Just some followup and stuff floating around...WSTB: We hinted at this in our last item, when we reminded readers that general manager Bob Long and his student crew at Streetsboro's WSTB/88.9 wouldn't be around last night to cover Portage County election returns.OMW hears that moves are actually being made to reconstruct the Streetsboro school district-owned station and return it to the airwaves - at some point.As we pointed out shortly after school officials had station computers removed and … [Read more...]
Election Day
Posted on November 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
On this perhaps Biggest Ever Election Day, it's as close to the Super Bowl as local newsrooms will ever get.Since the presidential race is the primary race of interest, the various network partners of local TV and radio stations will do the "heavy lifting", with pretty much all of the TV and radio network newsrooms showing up at around 7 PM Eastern time - with coverage available even on broadcast TV networks well past midnight.Local news outlets won't stay on the sidelines all night, though. … [Read more...]
Indirect Link
Posted on November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here's one item with an indirect link to Ohio radio, and also, the latest entry in our "FM News/Talk/Sports Watch".CBS Radio has launched yet another once-traditionally-AM spoken word format on FM in a mid-Atlantic market, though it replaces an existing spoken word format.CBS' FM talker in Baltimore, WHFS/105.7 "Free FM", was blown up today in favor of a locally-programmed FM sports talk station known as "Sports Radio 105.7 The Fan".The move brings the Charm City its FOURTH full-time sports … [Read more...]
Another Small Radio Change
Posted on November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel hot AC WKDD/98.1 has won FCC approval to change its city of license from Canton to the Akron suburb of Munroe Falls.The change was part of a construction permit the FCC granted on October 29th - last Wednesday.For the near term, at least, it means nothing other than a different city being heard on WKDD's legal ID.The construction permit specifies WKDD's existing facilities - a 50,000 watt class B outlet located in Hartville. It's the same transmitter site the station built shortly … [Read more...]
Radio Day Of Changes
Posted on November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 11/3/08 12:00 PM: The just updated schedule at Clear Channel talk WHLO/640 Akron shows that it's self-syndicated money advice guru Dave Ramsey filling the 8-10 PM hole in the station's weekday schedule, starting today.Ramsey has been heard in the area only on Melodynamic talk/religious WCER/900 Canton since being dropped from a clearance on Salem religious talk/teaching WHKW/1220 Cleveland "The Word", in a dispute between Ramsey and Salem - Salem wanted Ramsey to start paying for his … [Read more...]
The Job Loss Storm
Posted on November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We wish we had better news for our return.In our last full item, we talked about the continuing reports of job losses at Ohio media outlets. We had no idea that the following week would be one of the worst such weeks for local media workers...ever.The news is so bad, and so widespread, that we abandoned plans for a single, large update covering everything we've missed in the past week. Instead, we decided to split this bad news into a large update of its own. We'll have other news not related … [Read more...]
Our Return
Posted on October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OMW will return at "full strength" on Monday, November 3, 2008.See you then!--The Management … [Read more...]
Mid-October Closeout
Posted on October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This will likely be the final item for the week, and could be our final update for the rest of the month.We will try to post major, breaking events...like format changes, major personality or anchor changes, broadcast station sales, and, well, returning radio stations.But in case we don't get a Round Tuit(tm), this might be up for some time...and here's a grab bag of items to close out our agenda for a while...NO MORE RADIO BILL: It was posted as a rumor some time back, but it seems to be … [Read more...]
Board Won’t Accept WSTB GMs Resignation
Posted on October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A brief update from last night's Streetsboro City School board meeting: the board rejected long-time WSTB/88.9 general manager Bob Long's resignation request, over the various issues that have been chronicled extensively here and elsewhere.We don't really have time to go into much detail, but the website of Streetsboro's Gateway News newspaper has more here.The WSTB website, being maintained by station staff and students, weighs in briefly as well. Quoting:The off-air situation may have taken … [Read more...]
WSTB Update – 10/22
Posted on October 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As we mentioned in an earlier item, you might not see as much of us here through the end of the month, as Life Intervenes.We did want to put up the latest about Streetsboro schools-owned WSTB/88.9, the beleaguered Portage County station that's been off the air after certain photos were found on station computers a week ago Monday.The story is not going away any time soon.Those associated with the station are holding an informal meeting/gathering tonight at the Streetsboro location of CiCi's … [Read more...]
