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'''WLWT''', also known as ''News5'', is a [[television station]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], broadcasting locally on [[VHF]] channel 5 as an [[NBC]] affiliate. The station is owned by [[Hearst-Argyle]].
'''WLWT''', also known as ''News5'', is a [[television station]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], broadcasting locally on [[VHF]] channel 5 as an [[NBC]] affiliate. The station is owned by [[Hearst-Argyle]].


WLWT's had often been the highest-rated news station in the Cincinnati area in the past, but it has been lagging behind rivals [[WKRC]] and [[WCPO-TV]] in recent years, but as of 2006 the station has been seeing a turnaround in the ratings. Several former and current members of WLWT's news staff have been associated with politics, including [[Jerry Springer]], [[Charlie Luken]], [[Tom Atkins]], [[Congressman J.D Hayworth (R-AZ)]] and [[Courtis Fuller]]. WLWT also has historically had a high rate of chief meteorologist turnover. WLWT has had five chief meteorologists in the past eight years including Tom Burse, Dave Fraser, Angelique Frame, Byron Webre and Jim O’Brien. O'Brien was told his contract was not going to be renewed in September of 2006, but is still currently acting as Chief Meteorologist. WLWT Also has the only AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (new seal) in Cincinnati. WLWT's weather department is currently in a transition period.
WLWT's had often been the highest-rated news station in the Cincinnati area in the past, but it has been lagging behind rivals [[WKRC]] and [[WCPO-TV]] in recent years, but as of 2006 the station has been seeing a turnaround in the ratings. Several former and current members of WLWT's news staff have been associated with politics, including [[Jerry Springer]], [[Charlie Luken]], [[Tom Atkins]], [[Congressman J.D Hayworth (R-AZ)]] and [[Courtis Fuller]]. WLWT also has historically had a high rate of chief meteorologist turnover. WLWT has had five chief meteorologists in the past eight years including Tom Burse, Dave Fraser, Angelique Frame, Byron Webre and Jim O’Brien. WLWT Also has the only AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (new seal) in Cincinnati. WLWT's weather department is currently in a transition period.


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 00:47, 12 January 2007

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WLWT, also known as News5, is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 5 as an NBC affiliate. The station is owned by Hearst-Argyle.

WLWT's had often been the highest-rated news station in the Cincinnati area in the past, but it has been lagging behind rivals WKRC and WCPO-TV in recent years, but as of 2006 the station has been seeing a turnaround in the ratings. Several former and current members of WLWT's news staff have been associated with politics, including Jerry Springer, Charlie Luken, Tom Atkins, Congressman J.D Hayworth (R-AZ) and Courtis Fuller. WLWT also has historically had a high rate of chief meteorologist turnover. WLWT has had five chief meteorologists in the past eight years including Tom Burse, Dave Fraser, Angelique Frame, Byron Webre and Jim O’Brien. WLWT Also has the only AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (new seal) in Cincinnati. WLWT's weather department is currently in a transition period.

History

WLWT was established by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, owners of WLW radio, one of America's most powerful radio stations. The station signed on February 9, 1948. It originally carried programming from NBC, ABC, CBS and DuMont, but became solely an NBC affiliate in 1949 after WKRC-TV and WCPO-TV signed on respectively. For many years, it officially had a hyphen in its callsign (WLW-T), but dropped it after Crosley sold off WLW-AM in the 1960s. The hypenated "T" referred to Television as did WLW-D for Dayton, WLW-I for Indianapolis and WLW-C for Columbus which made up the tri-state's only interconnected network " WLW Television " boasting a million dollars worth of talent resulting in such programs as "The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club" (later hosted by Bob Braun after Lyons' retirement in 1967) The Paul Dixon Show," and "Midwestern Hayride ." WLWT was the originator of these programs when its studios were located in the former Elks Building(re-christened "Crosley Square") in downtown Cincinnati when the station first took to the air.

The station was sold to Multimedia Broadcasting in 1976. Gannett bought the Multimedia group in 1995. Since Gannett already owned the Cincinnati Enquirer, the company swapped WLWT and Oklahoma City's KOCO-TV to Argyle Television for Buffalo's WGRZ-TV and Western Michigan's WZZM-TV, a transaction which was finalized in January 1997. Argyle merged with the broadcasting unit of the Hearst Corporation (creating Hearst-Argyle Television) in August 1997, forcing the newly-merged company to sell off then-Hearst-owned WDTN in Dayton, Ohio due to FCC rules in effect at the time forbidding common ownership of television stations with overlapping city-grade coverage (ironically, both stations were once owned by Crosley; under Crosley and its successor Avco, they were grandfathered).

It is the only Cincinnati station (other than independents joining a television network) never to change its affiliation.

It was announced in June that WLWT-TV would once again partner to provide news and weather for the Nation's Station, 700WLW. WLWT provided news and weather for the station for years when they were both Crosley stations, but eventual separate ownerships of the two stations led to 700WLW using WKRC for news and weather. WLWT will also get its news and weather heard on 700WLW's XM Satellite Radio channel number 173.

Newscasts

News 5 is WLWT's news operation. It is lead by Sandra Ali, Sheree Paolello and Dave Wagner with Derek Beasley as Chief Meteorologist. It is popular in Cincinnati for its Target 5 investigations.

Weekdays

  • News 5 Today - 5:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. - Lisa Cooney, Todd Dykes, Fill-In(weather), Pete Scalia (traffic)
  • News 5 at Noon - 12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m. - Lisa Cooney, Fill-In(weather)
  • News 5 at 5 - 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. - Sandra Ali, Sheree Paolello, Derek Beasley (weather)
  • News 5 at 6 - 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. - Sandra Ali, Dave Wagner, Derek Beasley (weather), Ken Broo (sports)
  • News 5 at 11 - 11:00 p.m.-11:35 p.m. - Sandra Ali, Sheree Paolello, Derek Beasley (weather), Ken Broo (sports)

Weekends

  • News 5 Today Weekend - 6:30-8 a.m., 10-11 a.m. (Saturday), 9-10 a.m. (Sunday) - Jonathan Hawgood, Keisha Kirkland (fill-in) (weather)
  • News 5 at 6 - 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. - Courtis Fuller, John Bateman (weather), George Vogel (sports)
  • News 5 at 11 - 11:00 p.m.-11:30 p.m. (Saturday), 11:00 p.m.-11:35 p.m. (Sunday) - Courtis Fuller, John Bateman (weather), George Vogel (sports)

Trivia

  • The transmission tower seen at the beginning of CBS's popular sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati, actually belonged to WLWT — it was located at the now-former WLWT transmitter on 2222 Chickasaw Street. [1]
  • WLWT sponsors an annual race in the Automobile Racing Club of America, a stock car racing series similar to NASCAR, at Kentucky Speedway. The station simulcasts the live coverage from the Speed Channel.
  • WLWT is the only Cincinnati station to remain with its primary affiliation (NBC) since sign on,
  • WLWT's branding use to be "Eyewitness News 5" until 2004.
  • WLWT offers News 5 WeatherPlus on their DT2 signal
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