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Here are 12 things you didn't know about the longtime morning news anchor hired in 1983 as Nick Clooney's Channel 12 newscast rose to No. 1 in local news ratings.

Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight, Seinfeld, The People's Court, Inside Edition, Steve Wilkos, Nick Cannon, The Doctors, Judge Jerry and MyNetworkTV still off the air in Cincinnati.

John Kiesewetter / WVXU When I looked out at the April snow covering my magnolias Wednesday, and bending over my maple sapling like a Charlie Brown tree, the thought occurred to me: How would Tim Hedrick explain this? Hedrick, who died five years ago today at age 55, could explain anything about the weather in a simple, understandable and often entertaining way. That's what made him arguably the most popular Cincinnati TV personality in my 35 years of writing about TV. Tim Hedrick in 1990. Credit WKRC-TV WKRC-TV dubbed him "The Weather Authority," and for most of us, he was. When severe ...

. Born Allen Duaine Pruett in Texas, Fox and Chris O'Brien hosted the hugely popular morning show on WKRQ-FM in the 1970s and '80s, and hosted country music on WUBE-FM in the 1990s. Other local deaths include UC basketball analyst Chuck Machock; radio personalities Laura Powell, Bob Nave, Bill Ridenour, Larry Thomas, Geoff Nimmo, Ron Britain and Vic Henley; Joe Morgan, the Reds Hall of Famer turned TV analyst for Reds TV and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball; Bengals coach and NFL analyst Sam Wyche; movie producer/distributor Phil Borak; former Enquirer writers Sara Pearce and Lonnie Wheeler; Blue...