Buerck was mired in controversy after being caught on tape in March 2002 in conversation with Doug Mink, when he said "because of the changes that we've made in redistricting to help Jim Raussen, we essentially took 13,000 African Americans out of the Raussen district and put 14,000 Republicans in." The tape was aired by news station WCPO-TV (Channel 9).
Chip worked at WCPO-TV as a cameraman, then at TheBankMart in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Mink began his television career with his own weekly show on WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become one of his many trademarks along with his straw boater hat.
A video with audio of a WCPO-FM legal ID can be seen on YouTube.