We're a bit on the late side for your usual Monday morning update, as we've been spending time struggling with local Internet issues.As we were preparing to make another trek to a Wifi hotspot, our service returned...PD ON THE DEFENSE: In the today's troubled world of newspapers, those publications are turning to a tried, tested defense..."The rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated".That's pretty much it in a nutshell for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which is putting out all the stops … [Read more...]
WKYC Tower: Up It Goes
Posted on March 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
LIVE FROM SEVEN HILLS/PARMA, OHIO -- OMW is on the road this Sunday evening, and yes, we found our way to the WKYC/3 transmitter site on Broadview Road in Parma.And yes, Virginia, there is a tower Santa Claus. (No, we're not sure that works in late March.)Your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) braved the soggy, windy weather this evening to snap this first shot of the under construction tower that will hold the new digital antennas for WKYC, and for ideastream PBS affiliate WVIZ/25.(Our apologies for … [Read more...]
Saturday Grab Bag
Posted on March 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Yes, we're adding a Saturday update here at the Mighty Blog...mostly because Friday got away with us...TOWER RISING: We've visited the transmitter site of Cleveland Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 so often, the site's neighbors living along a nearby Parma street are starting to recognize the OMW Mobile on sight.We've made fast friends with a couple of 'em, and as a result, we're now hearing that WKYC's long-delayed tower is finally starting to go up - as of Friday. (As it turns out, if you live … [Read more...]
Gazette Consolidation Response
Posted on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Our earlier item on the conslidation between the co-owned Medina County Gazette and the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram got a lot of response.But we've now received a "letter to the editor" from Chronicle-Telegram managing editor Julie Wallace, and we've given her the opportunity to respond directly in a new item...------------------I would like to comment on the merger of the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram and the Medina Gazette.Earlier this month, we – as in, Lorain County Printing and Publishing Co., … [Read more...]
Lighting It Up For Thursday
Posted on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Combing through our list of Thursday items...we'll find a common thread in here somewhere...LIGHTING UP "THIS": Buried deep within the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Cleveland.com, hidden under those annoying rollover ads, and probably in small print in the Dead Trees edition of the PD, is a note that Raycom Media MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43 "My 43" will finally launch the "This TV" subchannel soon.We uncovered this item published Wednesday:This TV, a new classic-movie channel, will launch on WUAB … [Read more...]
THIS JUST IN: Monica Robins Takes WKYC 7 PM Co-Anchor Slot
Posted on March 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This one was just posted by WKYC/3 "Director's Cut" blogger Frank Macek:The Cleveland NBC affiliate is tapping "Channel 3 News" health reporter Monica Robins as the new co-anchor of the station's 7 PM newscast. Robins will join incumbent 7 PM anchor Eric Mansfield.The opening is due to the exit of current 7 PM co-anchor Carole Sullivan. As expected, she'll be leaving Cleveland to follow her husband Mike to San Diego, where he's joining the coaching staff of the NFL's San Diego Chargers. The … [Read more...]
Tuesday’s Full Basket
Posted on March 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's a pretty random, but important, collection of items in our basket on Tuesday morning...OH, AND BY THE WAY, THE PD: The news of the impending end of another American newspaper had everyone buzzing Monday, including your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm).Oh, by the way, employees of the Northeast Ohio sister paper of the Ann Arbor News took a budget hit Monday as well.Shortly after we took ourselves out of the media news stream to attend to Real Life, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced its own latest … [Read more...]
The Harvey Menu Fills Up
Posted on March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
AllAccess reports that ABC Radio Networks has announced some of the personalities available in the "menu" of commentators that will be offered to affiliates of Paul Harvey News.The next up on the Not Replacing Paul Harvey List? Citadel/ABC Radio's own Roe Conn, the popular afternoon host on the company's Chicago talk station, WLS/890.AllAccess quotes ABC Radio as saying the Roe Conn commentaries will be "one of the options available to our affiliates" to fill the time slots left behind by … [Read more...]
More Gannett Furloughs
Posted on March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This Monday is turning out to be full of bad news, unfortunately, and this one is on the economic side.According to an internal memo obtained by the folks at the FishbowlDC blog, troubled media giant Gannett is turning to its employees for more unpaid time...saying the "unprecedented economic downturn" has forced it to make more "difficult decisions". Quoting:One of those choices was between more layoffs or another round of furloughs. We chose, for most employees, a furlough program consisting … [Read more...]
There Goes Another Newspaper
Posted on March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It seems like these days, we're passing along word of a newspaper dying about once every two days or so.While this one isn't local, it has Northeast Ohio ties.Readers won't be able to pick up the Ann Arbor News from newsstands or their doorsteps in that Michigan city after July, as the 174-year-old paper will (mostly) shut down its presses.Echoing the now-dead Dead Trees edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Ann Arbor News owner Booth Newspapers will replace the paper with "a Web-based, … [Read more...]
