Just some stuff to refresh the Mighty Blog for a Monday...and as it turns out, another sports-related theme has emerged, without us even trying...ONE QUESTION ANSWERED: It didn't take long for Youngstown TV Supergroup New Vision Television to name a replacement for veteran WYTV/33 sports director Bob Hannon, who left the station to head up the Youngstown branch of the United Way.He's the station's assistant sports director, Bill Castrovince, who's been in that role and doing the ABC affiliate's … [Read more...]
A Sports Theme
Posted on September 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It's been pretty quiet in local media circles this week, after a busy week last week.But as it turns out, we have a newsy update to close out the first week of September...with all the items having a least some connection to the world of sports, even if the first host doesn't consider himself strictly a sports talk show host these days...HE'S BAAACK: We haven't fished through the podcasts to figure out what day he returned, but Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 afternoon driver Mike Trivisonno is … [Read more...]
Fire Bumps Station
Posted on September 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We'd already heard about the fire that broke out Saturday at Brimfield Township's Puritan Systems, a rubber recycling plant off Ohio 43 near Interstate 76 in Portage County.And as we saw a map of the location on one of the local TV newscasts, we wondered - "hey, isn't that right next to a certain local radio station's transmitter site?". Sure enough, it is...the primary - and only - transmitter site for Media-Com talk WNIR/100.1, the Kent-licensed station better known as "The Talk of Akron".A … [Read more...]
Opening September
Posted on September 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We do have a pretty decent selection of items from across Ohio for our first update in September. Some of this we missed, some is new, and some of the items are updates of previous news items.This is a long one, so get that scroll bar ready...ANOTHER 33'ER EXITS: Just as we were marveling that Parkin Broadcasting ABC affiliate WYTV/33 Youngstown has kept much of its "look and feel" despite being swallowed into the New Vision/WKBN/WYFX universe, another key staffer has left.And it's a big … [Read more...]
TWC: OSU Big Ten Network Saturday Game In HD
Posted on August 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Time Warner Cable's Northeast Ohio division has announced that this weekend's Ohio State Buckeyes game on Big Ten Network will indeed air locally in high-definition.The contest between the Buckeyes and the Youngstown State University Penguins will air Saturday at noon on HD digital channel 433.A TWC Northeast Ohio press release on the subject is reprinted below:------------------Time Warner Cable To Offer OSU GameIn High-Definition on Channel 433Akron, OH (AUGUST 2008) – Time Warner Cable … [Read more...]
Radio One Cuts Hit Ohio, Other Markets
Posted on August 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The down economy, and the media's troubles, are just part of the story at Radio One - which reportedly made a wide variety of job cuts in a number of markets Thursday, including at all of its Ohio clusters.We don't have any details directly about the company's Cleveland stations, but Radio-Info.com columnist Tom Taylor includes this line in his story about the Radio One job cuts:In Cleveland, production talent, parttime air talent and producers gone and some fulltime vacancies not filled, for a … [Read more...]
Akron/Canton News Returns – Sort Of – And People Meters
Posted on August 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We're actually surprised this didn't happen earlier this year, when the WKYC/3-produced "Akron/Canton News" ended its run on Time Warner Cable's "NEON" local programming channel....after a previous run over-air on ION-owned WVPX/23.WKYC Akron bureau chief Eric Mansfield has started what we guess could be called "Akron/Canton News 2.0" via a new video player on his WKYC "Have I Got News For You!" blog. The video player aggregates all of Mansfield's (and WKYC's) recent Akron/Canton-based stories … [Read more...]
Zips Add FM Voice
Posted on August 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The University of Akron Zips football team will not only be on TV this weekend.In their last season at the Rubber Bowl, the Zips gain a regular FM radio home.The university and Clear Channel Akron/Canton announced today that in addition to carriage on sports WARF/1350 Akron, the team's games will also air on Clear Channel rock WRQK/106.9 Canton, starting with this weekend's Zips contest with Wisconsin.Though "Rock 106.9" has long been a Canton station, it has made efforts to expand its reach and … [Read more...]
A Newsy Thursday
Posted on August 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Items are popping up all over...CC CLEVELAND'S NEW OM: Clear Channel's Cleveland cluster has found a new operations manager.He's Keith Abrams, who comes to Oak Tree from the VP/Programming slot at CBS Radio's Denver cluster. Though the title is slightly different, he'll replace former cluster programming fixture Kevin Metheny...who parted ways with Clear Channel late last month.Abrams also has Salt Lake City, Seattle, Charlotte, Memphis and Pittsburgh on his programming resume. We hear that … [Read more...]
Big Ten Network, Time Warner Finally Reach Deal
Posted on August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Big Ten Network and Time Warner Cable have reached "an agreement-in-principle" to clear the network on TWC's expanded basic tier, along with providing high definition and video-on-demand Big Ten Network offerings.A joint statement between the two entities was released late Monday. Time Warner is the dominant cable provider in Ohio, serving over 2 million customers and nearly all of the state's major metropolitan areas.The "pending" pact means TWC will be able to carry this coming weekend's … [Read more...]
