Mark Wert

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QUESTION: I sometimes watch The First 48 reality TV show. When it is about Cincinnati police, a view of Cincinnati is shown from the Kentucky side. There is a big lighted CINCINNaTI sign that looks great. I am a Cincinnati native but now I live in Mason, and I do not go Downtown often. I have asked people and they say there is no such sign. Is there and if so where is it?

- Pat Drummond, Mason

ANSWER: Yes, Pat, there is a giant Cincinnati sign downtown, although the best view is probably from Price Hill.

The sign – which spells the city as CiNCiNNaTi – can be seen day or night. But it really pops out when the lights are on, as they have been virtually every night since January 2006. It's installed on the expanded Duke Energy Center's west facade - hence the view is better from the west, than the south. The sign, actually a series of white screens illuminated from underneath by lights, often is lit up with seasonally appropriate colors for the Reds, the Bengals or the holidays. Right now, the lights are red, for example.