Jacor Communications was a media corporation, existing between 1987 and 1999, which owned many radio stations in the United States . In 1998, Jacor was purchased by Clear Channel Communications, now iHeartMedia , for $ 2.8 billion.
66-479: Jacor Communications began with three religious stations and went on to acquire dozens of radio stations between 1992 and its sale to Clear Channel in 1999. It also owned a few television stations, including WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. Jacor Communications was founded by Terry Jacobs. Jacobs incorporated Jacor Communications in 1979 and purchased three religious stations in 1981. In June 1989, Jacor purchased Telesat Cable,
132-586: A $ 500,000 remote studio at the Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau on the ground floor of Fifth Third Bank 's downtown headquarters, with the Tyler Davidson Fountain as the backdrop. Despite WKRC's initial hopes for a Today -like atmosphere, the show failed to attract a regular crowd on Fountain Square . From March 2004 to 2008, WKRC aired Nuestro Rincón ("Our Corner"),
198-786: A Northern Kentucky cable provider, for $ 5 million, which it later sold in May 1994. In 1993, an investor named Sam Zell paid $ 80 million from the Zell Chilmark fund to purchase controlling interest in Jacor. In 1992, the Federal Communications Commission increased the number of radio stations a single company could own in one city to 3AMs and 3FMs. After this change, Jacor began purchasing stations, including WKRC (AM) in Cincinnati in 1993. On February 6, 1996, Jacor announced plans to acquire Noble Broadcast Group Inc for $ 152 million. After
264-483: A buyout of Clear Channel Communications. WKRC-TV WKRC-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio , United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW . It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group , which provides certain services to MyNetworkTV affiliate WSTR-TV (channel 64) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Deerfield Media . The two stations share studios on Highland Avenue in
330-487: A common nickname for the city. It currently airs the entire CW schedule in-pattern with films and syndicated programming (and sometimes second runs of WKRC's programming) airing outside network hours along with occasional coverage of high school sports and/or telecasts from FC Cincinnati on weekends. In the event of breaking news (either from WKRC or CBS News ) or sports coverage, WKRC-DT2 airs CBS programming when needed. Repeats of some shows formerly aired by WKRC, along with
396-540: A few seasons of Cincinnati Cyclones hockey and some other weekend sports programming separate from the FM. In 1991, American Media sold the stations to National Radio Partners, which eventually changed its name to Chancellor Media and was later known as AMFM Inc. AMFM eventually merged with Clear Channel in 2000. On December 29, 1994, 1230 AM became All-Sports as "The Score." It swapped programming with sister station WKYN 1160 (which later became WBOB) on March 25, 1996. (Despite
462-479: A formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32 , which notified 164 stations, including WFBE, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." However,
528-426: A full-time broadcast basic placement on channel 20 as of October 18, displacing WBQC and a commercial access channel. The station also debuted on Insight Communications and DirecTV under WBQC's former channel slots. As a result, the channel can be viewed by 66% of the local population. While now branded as simply "The CW Cincinnati", the subchannel originally branded as "The CinCW", a portmanteau with " Cincy ",
594-478: A half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays) for WSTR. WKRC's newscasts and reports were formerly seen on the Ohio News Network until the regional cable news channel shut down on August 31, 2012. During weather segments, it uses regional weather radar data in a system called "Precision Doppler 12 Network". For most of its history, WKRC has been a solid runner-up to WCPO in the local newscast ratings. However, in
660-505: A hostile takeover of its board and all of its stations (except WTVN-TV in Columbus and WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina ) were absorbed into Great American Broadcasting. In 1993, Great American Broadcasting became Citicasters shortly before filing for bankruptcy. The Electra service shut down that year. While Cincinnati was initially unaffected by the 1994–96 affiliation switches, as WCPO
726-497: A longtime friend, to switch several of the company's stations to ABC. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network . WKRC's nickname in the 1960s was "Tall 12", a reference to the station's transmitter tower which was the tallest in Cincinnati at the time. Like WCPO-TV, channel 12 used a distinctive jingle ID at the top of the hour in the 1960s. The upbeat, orchestrated "Channel 12" jingle
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#1733093229910792-505: A new holding company, Newport Television , for the station group. Concurrently, Clear Channel applied to place WKRC and several other stations to the Aloha Station Trust just in case Newport Television failed to close on the group. However, as a result of Newport Television closing on the purchase of WKRC and the other stations on March 14, 2008, Aloha Station Trust and the would-be new owners of Clear Channel opted not to consummate on
858-468: A new second digital subchannel resulting in UPN affiliate WBQC-CA (channel 25) becoming an independent station . Meanwhile, WB affiliate WSTR-TV joined another new network, News Corporation -owned MyNetworkTV (now owned by Fox Corporation ) which launched on September 5. With the affiliation, WKRC-DT2 became the largest subchannel-only CW affiliate by market size, and was one of the few such stations located in
924-501: A pilot station before investing in HD equipment for its other television stations. On October 30, it debuted a new set on its First at 4 broadcast in preparation for the HD debut. After nearly a year of delay, the station launched its high definition newscasts along with a revised logo and new graphics on September 27, 2009, during its 11 p.m. newscast; WKRC became the third station in the Cincinnati market (after WCPO and WXIX-TV , channel 19) and
990-531: A program on the Iran hostage crisis . Occasionally, WKRC preempted a lower-rated prime time program or movie from ABC to air either a stronger movie or a locally based special. Most of the programs not shown on WKRC were widely preempted by many affiliates. Also, most every program not shown on WKRC-TV was aired on the ABC station in nearby Dayton, WKEF until 1980 and WDTN after 1980. WKEF provided grade B coverage to most of
1056-431: A twice-weekly Spanish-language news program hosted by Sasha Rionda . It was the only television program in the market airing in a language other than English. On April 26, 2006, WKRC entered into a news share agreement with WSTR to produce a nightly prime time newscast at 10 p.m., which began airing on August 21. On January 7, 2008, WKRC began simulcasting Good Morning Cincinnati on WKRC-DT2; it had been aired on
1122-475: A yearlong field trial, WKRC began broadcasting teletext magazines to Cincinnati-area owners of Electra decoders, making Cincinnati the first market in the United States where teletext was commercially available. WKRC broadcast 100 screens of information and games, along with closed captioning of ABC programming, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Electra's manufacturer, Zenith Electronics , marketed
1188-577: Is a radio station serving Cincinnati, Ohio . The station mostly plays urban talk while also providing urban oldies and urban contemporary gospel music. Owned by Urban One , its studios are located at Centennial Plaza in Downtown Cincinnati and its transmitter site is in Eden Park . WDBZ is one of the oldest Cincinnati radio stations. The station was originally licensed on December 8, 1924, as WFBE, with 20 watts on 1330 kHz to John Van de Walle of
1254-590: Is now only seen on WKRC-DT2. WKRC announced its intent to move the prime time newscast on WSTR to WKRC-DT2 in August 2008; on August 4, 2008, it began a brief simulcast of the program on WKRC-DT2, with it eventually being dropped from WSTR on August 22. The program then became known as CW News at 10 . Newport Television released a statement in October 2008 stating that WKRC would eventually begin broadcasting its newscasts in 1080i high definition . The company used channel 12 as
1320-526: Is the CW-affiliated second digital subchannel of WKRC-TV, broadcasting in high definition on channel 12.2. On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. WKRC signed a deal to affiliate with the new network on
1386-680: The Mount Auburn section of Cincinnati, where WKRC-TV's transmitter is also located. WKRC-TV first signed on the air on April 4, 1949, originally operating as a CBS affiliate on VHF channel 11; it is Cincinnati's second-oldest television station, but the first to receive an FCC license. The station was owned by the Ohio-based Taft family , who were active in both politics and media. The Tafts published The Cincinnati Times-Star , and also owned WKRC radio ( 550 AM and 101.9 FM, now WKRQ ) under their broadcasting subsidiary, Radio Cincinnati. In 1958,
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#17330932299101452-590: The 10 p.m. newscast was moved back to WSTR, where it is called the Local 12 News at 10 on STAR 64 . On February 3, 2014, the 7 a.m. newscasts would follow suit to WSTR. The station's signal is multiplexed : WKRC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 31 to VHF channel 12. WCPO-AM WDBZ (1230 AM )
1518-402: The 1230 AM frequency broadcast at 1,000 watts during the day and 250 watts at night, which made its nighttime audience reach extremely limited. On this date, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted DKM the ability to broadcast the 1230 frequency at 1,000 watts 24 hours a day. Incidentally, for many years the 1230 frequency broadcast from a tower located on top of a 5-story building on
1584-581: The AFC. WKRC also annually simulcasts Bally Sports Ohio 's coverage of the Cincinnati Reds opening day game. Over the years, as an ABC affiliate, WKRC-TV preempted moderate amounts of weekday programming and the Sunday morning cartoon reruns from ABC; when an ABC game show hosted by WKRC-TV personality Nick Clooney , The Money Maze , aired from December 1974 to June 1975, WKRC opted to delay that program from
1650-499: The CBS Saturday morning cartoon lineup which would soon be reduced to only a few hours. Once that reduction was made, WKRC-TV began running the entire CBS schedule with occasional exceptions. In 1998 , the station became the primary home market outlet for most Cincinnati Bengals games when CBS acquired the AFC broadcast rights. Previously, most Bengals games aired on WLWT as NBC carried
1716-620: The Tafts sold the Times-Star to the locally based rival E. W. Scripps Company , owner of The Cincinnati Post and WCPO-AM - FM - TV . The Tafts' broadcasting interests were then reorganized as Taft Broadcasting , with WKRC-AM-FM-TV as the flagship stations. The WKRC stations' call letters were derived from the original owner of WKRC radio, Clarence Ogden of the Kodel Radio Company ("Ko" for Clarence O. and "del" for Della his wife). Following
1782-789: The Van De Walle Music & Radio Co. at 208 West Second Street in Seymour, Indiana . The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. In late 1926, the station moved to Cincinnati, now owned by the Garfield Place Hotel Co. (Robert A. Casey). Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927. In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file
1848-479: The acquisition of the station. As a result, Newport Television became WKRC's fourth owner in just over 20 years. As a result of the sale, the Citicasters name disappeared from WKRC's license, dissolving channel 12's last link to Taft Broadcasting; the Citicasters name is still alive as a holding company within the corporate structure of Clear Channel's successor, iHeartMedia. On June 18, 2008, Newport announced that it
1914-659: The call letters WDBZ were adopted at the same time. The format was changed to "Community and Inspiration" - a mix of talk and gospel music - in late 2008. The "Buzz" moniker was later dropped in favor of identifying using the WDBZ call letters. After a long LMA, Radio One took official ownership of WDBZ in 2007. On December 4, 2015, WDBZ changed their format from talk to gospel, branded as "Praise 1230". On January 5, 2017, WDBZ adopted sister WOSL 's urban oldies format and rebranded as "Soul 101.5" (in reference to translator W268CM (101.5 FM)); concurrently, WOSL shifted to urban AC ). With
1980-503: The call letters to WMLX . In 1984, Schering-Plough divested its radio division and sold the 1230 AM and 105.1 FM frequencies (along with its other seven stations around the country) to DKM Broadcasting headed by former Cox Radio executive, James Wesley, and formed with the backing of investment firm DKM ( Dyson Kissner-Moran ), for the initial purpose of acquiring the Plough Broadcasting radio properties. Until December 15, 1984,
2046-585: The closing credits of prime time network shows in lieu of program promos during the 1973-74 season . At one point during the 1987-88 season , WKRC briefly preempted the 8:30 p.m. ABC prime time slot (occupied by such shows as I Married Dora , Mr. Belvedere and part of the first season of Full House ) in favor of the syndicated sitcom Small Wonder . When ABC offered late night programming from 11:30 p.m. to about 2 a.m., WKRC, as with several other ABC affiliates, chose not to air it. However, it aired Nightline once that show began in 1979 as
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2112-574: The current story's headline. Seasonal school closing information and eventually a news ticker appeared below the Texta headline. That October, WKRC debuted 11 minutes of "Non-Stop News" on its 11 p.m. newscast, reviving a feature the station attempted in 1989. In 1996, the station debuted a half-hour 4 p.m. newscast on weekday afternoons that remains the Cincinnati area's earliest afternoon newscast. From August 22, 2001, to January 2005, WKRC aired its weekday Good Morning Cincinnati broadcast live from
2178-498: The eastern edge of downtown Cincinnati and was partially inhibited by the hillside of Mount Adams, Ohio which rose right behind and to the east of the building. (The current tower site is in Eden Park on a former Cincinnati Police communications tower.) On January 1, 1985, the call letters changed to WDJO and the station adopted an oldies format. In 1986, both WDJO and WUBE-FM were sold to American Media Inc. On January 17, 1990,
2244-429: The main channel from 5 to 8 am, but the third hour was dropped when CBS reclaimed the 7 a.m. hour for The Early Show , after the network required all of its affiliates to air the show (which was replaced by CBS This Morning in 2012) in its entirety after receiving a makeover hoping to better compete against its rivals, NBC 's Today and ABC's Good Morning America . The 7–8 a.m. hour of Good Morning Cincinnati
2310-610: The market, while WDTN provided city-grade coverage to nearly the entire market. Locally, WKRC aired news, talk shows, movies, and a few off-network sitcoms at some points. Beginning in 1992, WKRC-TV began preempting portions of ABC's Saturday morning cartoons in favor of a local Saturday morning newscast. For a while, WKRC-TV was also one of the very few ABC affiliates that did not clear This Week with David Brinkley , choosing to air religious programs instead. Regardless of its network, at least one program airing on both, The Edge of Night , always had shabby treatment in Cincinnati, which
2376-540: The move, some Bengals play-by-play aired on 1230 at that time, as WUBE & WUBE-FM were the official flagship stations of the Bengals from 1997-1999.) After the move, WUBE aired a " modern standards "-based music format called "Retro Radio", but in January 1998, this was dropped in favor of returning to sports, simulcasting some programs with WBOB to make up for individual signal deficiencies on both stations. The stronger 1160 AM
2442-479: The national scheduled time of 4 p.m. to 10:30 a.m. the following day, so it would be presented in tandem with their local talk program , The Nick Clooney Show , at 11 a.m. Other shows delayed by WKRC included Friday night sitcoms Here Come the Brides (delayed to nine days after their original ABC airing) and The Brady Bunch (delayed to the following afternoon). It also briefly ran instrumental music over
2508-647: The passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 , Jacor began buying more radio stations. On February 13, 1996, Jacor announced it would buy Citicasters for $ 770 million. As part of the merger, Jacor acquired WKRC-TV , a Cincinnati CBS-affiliate television station, and WTSP , a television station in Tampa, Florida . In September, Jacor announced WTSP would be sold to Gannett Co . in exchange for three radio stations. In May 1993, founder and CEO Terry Jacobs left Jacor. The VP of programming and COO, Randy Michaels ,
2574-539: The past decade or so, WKRC and WCPO have taken turns in first and second place. WKRC usually wins on weekday mornings and at 11 p.m., while WCPO leads in the 5 to 7 p.m. block. However, since the May 2010 Nielsen ratings period, WKRC has dominated its competition in all newscast timeslots, with WCPO slipping to second. This dominance in the Cincinnati local news race continued as of the May 2012 sweeps period. At one point, all three of Cincinnati's "Big Three" network affiliates were locally owned. WLWT began falling behind in
2640-411: The primary feed of Tijuana , Mexico -based XETV ). Cincinnati cable viewers were concerned that WKRC-DT2 would face the same problems as WBQC. For years, Time Warner Cable had refused to carry that station full-time, and eventually the station brokered an agreement to air WB prime time on a leased access channel which was barely promoted. However, Time Warner Cable was a division of Time Warner at
2706-442: The ratings after becoming the first of the three to be sold to outside interests. WCPO is now the only one of the three to remain under locally based ownership. From 1977 to 1992, its news division was branded Eyewitness 12 News . (The Eyewitness News moniker would be reused by WLWT in 1998.) Afterward, the station was usually announced as 12 News . With the arrival of chief meteorologist Tim Hedrick in 1988, WKRC began using
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2772-518: The release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Sixth Report and Order , WKRC-TV moved to channel 12 on October 12, 1952. In 1953, three television stations owned by Taft Broadcasting Company and Cox Enterprises formed the short-lived "Tri-State Network" to compete with entertainment programming produced by Crosley Broadcasting Corporation on Crosley television stations in the Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton broadcast markets. On January 11, 1954, The Wendy Barrie Show premiered from
2838-460: The same deal) because the Cincinnati market, despite being the 35th-largest market, has only seven full-power commercial stations, which are not enough to legally permit a duopoly . However, Sinclair retained control of WSTR through a local marketing agreement . The deal also reunited WKRC-TV with WSYX (the former WTVN-TV), another station formerly owned by Taft. The sale was completed on December 3. WKRC-DT2 , branded on-air as The CW Cincinnati ,
2904-466: The second half of CBS' Face the Nation , can also be seen. Through The CW, it also carried the daily self-titled talk show of local WLW radio personality Bill Cunningham until that show ended in 2016. Due to a conflict on Bally Sports Ohio , WKRC-DT2 aired a Blue Jackets game on April 4, 2023. During its first few years as a CBS affiliate, WKRC-TV ran the entire schedule except for several hours of
2970-484: The second in the Newport group (after WOAI-TV ) to make the upgrade. WKRC currently use JVC ProHD 250 Series cameras in its studios. The newscasts on The CW Cincinnati were not initially included in the upgrade, until it upgraded to HD at some point in 2013. On July 7, 2013, WKRC launched Sunday morning newscasts, airing in two blocks: one hour at 8 a.m. and an additional half-hour at 11:30 a.m. On January 6, 2014,
3036-400: The service with a mobile demonstration van at locations around the city to promote sales of its decoder. David Klein, the media critic for The Cincinnati Post , wrote a negative review of the service, noting slow loading time, unengaging content, and primitive graphics. WKRC's teletext magazine was later syndicated nationally by Satellite Syndicated Systems . In 1987, Taft was dissolved in
3102-652: The show was airing on WKRC at 10:30 a.m., and by May 1981 it was on at 9 a.m. WKRC had an unusual broadcast of the 90-minute ABC premiere. It aired the first hour from 3 to 4 p.m. on December 1. The final 30 minutes was telecast December 2 at 11 a.m., where all subsequent episodes aired on a one-day delay. WKRC currently broadcasts 41 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Sundays); it also produces an additional 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of newscasts weekly (with 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and
3168-483: The station along with their FM sister (which was renamed WUBE-FM), until the late 1970s, when they sold all their radio properties to Plough Broadcasting, then a part of the pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough . After partially simulcasting with its FM sister station for years, the station changed to a Big Band / Nostalgia format in September 1981 using Al Hamm's syndicated " Music of Your Life " service and changed
3234-490: The station in October 1935, renaming it WCPO after The Cincinnati Post . (Scripps-Howard Broadcasting would later launch sister stations WCPO-TV and WCPO-FM .) In March 1941, most of the stations on 1200 kHz, including WCPO, moved to 1230 kHz, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement . WCPO was Cincinnati's first Top 40/Rock 'n' Roll station, and
3300-424: The station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed. On November 11, 1928, the FRC implemented a major reallocation of station transmitting frequencies, as part of a reorganization resulting from its implementation of General Order 40 . WFBE was assigned to 1200 kHz. It was the weakest of three stations in Cincinnati. Scripps-Howard Newspapers (now the E. W. Scripps Company ) purchased
3366-500: The station to Kaye-Smith Broadcasting whose principals were entertainer Danny Kaye and business associate Lester Smith, in January 1966. On January 15, 1966, the station call letters were changed to WUBE, and almost the entire air staff was replaced. After another three-year run as a Top-40 station under the direction of legendary programmer Bill Drake as "1-2-3-W-B", it became a country music -formatted station in April 1969. They operated
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#17330932299103432-457: The station's format changed to a simulcast of sister country station WUBE-FM. The station held on to the WDJO call letters to keep them from going to another broadcaster who may have wanted to do an FM oldies format. (An FM oldies station did emerge that month as WGRR .) The WUBE call letters appeared on 1230 AM for the first time in almost ten years on March 16, 1990. During this time, the station aired
3498-478: The studios of WHIO-TV in Dayton, simulcast on Taft Broadcasting's WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WTVN (now WSYX) in Columbus. Barrie's contract was terminated in October 1954, and she was replaced by her co-host of nine months, Don Williams. In 1961, the station became an ABC affiliate, switching networks with WCPO-TV. This came after that network's founder Leonard Goldenson persuaded Taft president Hulbert Taft Jr.,
3564-408: The time (who would be half-owner of The CW), so it was in the company's best interest to air WKRC-DT2 over its systems. By late in the day on September 17, Time Warner Cable agreed to carry the new station only hours before the network's launch on September 18. WKRC-DT2 launched on Time Warner channel 2 in prime time only to start out with and 24 hours a day on digital cable channel 913, before earning
3630-546: The time of its acquisition, Jacor was the third-largest provider of syndicated radio programming, owning 230 radio stations and Premiere Radio networks (a radio syndication company), as well as disseminating The Rush Limbaugh Show and the Dr. Laura Schlessinger show. Clear Channel named Randy Michaels CEO and chairman of Clear Channel Radio in 2000. In 2008, private equity firms Thomas H. Lee and Bain Capital Partners completed
3696-681: The time, the station changed its branding to "Local 12" in 2003. This was inspired by the "Local Mandate", a station brand standardization adopted by Post-Newsweek Stations for its own television stations. In 2006, Clear Channel ranked WKRC as the top CBS affiliate in the United States. On November 16 of that year, the company announced that it would sell its entire television division, including WKRC, after being bought by private equity firms in order to focus on its radio and event properties. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its stations to Providence Equity Partners . Providence Equity teamed up with Sandy DiPasquale to form
3762-650: The top 100 markets (most CW-affiliated stations that carry the network via a subchannel are located in the 110 smallest U.S. television markets and carry The CW Plus , an automated feed featuring a pre-packaged schedule of syndicated programs outside CW programming hours; the few that are located among the top 100—such as WTVG-DT2 in Toledo —maintain an independently programmed schedule as their primary channel counterparts do). This distinction ended on May 31, 2017, when San Diego 's CBS affiliate, KFMB-TV , affiliated its DT2 subchannel with The CW (which had previously been carried on
3828-542: The top of the Chiquita Center as its Weather beacon . In 1994, WKRC refreshed its newscasts with the slogan "A New Generation of News", which referred to anchors Kit Andrews and Rob Braun, along with new graphics, a green screen set, and music originally composed by Rick Krizman for KRON-TV in San Francisco. WKRC made extensive use of "Texta", a graphics package that included a persistent on-screen banner with
3894-489: Was eliminating 7.5% of the jobs at its 56 stations, attributing the layoffs to a weak economy. As a result, WKRC fired 18 staff members. On July 19, 2012, Newport Television reached deals to sell 22 of its 27 stations to three station groups – Nexstar Broadcasting Group , Sinclair Broadcast Group and Cox Media Group . WKRC-TV was among the six sold to Sinclair. WSTR-TV (channel 64) was transferred to Deerfield Media (who also received San Antonio 's CW affiliate KMYS in
3960-444: Was followed by children's show host Glenn Ryle announcing: "This is WKRC-TV Cincinnati". Also, during its tenure with ABC, WKRC (through ABC) aired a number of animated shows produced by Hanna-Barbera , which Taft purchased in 1967. In 1975, it began airing movies on late night Saturdays in a program called The Past Prime Playhouse . Hosted live by local personality Bob Shreve , the show would air until 1988. On June 23, 1983, after
4026-538: Was in a middle of a long-term affiliation contract with CBS, such contract was abruptly stopped. WKRC returned to CBS in 1996, reversing the 1961 affiliation swap. WCPO had agreed to affiliate with ABC in September 1995, but WKRC's contract with ABC was not set to expire for another year. In May 1996, WKRC began airing half-hour-long special programs detailing upcoming programming changes at the two stations. On June 3, 1996, WKRC's contract ended, and WKRC rejoined CBS while WCPO rejoined ABC. The last ABC program to air on WKRC
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#17330932299104092-600: Was in the format from 1956 until it was sold in 1966. WCPO encountered serious competition from the stronger WSAI 1360 when that station entered the Top 40 format in July 1961. WSAI broadcast with 5,000 watts day and night, while WCPO broadcast with 1,000 watts during the day and only 250 watts at night. Some of the DJs on WCPO in the 1960s included Shad O'Shea, Mike Gavin, Bob Keith, Mark Edwards, Gary Allyn, Ron Beach and Gary Cory. Scripps-Howard sold
4158-422: Was ironic because the series' producer Procter & Gamble was headquartered there, and Edge ' s fictional locale of Monticello was loosely based on the city. WKRC did not clear that program as late as 1958, but by 1960–1961 (its last initial season as a CBS affiliate) it telecast the program at 10 a.m. When ABC picked the program up in 1975, it originally carried the ABC run at 11 a.m. By fall 1976
4224-479: Was known as "BOB", while 1230 AM was known as "BOB 2", in a vein similar to ESPN and ESPN2 cable networks. The station was sold to Blue Chip Broadcasting in 2000 as part of the AMFM/Clear Channel merger, while WBOB was sold to Salem Communications . In addition, sister WUBE-FM was sold to Infinity Broadcasting. Blue Chip then launched the "Buzz" format consisting of urban talk programs on August 23, 2000, and
4290-519: Was named president of the company that year, and in 1996, he was promoted to CEO. Jacor's corporate headquarters were in downtown Cincinnati from the mid-1980s through 1996 when they moved across the Ohio River to Covington, Kentucky . In 1997, Jacor acquired the assets of Nationwide Communications . In 1999, Jacor was sold to Clear Channel Communications for $ 3.4 billion in stock. Clear Channel also assumed approximately $ 1.2 billion of Jacor's debt. At
4356-710: Was the ABC Sunday Night Movie airing of the 1993 telefilm The Only Way Out , and the first CBS program since it rejoined was CBS This Morning . In September 1996, WKRC was acquired by Jacor after most of Citicasters' other television stations were sold to New World Communications , which had become involved in an affiliation deal with Fox that was announced in May 1994. The Jacor deal reunited channel 12 with its AM sister, which had been bought by Jacor in 1993 during Great American Broadcasting's bankruptcy reorganization. Jacor merged with Clear Channel Communications in 1998. Although owned by Clear Channel at
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