fix TVs — not be on TV!”

Before joining WBBM as meteorologist, Baskerville was the weather anchor for “CBS This Morning” from 1984 to 1987.  Before that he worked at KYW in Philadelphia as weather anchor and co-host of a morning talk show with Maury Povich.

After the jump, you can watch a short video of Baskerville talking about how he got his start.

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Anchors from CBS O&Os across the country will fill in as guest-hosts on “The Talk,” CBS’ daytime talk show, next week.

Anchors from stations in New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles will join the show’s co-hosts Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Aisha Tyler for one day each. This is the third time a round of guest-hosts have been selected from the CBS O&Os.

Kristine Johnson from WCBS will host Monday, Amelia Santaniello and Frank Vascellaro from WCCO will host Tuesday, Susan Barnett from KYW will host Wednesday, Lisa Hughes from WBZ will host Thursday and Pat Harvey from KCBS will host Friday.

Bob Kelly‘s traffic report for Philadelphia’s CBS O&O, KYW, got a little too real yesterday morning when the station’s traffic cameras caught an accident live on air.

Kelly was just about to move on from a traffic shot of Interstate 76 showing a car stalled and facing the wrong way in the left lane of the highway when the car was nearly hit head on by another vehicle prompting Kelly to exclaim, “He just got whacked!” Read more

WCAU will be exiting the Local News Service it helped start, according to Broadcasting & Cable.  The LNS, an agreement between Philadelphia TV stations WTXF, WCAU and KYW, allows the stations to pool resources while covering non-enterprise stories like press conferences.

B&C says the decision comes from WCAU upper management and not from parent NBC owned television stations in New York and is spurred by the station wanting to set itself apart from other stations in the market.

The report also says the station will be getting its own helicopter by the end of the year.

Rob Ellis is the newest addition to KYW-WPSG, the CBS duopoly in Philadelphia.

Ellis currently hosts a radio show for WIP, the CBS-owned radio station in Philadelphia. He will continue in that role when he joins KYW-WPSG later this month. He will serve as a sports anchor and reporter for the stations, contributing to all newscasts and sports specials.

Prior to his current role at WIP, which he has held since 2007, Ellis was a senior producer for Comcast SportsNet’s “Daily News Live” and “Pro Football Now.” He is a Pennsylvania native.

CBS and Cablevision announced the renewal of their content carriage agreements for the CBS O&Os. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The agreement covers Cablevision subscribers in the New York tri-state area served by WCBS, Philadelphia’s KYW and Denver’s KCNC and also includes Cablevision’s continued carriage of Showtime, Smithsonian Channel and CBS Sports Network.

“This broad agreement will ensure that Cablevision customers will continue to have access to the CBS programming they already enjoy, across a range of networks, as well as new services Cablevision will launch in the coming months, including Showtime Anytime and CBS prime time shows on demand,” said Mac Budill, Cablevision’s executive vice president of programming.

Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell stopped by Philadelphia’s KYW this week to promote their upcoming movie, “The Candidate.” Aided by meteorologist Katie Fehlinger, Galifianakis tried his hand at doing the weather during the CBS O&O’s noon show (video above).

KYW will celebrate 80 years on the air tomorrow. The Philadelphia CBS O&O signed on under its original call letters, W3XE, on June 28, 1932.

The station will do an anniversary salute tomorrow on “Talk Philly,” the lifestyle program that airs at noon. Ukee Washington, who is on medical leave after a hip replacement, will join co-host Pat Ciarrocchi from his physical therapy via remote.

“Although television stations are routinely focused on the here and now, it’s important to take a look back on milestones such as these and remember who we are,” KYW president-GM Jon Hitchcock said in a statement. “From the very first day, CBS 3 has been an innovator and community leader, something that is important to remember in the 21^st Century.”

Local news personalities from five CBS O&Os are guest-hosting “The Talk” for one day each next week, filling in for Julie Chen, who is on vacation.

The five guest hosts are: John Elliot, a weathercaster at WCBS in New York, on Monday; Susan Koeppen, an anchor at KDKA in Pittsburgh, on Tuesday; Amelia Santaniello, an anchor at WCCO in Minneapolis, on Wednesday; Kate Bilo, a meteorologist at KYW in Philadelphia, on Thursday; and Paul Magers, an anchor at KCBS in Los Angeles, on Friday.

Chen returns to the CBS talk show on Monday, July 9. No word yet on who will guest host for the second week of her vacation.

>Update: “The Talk” will be in repeats the week of July 2, so there will be no guest hosts, a spokesperson for the show tells TVSpy.

Jenn Bernstein is joining KYW as a general assignment reporter, the Philadelphia CBS O&O announced today.

Bernstein joins KYW from WTIC, the Fox-affiliate in Hartford, where she has been a reporter since May 2010. Previously, she was a reporter and fill-in anchor at YNN in Buffalo.

Bernstein began her broadcasting career at Albany’s Capital News 9 in 2007 as an associate producer, assignment editor and traffic reporter. She went on to be a video producer for “Capital Tonight,” a statewide political program, before joining YNN.