John Kiesewetter
TV/Media ReporterExpertise: Broadcasting, movies and media
Education: Ohio University
Favorite Tri-State Neighborhood: Fairfield, where I’m within walking distance to Jungle Jim's!
Highlights
- Covered broadcasting for 30 years for the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the last 8 years for Cincinnati Public Radio
- Traveled to Los Angeles to preview TV shows and visit studios three dozen times
- Author of Joe Nuxhall: The Old Lefthander & Me, about the former Reds broadcaster and pitcher
- Was the Enquirer's county government reporter, suburban news editor, and Tempo (lifestyle/entertainment) section editor before becoming TV columnist in 1985
Experience
TV/Media reporter John Kiesewetter joined Cincinnati Public Radio in 2015 after 40 years with the Cincinnati Enquirer as a reporter, suburban editor, regional editor, features editor and TV columnist. John is a past board member of the Television Critics Association. He lives in Fairfield with his wife, Sue, a freelance reporter for the Enquirer. John's first book, Joe Nuxhall: The Old Lefthander & Me, was published in fall 2021.
Education
The Middletown, Ohio, native interned four summers at the Middletown Journal while studying journalism at Ohio University, where he was editor of The Post, the independent weekday student newspaper, his senior year (1975).
About WVXU
The central pillar of Cincinnati Public Radio’s local network — accounting for the lion’s share of its 211,000 listeners each week — 91.7 WVXU is among the most reliable media institutions in the Tri-State region. Our mission is to always be a trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture, empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Why trust us
Our team of reporters and editors have decades of experience writing and reporting the news. Our first responsibility is to our listeners and readers. There is no connection between our funding and editorial decisions. When we do cover a funding partner, a disclosure will be mentioned on-air and online. We take pride in our work, editing and fact-checking every story. If an article warrants a correction, we will immediately correct it and explain the correction for complete transparency.
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Gannett owns the Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, USA TODAY, Louisville Courier-Journal and Indianapolis Star.
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The original Reds' TV flagship station will broadcast the Opening Day game Thursday, March 28, for the first time since 1995.
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The visionary executive who made Fox 19 News a major player in Cincinnati TV news is returning to Orlando.
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The 40-year WKRC-TV veteran, who retired in 2022, died Tuesday morning from health complications that started with pneumonia.
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Two new podcast series look back at how close the Reds came to the playoffs in 1964 with Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson, and in 1999 with Sean Casey, Greg Vaughn and Barry Larkin.
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Bengals TV package including Bengals Nation, From the Jungle and August preseason games are moving to WXIX-TV in a new multi-year deal announced Monday.
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'Schoolboy' is based on several attempts to write a book and long interviews with Hoyt, the 1920s New York Yankees pitcher who broadcast Reds games 1942-65. He died in 1984.
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Black mothers marched for two years through Hillsboro streets after the school board ignored the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 'Brown v. Board of Education' ruling to integrate schools.
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The Golden Globe winner will film 'Alarum' for a week in Uptown Oxford, including a special effects fireball scene.
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The movie about Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign was shot here two years ago.