During the 1990s, KOCO developed the first automated weather warning system for television use, and was the first in the country to send storm photographs over cellular telephone (both earned the station a Regional News Emmy Award) and to have a mobile Doppler radar system.
Argyle Television Holdings II acquired KOCO and Cincinnati, Ohio sister station WLWT in January 1997, through a trade deal that sent fellow ABC affiliate WZZM in Grand Rapids and NBC affiliate WGRZ in Buffalo, New York to Gannett [REF].