UPDATE: This list will be updated as new names come in...-----------The following is a list of all the Clear Channel employees we know to have been cut this week in Ohio.There are some new names on the list, that we haven't yet reported, and still some unconfirmed names.For the most part, this list contains names on-air or programming department employees laid off at the company's stations starting Monday.It's our belief that each cluster lost at least one or two off-air employees. If we know … [Read more...]
CC Cuts: Akron/Canton and Youngstown Updates
Posted on April 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Even our short hiatuses go interrupted! Heh.But we have come up with some more information regarding Clear Channel markets we hadn't heard about yet, and felt the need to put these items up...AKRON/CANTON: OMW hears that Clear Channel's Akron/Canton cluster on Freedom Avenue has lost four staffers:Amy Malone, morning co-host at AC WHOF/101.7 "My 101.7"Megan, 7-midnight personality on rock WRQK/106.9 "Rock 106-9"/afternoon traffic reporterProduction staffer Chad JensenEngineer Bruce … [Read more...]
Tuesday’s Normal
Posted on April 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
An interesting mix this morning, including a couple of updates to radio items we've had recently...HORROR TURN: Like when most radio people end up involuntarily headed for unemployment, it seemed like former CBS Radio Cleveland classic rock WNCX/98.5 morning co-host Mike Oleszewski disappeared like a character in a horror movie.As it turns out, that's exactly what he'll be this summer.An alert OMW reader points out that "Mike O" will be in the cast of the horror movie "The Dead Matter", which … [Read more...]
No Connection Monday
Posted on April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's pretty much All Quiet on the Media Front, with not much to pick up for this Monday update. But we wanted to let our readers know that we're around...somehow...SAVAGE VISIT: When talk WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron" evening host Tom Erickson goes on vacation, the Akron market station will plug in one of its syndicated offerings...most of them usually consigned to regular late night/weekend clearances due to the full-time local talk schedule on WNIR.Until Westwood One dropped his show, Lars … [Read more...]
Returns And Changes
Posted on April 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Some assorted stuff in our Thursday update...PUBLIC EYE RETURN: When long-time CBS Radio AC WDOK/102.1 morning co-host Robin Benzle found herself not waking up Cleveland with Trapper Jack on the station's popular morning show, she lamented that it'd be difficult to find her way back onto the air...as stations seemed to be interested in female hosts who were - as she put it to Plain Dealer media columnist Julie Washington - "giggle queens".There's no such worry about the Internet, where Benzle … [Read more...]
That WKDD AllAccess Ad
Posted on April 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 4/13/09 10:55 PM: WKDD program director Keith Kennedy has a statement on the below item, which we're reprinting here:-----Obviously, Matt is the fabric of WKDD and my hope is he’ll continue to host mornings on WKDD for a very long time to come. You can’t think of WKDD without thinking of Matt. The re-invention of WKDD mornings in recent months with the addition of Krissy Taylor has brought new life into WKDD, and we’re thrilled with the results. Matt is and continues to be the star of … [Read more...]
News, Snow and Trouble
Posted on April 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 4/7/09 2:10 PM: Thanks to WNIR listener and OMW reader "Wayne in Akron", here's your answer to the "when it starts" question for the Akron talk station's new weekend show with Bob Earley:----- WNIR's new weekend "Earley In The Evening" show begins on Saturday, April 25th according to the station's website scroll and the commercial that has aired a few time.-----When we checked the website earlier, the scroll wasn't working for us, and Earley hasn't been added to the "24/7 Program Guide" … [Read more...]
First TWC Northeast Ohio HDTV Wave
Posted on March 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As noted in our Twitter update, it does appear that Time Warner Cable's Northeast Ohio division has rolled out the first wave of its coming HD channel lineup expansion.We aren't near the OMW World Headquarters and our own TWC installation, or we'd verify it for ourselves.Anyway, since we've already written about this extensively, with the help of TWC NEO executive Bill Jasso, we'll just put up the company's press release in this space...with thanks to the company's Travis … [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...]
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...]
