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.
Volumes 1 2, and 3 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 look at
Al’s career with another Cincinnati broadcast icon
Volume 3 of Al Schottelkottke’s Cincinnati History was released in November, 2007.
Highlights of Volume 3:
• Dan Ransohoff’s “Cincinnati Algorithm.”
• The “Great Flood” of 1937.
• The Taft Political Dynasty.
• Profile of Ival Goodman, Al’s favorite 1940s-era Cincinnati Red.
• The 1946 Cincinnati Bearcats’ football team.
• The last days and rebirth of the Albee Theater.
• Controversy surrounding “Cincinnatus,” the Cincinnati Bicentennial Mascot.
• You-Bert, Young-Bert, and You-Bert, Jr., the walking metal men of Crosley Field fame.
• Saving cash with Kash D. Amburgy.
• A shopping trip through Swallen’s.
• Riverfront Stadium converts from baseball to football.
• The Sander Hall “monument.”
• A perilous drive up US Rt. 27, the “Highway to Heaven.”
• In-depth 1991 conversation between Al and another Cincinnati broadcasting legend, Nick Clooney.
• Interviews with Elaine Green and Tom McKee, two of Al’s WCPO-TV colleagues.
“11 o’clock, Al Schottelkottke news time. The color films, pictures and accounts of today’s events from the station where news is first!”
