Getting a Round Tuit(tm) on a mid-summer's day.. FSR TO 92.3: OMW has confirmed that Fox Sports Radio will be used to fill the overnight hours on incoming CBS Radio sports talker WKRK/92.3 "The Fan", when that station launches a week from Monday. We also hear that a lineup for "92.3 The Fan" is nearly complete, and that the station's local evening programming will last until midnight. (It had been expected to run until 10 PM.) The use of FSR on 92.3 will likely mean the network's end on its … [Read more...]
WOIO: Hello Akron, Canton
Posted on August 13, 2011 · 19 Comments
UPDATE 8/13/11 4:45 PM: Here's a good coverage map link for WOIO's new fill-in translator, courtesy of RabbitEars.Info's Trip Ericson. Use the standard Google map tools to zoom in and out, with solid green being the strongest coverage area... ---------- For many of those in the southern part of the Cleveland TV market, particularly in the Akron/Canton area, Raycom Media CBS affiliate WOIO/19 has largely been a cable/satellite-only channel since the digital transition. That, of course, is … [Read more...]
Talk To Me, WABQ
Posted on August 12, 2011 · 5 Comments
It took a few days later than expected, but Gary Richards’ LMA of Radio Advantage One’s WABQ/1460 Painesville took effect on Thursday, August 4, with the station shedding its’ gospel music format in favor of liberal talk. As of right now, a website for "Talk 1460" is up but still in development. No streaming of the station yet, either, but given Gary R.'s past lease of Bernard Radio's WVKO/1580 Columbus, it should be coming soon. The lineup is pretty much what was outlined in the Scene article … [Read more...]
The Fan Aftermath
Posted on August 5, 2011 · 8 Comments
You know how it goes around here...a big media news bombshell drops, and we kick it around the next day. (We'll get to some other stuff a little later today or over the weekend.) As expected, CBS Radio made Cleveland its 15th sports radio market, with the announcement that "Sports Radio 92.3 The Fan" will debut on WKRK/92.3 (what is now alt-rock "Radio 92.3") on August 29th. The station has only announced two shows so far, the shows that were already rumored - "Kiley and Booms" (Kevin Kiley … [Read more...]
IT’S OFFICIAL: 92.3 The Fan Debuts 8/29
Posted on August 4, 2011 · 10 Comments
We apologize if this sounds a bit familiar. Heh. CBS Radio has officially announced the start of "Sports Radio 92.3 The Fan" on August 29. Here's the press release as sent to OMW this morning. We'll have more detailed analysis and our thoughts later today... ------------ SPORTS RADIO 92.3 THE FAN, CLEVELAND’S FIRST AND ONLY FM SPORTS STATION, MAKES ITS DEBUT ON MONDAY, AUG. 29 Andy Roth Named as Program Director Beginning on Monday, Aug. 29, Cleveland sports fans will have a bold new … [Read more...]
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Posted on July 31, 2011 · 5 Comments
With apologies to former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather... We've covered the upcoming launch of the new CBS Radio FM sports talker in Cleveland, which some believe could launch as soon as Monday, like the proverbial blanket. You might have noticed that most of our mentions of the new station say something like this - "92.3-or-wherever it lands". We do that for a reason. As of this writing, Sunday afternoon, we have no confirmation of which frequency CBS Radio will use as the home of … [Read more...]
All That’s Not FM Sports
Posted on July 28, 2011 · 2 Comments
We've been spending quite a bit of time - and getting a lot of information - about CBS Radio's pending flip to an FM sports talk format in Cleveland. There are plenty of other items floating out there, so let's grab them... CURTIS HEADS SOUTH: Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 in Cleveland recently dispatched "Good Morning Cleveland" anchors Pete Kenworthy and Kimberly Gill off the show, as we've reported already. (Kenworthy returned to the station recently, in a short-term deal to do field … [Read more...]
All But Inevitable
Posted on July 27, 2011 · 17 Comments
We have a separate item with a bunch of other news coming soon, but first, the athletic elephant in the room. There are skeptics, to be sure, that CBS Radio will launch an FM sports talk station soon in Cleveland, probably on the current WKRK/92.3 (now mostly unstaffed alt-rock "Radio 92.3"). There are also people who doubt man really landed on the moon in 1969. OK, so we are not ready to confirm on our own that "92.3 The Fan" - or whatever CBS ends up calling it - could launch as soon as … [Read more...]
That Pesky FM Sports Rumor
Posted on July 20, 2011 · 6 Comments
We've talked about it on Twitter. We've posted about it on message boards. We've vaguely hinted about it here. But with rumors once again floating around about CBS Radio converting one of its Cleveland FM stations to a sports station, is it about to happen? It may be, says Radio-Info.com columnist Tom Taylor, in this morning's Taylor on Radio-Info column. We haven't heard much, at all, from CBS Radio's operations locally. But Tom tracks down an interesting piece of information related to … [Read more...]
The Lost Item
Posted on July 16, 2011 · 6 Comments
We were researching something we had just written here, and...couldn't find it. As it turned out, the post below was written early in the morning Thursday. On our computer. All ready to post here, but...we never got (all together now!) "a RoundTuit"...and your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) was the only one who could read it. Until now. Here it is! Take a long breakfast or lunch, it's a long one... ----------- PETE'S BACK, SORT OF: A week after Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 parted ways with … [Read more...]
