"100 days" is a popular measuring stick for a number of things in our modern world.Here, we're not talking about the progress of presidential administrations. We're talking digital TV...as we're less than 100 days from the mid-February day where every full-power TV station in the country will be forced to shut down that old analog transmitter, and solely broadcast its new digital signal.Well, give or take a few stations shutting analog down early...among them, Northeast Ohio's own WNEO/45 … [Read more...]
Vikings Bounce Ball To 1220
Posted on November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Cleveland State University Vikings men's basketball team has hooked up with a new radio home in Cleveland.The Vikings have inked a one-year deal with Salem Christian talk/teaching WHKW/1220 "The Word" to air all games live for the 2008-2009 season, according to a CSU sports news release issued last week. (Thanks to the folks at AllAccess for the hat tip, or, since we're talking about basketball, maybe the assist?)Vikings basketball moves from last year's flagship station, Radio One gospel … [Read more...]
Not Really Angry About It
Posted on November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Budget cuts have done it again in Cincinnati - split radio's "Angry Guys".Cincinnati Enquirer radio/TV guru John Kiesewetter reports that one half of the morning drive duo, Richard Skinner, has been cut loose by Cumulus rock WFTK/96.5 "96 Rock" due to budget concerns. His partner in morning radio anger, Tom Gamble, remains - with someone who doesn't sound like an angry male, sidekick "Sister Karen".Though Kiese reports that Skinner had just agreed to a new deal in October, and was working out … [Read more...]
Monday Is Packed
Posted on November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
...full of news, mostly updates to some of our previous items. But they're necessary updates...WKDD MORNINGS: As it turns out, veteran Clear Channel Akron/Canton hot AC WKDD/98.1 morning man Matt Patrick won't be soloing it on the FM side of his broadcast life.After being tipped by a reader who spotted the absence of Patrick co-host Angela Bellios on the station's website, OMW confirmed Friday that the station's morning show will no longer be "Matt and Angela".But there will be a replacement … [Read more...]
End Of A Busy Week
Posted on November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just some items we didn't want to leave around for the weekend...CINCINNATI SHUFFLE: In mid-October, long time Friend of OMW Scott Fybush stumbled onto something in his role as editor of the radio industry directory web site 100000watts.com.Scott told us that he saw a filing for a call letter swap in Cincinnati...with the WSWD call letters moving from 94.9 FM to 97.3 FM, and the WYGY call letters moving to replace them at 94.9.We didn't think much of it, as there was no other information to … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WKDD’s Angela Out
Posted on November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It looks like Clear Channel Akron/Canton hot AC WKDD/98.1 morning host Matt Patrick is going solo in both of his radio gigs, as "Matt and Angela" are no longer a team.An alert OMW reader pointed out to us that Patrick's long-time co-host Angela Bellios has been removed from the station's web site, which now only lists Matt Patrick in morning drive.OMW has confirmed out of Freedom Avenue that Angela is "no longer with the station". We don't have any further confirmation as to the nature of her … [Read more...]
Job Wanted – OMW 2
Posted on November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Another local radio professional has taken advantage of our offer to put up a free "job wanted" ad.He's a familiar name to Cleveland market FM listeners - former WNWV/107.3 "The Wave" afternoon drive host Richard Greer, who lost his long-time gig at the Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting-owned smooth jazz station in a recent station schedule shuffle.Richard tells OMW that he's "pretty well looking anywhere in the Tri-State area, but would love to stay in Ohio." He tells us:I have a resume/aircheck … [Read more...]
Small Screen Browns
Posted on November 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There are times when the NFL's Cleveland Browns have stumbled in nationally-televised games, so much so that they may have wished the size of the picture to shrink dramatically. A recent big Monday Night Football win over the Giants excepted, of course.No matter what the local pro football team does tonight, some will indeed watch the game on very small screens.The Browns play the Denver Broncos tonight in the opener of the NFL Network's Thursday night series. As per usual in these … [Read more...]
Moving – And Jobs
Posted on November 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A fast-growing Northeast Ohio-based radio syndicator is moving...within the area...and hiring.Beachwood-based Envision Radio Networks announces that it's finished the move to new, larger digs at 3733 Park East Drive, Room 222. The company's using the postal address of "Cleveland, OH 44122", but they tell us that Park East Drive is still in Beachwood, among the various hotels off the Chagrin Boulevard exit of I-271 in the eastern Cleveland area suburb.And in a move that's pretty breathtaking … [Read more...]
Job Wanted – OMW Ad 1
Posted on November 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As promised in our massive update about layoffs and job cuts early this week, OMW will continue to run both "Help Wanted" and "Job Wanted" advertisements as part of our regular content.It's only fitting that our first "Job Wanted" ad comes from a long-time Friend of OMW, Chuck Matthews. Chuck's last full-time gig was at Cumulus in Toledo, where he was program director of talk WTOD/1560 "SuperTalk 1560" along with his production duties for the entire Cumulus Toledo cluster.Since then, he's … [Read more...]
