The trend is growing - with long-time print reporters trading ink and print for electrons. Veteran Akron Beacon Journal reporter Phil Trexler is the latest "ink stained wretch" to go electronic, as he's leaving East Exchange Street to take his talents to the North Coast... Proud to announce I'll be Seeing the Possible @wkyc as their investigative producer with @tommeyerWKYC. Of course @denisep is a bonus!— PHIL TREXLER-ABJ (@PhilTrexler) April 17, 2015 That's Denise … [Read more...]
Fee’s No Longer Company
Posted on April 10, 2015 · 76 Comments
UPDATE 4/10/15 10:05 AM: All Access says it's a contract expiration - CBS RADIO Hot AC WQAL (Q104)/CLEVELAND FEE's KOMPANY morning show host ALLAN FEE exits as his contract expires. Look for GLENN ANDERSON, CARLEY McCORD and WOODY JUSTIK to remain with the show. Midday host AVERAGE JOE (a.k.a. JOE KRAUSS) moves to mornings in the interim. All Access says program director Dave Popovich is indeed looking for a new morning host... ----- When a radio station performs what we call a … [Read more...]
Press Release Theatre, Vol. 12
Posted on April 8, 2015 · Leave a Comment
As usual, guess who starts our press release parade? Well, she WAS first...and she has some help from another Kent-based Friend of OMW... ----- (WKSU and Western Reserve PBS) WKSU AND WESTERN RESERVE PBS EXAMINE VIETNAM’S LEGACY 40 YEARS LATER COLLABORATION INCLUDES RADIO REPORTS AND DOCUMENTARY FILM The WKSU newsroom looks back at two significant historical events, presented in collaboration with Western Reserve PBS. As the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the … [Read more...]
A Cozi Laff
Posted on April 6, 2015 · 8 Comments
There were rumblings that the previously announced "Laff" comedy subchannel would not actually directly replace "Live Well Network" on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5's 5.2 subchannel when that home and lifestyle subchannel goes away later this month. That turns out to be correct, but only because another subchannel network will come to Cleveland on WEWS' 5.2 subchannel instead. The station confirms in an official release that the "Cozi TV" network, another treasure trove of popular reruns, … [Read more...]
A Star (102) Is Born
Posted on April 3, 2015 · Leave a Comment
When CBS Radio AC WDOK/102.1 took the name "New 102" in early 2012, we wondered how long "New" would last. Peg it at three years and three months, as the AC side of the Halle Building has trotted out its "Star" destiny...and has become "Star 102" as of today. The move was first reported earlier this week by super domain snoop Lance Venta of our content partners at RadioInsight...who, as usual, spotted a domain name registration before anyone short of the registrants themselves: As the … [Read more...]
Jobs And Other Stuff
Posted on April 1, 2015 · 3 Comments
As promised, some job openings and some other stuff. And...not a single April Fools Day-inspired post in the bunch... JOB OPENING #1: A staffer at Radio One Cleveland has nabbed a new job, and that means the cluster is looking for a new assistant chief engineer. Chief engineer Gary Zocolo, who is a long-time Friend of OMW and then some, lets us know: Ben Slagle was hired here as Assistant Chief Engineer two years ago. Ben had IT skills but very limited broadcast knowledge. After two very … [Read more...]
Piled This High
Posted on March 31, 2015 · 2 Comments
It's a wide assortment of news items this time, that apparently didn't melt like those piles of snow we had... JAMIE'S IN DC: Now-former Raycom CBS-MyNet combo WOIO/19-WUAB/43 "19 Action News" (stay tuned!) morning traffic reporter Jamie Sullivan disappeared so quickly and quietly late last year, she was almost on milk cartons. And despite the best efforts of This Space and others, no one would share a peep about What Happened To Jamie. We now know. A week ago, Jamie Sullivan landed as a … [Read more...]
Here We Go Again
Posted on March 23, 2015 · 1 Comment
Another week, another week opener. We haven't forgotten our #TheNextRadio series. It's just that Life has Intervened to the point that we haven't had time for the extra processing needed for the next segment. But in the meantime... BEEFING UP THE WX: Some more changes (stop us if you've heard this before!) are coming to 3001 Euclid. But it's an effort to add staff to the weather department at "NewsChannel 5". An Alert OMW Reader actually spotted one of the two new additions coming to Scripps … [Read more...]
Sad, Sudden Death
Posted on March 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Thursday morning, ABC O&O WABC/7 New York reporter Lisa Colagrossi was doing her job, covering a news story (a fire) and reporting live. But Friday, WABC had to air another story...not produced by her, but about her own sudden death. Lisa Colagrossi, Eyewitness News reporter, anchor, wife and mother, has died at age 49. Lisa suffered a brain hemorrhage while returning from covering a story Thursday morning. And it's a death that sent shock waves through the New York City ABC … [Read more...]
So Many Changes
Posted on March 10, 2015 · 1 Comment
So many changes, so little time...just one day for most of this... NEW ND: Raycom CBS/MyNet combo WOIO/19-WUAB/43 has found its replacement for now-former news director Dan Salamone, and it appears quite obvious he won't be leading the "19 Action News" newsroom. Well, OK, not the newsroom under that long-time moniker. Here, let's share the first few lines of the official press release from Raycom HQ in Montgomery AL: Fred D’Ambrosi has been named News Director at WOIO/WUAB, the Raycom Media … [Read more...]
