Good Karma Broadcasting now has the FCC go-ahead to upgrade sports WWGK/1540 "KNR2", the company's first Cleveland market acquisition, with the approval earlier this month of an upgraded signal construction permit.OMW reported in April that WWGK filed to more than triple its daytime power - from 1000 to 3500 watts - and to move its transmitter site to co-locate at the WKNR site in North Royalton. WWGK's current transmitter site is at 1540's long-time former home, on Euclid Avenue on Cleveland's … [Read more...]
Monday Changes
Posted on August 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 8/25/08 6:28 PM: Toledo NBC affiliate WNWO/24 reports that it has granted another extension to Buckeye Cablevision, which will keep the station on cable through September 10th as negotiations continue...------------If you look closely, you'll notice a very slight change in our appearance.We've been putting it off here at the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), but we finally decided to drag our old template into the new Blogger layout system. We're still tweaking some things, but this will allow us … [Read more...]
It’s That Time Of Year
Posted on August 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and cable TV was in its infancy, you had just a handful of places to find a televised high school football game in Northeast Ohio.The primary carrier of high school football was local PBS affiliate WVIZ/25, which featured its "Game of the Week" on tape delay late Friday nights.Various other outlets, like cable access channels, carried some assorted games. But that was about it.Now, televised high school football has popped up all over - with a … [Read more...]
The (Early) Death of a Congresswoman
Posted on August 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Any hardened newsie will tell you that the death of a sitting member of Congress, especially unexpected, is Big Breaking News. But before reporting the death, you probably should make sure that the public official is actually, well, dead.That's the problem that was faced by both print and broadcast media in Northeast Ohio on Wednesday, with the death of long-time Cleveland congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones after she suffered a brain aneurism.About two hours after a noon press conference … [Read more...]
Tough Media Times
Posted on August 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 8/21/08 12:56 PM: Those looking for a LOT, and we mean a LOT, more detail on the Beacon's latest cuts need only turn to a story on Rubber City Radio's AkronNewsNow, by reporter Craig Simpson.The story notes that the reported 20 job cuts targeted at the Beacon would comprise some 17-percent of the newsroom staff of 100.And Simpson reports on how the reductions will affect the newspaper's readers:The latest cuts will also be felt on the pages of the newspaper, according to accounts of a … [Read more...]
Some More Things
Posted on August 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Some stuff we left behind in our "Two-Fer Tuesday" update, and mostly minor notes...THE NATION'S STATION: Clear Channel has programming rights to a handful of channels on XM Satellite Radio, which was recently merged into competitor Sirius under the corporate name "Sirius XM Radio".Trade site AllAccess reports that Clear Channel is making a number of changes on its XM space, including the change of the "Sunny" AC format channel to "The Pink Channel", as described by a recent AllAccess item: … [Read more...]
Two Fer Tuesday
Posted on August 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
And we're back for a Two-Fer Tuesday!(OK, so we never have said that phrase, ever, on-air or off...there's a first time for everything! And we do have two items, and it is Tuesday as we write this...)APARTMENT FIRE KILLS MAN, AND...: One of Cleveland's top news stories this Tuesday morning was the fire at a downtown Cleveland apartment building, which killed the resident of one apartment.WOIO/19's "19 Action News" reports that the fire was contained to the 13th floor apartment of the victim, 27 … [Read more...]
Thursday Menu
Posted on August 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
And this time, we have one item that makes our use of the word "menu" in the title of this - literally...NEW SUMMIT MUSIC DIRECTOR: There's word that Akron Public Schools-owned AAA WAPS/91.3 "The Summit" has brought in a new music director.She's Liz Mozzocco, who's been programming Cumulus AAA outlet KBXR in Columbia, MO, along with co-hosting the station's morning show. Various trade reports say Mozzocco has been at the Columbia station for 13 years.Liz also coming in to cover the on-air … [Read more...]
Another Kiss Update
Posted on August 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An addition to Monday's item on WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM"'s lineup change, which we haven't had time to add...96.5 is also adding the syndicated "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" from 12-3 PM weekdays. Seacrest starts Monday. The previously announced Elvis Duran morning show starts August 25th.The addition squeezes Michelle Taylor's voicetracked midday shift down to 10 AM to noon... … [Read more...]
Monday Menu
Posted on August 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 8:46 AM 8/11/08: It turns out our reader was onto something about the absence of "Valentine" from the WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" website.The station is now promoting its new morning show, set to begin airing August 25th. "Elvis Duran and the Kiss FM Morning Show" will air from its home base at Clear Channel top 40 WHTZ/100.3 in the New York City market - the legendary "Z100" - part of its mounting syndication effort.Duran first expanded his reach when Miami's "Y100" picked up the show...which … [Read more...]
