"Springer on the Radio Springer on the Radio was an American radio program broadcast from WCKY and later WSAI in Cincinnati from January 17, 2005 to December 5, 2006 and syndicated nationally on the Air America Radio network from April 1, 2005 to September 18, 2006 when it moved to Air America syndication, meaning that it was still syndicated nationally, but not on the Air America network lineup. It was hosted by Jerry Springer, best known as a TV talk show host. Springer is a former Democratic politician (formerly Cincinnati’s mayor) still active in the party organization. His radio show"
"Sam Holbrook, who ejected Mallory before the contest even began. The pitch received national media attention (including appearances on Good Morning America and Cold Pizza), and Mallory got a chance to make amends on ABC's ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", but again failed to come anywhere close to the target with his throw. He was given a ""second, second-chance"" and finally completed a toss to actor Kurt Russell. Mallory took the incident as an opportunity to discuss Cincinnati's positives. Mark Mallory Mark Mallory (born April 2, 1962) is an American politician who served as the 68th Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. A member"
"the Clinton Administration had sought to have military uniforms banned from the White House, which has been repeatedly proven false. DeLay was a participant on the ninth season of ""Dancing with the Stars"", a reality-TV dance competition show in which celebrities such as DeLay are paired with professional dancers. DeLay's dance partner-instructor was Cheryl Burke, a two-time champion on the highly watched ABC television show. DeLay is the second former politician to compete on the show, following the former mayor of Cincinnati (1977–78), season three's Jerry Springer, better known as host of the tabloid television talk show ""The Jerry Springer"
"Cincinnati TV personality Bob Braun appeared as Best Man, with Colleen Sharp and Bonnie Lou as Matrons of Honor. To this day the chicken wedding remains a significant piece of WLWT's (and Cincinnati's) television history. Late Night TV host David Letterman, who grew up in Indianapolis, cites Dixon's comedic talent as inspiration for his own antics. Dixon wrote and published two books; the first in 1968 titled ""Paul Baby: Confessions of the Mayor of Kneesville"". Two years later he published ""Letters to Paul Baby"", a compilation of Dixon's favorite fan mail. Dixon and his wife Marge had two children; Pamela"
"accused the work of catering to ""anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-bourgeois"" prejudices. A 2014 revival by the Metropolitan Opera reignited debate. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who marched in protest against the production, wrote: ""this work is both a distortion of history and helped, in some ways, to foster a three decade long feckless policy of creating a moral equivalency between the Palestinian Authority, a corrupt terrorist organization, and the state of Israel, a democracy ruled by law."" Current mayor Bill de Blasio criticized Giuliani's participation in the protests, and Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the ""Public Theater"","
"Lamont performed as Richard, and Howard Preston as Geoffrey. The Opera's performances included a chorus of 65 members and 60 members of the Cincinnati Symphony. The cost to stage the production in 1926 was $15,000 USD (approximately $183,000 in 2010 USD). The Opera was also broadcast by radio station WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 3, 1926. Isabeau is mourning the death of her newborn daughter, alone. Count Lisiac, a former suitor of Isabeau, seizes the opportunity of her husband's absence and her grief to approach Isabeau. When his attempts fail he turns to violence, assaulting the Castle Agrazant and"
"Cincinnati where Springer was a news anchor, refused to carry the episode ""I Married A Horse"", which led to it being pulled before airing. In 1999, the show was parodied in the film """", with Dr. Evil and his son Scott discussing being evil. Along with Jerry, Steve Wilkos and Todd Schultz played themselves in the movie. In 2000, Springer was given a five-year, $30 million contract extension paying him $6 million per year. The same year, a married couple, Ralf and Eleanor Panitz, were guests on an episode of the show entitled ""Secret Mistresses Confronted"" with Mr. Panitz's ex-wife,"
"the vote to 55 percent by the incumbent Luken. Fuller became the host of a radio talk show, returning to television news on WLWT in 2003. He is a member of several community boards and commissions, including the Greater Cincinnati Tall Stacks Commission and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees. Fuller is one of several WLWT news personnel who have become involved in politics. Others include Mayor Luken, Jerry Springer, and Tom Atkins. Courtis Fuller Courtis John Fuller (born 26 January 1957) is a news broadcaster in Cincinnati, Ohio, who is active in politics and in local community affairs."
"assassinated Abraham Lincoln. On March 22, 1866, a gas leak caused the theater to explode, taking with it the original offices of ""The Cincinnati Enquirer"", along with archives of the ""Enquirer""s first 25 years. No one was killed. Isaiah Rogers rebuilt the theater after the fire. It reopened on February 12, 1868, the same year that Pike opened another opera house in Manhattan, now known as the Grand Opera House. In 1895, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave its first concerts at the original Pike's Opera House before moving to Music Hall the following year. Pike's burned down again on February"
"26, 1903. The ruins remained for two years before the lot was cleared to make way for the Sinton Hotel. Pike's Opera House (Cincinnati) Pike's Opera House was a theater in Cincinnati owned by distiller and entrepreneur Samuel Napthali Pike (1822–1872). Located on Fourth Street between Vine and Walnut streets, it was the first home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Pike's Opera House was designed by New York–based architects Horatio Nelson White and John M. Trimble and constructed from 1857 to 1859 at a cost of $500,000. It opened on February 22, 1859. Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. was performing at"
"major performance halls in the past. Overtime, the space also hosts numerous, notable musical performances such as the well known conductor, Richard Strauss in 1904, the world premier of the Opera “Taming of the Shrew” in 1953, and many other musical performances. Prior to being given their own homes, several Cincinnati organizations were housed in music hall including the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Cincinnati College of Music, the Cincinnati College of Engineering, and the television station WCET. The hall also housed a roller skating venue in one of the exposition halls for over 30 years, and was home to the"
"John Cranley John Joseph Cranley (born February 28, 1974) is the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a member of the Cincinnati City Council and a partner of City Lights Development. Cranley is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School and co-founder of the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Before his election as mayor, he was an attorney with the law firm of Keating Muething & Klekamp. Cranley was born in Green Township to John Joseph ""Jay"" Cranley (born 1946) and his wife, Susan (born"
"1985. Former lawyer, Cincinnati mayor/councilman, Ohio gubernatorial candidate, news anchor/commentator and current tabloid talk host Jerry Springer is a graduate of the Northwestern School of Law. Northwestern's School of Communication has been especially fruitful in the number of actors, actresses, playwrights, and film and television writers and directors it has produced. Alumni who have made their mark on film and television include Ann-Margret, Warren Beatty, Jodie Markell, Paul Lynde, David Schwimmer, Anne Dudek, Zach Braff, Zooey Deschanel, Marg Helgenberger, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Meghan Markle (later known in the United Kingdom as the Duchess of Sussex), Jerry Orbach, Jennifer Jones, Megan Mullally,"
"Cincinnati Opera Cincinnati Opera is an American opera company based in Cincinnati, Ohio and the second oldest opera company in the United States (after the New York Metropolitan Opera). Beginning with its first season in 1920, Cincinnati Opera has produced operas in the summer months of June and July with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's providing orchestral accompaniment. The company, originally named Cincinnati Opera Association, gave its first performance, Flotow's ""Martha"", on Sunday, June 27, 1920. During its early years, the company was under the direction of Ralph Lyford, an American composer and conductor whose single opera ""Castle Agrazant would receive"
"memorable moments from the original series. The series has gained a minor cult following but has yet to receive a DVD release. ""The New WKRP in Cincinnati"" revisits radio station WKRP, a station that had slowly climbed from near-last in the ratings to a top-10 station over the course of the original series under program director Andy Travis (unseen in this series), who was last seen drunk and collapsed on the floor of owner Lillian ""Mama"" Carlson (Carol Bruce) about to tell her off at the previous series end. With Travis gone, the station soon lapses into a dysfunctional, poorly"
"base to Cincinnati Music Hall, a 3,417-seat theater listed as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior. In its 2016 and 2017 seasons, while Music Hall was being restored and renovated, Cincinnati Opera performed throughout the Aronoff Center for the Arts instead. The Opera returned to Cincinnati Music Hall for its 2018 season, and has performed there since. James de Blasis became the company's Resident Stage Director in 1968. He then served as its General Director from 1973 to 1987. In 1988 he became its Artistic Director, a post which he held until 1996. Under his"
"call the police and blame all the theft on him. Glumly, Bob and Laetitia duet on whether to stay and face the charges or leave, and the persuasive Laetitia eventually wins the argument. Vindictively, they steal all of Miss Todd's valuables, including her car, and ride off together. Miss Todd returns to find her house empty and, realizing her life is now in ruins, collapses in grief after a final frantic aria. The Old Maid and the Thief The Old Maid and the Thief is a radio opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses"
"2011-2013, a New York City playwright and poet who frequently appears on the television show Oddities. Dominick Grimaldi is currently being played by Uncle Nino, a New York City celebrity who frequently appeared on ""Jersey Shore"", a reality TV Series. For the June 2012 production, Neil Gaiman appeared as Assistant Coroner and performed a duet of Makin' Whoopee with Amanda Palmer. Von Buhler, the coroner's office diorama, and the play's secret location were central to an episode of The Discovery Channel's reality television show Oddities. The episode titled ""A Gurney for Grandpa"" focuses on the televisions show's stars Mike Zohn"
"Cleveland newspaper, published a similar story, thus allowing ""The Plain Dealer"" to print the withheld story. The story turned out to be on former Mayor Michael R. White's federal corruption probe, which was leaked to the press by an attorney on the case. The second withheld story has yet to be revealed. On September 17, 2008, ""The Plain Dealer""'s music critic of 16 years, Donald Rosenberg, was told by the paper's editor, Susan Goldberg, that he would no longer be covering performances of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rosenberg had been critical of orchestral performances under its conductor Franz Welser-Möst, although his"
"as WMAQ's news director. Though Springer was once a two-term mayor of Cincinnati before becoming a news anchor for that city's NBC affiliate WLWT, his association with his infamous syndicated talk show (which, until 2009, was recorded at WMAQ's NBC Tower studios, and is now distributed by NBCUniversal through its syndication division) led to the belief that the newscast was being dumbed down. There were a handful of Springer supporters; nevertheless, the incident triggered a lot of negative publicity, on both the local and national levels. The station's longtime anchor team of Carol Marin and Ron Magers resigned in protest"
"Paul Dixon (entertainer) Paul Dixon (1918–1974) was a daytime television personality and talk show host in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began his career with radio shows in New York City and Chicago before being enticed to come to then-radio station WCPO in Cincinnati as a news reporter and announcer around 1945. He was chosen best newscaster in Cincinnati in 1947 after conducting an interview with men trapped in a collapsed building in downtown Cincinnati. Eventually abandoning radio news in favor of entertainment, he spent his first few years in television as host of ""Paul Dixon's Song Shop"", a three-hour daily show"
"The Old Maid and the Thief The Old Maid and the Thief is a radio opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses an English language libretto by the composer which tells a twisted tale of morals and evil womanly power. Menotti writes in the libretto ""The devil couldn't do what a woman can- Make a thief out of an honest man."" Commissioned by NBC, ""The Old Maid and the Thief"" was one of the earliest operas composed specifically for performance on the radio. Upon the opera's premiere in 1939, the work was received with"
"in Cincinnati, Ohio; the station manager of then-ABC affiliate WKRC-TV was watching Alice Cooper's segment and was so disgusted by it that he called the station's master control room and ordered the station to take it off the air. A rerun of ""Rawhide"" was hastily substituted; both WKRC and Cincinnati newspapers received numerous nasty phone calls in protest, which included several bomb threats against the station. The story became front-page news in Cincinnati newspapers for the next several days. In January 1973, both ""The Dick Cavett Show"" and ""In Concert"" became part of ABC's ""Wide World of Entertainment"" programming block."
"was pronounced dead at Miriam Hospital at the age of 74. The episode did not make air, with a special on Cianci airing in its timeslot on January 31. The Sunday morning public affairs program was then put on hiatus. On June 19, 2016, WLNE debuted ""In the Arena"", with former Providence mayor Joe Paolino, Jr. as host. A single episode may consist of a traditional one-on-one interview with Paolino and a political figure, or a round table of political analysts moderated by Paolino. The show's title is a reference to a passage in President Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a"
"commissions."" These include: The Mayor of New York City is an ex-officio board member of the following organizations: Local tabloid newspapers often refer to the mayor as ""Hizzoner"", a corruption of the title His Honor. ""Spin City"", a 1990s TV sitcom, starred Michael J. Fox as a deputy mayor of New York under Barry Bostwick's fictional Mayor Randall Winston. Several mayors have appeared in television and movies, as well as on Broadway, most notably in ""The Will Rogers Follies"". In the 1980s and '90s, Mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani appeared on ""Saturday Night Live"" on several occasions, sometimes mocking"
"heart attack at age 63 on February 4, 2004. He was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. The Cool Ghoul The Cool Ghoul was a popular radio and TV character and horror movie host in Cincinnati, Ohio, created and portrayed by Dick Von Hoene, a Cincinnati native. With his trademark shout ""Bleah, bleah, BLEAAAHHH!"" and his inimitable tongue-fluttering ""Bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl..."", The Cool Ghoul was an icon of Cincinnati television, radio and local pop culture for over four decades. When not donning the makeup and wig on the classic 1970s horror movie show ""Scream-In"", Von Hoene doubled as a news anchor"
"James Laski James J. ""Jim"" Laski (born 1954) was the City Clerk of Chicago, Illinois from 1995–2006. The former congressional aid and city alderman resigned from the City Clerk's office following his indictment for obstruction of justice due to his involvement in the city's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program. After serving a prison sentence, Laski became a controversial talk-radio host for a program that was broadcast on two Chicago-area radio stations. He also wrote a book about his experiences in Chicago politics and federal prison. Laski grew up on the southwest side of Chicago, a lifelong resident of Chicago's 23rd Ward."
"political career was put on hold. In the late 1980s, he played a major role in saving the historic Cincinnati Union Terminal. Springer considered running for the United States Senate in 2000 and 2004, but backed down due to negative associations with ""The Jerry Springer Show"". Springer's broadcast career started while he was an undergraduate at Tulane University, on WTUL New Orleans FM, a progressive format college radio station. It continued while he was still mayor of Cincinnati, with album-oriented rock radio station WEBN-FM, which was noted for its laid-back and irreverent radio format. The station featured commentaries by Springer"
"State University (BGSU). Among the musicians frequently heard is Pulitzer and Grammy winning composer Jennifer Higdon, who is an alumna of BGSU. Brad Cresswell Brad Cresswell is an American radio broadcaster and former opera singer who is currently based at WGTE-FM in Toledo, Ohio. He is also the creator and host of ""Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green"", a radio series sponsored by Bowling Green State University and syndicated internationally by The WFMT Radio Network. Since 2012 he has hosted the popular Opera Quiz intermission feature heard during the international Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. Born in Chicago, Cresswell"
"was terribly insensitive...to Indians... But it had to be dealt with in a way that was heartfelt and not obvious... In this case, it was with the permission of the heirs. They're terribly pleased with it."" Stone also altered the structure of the musical, beginning it with ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" and presenting the musical as a ""show within a show"". When the traveling Buffalo Bill's Wild West show visits Cincinnati, Ohio (""Colonel Buffalo Bill""§), Frank Butler, the show's handsome, womanizing star (""I'm a Bad, Bad, Man""§), challenges anyone in town to a shooting match. Foster Wilson, a"
"of Music have partnered to sponsor the project. The project acts as a program for composers or librettists to workshop an opera in a 10-day residency. This program is headed by the Director of Artistic Operations at Cincinnati Opera, Marcus Küchle, and the Head of Opera at CCM, Robin Guarino. Music-related events include the Cincinnati May Festival, Bunbury Music Festival, and Cincinnati Bell/WEBN Riverfest. Cincinnati has hosted the World Choir Games with the catchy mantra ""Cincinnati, the City that Sings!"" In 2015, Cincinnati held the USITT 2015 Conference and Stage Expo at the Duke Energy Convention Center, bringing 5,000+ students,"
"Civic Opera, the Symphony, football games and livestock parades. After a stint in the Navy, he was hired as the announcer of ""Vox Pop"", but in 1936, co-host Jerry Belcher left the program, and Butterworth took over as host. In 1939, the show moved from NBC radio to CBS radio. His work on ""Vox Pop"" led Butterworth to host and create other quiz programs, some of his own design. This continued from the late 1930s until the early 1960s. Butterworth lost a lawsuit against General Electric over a contract for a television quiz show which he felt was directly modeled"
"WKRP in Cincinnati WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta. Many of the characters and even some of the stories (including season 1 episode 7, ""Turkeys Away"") are based on people and events at WQXI. The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy (as Andy Travis), Howard Hesseman (Johnny Fever), Gordon Jump (Arthur Carlson), Loni Anderson (Jennifer Marlowe), Tim Reid"