The Cincinnati Times-Star

File:The (Cincinnati) Star, January 2, 1875.pdf

The Times-Star first published on June 15, 1880, after the merger of The Times (founded April 25, 1840, as Spirit of the Times) and The Cincinnati Daily Star (founded in 1872 as The Evening Star). Charles Phelps Taft had purchased both papers the previous year,{{cite web|title=A Complete History of Our Building...|publisher=Hamilton County Court of Domestic Relations|date=July 26, 2010|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://www.hamilton-co.org/domestic/History/completehistory.html}} and named his brother, Peter Rawson Taft II, publisher.

The Times-Star strongly supported political boss George B. Cox, to the embarrassment of Charles Phelps Taft's half-brother, progressive reformer and future President William Howard Taft.

On November 23, 1895, the Times-Star ran an editorial proposing a contest to choose a flag for the City of Cincinnati, offering a $50 prize.{{cite book|title=American City Flags: 150 Flags from Akron to Yonkers|first1=John M.|last1=Purcell|first2=James A.|last2=Croft|first3=Rich|last3=Monahan|volume=1|publisher=North American Vexillological Association|year=2003|pages=77–78|isbn=0974772801|url=http://www.nava.org/sites/default/files/NAVA_Raven_v09-10_2002-2003_p057-108_C-E.pdf#page=21|format=PDF}}{{cite book|title=A history of the schools of Cincinnati|first=John Brough|last=Shotwell|publisher=The School Life Company|year=1902|page=606|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C44AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA606|quote=In 1897 the Times Star Co., by offering a prize of $50, had Mayor Caldwell receive designs for a city flag. ... The flag was never officially adopted, being voted down in the Board of Legislature as undemocratic. Nevertheless, the flag is popular and is universally used.}} On January 24, 1896, the commission awarded the $50 to influential illustrator Emil Rothengatter for the design that is in use today.

The newspaper's offices were originally located on Sixth and Walnut streets.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WR4DAAAAMBAJ&q=Cincinnati+Times-Star+Building&pg=PA56 | title=Hulbert Taft's Missing Editorial | work=Cincinnati Magazine | date=December 1984 | access-date=27 November 2013 | author=Hurter, Jerry | pages=56}} On January 1, 1933, the Times-Star moved into the 16-story Cincinnati Times-Star Building on Broadway.

In 1939, the Times-Star purchased WKRC radio from CBS"Times-Star buys WKRC, Cincinnati." Broadcasting - Broadcast Advertising, September 1, 1939, pg. 34. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/39-OCR/1939-09-01-BC-0034.pdf]"WKRC's transfer approved by FCC." Broadcasting - Broadcast Advertising, December 1, 1939, pg. 36. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/39-OCR/1939-12-01-BC-0036.pdf] and subsequently became an affiliate and shareholder of the Mutual Broadcasting System through subsidiary Radio Cincinnati.{{cite book|last=Robinson|first=Thomas Porter|title=Radio Networks and the Federal Government|location=New York|publisher=Arno Press|year=1979|orig-year=1943|isbn=0-405-11772-8|page=29}}

In 1952, Hulbert Taft, Sr., owner and publisher of the Times-Star, attempted to acquire The Cincinnati Enquirer from its owner, a Washington D.C.–based trust. A bidding war ensued when Enquirer employees pooled their assets in order to make a counter offer. The offer was accepted by the trust, and the attempted acquisition was unsuccessful.

On August 3, 1958, the Times-Star was sold to Scripps-Howard Newspapers, owners of The Cincinnati Post, which by then had also purchased the Enquirer. Hulbert Taft Sr. was reportedly the only family member who opposed the sale.{{cite magazine|title=The Press: Death of the Times-Star|magazine=Time|date=August 4, 1958|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,863656,00.html}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/104679746/?terms=Hulbert%2BTaft%2C%2BSr|title=Death Signs Last '30' for Hulbert Taft Sr, 81|date=January 20, 1959|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=1}} Radio Cincinnati was reorganized as Taft Broadcasting. The Post moved into the Times-Star Building and published under the name The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star until December 31, 1974, when it reverted to The Cincinnati Post.

• Edith Evans Asbury{{spaced ndash}} reporter for The New York Times
• Fred Burns{{spaced ndash}} tennis commentator
• E. A. Bushnell{{spaced ndash}} political cartoonist
• George Elliston{{spaced ndash}} journalist
• James W. Faulkner{{spaced ndash}} political journalist
• Haven Gillespie{{spaced ndash}} typesetter; later a composer and lyricist
• James Isaminger{{spaced ndash}} sportswriter
• Earl Lawson{{spaced ndash}} sportswriter
• Mayo Mohs{{spaced ndash}} author
• Charles Murphy{{spaced ndash}} sportswriter; later owner of the Chicago Cubs
• Raymond Gram Swing{{spaced ndash}} radio commentator

• Peter Rawson Taft II
• Hulbert Taft Sr.
• Hulbert Taft Jr.
• David Sinton Ingalls

• Cincinnati Times-Star Building

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• Bibliographic information at Chronicling America:
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024974/ About Spirit of the times. 1840-1841]
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025759/ About The Cincinnati Daily Star. 1875-1880]
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045681/ About The Times. 1879-1880]
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045114/ About Cincinnati Times-Star. 1880-1887]
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077448/ About The Times-Star. 1887-1893]
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077449/ About The Cincinnati Times-Star. 1893-1958]

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