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John Kiesewetter

Reporter · US

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · John Kiesewetter, WVXU

    WLWT-TV repeats Ruth Lyons film Sunday on her birthday (opens the original)

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    For more than 70 years WLWT-TV has launched the annual Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund drive on Oct. 4, Lyons' birthday. This year Channel 5 celebrates what would have been Lyons’ 121st birthday by airing the Emmy-winning 2011 documentary, Ruth Lyons: First Lady of Television, at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. From 1949 until her retirement in 1967, Lyons’ 90-minute noon live weekday 50-50 Club talk-variety show was Must See TV. All the great entertainers who came to town were on her show: Bob Hope, Sammy Davis

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · John Kiesewetter, WVXU

    WCET-TV celebrates Dr. O’dell Owens’ life and legacy Sept. 24 (opens the original)

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    Everyone WCET-TV interviewed for Be The Change: The O’dell Owens Story, which premieres 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, on Channels 48 and 16, had lots of great stories. “We could have done a six-part series,” says Kitty Lensman, president and CEO of WCET-TV and Dayton’s WPTD-TV. But the most compelling comments about Owens — who died in 2022 at age 74 — come from the man himself. A half-hour interview with Owens on WLWT-TV’s Let’s Talk Cincy, woven throughout the hour by director-producer Richard Wo

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · John Kiesewetter, WVXU

    Phil Donahue never forgot his Dayton roots (opens the original)

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    Talk show host Phil Donahue invented the issue-oriented talk show in the late 1960s because his TV station didn’t rein in his revolutionary ideas. Managers of WLWD-TV (now WDTN-TV) “allowed him to figure out who he was. The station didn’t hold him back because he did wild things,” said his widow, actress Marlo Thomas, during a dedication ceremony for a Phil Donahue historical marker outside the TV station Monday. Knowing that he couldn’t rely on big-name celebrities coming to Dayton, Donahue’s “

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · John Kiesewetter, WVXU

    'Phil Donahue Show' to be honored with historical marker (opens the original)

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    Nearly 60 years after the Phil Donahue Show premiered, the groundbreaking daytime talk show will be honored with a Dayton-area historical marker on Monday, Sept. 14. Donahue started as a local show on Nov. 6, 1967, on WLWD-TV (now WDTN-TV) on South Dixie Highway in the Dayton suburb of Moraine. The issues-driven talk show aired for 29 seasons from Dayton, and later Chicago (1974-85) and New York City (1985-96). Donahue, who died in 2024 at age 88, will be represented at the invitation-only cerem

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · John Kiesewetter, WVXU

    WCPO-TV GM Jeff Brogan out in Scripps leadership restructuring (opens the original)

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    Jeff Brogan, the Cincinnati native who has been WCPO-TV vice president and general manager since 2013, was among the 27 E.W. Scripps managers to lose their jobs Wednesday. “I was informed today by Scripps that my position is being eliminated as part of a broader effort to consolidate general manager roles across the company,” Brogan says. Channel 9 staffers were told Wednesday afternoon. Scripps on Wednesday introduced a new “Local Media leadership structure” in which the individual station mana

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