Media in Cincinnati

The Cincinnati metropolitan area is a medium-sized, three-state media market centered on Cincinnati, Ohio, slightly overlapping the Dayton media market to the north. The Cincinnati market is served by one daily newspaper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and a variety of weekly and monthly print publications. The area is home to 12 television stations and numerous radio stations. The E. W. Scripps Company was founded in Cincinnati as a newspaper chain and remains there as a national television and radio broadcaster. The term "soap opera" originally referred to Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, which created some of the first programs in this genre.[1]

Newspapers and magazines

The Cincinnati Enquirer's headquarters building

The Cincinnati Enquirer, a morning daily published by Gannett Company, is the sole remaining daily newspaper in Cincinnati. Its Northern Kentucky edition is called The Kentucky Enquirer. Cox Media Group's daily Journal-News competes with the Enquirer in Cincinnati's northern suburbs in Butler and Warren counties in Ohio. Until 2008, the Enquirer's main competitor in the market was The Cincinnati Post, the flagship newspaper of the E. W. Scripps Company, known as The Kentucky Post in Northern Kentucky.

Southwest Ohio has a long history of weekly community newspapers, beginning with The Western Star of Lebanon in 1807. Currently, Gannett publishes 16 titles in the Greater Cincinnati area as The Community Press and 10 titles in Northern Kentucky as The Community Recorder, while Cox publishes Today's Pulse in Butler and Warren counties.

Cincinnati's main alternative newspaper is Cincinnati CityBeat, a newsweekly published by SouthComm. Other specialty weekly newspapers include The Cincinnati Herald, published by Sesh Communications for the city's African-American community;[2] The American Israelite, serving the Jewish community; the Cincinnati Business Courier, published by American City Business Journals; the Cincinnati edition of La Jornada Latina (The Spanish Journal), serving the region's Hispanic community; and the Messenger, published weekly or biweekly by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington.

College student newspapers include The News Record, published thrice-weekly at the University of Cincinnati; the Xavier Newswire, published weekly at Xavier University; The Northerner, published weekly at Northern Kentucky University; and The Miami Student, published biweekly at Miami University.

Cincinnati is a monthly lifestyle magazine published by Emmis Communications. The Catholic Telegraph is a monthly newspaper published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Cincy and NKY are business-oriented magazines for Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, respectively.

Television

WSTR-TV "Star 64" and a number of radio stations broadcast from Star Tower, the 47th tallest tower in the world.

The 15-county Cincinnati metropolitan area (including Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana) is the 36th largest local television market in the United States, with an estimated 868,900 television-viewing households and cable penetration at 56.5% as of January 2016.[3][4]

The Cincinnati market is served by five full-power commercial television stations, four of which have full-time local news operations:

Cincinnati-based Block Broadcasting owns two low-power stations with numerous digital subchannels:

The non-profit organization Public Media Connect owns PBS member stations WCET channel 48 and WPTO channel 14 (licensed to Oxford). These stations' digital subchannels carry Create, World, and The Ohio Channel programming. WPTO also carries a simulcast of sister station WPTD channel 16 in Dayton. Kentucky Educational Television, a state network, owns WCVN-TV channel 54 in Covington, as well as low-power translators W20CT-D in Augusta and W23DM-D in Falmouth.

WKOI-TV channel 43 is a full-power Christian station owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network from Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio (with a city of license of Richmond, Indiana). WDYC-LD channel 36 is a low-power Christian station affiliated with Daystar.

Cable television is provided by Time Warner Cable in Ohio and Northern Kentucky and by Comcast Cable in Southeast Indiana. Cincinnati Bell provides IPTV service under the FiOptics brand. Local cable-only channels include Fox Sports Ohio and Spectrum Sports. Waycross Community Media and the Intercommunity Cable Regulatory Commission (ICRC) operate public, educational, and government access channels on cable systems in Cincinnati.

Dayton television stations are also available over the air and on cable systems in Cincinnati's northern suburbs.

Radio

The 13-county Cincinnati metropolitan area (including Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana) is the 30th largest radio market in the United States, with an estimated 1.8 million listeners aged 12 and above as of September 2016.[5] Of the market's 22 metered radio stations, iHeartMedia owns seven, Cumulus Media owns five, Hubbard Broadcasting owns four, Radio One owns three, and Cincinnati Public Radio owns two.

WLW and WCKY are clear-channel stations that broadcast at 50,000 watts, covering most of the eastern United States at night.

Call sign Frequency Format Owner Description
WKRC 550 AM Talk Clear Channel 55KRC, "The Talk Station"
WLW 700 AM News/Talk Clear Channel "The Big One," "The Nation's Station," and "Home of the Reds"
Serves as flagship station for the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network
WNOP 740 AM Religious Sacred Heart Radio, Inc "Greater Cincinnati's Catholic Radio Station"
WPFB 910 AM Religious Sacred Heart Radio, Inc "Sacred Heart Radio" WGRI 1050 AM Gospel Music Christian Broadcasting "Inspiration 1050"
WCVX 1160 AM Religious Christian Broadcasting "Christian Talk 1160"
WDBZ 1230 AM Gospel Music Radio One "The Buzz of Cincinnati"
WCVG 1320 AM Gospel Music Great Lakes Radio "Cincinnati's Voice of Gospel"
WSAI 1360 AM Sports Clear Channel "Fox Sports 1360"
WMOH 1450 AM Talk Vernon R. Baldwin, Inc. "The Ticket"
WDJO 1480 AM Oldies Alchemy Broadcasting "Cincinnati's Rock & Roll Oldies Station"
WCKY 1530 AM Sports Clear Channel "Cincinnati's ESPN 1530"
WCNW 1560 AM Religious Vernon R. Baldwin, Inc. "Without Christ, Nothing Works"
WAIF 88.3 FM† Variety "What Radio Was Meant To Be"

† Shares frequency with WJVS, operating all other times

WJVS 88.3 FM‡ Campus radio "Joint Vocational School"

‡ Shares frequency with WAIF, operating Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. during the school year.

WMKV 89.3 FM Nostalgia LifeSphere
WMWX 88.9 FM Album Oriented Rock Spryex Communications, Inc. "The New Breed Of Rock"
WKCX 89.1 FM Album Oriented Rock Spryex Communications, Inc. "The New Breed Of Rock"
WNKU 89.7 FM Adult Album Alternative NKU "Best Public Radio in the Country"
WORI 90.1 FM Christian Contemporary Air 1
WGUC 90.9 FM Classical Cincinnati Public Radio "Cincinnati's Classical Public Radio"
WVXU 91.7 FM NPR; Public Radio Cincinnati Public Radio Mostly news and informational programming, some entertainment and music
WOFX 92.5 FM Classic Rock Cumulus "The FOX"
WAKW 93.3 FM Christian Contemporary Pillar of Fire "Star 93.3"
WNNF 94.1 FM Country Cumulus "Nash FM"
WREW 94.9 FM Hot AC Hubbard Radio "Mix 94.9"
WVQC-LP 95.7 FM Variety, community, non-profit Media Bridges "Radio Free Cincinnati"
WFTK 96.5 FM Rock Cumulus Media Partners "96 Rock"
WYGY 97.3 FM Country Hubbard Radio "The Wolf"
WOXY 97.7 FM Regional Mexican TSJ Media "La Mega"
WRRM 98.5 FM Adult Contemporary Cumulus Media Partners "Warm 98"
WHKO 99.1 FM Country Cox Radio "K99.1" Note : This is a Dayton radio station. The reason why this radio station is here because it's moderate in the Cincinnati area.
WOSL 100.3 FM Rhythmic Oldies Radio One "Old School 100.3"
WIZF 101.1 FM Hip-Hop Radio One "The Wiz"
WKRQ 101.9 FM Top-40 Hubbard Radio "Q 102"
WEBN 102.7 FM Rock Clear Channel "The lunatic fringe of American FM."
WGRR 103.5 FM Classic Hits Cumulus Media Partners "Cincinnati's Greatest Hits"
WNLT 104.3 FM Christian Contemporary Vernon R. Baldwin, Inc. K-Love
WUBE 105.1 FM Country Hubbard Radio "B 105"
WNKN 105.9 FM Simulcast of 89.7, And 104.1 FM NKU
WKFS 107.1 FM Top-40 Clear Channel "KISS 107 FM"

Recent station reorganization

Since late 2006, a number of trades and format changes have caused some confusion in the Cincinnati radio market.[6]

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Publishing companies

References

  1. ↑ Carter, Bill; Stelter, Brian (December 9, 2009). "CBS Cancels As the World Turns, Procter & Gamble's Last Soap Opera". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
  2. ↑ Williams, Justin (August 3, 2015). "Black Newspapers Matter". Cincinnati. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Local Television Market Universe Estimates" (PDF). Television Bureau of Advertising. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Cincinnati, OH". Television Bureau of Advertising. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ "#30 Cincinnati". Radio Online. September 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ Kiesewetter, John. "Radio station switches to rock". Cincinnati Enquirer. November 9, 2006.
  7. ↑ Entercom trades radio stations. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Friday, January 19, 2007.
  8. ↑ Clear Channel ordered to sell stations in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Business Courier. February 14, 2008.

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