UPDATE 7:37 PM 5/25/10: WEWS will air "Lost" at 1:06 AM early Thursday morning, in addition to the previously scheduled ABC network repeat of the show's finale at 8 PM on Saturday... And yes, our apologies for inadvertently mixing up the Beacon Journal's Rich Heldenfels with the Plain Dealer's Mark Dawidziak. That part of the item has been corrected... -------- UPDATE 9:20 PM 5/24/10: The WEWS item linked below has been updated with a new message from newly minted VP/GM Sam Rosenwasser: The … [Read more...]
Clearing Off The Virtual Desk
Posted on May 22, 2010 · 5 Comments
Here's just a collection of stuff once again topping our virtual desk. We've been meaning to clean this thing off...though there are still a couple of items we'll have to take off later... 20 QUESTIONS: OK, so they're 10 questions each to two people, but both are Northeast Ohio radio types. The popular trade site "AllAccess" spotlights two local radio types in its weekly "10 Questions" section. One is Clear Channel Akron market hot AC WKDD/98.1 former morning man and former talk WHLO/640 … [Read more...]
5’s New GM And Other TV News
Posted on April 28, 2010 · 1 Comment
NEW BOSS ON EUCLID: Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 has found its new general manager.After hearing from our sources that former Tampa FL general manager Sam Rosenwasser had been introduced to employees as the new VP/GM at the Cleveland station, we did a Google search - and found that Plain Dealer TV writer Mark Dawidziak had already posted an item about Rosenwasser's hiring:Rosenwasser, 57, was the president and general manager of WTSP Channel 10, the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate in the Tampa-St. … [Read more...]
Supersized Update
Posted on April 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As promised, here's our update that spans all over the map, and with updates on just about every subject area we cover. How big is it? Let's just put it this way...we're lucky Blogger doesn't charge at all, let alone by the kilobyte...WVPX HD: Put on hold by Ion Media Networks' bankruptcy a while back, the HD upgrade at Ion's local owned-and-operated station is complete.Over-air viewers of Akron-licensed WVPX/23 are now seeing an HD feed on 23.1, and viewers of Time Warner Cable will get the … [Read more...]
From Cleveland To Youngstown to Canada
Posted on April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
...and beyond, as this is quite a geographically-broad update...KEN COURTRIGHT: Services were held Thursday for long-time Cleveland and Northeast Ohio radio newsman Ken Courtright, who died Saturday at the age of 74.A complete obituary is available at the Linn-Hert-Geib Funeral Home website, and in our earlier item, someone posted a comment with a link to video of the service, which is now archived and available for viewing. (It appears to be password protected, so we're not sure we should … [Read more...]
In No Particular Order
Posted on March 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Since we've been sporadic lately, here are some items that have taken place in recent days... in no particular order...and there are still more items we haven't touched yet..."MISS BARBARA" PASSES ON: If you grew up on Northeast Ohio television into the early 1970s, you need no further explanation.Barbara Plummer, known as "Miss Barbara" on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5's local edition of "Romper Room", has died.From her online obituary (we have the text, but don't have a link):From 1958 to 1972 … [Read more...]
Unloading The Pile
Posted on March 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Our stack of unfinished items has gotten so large, we're not sure we can fit it in one update. But... we'll try, working backwards from the present...and we could have another update soon, as we're not sure we have everything out of the backlog file yet...ROMIGH IN: As previously posted on our Twitter account, Clear Channel talk WKBN/570 Youngstown has made fill-in Mike Romigh, the former CBS Radio talk KDKA/1020 Pittsburgh host, its new permanent morning drive host.Quoting Clear Channel … [Read more...]
Big Monday
Posted on March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Our pile of news is large this Monday, so we might as well get it posted and out of the way...TV MADE EASY: That's the catchphrase used by Time Warner for its latest digital/HD cable channel changes, which are taking effect starting today.We've already heard from one OMW reader in TWC's Wadsworth system, who tells us that the flip of the HD channels has already taken place there - from the 400s to the 1000s on the cable lineup. (We'll need reader help here, as we won't be able to track the … [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...]
No, You Can’t Get The Flu From Us
Posted on November 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Like a lot of other Northeast Ohioans, your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) is forced to admit that we have SOME sort of illness.We've slept most of the past two days, and have invoked the OMW Medical Staff to help figure this out for us.We know that the usual instructions involve plenty of rest, and plenty of liquids, but don't usually outline plenty of updates to a blog...so, we've been tending to Offline Life(tm) most of the time.As far as we know, we do NOT have the H1N1 or "swine" flu - that … [Read more...]
