Did You Know....

• Between 1934 and 1939, WLW was allowed to broadcast with 500,000 watts-the only US station with that much power.
• For the first 25 years, Greater Cincinnati only had five major radio stations.
• WCKY stands for "Covington, Kentucky," its original studio location.
• WFBE, the predecessor to WCPO, was located in the Parkview Hotel, along Garfield Park, in downtown Cincinnati.
• WMH, Cincinnati's first radio station, was located on Gilbert Avenue, in the Precision Equipment Company building.
• During the 1937 Flood, WLW broadcasts were shifted to satellite studios in the Union Central building because the Arlington Street building was partially in floodwaters.
• WSAI "Good Guys" Paul Purtan, Dusty Rhodes, Mark Edwards, Skinny Bobby Harper and Steve Kirk brought the Beatles to the Cincinnati Gardens in 1964 with money out of their own pockets.
• Lloyd Baldwin was the first announcer heard on Covington's WZIP, which debuted in the old WCKY studios at Sixth and Madison, in Covington in 1947.
• WSAI was purchased by Powel Crosley in 1928 and nicknamed "Cincinnati's Own Station," while WLW was nicknamed "The Nation's Station."
• WSAI was created, in 1923, by John Omwake--President of US Playing Card in Norwood--so he could broadcast the carillon bells in the factory's clock tower.
• "Shad and Mike" (Shad O'Shea and Mike Gavin) were one of the first disc jockey morning "teams," when they were heard on WCPO in the early 1960's.
• WCPO stands for "The Cincinnati Post," which was owned by Scripps-Howard.
• WKRC stands for the "Kodel Radio Corporation," a now-forgotten radio manufacturer that bought the license in 1925.
• Rock and Roll station WEBN began as a classical music station in 1967 by Frank Wood Sr.
• Ruth Lyons began her career as Ruth Reeves, her maiden name, at WKRC in 1929.  She later became one of the first female program directors in the country.
• Sid Ten Eyck (WCKY, WLW) had a program called Doddlesockers of the Air.
• there are many other fun facts at Media Heritage for those who ask!