WCPO-TV

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WCPO-TV
Cincinnati, Ohio
Branding	ABC9/9News
Slogan	On Your Side / Always On
Channels	9 (VHF) analog, 10 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC (1949-61, 1996-present)
Owner	The E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company)
Founded	July 26, 1949 on channel 7 (switched to channel 9 in 1952)
Call letters meaning	W Cincinnati Post
Former affiliations	CBS (1961-96) DuMont (1949-56)
Website	WCPO.com

WCPO-TV, "ABC9" is a broadcast television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, affiliated with the ABC network. It broadcasts on analog channel 9 and digital channel 10. WCPO's studio is located in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, just outside of Eden Park. Its transmitter is located along Symmes Street, just south of East McMillan Street, in Cincinnati. The station is currently the flagship station of The E. W. Scripps Company, which owns it along with the Cincinnati Post.

Contents 1 History 2 Weather 3 Newscasts 3.1 Weekdays 3.2 Weekends 4 Notable WCPO Alumni 5 External links

[edit] History

The station first signed on the air on July 26, 1949 as Cincinnati's third television station. It was dual ABC and DuMont affiliate. The call letters came from the Post, who also owned WCPO-AM. Originally on channel 7, it moved to channel 9 in 1952. With DuMont's demise in 1956, WCPO was left with just ABC until it swapped affiliations with WKRC-TV in 1961, becoming a CBS affiliate.

The station switched back to ABC in June 1996, as a result of a corporate affiliation deal between Scripps and ABC (which also saw several other Scripps stations becoming ABC affiliates). The other Scripps stations which were part of the affiliation deal had switched to ABC throughout 1994 and 1995, but WCPO had to wait for WKRC's affiliation contract with ABC to expire at the end of May 1996 before finally switching. The CBS affiliation returned to WKRC.

All Scripps-Howard ABC affiliates, including WCPO, preempted Saving Private Ryan in 2004.

WCPO produced The Uncle Al Show, a children's show that ran from the early 1950s to the early 1980s.

The morning and evening newscasts are later re-broadcast on WBQC-CA.

[edit] Weather

WCPO's forecasters are chief meteorologist Steve Raleigh and meteorologists Larry Handley, Steve Norris and Cyndee O'Quinn. Cincinnati has always been a battleground for weather coverage, especially since the Montgomery/Blue Ash tornado of 1999. WCPO bills their radar as Ultimate Doppler 9, VIPIR 9, and TrueView. Their main radar in Batavia is one of the fastest radars in the nation, with an update usually every ten seconds.

On July 1, 2003, WCPO began to operate a second Doppler radar out of the Clermont County Airport in Batavia. In combination with the radar located at WCPO's transmission tower site, both radars were named Ultimate Doppler Radar. The new radar operates at a height of 100 ft. with its base 834 ft. above sea level. Currently, only the Batavia radar is used, even when attenuation at the site leaves a radius around the radar blank. The old radar at the transmission site is no longer used.

The TrueView system allows for local and nationwide radar sweeps. During local sweeps, National Weather Service NEXRAD radars in Wilmington, OH, Indianapolis, IN and Louisville, KY are used. The VIPIR 9 technology also utilizes the NEXRAD radars and Ultimate Doppler 9 to create its 3D images.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• Good Morning Tri-State 4:55 to 7:00 a.m.

Brian Patrick, Kathrine Nero, Larry Handley (weather), Denise Johnson (traffic)

• 9 News @ Noon: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Tanya O'Rourke, Larry Handley (weather)

• 9 News @ 5: 5:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Clyde Gray, Carol Williams, Steve Raleigh (weather)

• 9 News @ 5:30: 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Clyde Gray, Tanya O'Rourke, Steve Raleigh (weather), Dennis Janson (sports)

• 9 News @ 6: 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Clyde Gray, Carol Williams, Steve Raleigh (weather), Dennis Janson (sports)

• 9 News @ 11: 11:00 to 11:35 p.m.

Clyde Gray, Carol Williams, Steve Raleigh (weather), Dennis Janson (sports)

[edit] Weekends

• Good Morning Tri-State 8:00-9:00am

Jenell Walton, Cyndee O'Quinn (weather)

• 9 News @ Noon: 12:00-12:30pm

Jenell Walton, Cyndee O'Quinn (weather)

• 9 News @ 6: 6:00-6:30 p.m.

Julie O'Neill, Steve Norris (weather), Lisa Cornwell (sports)

• 9 News @ 11: 11:00-11:35 p.m.

Julie O'Neill, Steve Norris (weather), Lisa Cornwell (sports)

• Sports of All Sorts: 11:35 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

John Popovich Cincinnati's longest running sports show

[edit] Notable WCPO Alumni

• • Pete Delkus now chief meteorologist at WFAA in Dallas, Texas.

[edit] External links

• WCPO.com
• WCPO-DT, WCPO's digital website
• WCPO, Ch. 9 (from Scripps)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WCPO-TV