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WKRC-TV
Channels
Branding
  • Local 12
  • The CW Cincinnati(DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WSTR-TV
History
First air date
April 4, 1949(75 years ago)(1949-04-04)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:11 (VHF, 1949–1952), 12 (VHF, 1952–2009)
  • Digital:31 (UHF,2001–2009)
  • CBS (1949−1961)
  • ABC(1961–1996)
  • NTA(secondary, 1956–1961)
Call signmeaning
Kodel Radio Corporation(former owner of former sister AM radio station)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID11289
ERP15.55kW
HAAT305 m (1,001 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°6′59″N84°30′7″W/ 39.11639°N 84.50194°W/39.11639; -84.50194
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WKRC-TV(channel 12) is atelevision stationinCincinnati, Ohio,United States, affiliated withCBSandThe CW.It is owned bySinclair Broadcast Group,which provides certain services toMyNetworkTVaffiliateWSTR-TV(channel 64) under alocal marketing agreement(LMA) withDeerfield Media.The two stations share studios on Highland Avenue in theMount Auburnsection of Cincinnati, where WKRC-TV's transmitter is also located.

History

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Early history

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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.[2]The station was owned by the Ohio-basedTaft family,who were active in both politics and media. The Tafts publishedThe Cincinnati Times-Star,and also owned WKRC radio (550 AMand 101.9 FM, nowWKRQ) under their broadcasting subsidiary, Radio Cincinnati. In 1958, the Tafts sold theTimes-Starto the locally based rivalE. W. Scripps Company,owner ofThe Cincinnati PostandWCPO-AM-FM-TV.The Tafts' broadcasting interests were then reorganized asTaft Broadcasting,with WKRC-AM-FM-TV as the flagship stations. The WKRC stations'call letterswere 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).[3]Following the release of theFederal Communications Commission(FCC)'sSixth Report and Order,WKRC-TV moved to channel 12 on October 12, 1952.

Tri-State Network

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Advertisement for the premiere ofThe Wendy Barrie Showoriginating fromWHIO-TVinDaytonand simulcast on WKRC-TV inCincinnatiandWTVN(now WSYX) inColumbus,all inOhio

In 1953, three television stations owned by Taft Broadcasting Company andCox Enterprisesformed the short-lived "Tri-State Network" to compete with entertainment programming produced byCrosley Broadcasting Corporationon Crosley television stations in the Cincinnati,ColumbusandDaytonbroadcast markets. On January 11, 1954,The Wendy Barrie Showpremiered from the studios ofWHIO-TVin Dayton, simulcast on Taft Broadcasting's WKRC-TV in Cincinnati andWTVN(now WSYX) in Columbus.[4]Barrie's contract was terminated in October 1954, and she was replaced by her co-host of nine months, Don Williams.[5]

As an ABC affiliate

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In 1961, the station became anABCaffiliate, switching networks with WCPO-TV.[6]This came after that network's founderLeonard Goldensonpersuaded Taft president Hulbert Taft Jr., a longtime friend, to switch several of the company's stations to ABC. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with theNTA Film Network.[7]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 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 ofanimatedshows produced byHanna-Barbera,which Taft purchased in 1967. In 1975, it began airing movies on late night Saturdays in a program calledThe Past Prime Playhouse.Hosted live by local personalityBob Shreve,the show would air until 1988.

On June 23, 1983, after a yearlong field trial, WKRC began broadcastingteletextmagazines to Cincinnati-area owners ofElectradecoders,[8]making Cincinnati the first market in the United States where teletext was commercially available.[9]WKRC broadcast 100 screens of information and games, along withclosed captioningof ABC programming, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.[8][9]Electra's manufacturer,Zenith Electronics,marketed the service with a mobile demonstration van at locations around the city to promote sales of its decoder.[9]David Klein, the media critic forThe Cincinnati Post,wrote a negative review of the service, noting slow loading time, unengaging content, and primitive graphics.[10]WKRC's teletext magazine was later syndicated nationally bySatellite Syndicated Systems.[11]

In 1987, Taft was dissolved in a hostile takeover of its board and all of its stations (except WTVN-TV in Columbus andWGHP-TVinHigh 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.

Return to CBS

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"12 WKRC" logo, used from 1994 to 2004 with the slogan "A New Generation of News"

While Cincinnati was initially unaffected by the 1994–96 affiliation switches, as WCPO 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,[12]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.[13]On June 3, 1996, WKRC's contract ended, and WKRC rejoined CBS while WCPO rejoined ABC. The last ABC program to air on WKRC was theABC Sunday Night Movieairing of the 1993telefilmThe Only Way Out,and the first CBS program since it rejoined wasCBS This Morning.[citation needed]

In September 1996, WKRC was acquired byJacorafter most of Citicasters' other television stations were sold toNew World Communications,which had become involved in anaffiliation dealwithFoxthat 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'sbankruptcyreorganization. Jacor merged withClear Channel Communicationsin 1998.

Although owned by Clear Channel at the time, the station changed its branding to "Local 12" in 2003. This was inspired by the "Local Mandate", a station brand standardization adopted byPost-Newsweek Stationsfor its own television stations.

Original "Local 12" logo used from 2004 to September 2009

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,[14]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 toProvidence Equity Partners.[15]Providence Equity teamed up withSandy DiPasqualeto form a new holding company,Newport Television,for the station group. Concurrently, Clear Channel applied to place WKRC and several other stations to theAloha Station Trustjust 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 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 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 GroupandCox Media Group.WKRC-TV was among the six sold to Sinclair.[16]WSTR-TV(channel 64) was transferred toDeerfield Media(who also receivedSan Antonio'sCWaffiliateKMYSin 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 aduopoly.However, Sinclair retained control of WSTR through alocal 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.[17]

WKRC-DT2 (The CW Cincinnati)

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WKRC-DT2,branded on-air asThe CW Cincinnati,is the CW-affiliated seconddigital subchannelof WKRC-TV, broadcasting in high definition on channel 12.2.

History

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On January 24, 2006, theWarner Bros.unit ofTime WarnerandCBS Corporationannounced that the two companies would shut downThe WBandUPNand combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.[18][19]WKRC signed a deal to affiliate with the new network on a new second digital subchannel resulting in UPN affiliateWBQC-CA(channel 25) becoming anindependent station.Meanwhile, WB affiliate WSTR-TV joined another new network,News Corporation-ownedMyNetworkTV(now owned byFox 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 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 carryThe 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 asWTVG-DT2inToledo—maintain an independently programmed schedule as their primary channel counterparts do). This distinction ended on May 31, 2017, whenSan Diego's CBS affiliate,KFMB-TV,affiliated its DT2 subchannel with The CW (which had previously been carried on the primary feed ofTijuana,Mexico-basedXETV).[20]

Cincinnati cable viewers were concerned that WKRC-DT2 would face the same problems as WBQC. For years,Time Warner Cablehad refused to carry that station full-time, and eventually the station brokered an agreement to air WB prime time on aleased accesschannel which was barely promoted. However, Time Warner Cable was a division of Time Warner at 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 ondigital cablechannel 913, before earning a full-time broadcast basic placement on channel 20 as of October 18,[21]displacing WBQC and a commercial access channel. The station also debuted onInsight CommunicationsandDirecTVunder WBQC's former channel slots. As a result, the channel can be viewed by 66% of the local population.[22]

While now branded as simply "The CW Cincinnati", the subchannel originally branded as "The CinCW", aportmanteauwith "Cincy",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 fromFC Cincinnation weekends. In the event of breaking news (either from WKRC orCBS News) or sports coverage, WKRC-DT2 airs CBS programming when needed. Repeats of some shows formerly aired by WKRC, along with the second half of CBS'Face the Nation,can also be seen. Through The CW, it also carried the dailyself-titled talk showof localWLWradio personalityBill Cunninghamuntil that show ended in 2016.

Due to a conflict onBally Sports Ohio,WKRC-DT2 aired a Blue Jackets game on April 4, 2023.[23]

Programming

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During its first few years as a CBS affiliate, WKRC-TV ran the entire schedule except for several hours of 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.

Sports programming

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In1998,the station became the primary home market outlet for mostCincinnati Bengalsgames whenCBSacquired theAFCbroadcast rights. Previously, most Bengals games aired on WLWT as NBC carried the AFC. WKRC also annually simulcastsBally Sports Ohio's coverage of theCincinnati Redsopening daygame.[24]

Past program preemptions and deferrals

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Over the years, as an ABC affiliate, WKRC-TV preempted moderate amounts of weekday programming and the Sunday morningcartoonreruns from ABC; when an ABC game show hosted by WKRC-TV personalityNick Clooney,The Money Maze,aired from December 1974 to June 1975, WKRC opted todelaythat program from 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 localtalk program,The Nick Clooney Show,at 11 a.m. Other shows delayed by WKRC included Friday night sitcomsHere Come the Brides(delayed to nine days after their original ABC airing) andThe Brady Bunch(delayed to the following afternoon). It also briefly raninstrumental musicover the closing credits of prime time network shows in lieu of program promos during the1973-74 season.At one point during the1987-88 season,WKRC briefly preempted the 8:30 p.m. ABC prime time slot (occupied by such shows asI Married Dora,Mr. Belvedereand part of the first season ofFull House) in favor of the syndicated sitcomSmall 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 airedNightlineonce that show began in 1979 as a program on theIran hostage crisis.Occasionally, WKRC preempted a lower-rated prime time program ormoviefrom 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,WKEFuntil 1980 andWDTNafter 1980. WKEF providedgrade Bcoverage to most of 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'sSaturday morning cartoonsin favor of a local Saturday morning newscast. For a while, WKRC-TV was also one of the very few ABC affiliates that did not clearThis 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 was ironic because the series' producerProcter & Gamblewas headquartered there, andEdge'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 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.[25]

News operation

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The Weather Beacon atop the Chiquita Center indicating "no change in sight"

WKRC currently broadcasts41+1⁄2hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and2+1⁄2hours on Sundays); it also produces an additional13+1⁄2hours of newscasts weekly (with2+1⁄2hours each weekday and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays) for WSTR. WKRC's newscasts and reports were formerly seen on theOhio News Networkuntil the regional cable news channel shut down on August 31, 2012. During weather segments, it uses regionalweather radardata 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 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 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,[26]its news division was brandedEyewitness 12 News.(TheEyewitness Newsmoniker would be reused byWLWTin 1998.) Afterward, the station was usually announced as12 News.With the arrival of chief meteorologist Tim Hedrick in 1988,[27]WKRC began using the top of theChiquitaCenter as itsWeather beacon.[28]

In 1994, WKRC refreshed its newscasts with the slogan "A New Generation of News", which referred to anchors Kit Andrews and Rob Braun,[29]along with new graphics, agreen screenset,[30]and music originally composed by Rick Krizman forKRON-TVin San Francisco.[31]WKRC made extensive use of "Texta", a graphics package that included a persistenton-screen bannerwith the current story's headline.[32]Seasonalschool closinginformation and eventually anews tickerappeared below the Texta headline. That October, WKRC debuted 11 minutes of "Non-Stop News" on its 11 p.m. newscast,[33]reviving a feature the station attempted in 1989.[34]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 weekdayGood Morning Cincinnatibroadcast live from a $500,000 remote studio at the Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau on the ground floor ofFifth Third Bank's downtown headquarters, with theTyler Davidson Fountainas the backdrop.[35][36]Despite WKRC's initial hopes for aToday-like atmosphere,[37]the show failed to attract a regular crowd onFountain Square.[36]From March 2004 to 2008, WKRC airedNuestro Rincón( "Our Corner" ), a twice-weeklySpanish-languagenews program hosted bySasha Rionda.[38]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.[39]On January 7, 2008, WKRC began simulcastingGood Morning Cincinnation WKRC-DT2; it had been aired on the main channel from 5 to 8 am, but the third hour was dropped when CBS reclaimed the 7 a.m. hour forThe Early Show,after the network required all of its affiliates to air the show (which was replaced byCBS This Morningin 2012) in its entirety after receiving a makeover hoping to better compete against its rivals,NBC'sTodayand ABC'sGood Morning America.The 7–8 a.m. hour ofGood Morning Cincinnatiis 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 asCW News at 10.

A WKRC news vehicle

Newport Television released a statement in October 2008 stating that WKRC would eventually begin broadcasting its newscasts in1080ihigh definition.The company used channel 12 as a pilot station before investing in HD equipment for its other television stations. On October 30, it debuted a new set on itsFirst at 4broadcast 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 andWXIX-TV,channel 19) and the second in the Newport group (afterWOAI-TV) to make the upgrade. WKRC currently use JVCProHD250 Series cameras in its studios.[40]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.[41]On January 6, 2014, the 10 p.m. newscast was moved back to WSTR, where it is called theLocal 12 News at 10 on STAR 64.[42]On February 3, 2014, the 7 a.m. newscasts would follow suit to WSTR.

Notable alumni

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Technical information

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Subchannels

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The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of WKRC-TV[43]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
12.1 1080i 16:9 CBS CBS
12.2 720p CW The CW
12.3 480i TheNest The Nest
64.2 480i 4:3 Antenna Antenna TV(WSTR-DT2)
64.3 16:9 Comet Comet(WSTR-DT3)
Broadcast on behalf of another station

Analog-to-digital transition

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WKRC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, overVHFchannel 12, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[44][45]The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transitionUHFchannel 31 to VHF channel 12.[46]

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