BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | JKIESEWETTER@
ENQUIRER.COM
Growing up in Price Hill in the 1940s, Bill Myers had heard a lot about
that magical electronic marvel called television.
Pictures coming through the air!
Finally in 1948 three years after World War II ended he saw images on a
10-inch black-and-white TV screen in Faiths Appliance Store window in
South Fairmont. WLWT-TV, the citys first TV station, was on the air.
TV had been promised for years, but put on hold for World War II. It was
euphoric, says Myers, who was 14 at the time and went on to work at WLWT
for 30 years.
WLWT-TV celebrates its 60th anniversary this week, to mark becoming
NBC-TVs second affiliate. The station also telecast the first Cincinnati
Reds Opening Day game and debuted the Midwestern Hayride country music
show 60 years ago this week.
As the infant sister to WLW-AM, The Nations Station with three
orchestras and dozens of writers, producers and performers Crosley
Broadcasting had the technology and resources to launch TV.
