Cincinnati Television (Images of America: Ohio) Review

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(More customer reviews)Having worked in Cincinnati television for many years, I looked forward to Amazon's prompt shipment of this book.
While the pictures contained in this slim volume are interesting, the book almost completely ignores the 1970s, 80s and 90s in favor of Cincinnati's TV golden age 1950 and 60s celebrities.
Also, mostly ignored, is public TV, broadcast technology and the ground-breaking engineers who built and oversaw that same star-making technology.
But, what prompted me to write this, perhaps, overly picky review, is printed on page 62 of this volume:
"Television news today is careful to separate news content from commercial content. That was not the case in the early days..."
Television news today cares not one wit if commercial content is hidden within newscasts and Federal regulations that once insured that commercial/content separation have either been gutted or are ignored by the small number of giant telecommunications corporations that control today's local and national broadcast media.
Should the author wish I can provide specific examples, in the modern Cincinnati broadcast market, where commercial content is regularly presented within newscasts as news material.
Page 62 requires a rewrite and the author should reconsider photos of File 48, Janie Gardner, Jean Beasley, Irma Lazarus, Gwen Conley & Feelings and Steve Hoffman to name just a few important contributors to the Queen City's amazing broadcast past not included in this book.


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Cincinnati has a distinguished television history. Beginning before WLW-T signed on the air in February 1948, its experimental station W8XCT broadcast from the 46th floor of the Carew Tower. WKRC-TV and WCPO-TV signed on in 1949, WCET in 1954, and WXIX-TV in 1968. Since then, television has become part of the family. Uncle Al, Skipper Ryle, Batty Hattie from Cincinnati, the Cool Ghoul, Peter Grant, Al Schottelkotte, Nick Clooney, Ruth Lyons, Paul Baby, Bob Braun, and Jerry Springer visited Cincinnati living rooms on television. Remember Midwestern Hayride, TV Dance Party, PM Magazine, Juvenile Court, Young People's Specials, Lilias, Dotty Mack, Bob Shreve, Mr. Hop, Bean's Clubhouse, The Last Prom, and Ira Joe? They are part of the collective Cincinnati history, part of the Cincinnati culture, and part of the Cincinnati family.

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