I originally scribbled:
- WNOP's studios were *IN* the Ohio river! -- floating in the
-river, which happens to be almost completely "owned" by the
-state of Kentucky.

....and then after asking for citation, on Fri, 7 Jul 2006 at
04:59 -0000, Steve Sobol indicated which part:
-The part about Kentucky owning the Ohio River.

Kentucky is an older state (admitted to union in 1792) than Ohio
(1803), which may explain why it owns the river up to the low water-
line on the Ohio shore's side. Thus the Kentucky highway department
paints the bridges with "wrong" colors and boaters are required to
get Kentucky licenses. Not to mention why Kentucky seems to habitu-
ally name bridges over the "Ohio" river with the most tongue-twisting
names of assorted old Frankfort politicians and newspaper guys. (Try
saying "Brent Spence Bridge" fast five times in a row!)

It's probably more correct legally to say that Kentucky's owner-
ship dates to its originally having been a county or district of Vir-
ginia. When Virginia ceded its claim to the old Northwest Territory
to the federal government in the 1780s, presumably it kept the river
along with lands to the south of it. Thus Kentucky inherited title
to about 98% of the river. In the 1980s Ohio sued Kentucky in the
U.S. Supreme Court to try to change the situation. The Supreme Court
appointed a 'special master' to handle the case; he decided in Ken-
tucky's favor.

As for the late and lamented 'Jazz Ark,' another poster answered
that one already. I believe there was also mention of it on the
special memorial program on April 30th broadcast on the new WVXU
(owned and operated since August 2005 by the local classical music
station) which paid tribute to the late Oscar Treadwell. Several
local DJs reminisced about Treadwell, who passed away in April of
this year.

If I didn't mention it in an earlier posting, I'll note that for
31 years Treadwell was the "Nat Hentoff" of Cincinnati jazz. He had
a long-running, daily two-hour radio program of jazz music and poetry
reading on WGUC which was originally called The Eclectic Stop Sighn.
(There might've been two 'p's in "Stop.") Treadwell started out at
WNOP in 1965 after moving here from Philadelphia, and from then on
he was the resident jazz expert and historian.

To get back to the main topic, the floating radio studio was a
WNOP feature during the 1970s and '80s. I think they abandoned it
due to high costs in repairing the occasional but inevitable prob-
lems and damages. (Storms, runaway barges, and so forth.)
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