Media-Com talk WNIR/100.1 Kent "The Talk of Akron" has successfully killed an effort to put up a new translator on 100.3 (W262BN), which would have been located on a Verizon Wireless cell phone tower in North Ridgeville.As we reported earlier, WNIR took to its own airwaves to warn listeners in the Elyria and North Ridgeville areas that "an out of town company" was proposing a signal in that area that could interfere with WNIR, and asking those listeners to write to the station.The Federal … [Read more...]
Mid-Hiatus Post
Posted on March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Since we're in another of our semi-hiatus periods ("Life Intervenes"), here's another all-encompassing update, featuring - mostly - some long-held items we have missed...DIGITAL, AT LAST?: An OMW reader pointed us to digital applications filed by both of the Media-Com LPTV/Class A outlets in Northeast Ohio, seeking digital facilities for both W35AX/Cleveland and WAOH-LP Akron.The WAOH application is for a digital flash cut on the station's current analog channel, 29, with 15 kW of power. The … [Read more...]
Two Quick Hits
Posted on February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As earlier passed along on our Twitter feed...EXITING CHARLOTTE: Details are scarce right now, but trade site AllAccess reports that not that terribly long after he arrived, Mike Kenney is no longer market manager of Clear Channel's Charlotte cluster.AllAccess reports that OM Bruce Logan steps in as interim GM of the company's Queen City (North Carolina, that is) cluster.We're following the news here, of course, because it's been just a few months since Kenney arrived in Charlotte from … [Read more...]
TWC Answers
Posted on January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Courtesy of Time Warner Cable, here are some answers for readers wondering about the Mentor-area conversion allowing more HD channels. And some more lineup changes are in the works systemwide in TWC's massive Northeast Ohio system.First, in regards to Mentor's conversion, TWC's Travis Reynolds tells OMW:The first "box swap" phase of the box exchange actually concludes today, followed by 6 other phases every 7 days. The final phase is scheduled Feb. 23. Each phase impacts approximately 1,200 … [Read more...]
Out Of The Chute
Posted on January 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A lot of items on our plate, from all over the map, physically and topic-wise...let's have at it."SUMMIT" EXPANDS TO MAHONING: Akron Public Schools AAA outlet WAPS/91.3 "The Summit" is indeed, as noted in our previous item, being heard in the Mahoning Valley.An OMW listener in WAPS' signal range reported hearing a mention of a simulcast on WKTL/90.7 Struthers, the school district owned station which puts a decent signal into most of the Valley. A Valley listener confirmed the simulcast from the … [Read more...]
Snow Day
Posted on January 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 1/8/10 1:45 PM: The upcoming Jim Traficant radio show on Clear Channel Cleveland talk WTAM/1100 is "only the beginning", says the former Congressman's new management representation in an article in the Youngstown Vindicator this week. A choice quote:Traficant signed a three-month contract with WTAM with a clause that lets him out of the deal if he decides to run for Congress, said Dennis Malloy, his director of communications. Feb. 18 is the filing deadline to run in the May 4 … [Read more...]
The Catchup Post
Posted on December 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The altered state of reality here at the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) means that, well, we missed some stuff...some that affects the coming year.So, here's at least some of What We Missed, and other updates, with a year-end message still to come...FREEDOM AVENUE CHANGES: There have been so many changes at Clear Channel's Akron/Canton cluster on Freedom Avenue that we wouldn't be surprised if you'd mistake it for a bus or train station, as opposed to a radio station cluster.First, as long advertised, … [Read more...]
Wave About To Stop Waving
Posted on December 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 12/24/09 10:10 AM: Cleveland Plain Dealer media writer Julie Washington has more on the pending format change, including confirmation that Ric Bennett is the new program director.Both articles also note that the station will indeed be known on-air as "107.3 Boom!". (With the exclamation mark, we presume...)UPDATE 12/23/09 11:57 AM: An alert OMW reader pointed us to this article on the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram's website today, confirming the WNWV format change. The paper is co-owned … [Read more...]
Monday Morning…And Then? Who Knows
Posted on November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This is our "one shot" update promised earlier.We aren't ready to announce an official "hiatus" yet, but we could be away from the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) the next week or so due to very pressing, vital issues. We could also be here, and updating, which is why we're not invoking the "H" word. It depends on how those issues go, frankly.But...if you don't hear from us here by next weekend, please visit our good friend and colleague Scott Fybush's NorthEast Radio Watch. He's tasked with … [Read more...]
SOJ’s 12th
Posted on November 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We'll have a more complete semi-update sometime early Monday, then we may be scarce for a while. No, we're not ready to break out the H word, as we still could be around and updating.But a tip of the hat to a local radio organization that could well be called "A Bunch of Friends of OMW".The weekly "Sunday Oldies Jukebox" turns 12 years old on Sunday. The "day format" hit the airwaves on November 30, 1997.The oldies programming takes over Streetsboro City Schools-owned WSTB/88.9 Streetsboro … [Read more...]
