Al Schottelkotte
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Al Schottelkotte in 1984
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Albert Joseph Schottelkotte March 19, 1927 Cheviot, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 1996 (aged 69) Lawrenceburg, Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Television news anchor/reporter, journalist (print and radio journalist in early career) |
| Years active | 1943–1994 |
Albert Joseph "Al" Schottelkotte (/ˈʃɒtəlkɒti/ SHOT-əl-kot-ee; March 19, 1927 – December 25, 1996) was an American news anchor and reporter for Cincinnati's WCPO-TV for 27 years, rising through the executive ranks at WCPO and later the Scripps Howard Foundation until his death in December 1996.
Schottelkotte grew up in the western Cincinnati suburb of Cheviot. His news career began on his 16th birthday in 1943 while a sophomore in high school. During the height of World War II he was hired as a copy boy for The Cincinnati Enquirer. One month later he was promoted to general assignment reporter, making Schottelkotte the youngest journalist at that time for any major American newspaper. He ultimately attended three high schools, including St. Xavier, but left without graduating to focus on journalism.
In 1950, he began a two-year stint in the Army, serving in Korea giving lectures on current affairs. This experience, upon his return to Cincinnati, led to Schottelkotte's being hired by WSAI radio to anchor their evening newscast. He returned to the Enquirer and became a full-time columnist with his "Talk of the Town" column, which lasted several years.
Ten years after WCPO-TV went on the air in 1949, general manager Mort Watters encouraged Schottelkotte to move to television, giving him the task of organizing the station's first news department, consisting of editor Marvin Arth, photographer Frank Jones, and Schottelkotte himself as news director and anchor for their 11 p.m. newscast. For a time, Schottelkotte continued to write for the Enquirer, but by 1961 he had abandoned print journalism to focus on broadcasting.
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