Three small bites' worth of news items, all of 'em courtesy of our friends over at AllAccess...SEACREST VIRUS INVADES COLUMBUS: The rumors that filtered into our inbox out of Columbus have become reality, as Premiere syndicated host Ryan Seacrest must have compromising pictures of someone in Columbus.Oh, OK, so Ryan's not really our favorite host - but we're not in his target demo.AllAccess reports that Seacrest's syndicated midday show joins the weekday lineup on Clear Channel top 40 WNCI/97.9 … [Read more...]
Satellite HD Locals In Youngstown
Posted on September 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An item that actually broke last week, that we're catching up with...The DirecTV satellite service has launched HD local channel service to the Youngstown market, according to a news release put out by the satellite company.DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading satellite television service provider, is now offering local HD programming to customers in the Youngstown, Ohio designated market area. The following broadcast networks are available in HD: WYTV/ABC and WFMJ/NBC. With the addition of … [Read more...]
Your Official Tony Bruno Station
Posted on September 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
In its two stints as a sports radio station, Clear Channel's WARF/1350 Akron "SportsRadio 1350" has one long, cherished tradition.It carries Tony Bruno.The long-time national sports radio host has appeared on Akron's 1350 in all three national incarnations of his program...first at ESPN Radio, then at FOX Sports Radio, and most recently at Sporting News Radio.He's back.Bruno is launching his fourth national radio show courtesy of the folks at The Content Factory, the new syndication/sports media … [Read more...]
WNEO’s Early Change
Posted on September 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Northeast Ohio has already seen one full-power analog TV station go dark months before the federally mandated digital transition, though the change has affected only a small part of the Cleveland/Akron (Canton) market. Mansfield local independent station WMFD/68 won approval to go digital-only due to various issues regarding the replacement of its analog facility/antenna. WMFD-DT (RF 12) no longer has an analog 68 sister.In what's no surprise to regular OMW readers, we're not long from the … [Read more...]
Laura Inches Onto WEOL
Posted on September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Continuing the ongoing saga of the Cleveland market affiliation of Talk Radio Network host Laura Ingraham:OMW did hear Ingraham make her debut on Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting talk WEOL/930 Elyria this Monday evening, after the 6 PM news.Yes, we said "6 PM"...and the front page of WEOL's website now welcomes Ingraham to the schedule "Weeknights at 6:00". (She's still not on the WEOL schedule page, though.)The show's clearance on WEOL was first announced on Ingraham's website as being from 5-7 PM … [Read more...]
“Rover” Show Looking For Producer
Posted on September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As a continuing public service of your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), we hope to help reduce the media unemployment rate in Northeast Ohio.To this end, we're copying this item posted on AllAccess - of an opening at Clear Channel's World Domination HQ on Oak Tree:Rover’s Morning Glory, a syndicated morning show based at legendary WMMS Cleveland, OH is seeking a full-time off-air producer. Responsibilities include guest booking, planning and coordinating bits, stunts and events, research of guests and … [Read more...]
Cleveland On The Block
Posted on September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OK, so now, we have some more details about the possible disposition of CBS Radio's four Cleveland stations.The New York Post reports that the 50 mid-market CBS Radio stations the company said it would sell are officially on the block starting today, as the paper reports that "first round bids" for the stations are due today. From the article by Post writer Peter Lauria:CBS, which is not using an investment bank to help with the auction and is instead handling it in-house, is trying to unload … [Read more...]
Mahoning Valley Bandscan
Posted on September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Some oddities from two recent trips to the Youngstown/Warren radio market, particularly on AM...WHERE'S REV. MANN?: OMW reported in February that Salem was selling the station now known as WHKZ/1440 Warren - which has mostly been a simulcast of Cleveland religious sister station WHKW/1220 "The Word" - to the Pentecostal Temple Development Corporation out of the Pittsburgh area.PTDC is run by one Rev. Loran Mann, a former Pittsburgh TV reporter who owns WGBN/1150 New Kensington PA in that … [Read more...]
Baby, If You’ve Ever Wondered
Posted on September 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An iconic Cincinnati radio station celebrates its 30th anniversary today.It's a radio station that never actually existed on the dial, as you might be able to tell from our quote from its opening theme song in the title of this entry.Television's "WKRP in Cincinnati" provided a surprisingly accurate, and hilarious, look at the radio industry in its run on CBS in the late 1970's and early 1980's. It also gave Ohio's Queen City a national "home" on the tube, and spawned a brief syndicated-only … [Read more...]
No Laura – Yet
Posted on September 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We've kept track of the affiliation moves of Talk Radio Network mid-morning host Laura Ingraham, caused because of a dispute between the TRN folks and Salem Communications. Until this week, Ingraham aired on 17 Salem talkers across the country, including Cleveland's WHK/1420.OMW reported Monday that the show now lists Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting talk WEOL/930 Elyria as Laura's new Cleveland affiliate, with a delayed clearance from 5-7 PM weekdays.Well, not yet.Tonight, we heard WEOL still … [Read more...]
