The Longest Name in Cincinnati News
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2014
- A career highlights montage of Cincinnati broadcasting legend Al Schottelkotte who's WCPO-TV news program led the tri-state ratings for 22 straight years from 1960-1982. Schottelkotte was a pioneer of the format of utilizing film, pictures, slides and interviews at a time when television news was a 15-minute "talking head" segment sandwiched between entertainment programs.
A half hour of Schottelkotte followed by a half hour of Cronkite. It was the most comprehensive and concise news coverage on television!
TheNewsfanatic Thank You! Very cool to hear...
Mary Jo--Your father was a part of my life growing up in Cincinnati! Thanks for sharing!
I love the fact that it wasn't the WCPO News or Channel 9 News but the "Al Schottelkotte News"! Can you imagine a station naming a newscast after the anchor these days?!!
I grew up in Cincinnati. Fell asleep hearing "Eleven o'clock, time for the Al Schottelkotte news!!
I grew up in Hamilton, and my Dad only watch his newscast. I can still hear it as clear as ever how the announcer said EEEEleven O'clock ;Time for Al Schottelkotte news time with pictures and sounds of today's events .. now AAAAAlL Schottelkotte.! My entire childhood. Awesome video!
He was the embodiment of a true news man & I am glad I grew up watching Al.
I loved Al! He was THE NEWSMAN! Its 11 0'clock in the Tri State, Time for The Al Schottelkotte News! Great times to have grown up. RIP Al!
BORN IN 1964 RAISED IN ELMWOOD PLACE N AL WAS WITHOUT A DOUBT A PART OF MY CHILDHOOD N MOSTLY REMEMBER HIM COVERING THE VIETNAM WAR.
He really was a legend. My Dad worked at WKRC radio and always had great stories of that world in the 70’s and 80’s. Went to Ursuline with one of his granddaughters too!
Nostalgic local news montages.🤗📺☎️From
those days when we had black and white analog TV,
and rotary telephones and our city buses had wide fishbowl windshields. THANKS FOR THE FONDLY FASCINATING MEMORIES, MARY JO! YO, YO DAD WAS
DA MAN FOR CINCINNATI NEWS!📰
I remember Al. I was born in 1954. My dad watched him every night on channel 9. The only bad thing was that I had to go to bed as soon as the news was over at 11:30
My favorite Al Schottelkotte story I head while touring the news studio with my dad in about 1982. During the broadcast, a man wandered in off the street and into the studio. He was yelling and approaching Al behind the news desk. Al hit the buttons to cut audio and video, and reached across the desk and decked the guy! Laid him out! Then he brought back the audio and video, and went back to doing the news. I'm not sure how accurate that story is, but I did hear it while I was at the WCPO studio. And "Big Al" was not actually a very big man. He was on the short side. But I guess he knew how to throw a punch.
Please find some more of this stuff for all of us. I absolutely love these videos
A name we know and love. He wasn't just our newsman. He was a trusted friend; and really, member of the family.
Growing up in Dayton my fave station was WCPO-TV with its wide variety of local programming. Naturally, we watched Mr. S. do the news and he was a true original. I well remember one night when he told of teens on one of parkways throwing litter into the street. He read the license number on the air and urged the parents to take the appropriate measures. Good for him!
Wow. That brought back some memories. Even though I worked for the competition everyone in Cincinnati respected Al & his team.
Thanks, Larry, for your very kind words. I hope it's fun for people to watch!
I remember Dad getting off the 2nd shift at Fisher Body and coming in the front
door in the middle of the 11:00 p.m. news... Al Schottelkotte and Jack Moran with
sports.
gooberclown My grandpa worked at Fisher body too.
Fisher Body northside ? Born and raised in Northside
I remember Al as a kid . We watched his news cast every night .
I just want to say that in the mid 60’s , me and my sister were pre teens, so we really weren’t news show watchers, but I still remember Al Schottelkotte . The reason why is that my sister and I ( we lived in Dayton ) would be so excited because we were allowed to stay up on Friday nights and watch Twilight Zone.We were so excited because we absolutely loved Twilight Zone, although it scared the jeehebees out of us. Plus we felt like ‘big girls’ to be able to stay up at night on Fridays. We also were huge Beatle Fans and also loved dreaming about the big city of Cincinnati because : 1. the Beatles performed at Crosley Field, and 2. Cincinnati was seen as ‘big exciting city’ compared to boring Dayton Ohio…So right after the ending of the Twlight Zone, The Al Schottlkotte News would come on and we thought we were so cool to be able to watch the News stories in Cincinnati, on channel 9. I always thought Al Schottlkotte was cool too , also his name…. Granted it was very rare that the reception would come in on our little small screen black and white TV, but to this day, The voice over :“It’s 11 OClock and time for the Al Schottlekotte News’ ….. takes me right back to that Friday night in 1966…
D Roberts, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and thank you kindly for sharing! Always interesting to me to hear the memories provoked :) Great story.
When I was growing up in the 70's I can't recall one neighbor in our town who didn't watch Al Schottelkotte. He was a staple of the tri-state. There will never be another like him again in our lifetime.
Oh Lord, it's now 2017 and I just found this UA-cam footage of Al Schottelkotte ! I remember Al so well, I grew up listening to his fine newscasts! I remember he was followed by Walter Cronkite. What a great hours of evening news from Al Schottelkotte and Walter Cronkite!!
I can remember when Al came on the 11:00 O'clock news to report the Who concert
tragedy. He said is own son was at the concert. That was really eerie.
A fantastic compilation and editing of the Al Schottelkotte News era in Cincinnati Television.
Thank you, Bonnie Speeg!
Al appeared as a sheriff in an episode of Gunsmoke as well as having a cameo as a newscaster in an episode of Gilligans Island. He also created the WCPO news department feom the ground up back in 1949.
For his cameo appearances, he was the "New Alfred Hitchcock", but a local Cincinnati version.
Al Schottelkotte was the King of Cincinnati Video News. Not only from behind his desk and using network feeds, but additionally with innovative local remote crews, trucks and on-the-scene reports.
If you were also a ham or short-wave radio fan and properly equipped, some of Al's most entertaining "broadcasts" were his limited-audience two-way radio channel exchanges with his remote crews and reporters, while in their truck on the way to a news scene, while on-camera taking earphone instructions, or while on the way back to the CPO studios to debrief and detail the assignment.
As I recall it, Al had a switch on his set which, when he pushed it, cut his mic audio from going to broadcast program TV air and put his audio on the remote channel. It was great listening, because you could hear him directing the set-up of subsequent shot(s). You could hear the discussion about what just aired. And, if someone screwed up, you'd hear, "EVERYBODY STAYS."
Whatever was discussed in the "EVERYBODY STAYS" meeting after the broadcast ended was likely not recorded... but the stories were that meeting was "lively," clear and unequivocal about what had aggravated Al.
Still my favorite newsman ever.
Thank you for posting this. "Big Al" was a fixture in our home as was Ch. 9. Wonderful memories.
PoxyBear Thank You!
Lol I loved the way it was introduced….eeeeleven o’clock, time for the Al Schottlekotte news, with Al Schottlekotte. Who else would the Al Schottlekotte news be delivered by? You know with a name like that, Zinzinnati would be the only proper home for him as staunch Germans that we were.
I guessed it was him.
Thank You for Sharing 😊
Al was THE news guy in Cincinnati for decades. All I see now is news readers.
Man! Al has spoken to everyone, even WEBN's then new mascot Tree B. Frog!
I grew up in Edgewood, KY and the news on channel 9 is what we watched both a 6 and at 11. I caddied for your father in the '62/63 time frame at Summit Hills CC in Edgewood. He did look a little different dressed for golf than on TV so I checked his name on the tag on the golf bag. I think the golf outing was sponsored by the Cincinnati Club but do not hold me to it.
WCPO news almost always had film to go with the story.
yep, Al Schottelkote WAS the news in Cinci!
Thanks for this clip Mary Jo You Dad was a big park of our house every night at dinner time. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you Mary KO for sharing your father with us! This brings back memories of sitting with my parents watching the news at eeeleven with All! They are no longer with me but always in my heart! Thanks again!
SHIELA TRIMBLE Glad you liked it, Shiela Trimble, thanks - and no worries about the typo ;)!
Wow! I grew on "Big Al" and Nick Clooney! REAL news!
Even those of outside of Reds-Town know Al Schottelkotte.
Forgive my memory lapse but I worked for one of Al's daughters...maybe you...at a call center job back in the early 90's.
If it was for Critical Mass Media, then a Jacor subsidiary, down by Lunken or over in Norwood, that was me!
Mary Jo, I remember when Al was covering the Who Tragedy. He interrupted the coverage to announce that he had just received word his son arrived home safely. Thought that was sooooo classy. Also remember his staff had every high school yearbook, so when someone died or was charged with a crime, he had their high school picture to use! Was very nervous getting mine taken for fear Al would someday use it!
RJB LOL, Ray! It's always fascinating to hear about people's emotional response to my father's work and his style, thank you for sharing. As I remember, that newsbreak was a mistake - my brother had called after the concert to let Dad know he was OK; he and his friends had been unaware of what was happening while they were inside enjoying the concert. My father thought he was receiving a bulletin about the concert, and they went live before he realized it was a personal update. He had to ad-lib and probably inadvertently revealed emotions he was usually careful to avoid in his reporting. Turns out, those who were viewing at the time were happy to see that side of him. For me, there is a parallel here to Cronkite's obvious emotion while reporting the assassination of Kennedy. But while that provided a boost in popularity for Cronkite toward the beginning of his news career; for my father, the Who Tragedy came toward the end of his popularity, and that "reveal" was not enough to sustain his appeal. Nick's warm and caring on-camera persona had already turned viewers. I didn't get to see that newsbreak and have not been able to locate footage of it, if it still exists. But it lives on in the memory of those who did, as something poignant in the midst of horrific tragedy.
My nickname was Al Schottelkotte because they say I was noisy. Lol
Good video ! The days when news reporting was professional and to the point, not like it is now..
1973 I was on Al's news, I was a young boy being interviewed after a house explosion. It happened in Highland Heights,Ky in September. If you have video or know how I can obtain video of this interview, I would love to show my kids. Who are adults now. Thanks
Your best bet is to call WCPO and ask them to check their archives. Or search the collection at the Cincinnati Historical Society in Union Terminal. Good luck!
Good grief.........Lets try this again. Your Dad was a big part of our house every night. Lol can you tell its late.
Nice picture at the end too!!
before the name came up, Shottlekote was the first name I thought of! yep. I was right.
Mary Jo, there was a lady by the name of Kristen Schottelkotte who used to work as a reporter at WKYC-TV in Cleveland several years ago. Is she related in some way to your family?
She would have to be related some way, yes! I don't know her though.
Sorry for the typo!
Thank you Firemandave911 & gooberclown!
Do you know anything about the kinetic music that was used for the 6pm and 11pm introductions? Since they had similar structures but set different moods (as did the music for the noon news that came later), I always wondered if it was a local composer that did them all, or if they just came from a music library.
I'm sorry but I don't know anything about that process. You might find the answer through the Historical Society Library, at the Union Terminal.
Does anyone on here know that Al had a part in a Gunsmoke episode. I think he was a kind of court clerk. Just a small part.
That was in 1964!
@@mjs9thChild My husband and I couldnt believe it. How did that come about, if you dont mind? Are you his daughter?
@@katydid1600 yes, I'm a daughter - one of six! He did Gunsmoke because the network bosses were trying to boost the show's ratings by seeding it with then popular local media personalities. He had fun though!
@@mjs9thChild I bet he did. Thanks for the info
he also was on gilligan's island.
Mary Jo - "Al was the best!!!"
Thanks, Greg!
Mary Jo, will you post the Gilligan's Island episode your dad was on?
Frank, I'm sorry to say I don't have a copy of that. It was actually just a voice over, as himself reporting on a murder the crew of the SS Minnow; he even ID'd WCPO with the sign off. You hear him twice during the episode. It would be great to have a copy of that!
@@mjs9thChild I don't know if you've seen this UA-cam clip, but the "Gilligan's Island" episode clip that has your father is here: ua-cam.com/video/lFZZloXBIcg/v-deo.html
I went to school with his twin grandsons I think? Long long time ago at St vivian. I still got a picture of them lol
Shawn Crump Not grandsons, Shawn, SONS - Mike & Will were #'s 11 and 12...the baby boys :)
Mary Jo Schottelkotte SONS? that is amazing, I never knew... hope all is well with them and your family, thanks for sharing
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Mary Jo--Might I have taught you in an English course at UC? Or was that one of your sisters...? Tracy Simmons
Hi Tracy, it was likely one of my sisters, I think. I was lucky enough to test out of Freshman English and I took several writing classes but I don't remember taking any English classes. Maybe you taught Martha or Amy?