Unprompted Chris Riva & Kathrine Nero

Lexie Dorsett Sharp grew up dreaming of Broadway. Now, she is living that dream. Sharp is a 2010 graduate of the prestigious College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She returned to Cincinnati as the female lead in the first national tour of School of Rock. This episode is a conversation about how the city has changed since her graduation, the crazy life of an always auditioning actor and what is like to meet Andrew Lloyd Webber.

So many school shootings. The Parkland, Florida shooting hit home for many parents and educators. It re-opens old wounds for Alissa Parker. Parker lost her daughter, Emilie, in the Sandy Hook shooting five years ago.

She has since co-founded Safe and Sound Schools organization. Here are Parker's lessons she shared with several Northern Kentucky School Officials. We asked - Are our kids safe? Should teachers carry guns in school? Are they ready if the unthinkable happens?

The Roebling Suspension Bridge is one of the most iconic sights in cincinnati ...

And in this episode of Unpmropted, Kathrine Nero and Chris Riva explore three different viewpoints of the bridge.




Just a block or so from the foot of the bridge in Covington is a store that's now Roebling Point Books and Coffee Company. The independent book store and publishing company started as the offices for John Roebling in the 1800's as the bridge was being built. 

Owner Richard Hunt sells and publishes books on Covington and CIncinnati history, and on the history of the Roeblings - and his famous bridge.

Next stop: a visit with Henry Peters at the Ascent at Roebling's Bridge. The swirling, contorted blue and white condo building was constructed as a modern, vertical equivalent to Roebling's Civil-War era bridge. Peters is with the non-profit group that makes sure the Roebling looks its best, mantaining the famous necklace lights that make this bridge so beautiful in pictures and video.

And that brings us to Dwayne Slavey, a photojournalist at WCPO 9 On Your Side and Dwayne Slavey Photography. Many of us have snapped a couple of pictures of the bridge on our phones, posted them to Instagram and called it a day. But Slavey takes a different angle; quite literally sometimes. Learn his tricks of the trade after years of taking photos and videos of one of the most photographed spots in Cincinnati and Covington.

A little more than two decades ago, a bunch of Cincinnati runners and business people got together with an idea that has turned into one of the most successful marathons in the country. The Flying Pig Marathon is talked about in the same breath as the New York, Boston and Chicago Marathons.




This year, we run and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Flying Pig. Iris Simpson Bush has been there for every mile. On this episode, How the Flying Pig got its name, why it is special for people that never run a mile and how the race has transformed into an iconic event in Cincinnati. Iris Simpson Bush is Unprompted.

Ken Anderson is the greatest quarterback in Bengal history. His stories are as legendary as his numbers are: from having a beer with Terry Bradshaw and Mean Joe Green (and missing the team bus as a result) to working under football royalty like Paul Brown and Bill Walsh.

He's retired from the game now, but he's back in Cincinnati to raise money for a cause special to his family.

In this episode - we talk about the big task he's taking on, why he thinks the quarterback position is different now, and his take on whether he should be a Hall of Famer.

Bengals great Ken Anderson is Unprompted.

How do you consume news? You might not think about it, but E.W. Scripps CEO Adam Symson and former CEO Rich Boehne think about it every day.

Boehne retired from the E.W. Scripps Company in August 2017. He started in the newspaper business and worked his way up to lead the company. Symson started an investigative journalist in television news and will continue to lead Scripps further into the digital age.

The world of journalism has changed dramatically, and it is changing faster than ever before. 

The CEOs talk news, podcasts and chicken nuggets as they go Unprompted.