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Talk show hosts Ruth Lyons, Bob Braun and Jerry Springer, executive Walter Batlett, salesman Jerry Imsicke and current newsman Courtis Fuller to be honored July 12.

Courtesy Bina Roy Update 9 a.m. Tuesday Feb. 23:  Jerry Springer called from his Sarasota home to talk about his old pal Pat Barry, and told me how and why Pat left radio to become WLWT-TV's main weatherman in 1984. It was Springer's idea. Springer says he suggested to general manager Tony Kiernan that they hire Barry in an attempt to replicate the success of Willard Scott, NBC's hugely popular Today show weatherman who was not a meteorologist. Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie "Pat Barry was a big name on local radio, on Q102. Instead of hiring a meteorologist, I told Tony, 'Why not spice u...

John Kiesewetter Pat Barry, who parlayed his Q102 popularity into a Greater Cincinnati radio and TV career spanning five decades, died of COVID-19 Saturday afternoon, Feb. 20. He was 69. The Springfield, Ohio, native burst upon WKRQ-FM’s airwaves in 1974, playing Top 40 hits, and became one of the best known TV/radio personalities in town, thanks to his welcoming smile, loyalty to friends and self-deprecating humor. Pat Barry in the WKRQ-FM (Q102) studio in the early 1980s. Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie He liked to joke that he started his career in his hometown "at a really big station...

Courtesy Cincinnati Ballet It sounds odd, but directing hundreds of basketball and football games, and dozens of WEBN Riverfest firework telecasts, was great training for David Ashbrock when WLWT-TV asked him to direct The Nutcracker at Home airing 8 p.m. tonight. As with broadcasting sports and pyrotechnic explosions, you only get one chance to shoot the Cincinnati Ballet dancers in action. "This is exhausting to perform. The dancers are Olympic athletes, to be sure, but this takes a lot out of them, and they didn't want to do it again. We did no more than two takes, and most with one tak...

Courtesy Cincinnati Ballet For the first time, the Cincinnati Ballet's holiday classic The Nutcracker will be telecast on WLWT so "everyone has a front row seat" this year, says Cincinnati Ballet President and CEO Scott Altman. The Nutcracker at Home will be taped next week at Music Hall by Emmy-winning director David Ashbrock for broadcast six times Christmas week on WLWT-TV (Channel 5) and its MeTV (Channel 5.2). Credit Peter Mueller / Cincinnati Ballet Tchaikovsky's iconic score was recorded for the telecast by 35 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra members last month under the direction of C...