AllAccess reports that ABC Radio Networks has announced some of the personalities available in the "menu" of commentators that will be offered to affiliates of Paul Harvey News.The next up on the Not Replacing Paul Harvey List? Citadel/ABC Radio's own Roe Conn, the popular afternoon host on the company's Chicago talk station, WLS/890.AllAccess quotes ABC Radio as saying the Roe Conn commentaries will be "one of the options available to our affiliates" to fill the time slots left behind by … [Read more...]
Our Friday Menu
Posted on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
And for those who are curious, the Thursday night menu was a pair of coney dogs from a nearby local outdoor drive-in restaurant...the business' opening a sure sign of spring in Northeast Ohio.We can get Sonic chili dogs 12 months a year in Streetsboro, but these ones only from March through November...NOT SO FAST, OMW: At the moment, we'd like to pull back on the back patting a bit.In one of our Thursday items, we poured on the self-congratulation for correctly predicting the disposition of ABC … [Read more...]
Harvey To Huckabee
Posted on March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 3/19/09 1:28 PM: Take another one off the Huckabee List.Rubber City Radio VP/Information Media and OMW reader Ed Esposito tells us that Akron's WAKR/1590 does not plan to carry "The Huckabee Report" when it starts airing Monday in the former Paul Harvey News time slots...and that the Paul Harvey Era on WAKR will come to a close after this Saturday's "News and Comment" midday airing with ABC's Gil Gross (at 12:06 PM).Ed tells us:Interesting that ABC is also suggesting other long-form … [Read more...]
Time Warner Northeast Ohio HDTV Plans
Posted on March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's consistently one of our "most asked" questions here at the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm): When will Time Warner Cable upgrade its HDTV lineup in Northeast Ohio?The answer appears to be "starting soon, over the next few months".Local TWC executive Bill Jasso has been kind enough to put a lot of the information that's already out there together, along with some new information, about channels coming to the TWC Northeast Ohio lineup.Without further ado, here's the list we have from Mr. Jasso, … [Read more...]
From Soup To Nuts
Posted on March 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Well, OK...from broadcast (mainly television) to print, from broadcast to cable...here's our latest midweek contribution...REMEMBERING TOM: Your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) has been without full-fledged Internet access for much of the past 24 hours, so we had to resort to posting-by-E-mail for our item on the death of former WKYC/3 personality Tom Haley on Tuesday.We'll confess to once being a regular viewer of WKYC's "Today in Cleveland", the folksy and friendly morning news show that used to … [Read more...]
Hacksaw Lands On The Bird
Posted on March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 3/17/09 11:15 AM: Our apologies to our friends over at AllAccess, who had this news way back on January 27. We missed their original item, and the Los Angeles Times did as well...-------------It looks like there was one more sports-related item we missed in our morning update.Veteran Southern California sports talk host Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton has found a regular gig behind a microphone again.Los Angeles Times blogger Diane Pucin reports that Hamilton is now talking baseball on Sirius XM … [Read more...]
Sports And Television Monday
Posted on March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As we hinted in our last Twitter update, there's not really much going on media-wise around these parts. Or, if there is, it hasn't made it to our attention.(Yes, that's a hint that you can E-mail us if you're seeing something we aren't! Consider it the OMW version of those radio "traffic tip lines", though we have no money for the best tip of the month...heck, we have no money, period!)For the moment, what we have is mostly sports related, along with some television...SPORTS DANCING: It's … [Read more...]
Thursday’s Here
Posted on March 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We've been in one of those writing moods...where we put everything in one daily bag. And it continues...PAUL HARVEY'S NON-REPLACEMENTS: ABC Radio Network has announced the names of the two men who will not replace Paul Harvey.We say that because conventional wisdom would tell us that the late commentator, who passed away Saturday in Arizona at the age of 90, won't actually be replaced permanently.But ABC Radio says the network's Gil Gross and Doug Limerick will provide feeds in the former Paul … [Read more...]
Around The Corner And Around The State
Posted on March 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's yet another mixed bag for midweek...SOMEONE CALL THE MEDIA!: This time, he didn't use any profanity, so we got the note without it falling into the OMW "Spam" folder first.Media-Com talk WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron" morning sports voice/co-host Steve French felt the need to let us know:Your favorite whipping boy, WNIR, is still the runaway #1 in the latest monthly ratings (see Radio and Records).Also, WNIR today announces no layoffs.Some other breaking items into the OMW newsroom: Water … [Read more...]
Some Mixed News
Posted on March 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Let's see where the Tuesday morning item mix takes us...unfortunately, it's mostly not good news...CUTBACKS: The sour economy has resulted in some economic-related cutbacks on Campus Center Drive in Kent.That's the home of Western Reserve PBS, the local public TV outlet which operates WNEO/45 Alliance and WEAO/49 Akron, which is making some financial moves to try to ensure economic stability in an economy that's forced pretty much every media outlet to make some hard choices.Quoting a news … [Read more...]
