WCPO, Channel 9 (Cincinnati)

WCPO-TV ("ABC 9") is a broadcast television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It broadcasts on analog channel 9 and digital channel 10. The station first signed on the air on July 26, 1949 as Cincinnati's third television station. It's notable for having been the scene of a major news story when a terrorist seized control of WCPO's newsroom in 1980.

James Hoskins, a radical, held reporter Elaine Green and her cameraman at gunpoint in the parking lot of WCPO's studios. Then after barging his way into the newsroom, he took seven more hostages. An admitted terrorist, Hoskins stated in a videotaped interview with Green that he had, among other things, murdered his girlfriend before arriving at the studios. After voicing his displeasure with local government, Hoskins ended by saying that he would let his hostages go, but only after they helped him to barricade himself in their newsroom in anticipation of a violent shootout with police. Green and the others pleaded with Hoskins to get help, but to no avail.

WCPO's news staff ran special newscasts from the parking lot most of that morning. True to his word, Hoskins eventually let all the hostages go, and the standoff ended later that morning when Hoskins shot himself dead while on the phone with SWAT negotiators.