WCPO Cincinnati

The Scripps Cincinnati ABC affiliate’s website is giving users a taste of what they will be missing if they don’t subscribe — a six-month investigative report on the murder of a local cop Scripps plans to put such reports and other premium content on the site behind a paywall early this year.

E.W. Scripps on Thursday shocked the broadcast TV world by announcing that it was raising a paywall for the site of its Cincinnati ABC affiliate WCPO. Michael Depp: “With this move, there is no doubt that Scripps takes its digital platform gravely seriously. What we’ll now see is if the wall it’s building in Cincinnati is more than just between paying subscribers and less-committed users.”

E.W. Scripps-owned WCPO Cincinnati on Thursday announced that it will launch a digital subscription model around its premium content in January. The TV paywall is unprecedented and faces an uphill battle to win over consumers who align broadcast television content with being free. Still, company executives are confident the paywall will be successful. “We’ve tried to build a plan against understanding that there are people who will only love us on television and only love us on a smartphone,” says Rich Boehne, E.W. Scripps’ CEO.

WCPO, Cincinnati’s E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate, will roll out a subscription plan in January that will put most of its original content behind a paywall. Weather, traffic and breaking news will remain free to all users.

The Scripps-owned ABC affiliate in Cincinnati has hired former WTAE Pittsburgh ND Alex Bongiorno to replace Lane Michaelsen who left in March.

E.W. Scripps moves the news executive from corporate oversight to succeed Steve Thaxton as VP-GM of its ABC affiliate in Cincinnati.

After less than two years as vice president and general manager of the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cincinnati, Steve Thaxton is leaving tomorrow.  Thaxton announced to the staff that he starts Monday as a temporary GM at Cleveland’s WEWS, a sister Scripps station, as he begins a transition to teaching and consulting.

The ratings services adds Scripps’ ABC affiliates in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit and West Palm Beach, Fla. The expansion makes Cleveland the first top-20 market to have all major TV affiliates subscribing to Rentrak’s local ratings.

Bob Morford, the city’s longest-tenured TV news director, told the Scripps ABC affiliate’s newsroom Thursday that he’s leaving after February sweeps and before March 30. He has been news director since April 2001.

Meteorologist Sherry Ray Hughes will Scripps ABC affiliate WCPO Cincinnati (DMA 33) in the dual role of staff meteorologist and multi-media journalist.  Beginning Oct. 1 Hughes will contribute to newsgathering […]

Cincinnati’s neighborhood sentimentality and diversity, has made the city a proving ground for various hyperlocal efforts, including Gannett’s Porkappolis location-based mobile app.

Cincinnati police took a man into custody Tuesday afternoon after he raised security concerns after entering the lobby of Scripps’ ABC affiliate WCPO Cincinnati.

Scripps Cincinnati ABC affiliate anchor Kathrine Nero has posted a tribute to her WCPO camera operators who have lost their job to automation.

Scripps chooses the former Gannett station exec to lead its ABC affiliate in Cincinnati.