WKRC-TV

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WKRC-TV
Cincinnati, Ohio
Branding	Local12
Channels	12 (VHF) analog, 31 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS (1949-1961, and since 1996) The CW (on DT2)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications (sale pending)
Founded	April 4, 1949 (on ch.11; moved to ch.12 in 1952)
Call letters meaning	Kodel Radio Company (first owners of WKRC radio) [1], CINCinnati CW
Former affiliations	ABC (1961-96)
Website	WKRC-TV Official Site - WKRC-TV CinCW Official Site

Local 12, WKRC-TV is CBS affiliate serving Cincinnati, Ohio. Its transmitter is located in the Mount Auburn area of Cincinnati.

The station, which is branded Local12 WKRC, is the CBS affiliate serving the Greater Cincinnati area in Ohio, Indiana and Northern Kentucky, along with a digital subchannel called CinCW (pronounced Cincy-W, using a common nickname for the city) which carries The CW Television Network on Channel 12-2 and most area cable and satellite systems.

Contents 1 History 2 CinCW 3 Newscasts 3.1 Weekdays 3.2 Nuestro Rincon 3.3 Newsmakers 3.4 Saturday 3.5 Sunday 4 Trivia 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

The station signed on the air on April 4, 1949 on channel 11 and on October 12, 1952 moved to its current dial position on channel 12. Originally a CBS affiliate, it switched to ABC in 1961.

The "KRC" of WKRC stood for its radio counterpart's original owner, Kodell Radio Company.

WKRC-TV was the flagship station of Taft Broadcasting for many years. However, in 1987, it was sold (along with most of Taft's other network affiliates) to Great American Broadcasting (which later became Citicasters). The station was subsequently acquired by Jacor in September 1996 (after most of Citicasters' other television stations were sold to New World Communications and Fox), before being purchased by its current owner, Clear Channel, in 1998. (The AM sister came under the ownership of Jacor in April 1993, becoming WLWA - and later WCKY - before reverting back to WKRC after Jacor acquired WKRC-TV, effectively reuniting the AM and TV sisters; the FM sister is today CBS Radio-owned "Q102" WKRQ, whose sale to Entercom Communications is currently awaiting FCC approval.) Local 12 was ranked by Clear Channel as the number one CBS affiliate in the United States as of 2006.

The station switched affiliations with WCPO-TV in June 1996, becoming a CBS affiliate once again. WCPO, which would take the ABC affiliation as part of a corporate affiliation deal its owner E.W. Scripps Company cut back in 1994, had to wait for WKRC's affiliation contract with ABC to expire before switching its network affiliation.

On Tuesday, April 18, 2006, The CW Television Network (which is 50% owned by CBS) announced WKRC as its affiliate for Cincinnati. The new network will air on the station's DT2 subchannel starting in September 2006, on a channel to be called CinCW. WKRC is seeking cable carriage for the new channel and is asking viewers to contact their cable company to get the channel on their respective basic tiers [2].

On April 26, 2006, WKRC announced a partnership with WSTR-TV to produce a 10 p.m. local newscast beginning on August 21, 2006.^[1]

On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling all of its television stations, including WKRC,^[2] after being bought by private equity firms. This will be the fourth time in two decades that WKRC is sold to another company.

On December 8, 2006, WKRC announced that their website will soon change to Local12.com. [3]

[edit] CinCW

WKRC airs the The CW on digital subchannel 12-2, which is called CinCW. The station airs the entire CW schedule in-pattern, while outside of network hours, airs classic sitcoms, dramas, films, and second runs of WKRC's syndicated programming, along with regional wrestling programming on Saturday afternoons and evenings. Repeats of WKRC's local DIY show Homeworx also air on CinCW.

A fear of Cincinnati cable viewers was that CinCW would face the same problems as WBQC (Channel 38), the former UPN affiliate, as Time Warner Cable had refused to carry WBQC full-time, only airing the channel during prime time on a low-profile channel. However, as Time Warner Cable is owned by Time Warner, half-owner of The CW (with CBS Corporation), it was in their best interest to air CinCW over their systems, and by late in the day September 17, Time Warner Cable agreed to carry CinCW, with only hours before the network's launch.

The station launched on Time Warner Channel 2 in primetime only to start out with and 24/7 on digital cable Channel 913, before earning a full-time broadcast basic berth on Channel 20 as of October 18 [4], displacing WBQC and a commercial access channel. This allows CinCW to be viewed by 66% of the local population, due to carriage by Time Warner Cable in Ohio, Insight Communications in Northern Kentucky, and DirecTV. [5]. The station launched on Insight and DirecTV under WBQC's former channel slots on September 17.

• CinCW's Current Schedule

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• Good Morning Cincinnati: 5-8a
  • John Lomax, Anna Townsend, Steve Horstmeyer (weather)
• Local 12 News at Noon: 12-12:30pm
  • Dayna Eubanks, John Gumm (weather)
• Local 12 News at 4: 4-4:30pm
  • Brad Johansen, Dayna Eubanks, Michelle Boutillette (weather)
• Local 12 News at 5: 5-5:30pm
  • Rob Braun, Cammy Dierking, Tim Hedrick (weather)
• Local 12 News at 5:30: 5:30-6pm
  • Dave Burchell, Cammy Dierking, Tim Hedrick (weather), Brad Johansen (sports)
• Local 12 News at 6: 6-6:30pm
  • Rob Braun, Kit Andrews, Tim Hedrick (weather), Brad Johansen (sports)
• Local 12 News on My64 at 10: 10-10:30pm
  • Dave Burchell, Cammy Dierking, Michelle Boutillette (weather), Tara Pachmayer (sports)
• Local 12 News at 11: 11-11:30pm
  • Rob Braun, Kit Andrews, Tim Hedrick (weather), Brad Johansen (sports)

[edit] Nuestro Rincon

• Host: Sasha Rionda
  • Saturday 5:30-6am
  • Sunday 6:30-7am

[edit] Newsmakers

• Host: Dan Hurley

[edit] Saturday

• Local 12 News Saturday: 6-8am
  • Paul Adler, Jeff Creighton (weather)
• Local 12 News at 6: 6-6:30pm
  • Paula Toti, John Gumm (weather)
• Local 12 News on My64 at 10: 10-10:30pm
  • Paula Toti, John Gumm (weather)
• Local 12 News at 11: 11-11:30pm
  • Paula Toti, John Gumm (weather)

[edit] Sunday

• Local 12 News at 6: 6-6:30pm
  • Paula Toti, John Gumm (weather)
• Local 12 News on My64 at 10: 10-10:30pm
  • Paula Toti, John Gumm (weather)
• Local 12 News at 11: 11-11:30pm
  • Paula Toti, John Gumm (weather)

[edit] Trivia

WKRC is branded "Local 12," but it is owned by Clear Channel. This branding was inspired by the "Local Mandate," a station standardization branding adopted by Post-Newsweek for its own television stations. The only other known non-Post-Newsweek station to have used the "Local" branding was KFMB-TV in San Diego, California, which used "Local 8" from 2001 to 2005.

[edit] References

1. ^ Sinclair Broadcast Group (2006-04-24). WSTR & WKRC Enter Into 10PM News Share In Cincinnati. Press release. Retrieved on 2006-05-20.
2. ^ "Clear Channel agrees to sale", The Cincinnati Enquirer, Gannett Company, 2006-11-16. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.

[edit] External links

• WKRC-TV Official Site
• WKRC-TV CinCW Official Site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WKRC

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Ohio
WHIO 7 (Dayton) - WBNS 10 (Columbus) - WTOL 11 (Toledo) - WKRC 12 (Cincinnati) WOIO 19 (Shaker Heights/Cleveland) - WKBN 27 (Youngstown) - WLMO-LP 38 (Lima)
See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, MyNetworkTV, CW and Other stations in Ohio

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