WKRC-DT2
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WKRC-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station
for the Tri-State area of Southern Ohio
, Northern
Kentucky
, and Southeastern Indiana
. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS
affiliate WKRC-TV
that is owned by Newport Television
. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 12.2 from WKRC's transmitter in the Mount Auburn
section of Cincinnati. WKRC-DT2 can also be seen in Ohio on Time Warner
channel 20 with high definition on digital
channel 913, in Kentucky on Insight
channel 25, in Indiana on Comcast
digital channel 253, and part of DirecTV
's local package on channel 25.
Syndicated programming on WKRC-DT2 includes: Two and a Half Men
, Tyler Perry's House of Payne
, and The Dr. Oz Show
. Known on-air as The CW Cincinnati, its parent station has studios on Highland Avenue in the Mount Auburn section of the city. Although most CW Plus
affiliates are located on digital subchannels of another station, WKRC-DT2 is not part of the national service.
announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. WKRC picked up affiliation with the new network on a new second digital subchannel resulting in UPN affiliate WBQC-CA
going independent
. Meanwhile, WB affiliate WSTR-TV
joined the other new network, News Corporation
-owned MyNetworkTV
which launched on September 5.
Cincinnati cable viewers feared that WKRC-DT2 would face the same problems as WBQC. For years, Time Warner Cable
had refused to carry that station full-time eventually airing its prime time programming on a low-profile channel. However, Time Warner Cable is a division of Time Warner (who would be half-owner of The CW) so it was in the company's best interest to air WKRC-DT2 over their systems. By late in the day on September 17, Time Warner Cable agreed to carry the new station only hours before the network's launch on September 18.
The new station launched on Time Warner channel 2 in prime time only to start out with and 24/7 on digital cable
channel 913 before earning a full-time broadcast basic berth on channel 20 as of October 18 displacing WBQC and a commercial access channel. The station also debuted on Insight Communications
and DirecTV
under WBQC's former channel slots. As a result, the channel can be viewed by 66% of the local population due to carriage by Time Warner Cable in Ohio
, Insight in Northern Kentucky
, and DirecTV
. The subchannel originally broke from the network's usual station branding and called itself "The CinCW", a portmanteau with "Cincy". It currently airs the entire CW schedule in-pattern while outside of network hours airs classic sitcoms, dramas, films, and second runs of WKRC's syndicated programming along with regional wrestling
programming on Saturday afternoons and evenings. Repeats of WKRC's local DIY show Homeworx can also be seen.
. The network now requires all of its affiliates to air the show in its entirety after receiving a makeover hoping to better compete against its rivals, NBC
's Today and ABC's Good Morning America
. The 7 to 8 o'clock hour of Good Morning Cincinnati can now be only seen on WKRC-DT2. WKRC announced their intent to move the prime time newscast on WSTR to WKRC-DT2 in August 2008. On August 4, they began a brief simulcast of this program on WKRC-DT2 with it eventually being dropped from WSTR on August 22. The program then became known as CW News at 10.
Good Morning Cincinnati
(Weekday Mornings 5 to 8)
Local 12 News at Noon
(Weekdays 12 to 12:30 P.M., simulcasted from main channel)
CW News at 10 (10 to 10:30 P.M.)
Weeknights
Weekends
WKRC-DT2 features additional news personnel from WKRC. See that article
for a complete listing.
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the Tri-State area of Southern Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, Northern
Northern Kentucky
Northern Kentucky is the name often given to the northernmost counties in Kentucky...
Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
, and Southeastern Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate WKRC-TV
WKRC-TV
WKRC-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana that is licensed to Cincinnati. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter at its studios on Highland Avenue in the Mount...
that is owned by Newport Television
Newport Television
Newport Television, LLC is a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. In September 2007, Newport agreed to sell KFTY and KVOS-TV to LK Station Group LLC for $26.6...
. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 12.2 from WKRC's transmitter in the Mount Auburn
Mount Auburn Historic District
Mount Auburn Historic District is located in the Mount Auburn neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. It extends along both sides of Auburn Avenue roughly between Ringold Street and William H. Taft Road....
section of Cincinnati. WKRC-DT2 can also be seen in Ohio on Time Warner
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
channel 20 with high definition on digital
Digital cable
Digital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...
channel 913, in Kentucky on Insight
Insight Communications
Insight Communications is the 13th largest multiple system operator in the United States with approximately 692,000 customers in the three contiguous states of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio...
channel 25, in Indiana on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
digital channel 253, and part of DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
's local package on channel 25.
Syndicated programming on WKRC-DT2 includes: Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is an American comedy-drama television series created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolves around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta, Georgia led by patriarch Curtis Payne and his wife Ella...
, and The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
. Known on-air as The CW Cincinnati, its parent station has studios on Highland Avenue in the Mount Auburn section of the city. Although most CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
affiliates are located on digital subchannels of another station, WKRC-DT2 is not part of the national service.
History
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPNUPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. WKRC picked up affiliation with the new network on a new second digital subchannel resulting in UPN affiliate WBQC-CA
WBQC-CA
WBQC-LD is an independent television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. WBQC's studios are located in a complex in the Roselawn neighborhood of Cincinnati, while the station broadcasts from WCPO's tower. According to its website, WBQC was the first television station to be fully automated...
going independent
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
. Meanwhile, WB affiliate WSTR-TV
WSTR-TV
WSTR-TV is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southwestern Ohio, Southeastern Indiana, and Northern Kentucky. Licensed to Cincinnati, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter in the College Hill section of the...
joined the other new network, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
-owned MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
which launched on September 5.
Cincinnati cable viewers feared that WKRC-DT2 would face the same problems as WBQC. For years, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
had refused to carry that station full-time eventually airing its prime time programming on a low-profile channel. However, Time Warner Cable is a division of Time Warner (who would be half-owner of The CW) so it was in the company's best interest to air WKRC-DT2 over their systems. By late in the day on September 17, Time Warner Cable agreed to carry the new station only hours before the network's launch on September 18.
The new station launched on Time Warner channel 2 in prime time only to start out with and 24/7 on digital cable
Digital cable
Digital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...
channel 913 before earning a full-time broadcast basic berth on channel 20 as of October 18 displacing WBQC and a commercial access channel. The station also debuted on Insight Communications
Insight Communications
Insight Communications is the 13th largest multiple system operator in the United States with approximately 692,000 customers in the three contiguous states of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio...
and DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
under WBQC's former channel slots. As a result, the channel can be viewed by 66% of the local population due to carriage by Time Warner Cable in Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, Insight in Northern Kentucky
Northern Kentucky
Northern Kentucky is the name often given to the northernmost counties in Kentucky...
, and DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
. The subchannel originally broke from the network's usual station branding and called itself "The CinCW", a portmanteau with "Cincy". It currently airs the entire CW schedule in-pattern while outside of network hours airs classic sitcoms, dramas, films, and second runs of WKRC's syndicated programming along with regional wrestling
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
programming on Saturday afternoons and evenings. Repeats of WKRC's local DIY show Homeworx can also be seen.
Newscasts
On April 26, 2006, the station announced a news share agreement with WSTR to produce a nightly prime time show known as Local 12 News at 10 on My 64 which began airing on August 21. This resulted, once MyNetworkTV began, in a CBS affiliate's newscast being carried on a station affiliated with a Fox sister network. On January 7, 2008, WKRC began simulcasting Good Morning Cincinnati on WKRC-DT2. It had been aired on the main channel from 5 to 8 in the morning but the third hour was dropped when CBS reclaimed the 7 o'clock hour for The Early ShowThe Early Show
The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...
. The network now requires all of its affiliates to air the show in its entirety after receiving a makeover hoping to better compete against its rivals, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Today and ABC's Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
. The 7 to 8 o'clock hour of Good Morning Cincinnati can now be only seen on WKRC-DT2. WKRC announced their intent to move the prime time newscast on WSTR to WKRC-DT2 in August 2008. On August 4, they began a brief simulcast of this program on WKRC-DT2 with it eventually being dropped from WSTR on August 22. The program then became known as CW News at 10.
Good Morning Cincinnati
(Weekday Mornings 5 to 8)
- Anchors:
- John Lomax
- Liz Bonis
- Weather:
- John Gumm
- Traffic:
- Bob Herzog
- Alert Desk:
- Perry Schiable
Local 12 News at Noon
(Weekdays 12 to 12:30 P.M., simulcasted from main channel)
- Anchors:
- John Lomax
- Kit Andrews
- Weather:
- John Gumm
CW News at 10 (10 to 10:30 P.M.)
Weeknights
- Anchor:
- Cammy Dierking
- Weather:
- Michelle Boutilette
- Sports:
- Zach Wells
Weekends
- Anchors:
- Paula Toti
- Weather:
- Scott Dimmich
- Sports:
- Zach Wells
WKRC-DT2 features additional news personnel from WKRC. See that article
WKRC-TV
WKRC-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana that is licensed to Cincinnati. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter at its studios on Highland Avenue in the Mount...
for a complete listing.