Our Monday return is full of followups, assorted items and stuff we haven't gotten to, yet..."THE CAT" FLIPS TO RTN...ER...RTV: As reported earlier and expected, Media-Com LPTV duo WAOH-LP 29 Akron/W35AX Cleveland did indeed go back...into its TV future.The station is now running programming from the Retro Television Network, the same classic TV shows that are now also being run down I-77 at Canton-based Image Video LPTV combo WIVM-LP 52 Canton/WIVN-LP 29 Newcomerstown(/Dover/New … [Read more...]
RTN’s Second Cleveland Market Affiliate
Posted on May 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
NORTH CANTON, OHIO --Well, technically, Image Video LPTV combo WIVM-LP 52 Canton/WIVN-LP 29 Newcomerstown/Dover/New Philadelphia and WIVX-LP 65/Loudonville is actually the first Retro Television Network affiliate in Northeast Ohio.While waiting for the announced June 1st flip of Media-Com LPTV combo WAOH-LP 29 Akron/W35AX 35 Cleveland to RTN programming, OMW got word that the WIVM/WIVN/WIVX folks beat "The Cat" to the RTN switch.The Canton-based stations launched the new RTN (RTV?) programming … [Read more...]
ODTV: It’s About The Timing
Posted on May 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Here we are, just two weeks and one day away from the now-set-in-stone (we presume) digital TV transition date of June 12th.And as we get closer, the timing gets clearer.Read our full item, with significant updates about the digital transition in the Cleveland market, on our Ohio Digital TV blog... … [Read more...]
A TV Thursday
Posted on May 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We're in catch up mode again...MORE ON "THE CAT" AND RTN: Or, is it "RTV"?As noted below, The Retro Television Network, that treasure-trove of classic TV shows ("Magnum P.I", "The Incredible Hulk", The Rockford Files", etc.), will air in the Cleveland market starting Monday, June 1st on Media-Com LPTV combo WAOH-LP 29 Akron/W35AX Cleveland...known on air as "The CAT".(For those who have forgotten, that stands for "The Cleveland-Akron Television Network".)As it turns out, the Plain Dealer's … [Read more...]
RTN To “The CAT”
Posted on May 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Yes, we have heard that Retro Television Network has found a home in the Cleveland market...well, something of a home on Media-Com LPTV combo WAOH-LP 29/W35AX Cleveland "The CAT".The station is, we believe, set to take the RTN programming June 1st.We will have more details later tonight or tomorrow morning...and many comments... … [Read more...]
WJMP Taking Off The Cleats
Posted on May 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As it turns out, OMW hears that Media-Com Akron market sports daytimer WJMP/1520 Kent/Ravenna/Streetsboro/Parts-of-Stow/Akron-on-a-good day "Fox Sports Radio 1520" won't be changing sports radio network teams when Fox Sports Radio moves to Clear Channel sports WARF/1350 Akron "SportsRadio 1350" on June 8.It'll be changing format leagues, as it were.We've learned that instead of picking up the Sporting News Radio affiliation WARF is leaving behind, the "little brother" station of Media-Com's … [Read more...]
Time Warner’s May HDTV Channel Wave
Posted on May 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The latest group of new HDTV channels has arrived in most local Time Warner Cable service areas in Northeast Ohio.OMW readers report that the HD versions of the Golf Channel. CNN, FX, Fox News Channel, and Science Channel have shown up as of earlier today. Digital Basic subscribers should also have the HD version of the National Geographic Channel.By tomorrow, HD Tier subscribers should see the history-oriented Smithsonian Channel, and Mav TV.To the best of our understanding, the channels are … [Read more...]
Supersized Memorial Day Weekend Update
Posted on May 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We've been accumulating a Supersized Pile of Items here at your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), and it's time to reduce the pile. The holiday weekend is as "good a time as any" to do so.And on behalf of the entire editorial staff of Ohio Media Watch, we mark the holiday to honor those who served and gave their lives for us...WHO'S #1?: Regular OMW readers know that we don't spend a lot of time in ratings land, for either TV or radio stations.The reason is simple: We don't have the unvarnished data, … [Read more...]
WEEKEND SPECIAL: Ted Henry’s Goodbye
Posted on May 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 5/23/09 2:21 PM: OMW reader "Brad" notes that WEWS has posted a much better quality version on its YouTube page, which we've embedded below. (We didn't even realize Channel 5 HAD a YouTube page.)Despite the availability of an "HD" version, the video appears to be 4:3 SD with its own online "sidebars". Still, it's much more viewable than the tiny, low-bandwidth version on NewsNet5.The "Related Video" page shows a number of user-submitted video of various parts of Ted Henry's last … [Read more...]
WKDD Heading To Bellaire Lane
Posted on May 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel Akron market hot AC WKDD/98.1 is about ready to return, physically, to the Akron market.The once-Canton licensed facility, now licensed to the Akron suburb of Munroe Falls, got FCC approval this week to locate its transmitter facility at Bellaire Lane in Cuyahoga Falls...at the very same spot WKDD occupied for many years with its original 96.5 antenna.If you're a regular OMW reader, you know "the rest of the story", as a certain late iconic radio news commentator would have … [Read more...]
