WCPO By The Numbers
Last Update: 2/21/2007 11:10 am
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345: Number of people who have worked at Channel 9 News since 1959 (as of Tuesday, March 19, 2002)
3: Size of the original Channel 9 News staff in when it was launched in 1959
1960: Year WCPO obtained our first news car, a Ford Galaxy
1996: The year WCPO switched from CBS network affiliation to ABC network affiliation
1967: Year WCPO introduced the first news helicopter to the area
3: Number of helicopters that have been owned by WCPO (Newsbird, Chopper9 and one other)
3: Number of Peabody Awards won by 9News
1974: Year 9News introduced portable videotape cameras to Cincinnati
1975: Year 9News aired Cincinnati's first microwave live newscast
22: Consecutive years 9News was the area's top-rated newscast
1967: Year WCPO-TV moved to the 5th and Central location in downtown Cincinnati from Walnut Hills location
71.5: Number of hours it took to edit WCPO's "Treasures for a Queen" 21-minute-long television special (Aired in 2001)
154: Number of hours it took to edit WCPO's "Celebrate As One" 48-minute-long television special (Aired in 2002)
62: Number of 30-minute tapes used to produce the "Celebrate As One" television special
80: Number of people who worked on the "Celebrate As One" television special
5: Number of sets of scripts are used during a regularly scheduled WCPO-TV newscast (One for the Chyron operator, one for the main anchor, one for the co-anchor, one for the producer and one for the director)
8-10: Average number of different camera shots in a 30-second commercial that airs on WCPO-TV
+/- 170: Number of compact disks in WCPO's music library (as of March 19, 2002)
8: Number of directors employed by WCPO-TV to direct television newscasts (as of March 19, 2002)
Approx. 91,000: Total miles driven by our WCPO's current satellite truck (as of October 22, 2002 per John Heheman)
84,352: Number of feet of videotape purchased by WCPO in 2001
18250: Number of FCC log pages per year
Many thanks to the following people for compiling the information above:
Al White, WCPO's first news director
Peter Kasprzycki, WCPO producer/director
Bernie Borden, WCPO employee
Greg Reams, WCPO engineer
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