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84-578: 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

168-433: A 9mm J&R M68 semi-automatic rifle and five revolvers , seized control of WCPO's newsroom. Hoskins held reporter Elaine Green and her cameraman at gunpoint in the parking lot of WCPO's studios. He then forced his way into the newsroom and took seven more hostages. A self-described terrorist, Hoskins stated in a videotaped interview with Green that he had, among other things, murdered his girlfriend before arriving at

252-615: A barter in some cases. WMAR-TV WMAR-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Baltimore, Maryland , United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company . The station's studios and offices are located on York Road ( Maryland Route 45 ) in Towson north of the Baltimore City– Baltimore County border (though with a Baltimore City mailing address). Its transmitter and antenna, which

336-582: A quadcopter drone featuring a 4K-resolution camera. WCPO allowed Chopper 9's lease to expire in February 2020 in favor of Sky 9 drone footage. The station's signal is multiplexed : WCPO-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10, using virtual channel 9. Since many viewers had reception issues after

420-415: A chance on the new Rosie O'Donnell Show . The move proved costly in the long term, as market leader WBAL-TV picked up Oprah until its 2011 end, and Rosie (which moved to WJZ-TV in late 2000) lasted only seven years, ending in 2002. The switch resulted in a change of fortune between the two stations, with WBAL's 5–6:30 p.m. news block sustaining strong ratings, while WMAR suffered a steady decline in

504-465: A corporate effort to emphasize lower-cost original programming across its entire group. The two shows immediately moved to Fox affiliate WBFF, where they remain. WMAR formerly boasted one of the most respected sports departments in the region, going back to the 1950s when it was the Baltimore Colts ' flagship station, with popular announcer Chuck Thompson . Its post-game show, Colt Wrap-Up ,

588-492: A minor change application for a construction permit for their new allotment. The FCC granted the construction permit on July 9. At 2:05 a.m. on December 8, 2010, WCPO performed a flash-cut, turning off channel 10 and starting digital operations on channel 22. This flash-cut also included a power boost to 910 kW. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

672-459: A modernized version of the stylized "2" logo it used in one form or another from 1975 to 1998. As a CBS affiliate, WMAR-TV preempted an hour of the network's weekday morning daytime schedule, as well as CBS' late night programming . However, this was not a problem for Baltimore area viewers, as most of the area got a decent signal from WTOP-TV in Washington (now WUSA ). From 1961 until 1980,

756-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

840-590: A pioneering broadcaster of lacrosse . In 1998, the Johns Hopkins University athletics administration, seeking ways to increase exposure for its powerhouse men's lacrosse team , proposed that WMAR broadcast their rivalry game against the University of Maryland . Lacrosse historically enjoys wide popularity in Maryland, and at the time, was rarely if ever broadcast on television. The station

924-532: A plan by Scripps to integrate Scripps News programming on their main network affiliates as a way to promote Scripps News and increase the network's exposure. WCPO-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In recent years, WCPO and WKRC have been battling each other for first place in local news viewership, while NBC affiliate WLWT (channel 5) has been lagging behind in third or fourth place. Typically, WCPO leads

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1008-465: A radius around the radar blank. In July 2007, WCPO launched a radar system with satellite imagery to allow fine street-level detail of weather events to specific locations. The TrueView system allows for local and nationwide radar sweeps. National Weather Service NEXRAD radars in Wilmington, Ohio (which covers Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus from a central point, as is done in several areas of

1092-543: A second Doppler weather radar out of the Clermont County Airport in Batavia. In combination with the radar located at WCPO's transmission tower site, both radars were named "Ultimate Doppler Radar", though the transmitter dome was eventually put out of service. The new radar operates at a height of 100 feet (30 m) with its base 834 feet (254 m) above sea level . Attenuation at the site leaves

1176-529: A studio on Symmes Street in Walnut Hills, adjacent to the station's self-supporting transmission tower; the WCPO radio stations also operated from this location. On June 23, 1967, WCPO-TV moved its studios into a new, modern facility on Central Avenue in downtown Cincinnati. On the early morning of October 15, 1980, WCPO and most of its news staff became part of a major news story when James Hoskins, armed with

1260-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

1344-500: A weekly review presenting maritime, shipping and transportation-related news. (Bentley later ran several times and was finally elected as a U.S. representative from Maryland, serving several terms as a Republican. By 2006, the Port of Baltimore was renamed symbolically for her.) In 1959, WMAR-TV teamed up with WBAL-TV (channel 11) and WJZ-TV to build the world's first three-antenna candelabra tower . The new 730-foot (223 m) tower

1428-454: Is Quint Kessenich , four-time lacrosse All-American with Johns Hopkins, who began his commentary career at WMAR and has since moved on to ESPN. WMAR-TV presently broadcasts 26 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and one hour on Sundays); with regards to the amount of news programming, it is the lowest output among Baltimore's television stations. Unlike most news-producing ABC affiliates that are located in

1512-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1596-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

1680-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

1764-545: Is on a landmark three-pronged candelabra broadcast tower, is located on Television Hill in the Woodberry neighborhood of Baltimore. WMAR first began broadcasting on October 30, 1947. It was the first television station in Maryland, and was the fourteenth commercial television station to sign on in the United States (another two stations were experimental). WMAR was founded by the A. S. Abell Company , publisher of

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1848-424: Is the only major Cincinnati television station that has been under the same ownership since its inception, as well as the only major station in the market to remain owned by a locally based company. On June 26, 2023, WCPO began airing The Debrief , a nightly newscast airing at 7:30 p.m. originating from and simulcast on Scripps News —Scripps' in-house national news network that airs on subchannel 9.6—as part of

1932-537: The Sunpapers ( The Baltimore Sun and its now-defunct evening counterpart, The Evening Sun ) and was the first completed phase of the Sunpapers ' expansion into broadcasting; the newspapers also held construction permits for WMAR-FM, which signed-on at 97.9 MHz (frequency now occupied by WIYY ) in January 1948 and a proposed WMAR (AM), which never made it to air (planned for 850, it eventually went on

2016-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

2100-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

2184-401: The "Don't Waste Your Money" series of consumer reports from John Matarese, based at Cincinnati sister station WCPO-TV . Despite its newspaper roots and its status as the oldest television station in Maryland, WMAR's newscasts have been in last place among Baltimore's "Big Three" network affiliates since the early 1960s, and the station has not been a significant factor in the news ratings since

2268-503: The 1992 Sigma Delta Chi Award and 1993 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for stories about fraudulent business practices. In 1999, WCPO won the Peabody, duPont, and Sigma Delta Chi awards for Laure Quinlivan's investigations into mismanagement of construction of Paul Brown Stadium . The station won another Peabody in 2001 for Quinlivan's one-hour documentary, Visions of Vine Street , that aired commercial-free in prime time in

2352-481: The Eastern Time Zone, WMAR does not air a newscast in the weekday midday timeslot; it also holds the distinction of being the largest news-producing "Big Three" station by market size that does not air any local newscasts on Saturdays (although WMAR does produce local weather cut-ins that are shown during the weekend edition of Good Morning America ). WMAR is also one of ten television stations that airs

2436-647: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

2520-521: The air in 1955 as WAYE on 860). Channel 2's first broadcast was a pair of horse races emanating from Pimlico Race Course . WMAR-TV's studios, offices, transmitter and tower were initially located at the present-day Bank of America Building in downtown Baltimore ; the studios were later shifted into a larger space adjacent to the building. WMAR-TV moved into its present facility, known originally as "Television Park" on York Road, in May 1963. Channel 2

2604-408: The channel 2 analog signal traveled a very long distance under normal conditions. Sinclair argued that as an established local broadcaster, it should receive the allocation instead. The gambit did not work, and WMAR-TV remained on channel 2. In June 1994, Scripps and ABC announced a long-term affiliation deal, which resulted in three Scripps-owned stations switching to ABC. WMAR-TV was included in

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2688-454: The city's afternoon newspaper whose name served as the basis for the WCPO call letters. Following the release of the FCC 's Sixth Report and Order in 1952, all of Cincinnati's VHF stations changed channel positions. WCPO-TV was reassigned to channel 9, as the previous channel 7 allocation was shifted north to Dayton and later given to WHIO-TV ; when the channel shift occurred on March 10, 1953,

2772-421: The combination of the Sunpapers and WMAR-TV was one of several that were " grandfathered " under these rules. On March 3, 1981, CBS announced that it would be moving its affiliation to WBAL-TV, Baltimore's NBC station. Among its reasons for making the switch, CBS cited WMAR-TV's poor newscast ratings and frequent preemptions of network shows for syndicated programs, local specials, and sports coverage. While

2856-661: The contracts did not expire until January 1995. The second switch occurred on January 2, 1995, with the FedEx Orange Bowl between the Miami Hurricanes and the Nebraska Cornhuskers being the final NBC program to air on channel 2. As a result, channel 2 became one of the few stations in the country to have been a primary affiliate with each of the "Big Three" networks. ABC had been reluctant to drop its affiliation with WJZ-TV, which had been

2940-553: The country with multiple major cities), Indianapolis and Louisville are used to provide full-market coverage of severe weather events. The VIPIR 9 technology also utilizes the NEXRAD radars and 9 First Warning Doppler to create its 3D images. WCPO's investigative unit, the I-Team, was created in 1988, following the station's Peabody Award-winning investigation of Donald Harvey . The I-Team has won dozens of national awards, including

3024-547: The deal, and Channel 2 would displace Baltimore's longtime ABC affiliate, Westinghouse Broadcasting -owned WJZ-TV. ABC agreed to the deal as a condition of keeping its affiliation on Scripps' two biggest stations, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WEWS in Cleveland ; both of those outlets had been heavily wooed by CBS, which was about to lose its longtime Detroit and Cleveland affiliates (these two were sisters of WMAR-TV when it

3108-544: The digital transition, even with an increase of power just weeks after the transition, the station filed a Petition for Rulemaking to abandon VHF channel 10 and move to UHF channel 22. On October 7, 2009, the FCC issued a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" for WCPO-TV, which gives the public 25 days to comment on the proposed channel change. On December 10, 2009, the FCC issued a Report & Order , approving WCPO's move from VHF channel 10 to UHF channel 22. On January 19, 2010, WCPO filed

3192-407: The early 1990s, SCI put WMAR-TV back on the market. The Cincinnati -based E. W. Scripps Company announced its purchase of the station in the summer of 1990, but in February 1991 the transfer was canceled after Scripps accused Gillett of misreporting WMAR's financial statements. Gillett then took legal action against Scripps, but both sides settled and the sale went forward. Scripps took control of

3276-429: The evening news race, while WKRC-TV leads in mornings and late evenings. Even after the affiliation switch in 1996 involving two of the strongest affiliates of their respective networks at the time, both stations have remained among the strongest affiliates of their current respective networks. WCPO lacked a dedicated news department until 1959. Al Schottelkotte, a longtime columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer (which

3360-528: The first television station in Baltimore to expand its weekday morning newscast to the 4:30 a.m. timeslot. The station's signal is multiplexed : WMAR-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 52, which

3444-468: The first voice heard when the station began its test broadcasts, and called the horse race program that inaugurated the station's official launch. McKay later moved over to CBS briefly before achieving greater fame on ABC as host of Wide World of Sports and Olympic coverage . Another was Helen Delich Bentley , a maritime editor for the Baltimore Sun who hosted The Port That Built a City ,

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3528-475: The games after Hopkins signed a deal to place all of its men's team's games on the fledgling ESPNU in 2005. Lacrosse broadcasts ended after the 2011 season, as ESPN decided to end its production partnership in favor of increased coverage on its own networks. Station general manager Bill Hooper stated the broadcasts would lose money without a partner to share production costs, and an attempt to work with Comcast SportsNet instead fell through. A notable alumnus

3612-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

3696-528: The highest-rated station in Baltimore for over a quarter-century and was one of the strongest ABC affiliates in the nation. In contrast, WMAR-TV had been a ratings also-ran for three decades. Indeed, ABC's ratings in Baltimore went into a steep decline after the switch, with a number of programs falling from first to third in the Baltimore ratings in one stroke. In 1996, a year after the affiliation change, station management opted not to renew channel 2's carriage of The Oprah Winfrey Show , deciding instead to take

3780-410: The hostages go, and the standoff ended later that morning when Hoskins shot himself dead while on the phone with SWAT negotiators. Green was given a Peabody Award for her handling of the crisis. She later married anchor and then-news director Al Schottelkotte . The two remained married until his death in 1996. For three decades, WCPO had been one of CBS' strongest affiliates. The Cincinnati market

3864-536: The incident in one of the facility's offices. Officers found weapons in the truck, but there were no reports of gunshots being fired. No staffers inside the building were injured. Baptiste was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation, and was later charged with three counts of attempted second degree murder . On April 16, 2018, WMAR changed its branding to "WMAR 2" to trade on the station's heritage as Maryland's first television station, and emphasize its "long-standing focus on Maryland and its people." It also adopted

3948-460: The late 1970s. For most of the last four decades, it has been the third station in what has essentially been a two-station market, trailing WJZ-TV and WBAL-TV by wide margins. This was the case even during the 1980s, with NBC's powerhouse prime time lineup as a lead-in. As such, it is currently one of ABC's weakest affiliates, especially in a top-50 market. By contrast, WJZ-TV had been one of ABC's strongest affiliates during its last quarter-century with

4032-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

4116-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

4200-447: The majority of which are Scripps owned. WCPO began broadcasting its local newscasts in high-definition on August 19, 2007, beginning with the 6 p.m. newscast. Improvements around the station included upgraded weather graphics that match WCPO's upgraded graphics, new panel displays on set (to replace rear-projection CRT monitors on set and old plasma displays with obvious burn-in) and Scripps purchasing JVC HDPro equipment for WCPO. In

4284-405: The network. In March 2021 sweeps, WMAR was rated last among adults 25-54 in all timeslots, with its audience shares averaging one-third to one-quarter of those of WJZ-TV and WBAL-TV. On October 4, 2010, WMAR-TV became the last station in the market and the last Scripps-owned television station at the time to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . On April 18, 2011, WMAR became

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4368-776: The night before the affiliation switch. On March 1, 1982, after negotiations between WMAR-TV management and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) failed, all of the station's on-air talent, except one, went on strike . AFTRA members, joined by the Teamsters , the Communication Workers of America and other local unions, picketed the station's offices on York Road and Abell's offices at North Calvert and East Centre Streets. When color announcer (and long-time popular Baltimore Orioles third baseman) Brooks Robinson refused to cross

4452-887: The picket line at the start of the baseball season, the strike ended. The following day, both news anchors, Tom Sweeney and Curt Anderson , were fired. On May 28, 1986, the A. S. Abell Company was purchased by the Los Angeles -based Times Mirror Company , the then-publisher of the Los Angeles Times . With the loss of the grandfathered protection between the former Abell media properties, Times-Mirror opted to keep The Sunpapers and sold WMAR-TV (and WRLH-TV in Richmond ) to Gillett Communications in July 1986. After filing for bankruptcy sometime later, Gillett restructured its television holdings into SCI Television , and in

4536-520: The program for mostly focusing on world events and believed it "hardly covered anything west of Washington", adding: Everything you saw [on CBS' newscast] was an epic from Timbuktu . I was not interested in having the people of Cincinnati waste their time with that kind of news. Consumer reporter John Matarese's reports have been syndicated to nine other stations, five of which are Scripps-owned, since 2003. However, as of October 12, 2010, Matarese's consumer reports have been aired on eleven other stations,

4620-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

4704-582: The same time dropping the 9 On Your Side moniker in favor of simply WCPO 9 News . Cincinnati's television stations have used their weather coverage as a selling point, especially since the Montgomery/Blue Ash tornado of 1999 . WCPO brands its radars as "9 First Warning Doppler", " VIPIR 9" and "TrueView". The station runs its own radar located in Batavia , which has an average refresh time of ten seconds. On July 1, 2003, WCPO began to operate

4788-447: The same timeslot. On May 13, 2014, after a station security guard denied him entry into WMAR-TV's studio/offices, 28-year-old Vladimir Baptiste crashed into the building in a pickup truck , which had been stolen around noon from a Maryland State Highway Administration subcontractor. All of the station's approximately 120 employees were evacuated and the building was placed on lockdown as Baltimore County Police officers searched for

4872-450: The site of an expanded Duke Energy Convention Center ) to a new state-of-the-art building on Gilbert Avenue, in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati. Scripps' Cincinnati combination of WCPO and The Cincinnati Post ended when the newspaper ceased publication at the end of 2007. (Its Kentucky edition became an online-only publication simultaneously with the closure of the Post .) WCPO

4956-552: The station briefly considered becoming independent once again, channel 2 quickly cut a deal with NBC that May to take over that network's affiliation from channel 11. Baltimore's first affiliation switch took place on August 30, 1981. The final CBS program to air on channel 2 before the switch was an NFL preseason game between the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Cowboys , airing live at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on

5040-469: The station in the spring of 1991. Then, in September, Sinclair Broadcast Group , the owner of WBFF (channel 45), took the bold step of challenging WMAR-TV's pending license renewal and filing its own competing application for a new station on channel 2. Sinclair argued that out-of-town ownership could not effectively serve the city's public interest, especially with such a valuable channel allocation;

5124-540: The station was also co-owned with fellow CBS affiliate WBOC-TV in Salisbury . Channel 2 continued to preempt network programming as an NBC affiliate. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was not carried by WMAR-TV for several years in the mid-1980s as the station chose to air Thicke of the Night , and later syndicated sitcom reruns following the 11 p.m. newscast. Some of the network's daytime programming

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5208-808: The station's original studios on Symmes Street, in the Walnut Hills section of the city. WCPO-TV first signed on the air at noon ET on July 26, 1949, and the first face seen was Big Jim Stacey. Originally operating on VHF channel 7, it was Cincinnati's third television station. It was also the third television station to be built from the ground-up and signed-on by the E.   W. Scripps Company, following WEWS in Cleveland and WMCT (now WMC-TV ) in Memphis . The station's call letters were derived from then-sister radio stations WCPO (1230 AM, now WDBZ ) and WCPO-FM (105.1 FM, now WUBE ), both of which were sold in 1966. Scripps also published The Cincinnati Post ,

5292-609: The station's transmitting power increased to the FCC's maximum of 316 kilowatts . WCPO-TV was originally a primary ABC affiliate, maintaining a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network until DuMont's demise in 1956. On April 30, 1961, channel 9 traded network alignments with WKRC-TV (channel 12), becoming a CBS affiliate as ABC moved to WKRC-TV. This deal came because WKRC-TV's owner, Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting , had developed very good relations with ABC. WCPO-TV originally broadcast from

5376-422: The studios. After voicing his displeasure with local government, Hoskins ended by saying that he would let his hostages go, but only after they helped him to barricade himself in their newsroom in anticipation of a shootout with police. Green and the others pleaded with Hoskins to get help, but to no avail. WCPO's news staff ran special newscasts from the parking lot throughout that morning. Hoskins eventually let all

5460-474: The summer of 2009, WCPO upgraded its field cameras to provide high definition video. In December 2009, WCPO reached an agreement with local Fox affiliate WXIX-TV (channel 19) to pool videographers at press conferences. On October 1, 2012, WCPO-TV debuted the new Scripps-mandated standardized graphics and music package ("Inergy" by Stephen Arnold ). On February 3, 2020, WCPO debuted a new logo and an updated Scripps-mandated graphics and music package, while at

5544-424: The suspect. Channel 2 ran an automated feed of ABC programming for four hours, before going dark for about 1 hour and 20 minutes; a satellite relay with Phoenix sister station KNXV-TV was then established late that afternoon until WMAR master control operators were able to resume broadcasting from the studio. Police captured the man just after 4:30 p.m. that afternoon, as he was watching news coverage of

5628-486: The telethon moved back to WMAR-TV, airing on ABC as a two-hour program titled the MDA Show of Strength , for its final two years of its run. Like all other Scripps-owned ABC stations, WMAR-TV preempted an airing of Saving Private Ryan in 2004. Until September 17, 2012, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune aired on channel 2 from the beginning of their runs in 1984 and 1983 respectively. WMAR dropped them as part of

5712-486: The two stations reversed the 1961 affiliation swap, with WCPO rejoining ABC and WKRC reuniting with CBS. The last CBS program to air on channel 9 was the 50th Annual Tony Awards at 9 p.m. EDT, while the first ABC program to air was Good Morning America . WCPO set up a toll-free hotline to answer calls from confused viewers. The station debuted new on-air graphics designed by a Los Angeles firm. On May 15, 2004, WCPO moved its studio facilities from 500 Central Avenue (now

5796-587: The wake of the 2001 riots . In 1967, WCPO introduced the Newsbird, the first news-gathering helicopter in Cincinnati and one of the first in the industry to feature live transmissions. On January 17, 1983, the Bell 206 B ran out of fuel and crashed outside the station. From 1996 to September 2000, WCPO leased a Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III helicopter out of Lunken Field . Outfitted with several cameras, Chopper 9

5880-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

5964-718: Was about to lose longtime affiliates WJBK in Detroit and WJW in Cleveland to Fox as part of an affiliation deal with New World Communications . Scripps had to maintain the CBS affiliation on WCPO until WKRC's affiliation contract with ABC expired the following year; in the meantime, in October 1995, WCPO introduced new "9 Stands for News" station branding that shrunk the CBS logo and revamped its news graphics and theme music, improving ratings. On June 3, 1996, WKRC's contract ended and

6048-498: Was also actively seeking a greater commitment to local sports coverage to differentiate itself from its competitors. It had tested the waters with a one-off broadcast of a basketball game between Coppin State and Morgan State earlier that year. WMAR readily agreed and committed to broadcast two more of Hopkins' home games against local teams: Loyola College and Towson University . Sponsorship and viewership for these initial games

6132-507: Was an independent station at its launch, largely because at the time it was not clear whether Baltimore would be part of the Washington, D.C. market (Baltimore is 45 minutes northeast of Washington, and most of the Washington stations decently cover the Baltimore area for major news stories and weather reports). In 1948, however, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made Baltimore a separate media market. On March 29, 1948, WMAR-TV

6216-578: Was announced as CBS ' third full-time television affiliate, after WCBS-TV in New York City and WCAU-TV in Philadelphia . It also had secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont for its early days, but it later lost both affiliations to upstart WAAM-TV (channel 13, now WJZ-TV ) when the station signed on in November. One of WMAR's early local personalities was Jim McKay , who was

6300-415: Was built on the newly named "Television Hill" (formerly known as "Malden Hill") in the Woodberry neighborhood of Baltimore, which significantly expanded the station's signal coverage well beyond Central Maryland. During the 1970s, the FCC tightened its cross-ownership rules , eventually barring common ownership between a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city without a waiver. However,

6384-475: Was high enough to support the beginning of a full game-of-the-week package beginning with the 1999 collegiate lacrosse season. Coverage expanded to home games of other local teams, including Maryland, Loyola, Towson, the U.S. Naval Academy , UMBC , Stevenson University , Salisbury University , and Gettysburg College . The games aired live on Saturday afternoons and evenings, preempting any scheduled network programming. WMAR began partnering with ESPN to produce

6468-426: Was hosted by WMAR personality George Rogers with ex-Colt Joe Campanella . WMAR broadcast Baltimore Orioles games from 1979 to 1993, becoming one of the last "Big Three"-affiliated stations to carry baseball games on a regular basis. WMAR also broadcasts the annual Turkey Bowl between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield on Thanksgiving morning. WMAR is best known outside of Baltimore as

6552-495: Was however fixed several years later, with The View airing in its recommended 11 a.m. timeslot, and adding one of the Saturday morning programs, while preempting non-E/I programs like The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show . WMAR-TV now usually runs the network's entire lineup. The station was Baltimore's home to The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon for nearly three decades until it moved to WNUV-TV (channel 54); in 2013,

6636-680: Was initially unaffected by the 1994–96 affiliation switches , as the station was in the middle of a long-term affiliation contract with CBS; however, in September 1995, Scripps and ABC announced a 10-year affiliation deal for WCPO. A year earlier, Scripps had agreed to switch three of its other stations ( WMAR-TV in Baltimore , KNXV-TV in Phoenix , and WFTS-TV in Tampa ) to ABC as a condition of keeping its affiliation on Scripps' two largest stations, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WEWS-TV in Cleveland. Both of those stations had been heavily wooed by CBS, which

6720-558: Was preempted as well. Both Tonight and preempted daytime programs were aired on then-independent stations WBFF and WNUV, though Baltimore viewers could also watch the entire NBC lineup on network-owned WRC-TV in Washington. Additionally, WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania could be seen in areas north of Baltimore County. When WMAR-TV joined ABC, the station tape delayed some of the network's daytime shows to late night, and preempted nearly half of its Saturday morning lineup. This

6804-678: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

6888-486: Was then owned by Scripps along with the Post ), joined the station as its first news director and anchorman—a post he held until 1986. Within a year, WCPO was the undisputed local news leader in the Cincinnati market, and remained the top-rated station for over 20 years. Partly because of his influence, the CBS Evening News was not cleared by WCPO for most of Walter Cronkite 's tenure; Schottelkotte criticized

6972-642: Was under Gillett ownership) to Fox as part of that network's affiliation deal with New World Communications . Locally, it triggered Baltimore's second network affiliation swap, which saw WMAR-TV switch to ABC, CBS move to WJZ-TV after concluding a groupwide affiliation deal with Westinghouse, and NBC return to WBAL-TV. NBC first approached WJZ about negotiating an affiliation deal, ultimately to be turned down by its then-owner Westinghouse Broadcasting. All ABC programs turned down by WJZ-TV would air on WMAR-TV instead, forcing all preempted NBC programs to air on WBAL-TV, and preempted CBS shows would air on WJZ-TV instead, as

7056-459: Was used for traffic reports, updates on construction of Paul Brown Stadium and Fort Washington Way , and Friday night football specials. The helicopter proved especially useful for covering the aftermath of the 1999 Blue Ash tornado . WCPO allowed the lease to expire in 2000, citing its high cost. On February 7, 2014, WCPO debuted another Chopper 9, this time a Bell 206B-3 JetRanger, for daily traffic and news coverage. In 2016, WCPO debuted Sky 9,

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