Cincinnati is served by
The Cincinnati Enquirer, a daily newspaper. The city is home to several alternative, weekly, and monthly publications, as well as twelve television stations and many radio stations.
Free weekly print magazine publications include CityBeat[96] and Metromix, which have a local events and entertainment focus.
A Rage in Harlem was filmed entirely in the Cincinnati neighborhood of
Over the Rhine because of its similarity to
1950s Harlem.
Movies that were filmed in part in Cincinnati include
The Best Years of
Our Lives (aerial footage early in the film),
Ides of March,
Fresh Horses,
The Asphalt Jungle (the opening is shot from the
Public Landing and takes place in Cincinnati although only
Boone County, Kentucky is mentioned),
Rain Man,
Airborne,
Grimm Reality,
Little Man Tate,
City of Hope,
An Innocent Man,
Tango & Cash,
A Mom for Christmas,
Lost in Yonkers,
Summer Catch,
Artworks,
Dreamer,
Elizabethtown,
Jimmy and Judy,
Eight Men Out,
Milk Money,
Traffic,
The Pride of Jesse Hallam,
The Great Buck Howard,
In Too Deep,
Seven Below Public Eye,
The Last Late Night,[97] and
The Mighty.[98] In addition,
Wild Hogs is set, though not filmed, in Cincinnati.[99]
The Cincinnati skyline was prominently featured in the opening and closing sequences of the daytime drama
The Edge of Night from its start in
1956 until
1980, when it was replaced by the
Los Angeles skyline; the cityscape was the stand-in for the show's setting,
Monticello.
Procter & Gamble, the show's producer, is based in Cincinnati. The sitcom
WKRP in Cincinnati and its sequel/spin-off
The New WKRP in Cincinnati featured the city's skyline and other exterior shots in its credits, although was not filmed in Cincinnati. The city's skyline has also appeared in an
April Fool's episode of
The Drew Carey Show, which was set in
Carey's hometown of
Cleveland.
3 Doors Down's music video "
It's Not My Time" was filmed in Cincinnati, and features the skyline and
Fountain Square. Also,
Harry's Law, the
NBC legal dramedy created by
David E. Kelley and starring
Kathy Bates, was set in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati has given rise to popular musicians and singers
Doris Day,
Dinah Shore,
Fats Waller,
Rosemary Clooney,
Bootsy Collins,
The Isley Brothers,
Merle Travis,
Hank Ballard,
Otis Williams,
Mood,
Midnight Star,
The Afghan Whigs, Over the Rhine,
Blessid Union of Souls,
Freddie Meyer,
98 Degrees,
The Greenhornes,
The Deele,
Enduser,
Heartless Bastards,
The Dopamines,
Adrian Belew,
The National,
Foxy Shazam, Why?, and
Walk the Moon, and alternative hip hop producer Hi-Tek calls the
Greater Cincinnati region home.
Andy Biersack, the lead vocalist for the rock band
Black Veil Brides, was born in Cincinnati.
WCET channel 48, now known as
CET, is the nation's oldest licensed public television station (
License #1, issued in 1951).[
101]
The
Cincinnati May Festival Chorus is an amateur choir that has been in existence since
1880.
Music Director James Conlon and Chorus
Director Robert Porco lead the Chorus through an extensive repertoire of classical music.
The May Festival Chorus is the mainstay of the oldest continuous choral festival in the
Western Hemisphere. Cincinnati's
Music Hall was built specifically to house the May Festival. The city is home to the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati
Boychoir and
Cincinnati Ballet. The Greater Cincinnati area is also home to several regional orchestras and youth orchestras, including the
Starling Chamber Orchestra and the
Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.
The Hollows series of books by
Kim Harrison is an urban fantasy that takes place in Cincinnati.
American Girl's
Kit Kittredge sub-series also took place in the city, although the film based on it was shot in
Toronto.
Cincinnati also has its own chapter (or "
Tent") of
The Sons of the Desert (The
Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society), which meets several times per year.[102]
A previous mayor of Cincinnati,
Mark Mallory, was featured on
CBS's
Undercover Boss.
The
Cincinnati Police Department was featured on
TLC's
Police Women of Cincinnati and on
A&E;'s reality show
The First 48.
Cincinnati is the subject of a
Connie Smith song written by
Bill Anderson, called
Cincinnati, Ohio (song).
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