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WCPO-TV

WCPO-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is the flagship television property of locally based E. W. Scripps Company, which has owned the station since its inception. WCPO-TV's studios are located in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati next to the Elsinore Arch, and its transmitter is located at the site of the station's original studios on Symmes Street, in the Walnut Hills section of the city.

WCPO 9

WKOI-TV

February 20, 1948[1][2]

July 26, 1949 (1949-07-26)

  • Analog: 7 (VHF, 1949–1953), 9 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital: 10 (VHF, 1998–2010), 22 (UHF, 2010–2019)

  • ABC (1949−1961)
  • DuMont (secondary, 1949–1955)
  • CBS (1961–1996)

Cincinnati Post (a now defunct Scripps newspaper)

FCC

59438

1,000 kW

297 m (974 ft)

39°7′30.4″N 84°29′56″W / 39.125111°N 84.49889°W / 39.125111; -84.49889

www.wcpo.com

– evening anchor (former ABC News correspondent, now an NBC News reporter)

Andrea Canning

– reporter (later an anchor of Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends)

Gretchen Carlson

– host of The Nick Clooney Show (later an anchor at WKRC-TV)

Nick Clooney

– chief meteorologist (1996–2005; now chief meteorologist at WFAA in Dallas)

Pete Delkus

– sports anchor (now correspondent for ABC News; former weekend anchor of Good Morning America; former co-host of The View)

Paula Faris

– weekend sports anchor (formerly sports director at WUSA in Washington, D.C.;[38] formerly anchor of SportsCenter on ESPN)

Brett Haber

(now anchor for Fox News Channel)

Bill Hemmer

– news reporter (now correspondent for ESPN)

Bob Holtzman

– first art director for WCPO, and host of The Uncle Al Show for 35 years (died in 2009)

"Uncle Al" Lewis

– singer/host of The Len Mink Show (now an evangelist/worship leader for meetings held by televangelist Kenneth Copeland)

Len Mink

– WCPO's first news anchor and news director (1953–94, died in 1996)

Al Schottelkotte

Technical information[edit]

Subchannels[edit]

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Official website

(from Scripps)

WCPO, Ch. 9