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“11 o’clock, Al Schottelkottke news time. The color films, pictures and accounts of today’s events from the station
where news is first!”
For more than 50 years, award-winning Cincinnati broadcast legend, Al Schottelkotte kept the Tri-State informed and entertained.
A newspaper columnist, radio commentator and solo anchor of the number-one rated Channel 9 news – Al Schottelkotte was, to say the least, a familiar presence in area homes and businesses.
Al Schottelkotte's name would become synonymous with television in Cincinnati, and famous - both locally and nationally - as the man who helped invent TV news as it is known today.
Al, who wrapped his extraordinary career as President of the Scripps Howard Foundation, lost a hard-fought battle with cancer on Christmas Day, 1996.
Al’s rapid-fire reporting lives on, not only through IN THE TANK CINCINNATI, but thanks to several programs about the GREAT, NEAR-GREAT, and NOT-SO-GREAT MOMENTS IN CINCINNATI HISTORY.
Three volumes are now available, digitally remastered on DVD. For ordering and broadcast information, check the DVD section of our website.
And, for a revealing, hour-long streaming video look at
Al’s career with another Cincinnati broadcast icon
“History and Science” area.
