Yes, we're adding a Saturday update here at the Mighty Blog...mostly because Friday got away with us...TOWER RISING: We've visited the transmitter site of Cleveland Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 so often, the site's neighbors living along a nearby Parma street are starting to recognize the OMW Mobile on sight.We've made fast friends with a couple of 'em, and as a result, we're now hearing that WKYC's long-delayed tower is finally starting to go up - as of Friday. (As it turns out, if you live … [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...]
THIS JUST IN: Monica Robins Takes WKYC 7 PM Co-Anchor Slot
Posted on March 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This one was just posted by WKYC/3 "Director's Cut" blogger Frank Macek:The Cleveland NBC affiliate is tapping "Channel 3 News" health reporter Monica Robins as the new co-anchor of the station's 7 PM newscast. Robins will join incumbent 7 PM anchor Eric Mansfield.The opening is due to the exit of current 7 PM co-anchor Carole Sullivan. As expected, she'll be leaving Cleveland to follow her husband Mike to San Diego, where he's joining the coaching staff of the NFL's San Diego Chargers. The … [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...]
More Gannett Furloughs
Posted on March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This Monday is turning out to be full of bad news, unfortunately, and this one is on the economic side.According to an internal memo obtained by the folks at the FishbowlDC blog, troubled media giant Gannett is turning to its employees for more unpaid time...saying the "unprecedented economic downturn" has forced it to make more "difficult decisions". Quoting:One of those choices was between more layoffs or another round of furloughs. We chose, for most employees, a furlough program consisting … [Read more...]
There Goes Another Newspaper
Posted on March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It seems like these days, we're passing along word of a newspaper dying about once every two days or so.While this one isn't local, it has Northeast Ohio ties.Readers won't be able to pick up the Ann Arbor News from newsstands or their doorsteps in that Michigan city after July, as the 174-year-old paper will (mostly) shut down its presses.Echoing the now-dead Dead Trees edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Ann Arbor News owner Booth Newspapers will replace the paper with "a Web-based, … [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...]
Buckeyes Stay Put, Vikings Move
Posted on March 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We haven't checked the NCAA men's basketball tournament brackets in depth, but we're pretty sure the chances of the Cleveland State Vikings actually playing THE Ohio State University Buckeyes in the tournament are very, very small.But there's a face-off between the Buckeyes and Vikings on TV in the first round of the tournament, with both teams' games scheduled for Friday night. And in Cleveland...the Buckeyes apparently have the upper hand.Our friends over at CursedCleveland.com ("Losing … [Read more...]
