[1] The tower is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, though the company owns an additional tower in Mount Auburn for its main station in the area, CBS affiliate WKRC-TV (next to WSTR and WKRC's studios).

In 1988, Hoker Broadcasting Company, then owner of WOFX-FM and WSTR-TV ("Star 64"), purchased a site in College Hill from a developer who had planned to build self-storage lockers.

[2][3] The following year, nearby residents sued to stop the project out of concern that the tower would be an eyesore.

Hoker settled with the group in 1991, agreeing to restrictions on how the land surrounding the tower could be developed.

It increased WSTR's transmitting power by 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) and added 1 million potential viewers.