This is the Catholic Diocese newspaper. I'm not sure if there's a difference in the N KY version…read moreand the Cinn. version, but it's the Covington paper that I've seen. Contains news, features, bios of important Catholic events and personalities. The paper is printed weekly except the summer months, when it's printed bi-weekly. I think the paper could use a little pizzaz, but hey, it's a church newsletter/publication, right?

Since I don't work downtown, I don't see this weekly free paper often, but I do occasionally pick…read moreit up in Covington and other areas. It has some interesting feature articles from time to time, but not the overall appeal of Cin Weekly or City Beat. A smaller paper, it has at least two business, art, sports, lifestyle, gossip and opinion columns or stories in each issue. The photography is really good, I think. The paper also has events pages and I like the short Q&A of a downtown employee or resident. I think recently they changed it up to feature a male and female each issue.

Media Bridges is a local non-profit that provides access and education to the community on…read moretechnology and technology resources. They just recently moved downtown on Race and Central Parkway. The center offers free classes to the community on things such as video production, graphic design, web design, Once someone has taken classes there, they can have access to use the electronics and equipment that Media Bridges owns. They also produce programming on their four local access channels for many local organizations. They pride themselves on being one of the many organizations that have moved into Over the Rhine to help it's revitalization and growth as a booming cultural and arts neighborhood. I am actually looking into taking some classes there soon. I hear that they are somewhat hard to get into as they are free!

Ever wanted to make your own TV show... for FREE?! You can do it here…read more Media Bridges is a non-profit cable station located at Race and Central Parkway. If you are a Cincinnati resident, you can come here to learn how to create your own television show and have it broadcast. How so? 1.) Call up Media Bridges. Ask to signup for their television classes. They also have radio classes if music is more your thing. 2.) Attend the required classes and learn how to use the equipment. Ask questions! 3.) Once you are proficient, you can borrow video cameras, use the station's television studio or radio pod to create your own show. Media Bridges also has several editing suites so that you can put together your show and add graphics and effects. 4.) When you have a completed show, you can burn it to DVD and schedule it for broadcast. Pretty cool, eh? Media Bridges is community centric and promotes freedom of speech. As long as your message is tastefully produced, you can make a show about anything: hobbies, cartoons, talk show, politics, music, religion... your imagination is the limit.

Cin Weekly is my favorite weekly paper. I enjoy all the event info, the restaurant and bar reviews,…read moreand the Cin Cook feature each week. I also like to read the responses to You Tell Us and the responses to the staff question of the week. Quite a witty bunch of staffers! I'm not as crazy about the web site. It's nothing in particular; I just prefer the print version.

I really enjoy reading CINweekly. They have a well rounded paper that covers so many aspects of the…read moreCincinnati community. They always have very interesting feature articles. A few weeks ago I really enjoyed an article about the different ways to commute to work as I'm considering my options with the current gas prices. Then this past week there was a whole Fringe Festival edition of the paper. They always have interesting staff questions of the week and really make a point to have the staff be really visible to the readers. It's a great alternative paper to City Beat and the Enquirer. It picks up where they left off nicely. Also the crossword puzzle is always fun yet a challenge!

They don't play enough songs. It's mostly just ads, pretty much all they do is talk the whole time.read more

I have enjoyed listening to Q102 but don't understand why they keep repeating the audio of the lady…read morethat called 911 when his house had been broken into. She had to have been terrified of her daughter's safety plus Joe Burrows lives locally and I wish this radio station would respect his privacy. i am assuming the person that decided to give names of the house sitter and keeps repeating such a horrible event doesn't have kids.

Without Statman, I will no longer listen to B-105. I was sad about Ashley, but totally do not…read moreunderstand Statman's departure. Hubbard is losing their fan base with stupid decisions.

Well I have nothing to but wonderful things to say about this radio station. Me and my now husband…read morewere married by Statman on Halloween 2010. They were running a contest to get married at St. Rita's haunted house on Halloween weekend. I sent in a small email explaining how we had been trying to get married for 2 years now, but had been laid off from our jobs and just didn't have the extra money to do the way we wanted. When Statman called us to let us know we won, we were so excited. B105 had everything setup. They brought flowers, cake, a tent and chairs, a makeup person to do any ones makeup for Halloween, a photographer and of course they brought Statman to marry us. I felt that they were more than generous with the whole thing. We had the time of our life and are still happily married! THANKS B105 and STATMAN!!

I like to listen to mojo 100.3 occasionally. This station identifies itself as r&b and classic…read moresoul; some radio station lists classify it as urban adult contemporary. In addition to their regular playlist, they have Gospel music on Sunday mornings. They were also one of the sponsors of the 1st Soul Food Festival in May at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds.

My favorite radio station, they play all the old school hits to get my day going. This is the only…read morestation I enjoy listening to and trying to win prizes and money as well.

I listen to the morning programs several times a week and learn from these discussions - which…read moreoften have point-counterpoint. however, I was absolutely appalled by the discussion pertaining to birds and protecting them. First of all, I love birds and feed them regularly in my yard and offer them fresh water and some habitat opportunities. I also care for fixed, vaccinated stray cats and contrary to the false claims by the bird people, they are NOT the No. 1 cause of massive loss of birds! Studies by the bird conservationists people, debunked long ago by the Humane Society of the United States and many others, continue to surface. "No empirically driven estimate un-owned cat abundance exists for the U.S." (HSUS) "There is no evidence that cat predation harms bird species at the population level, or that cat predation has ever affected the survival of an endangered bird species in the continental U.S. Habitat and sport hunting" have impacted lots of bird species As one bird conservationist noted: There is more bird diversity in Central Park in NYC than in Yellowstone - and aren't there a whole lot more domestic cats in the suburbs than in Yellowstone? Leading scientists from various disciplines note that climate change, habitat destruction and development are the leading causes of species loss. In fact, loss of birds due to cat predation ranks around 10th or so on the list of leading causes. Get it right!! And please present these viewpoints as well!!

I don't really have high praise for radio of any kind - there is just so much out there now that…read moreyou can download as a podcast and listen to on your own time, instead of wasting it on someone blathering on and on or commercial interruption - but WVXU is a solid National Public Radio (NPR) station that hosts a breadth of programming from NPR, PRI, and American Public Media. There are really three public radio stations in town - WVXU, WGUC, and WNKU - and, up until about a year ago, they were all broadcasting some part of the NPR slate. But then WGUC (the University of Cincinnati station) and WVXU (the Xavier station) combined forces, and VXU took over all of the national NPR programming and GUC focused it's efforts on classical. WNKU (Northern Kentucky University's station) then dropped a lot of it's programming that VXU was also airing, and started focusing more of it's efforts on more eclectic offerings and local programming. And that's where WVXU fails - there isn't much local or original programming coming out of Cincinnati Public Radio that provokes any interest - NKU and even WYSO in Yellow Springs have much more dynamic original programming.