It's complaint number one among Cleveland market digital television viewers...the temporary low-power digital signal of ideaStream PBS affiliate WVIZ/25, on an antenna that just clears the roof of the station's former Brookpark Road studios in Parma, is almost impossible to receive any distance from that suburb.The station has been in a long dispute over placement of its permanent full-power digital antenna on the tower where its analog antenna is now, a North Royalton structure owned by CBS … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Cavaliers, WTAM, CC Re-Up
Posted on May 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 and the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers have announced a 5-year renewal of their radio contract.The move is announced the same day the Cavaliers take on the Boston Celtics in game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals at Quicken Loans Arena.The press release is reprinted below.--------------CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO ANDTHE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS INK DEALMay 12, 2008, Cleveland, Ohio…Clear Channel Radio and The Cleveland Cavaliers have come to terms on a 5-year contract extension … [Read more...]
Three From Freedom Avenue
Posted on May 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel's Freedom Avenue complex is a bit busy today.First, former WRQK/106.9 night guy Nick Andrews is back in the building, taking afternoons at the Canton rocker. Of course, the place has changed owners since Nick was there last time...Cumulus had the station when he did the night gig.The hiring nudges "Fishhead" from afternoons into middays, and that means the exit of long-time middayer and former "Rock 106.9" program director Keith Hamilton.In another studio at Freedom Avenue, … [Read more...]
Rover About To Lose A Market?
Posted on May 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
When he exited CBS Radio alt-rock WXRK/92.3 "K-Rock" in his home market of Cleveland, Shane "Rover" French's "Rover's Morning Glory" show retained two affiliates that were once owned by CBS, in Memphis and Rochester.The stations continued to broadcast repeats of "RMG" until the Rover Crew set up shop in an leased studio at their new Cleveland home, the Oak Tree compound housing their now-current flagship, Clear Channel rock WMMS/100.7, weeks before that station took over as Rover's Cleveland … [Read more...]
Loose Ends For A Friday
Posted on May 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Fridays seem like just the time to clear up loose ends before the weekend...so, here we are!NOT YET FOR ALL: Though it appears that Time Warner Cable has flipped around its digital cable channel lineups for the bulk of its Northeast Ohio customers, there are apparently some yet to be converted.We're basing this on our own anecdotal evidence, but the former Adelphia/Western Reserve cluster in northeast Summit County and nearby would appear to be doing without the digital channel realignment - … [Read more...]
THIS JUST IN: Bye, Bye, Bob and Tom
Posted on May 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Cleveland Clear Channel rocker WMMS/100.7 is "rocking again" in the middle of the day.The station has just announced that the midday placement of syndicated morning drive talk show "Bob and Tom" is history, as of today. Midday air personality Maria returns to her old time slot starting at 11 AM."Bob and Tom"'s recorded presence in middays was made necessary a month ago, when WMMS snagged the rights to Shane "Rover" French and his "Rover's Morning Glory" show - formerly heard on CBS Radio … [Read more...]
Realignment Hits Former Adelphia Areas
Posted on April 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The long-promised, long-awaited Time Warner Cable digital channel realignment appears to have officially spread to the former Adelphia systems based in Cleveland.At least it happened at OMW World Headquarters in the early morning hours of this Wednesday, April 30th...and we have heard scattered reports that we're not alone.There are still some glitches, at least in our personal experience. A couple of new channels listed aren't available, or are apparently not correctly aligned with whatever … [Read more...]
Tip Of The OMW Hat To Ed
Posted on April 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Rubber City Radio's Ed Esposito, who holds the futuristic-looking title of "VP/Information Media" for the Akron-based radio cluster (oldies WAKR/1590, country WQMX/94.9, and classic rock WONE/97.5), was named chairman of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) at the recent NAB convention.We've seen it announced other places, but were a bit slow on this - for one - because Ed was too modest to toot his own horn.But you can hear a honk or two thanks to the good folks at AllAccess. … [Read more...]
EXCLUSIVE: Details On Matt Patrick’s AM Talk Show
Posted on April 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As first reported here last week, long-time Clear Channel Akron/Canton hot AC WKDD/98.1 morning co-host Matt Patrick will pick up an afternoon talk radio gig on sister AM talker WHLO/640.We've now uncovered the details we didn't have last week...with an early version of a press release that floated out on the wind out of a Freedom Avenue window."The Matt Patrick Show" premieres on Monday, April 28th on WHLO from 5-7 PM.No, Mr. Patrick isn't giving up his WKDD morning perch next to co-host Angela … [Read more...]
TWC Ex-Adelphia Changes Early Tuesday?
Posted on April 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 9:15 AM 4/22/08: There's a good reason there's a question mark on this item's title.As below, TWC did indeed move SportsTime Ohio's analog feed from 17 to 76 last night in the former Adelphia areas. There's now a screen up on 17 directing viewers to tune into 76.As far as we can tell from our vantage point, the rest of the alignment did not happen.We'll see if it happens tomorrow night.Our original item is below...-------------If you believe this notice on the front of SportsTime Ohio's … [Read more...]
