Paul Poteet has worked is last “Caturday” at WKRC-TV.
After 40 years as forecaster, mostly in Indiana, Poteet is leaving his Channel 12 Saturday-through-Wednesday morning TV job after nine years to free up his weekends for the grandkids — or whatever he decides to take on next.
“I’m cutting out working on the weekends. That’s the main reason. I have no beef with Local 12,” says Poteet, 63, who has filled his Saturday morning forecasts with photos of cats submitted by the audience.
What most viewers don’t know is that the entrepreneurial Poteet is the hardest-working man in Cincinnati show business — although most of his gigs are back home in Indiana, where he grew up.
- From his Maineville basement office (“Studio B”), he’ll continue providing recorded weekday weather forecasts for 14 radio stations in five Indiana and Ohio markets, from Indianapolis and Lafayette to Muncie and Lima.
- He also records (or “voice tracks”) a 6-10 a.m. weekday morning show on WLQQ-FM (106.7) in Lafayette, Ind., and a 3-7 p.m. weekday afternoon drive show on WERK-FM (104.9) in Muncie, Ind.
- On the weekends, he hosts three voice-tracked shows on stations carrying the Local Radio Network, an Indiana company that provides 19 different 24/7 music formats. He’s a classic country DJ 8 p.m.-midnight weekend evenings, and DJs a classic rock show 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays. All can be recorded during the week to free up his weekends.
- Twice a week, Poteet provides recreational and weather videos for the Smokey Mountains area for visitmysmokies.com.
- He’s a print guy, too. Poteet is part owner of the Hamilton County Register, a weekly newspaper and website for the Noblesville area north of Indianapolis.
- Poteet also does voice-overs and narrations for marketing and industrial films and commercials. He narrates the Indianapolis Zoo’s dolphin show. Poteet also is the voice for the Indianapolis-based Family Leisure stores selling patio furniture, swimming pools, hot tubs and game-room products. The company started as Watson’s in Cincinnati in the late 1960s.
“Even though he’s technically full-time for us, we’re not the main source of his income. Paul is a renaissance man,” says John Gumm, WKRC-TV chief meteorologist.
How does he do it all in 24 hours?…