This is an item filled with mostly some random items, much of the content from outside the immediate Cleveland/Akron/Canton area.But as they say, "stay tuned".The rumblings surrounding pending major moves at one local TV news operation are very loud...so loud you could probably hear them while standing on, oh, just to pick a street totally out of random, Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland.What we're hearing will probably surprise you, and not just because of any names involved, or for that … [Read more...]
Tim Kelly To Envision
Posted on December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We have details on the new destination for Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting's operations director and Sandusky market manager Tim Kelly, who announced his resignation from the Elyria-based broadcaster Monday.Kelly moves to a management role at Beachwood-based Envision Radio Networks, where he takes a new post as vice president and general manager at the growing local radio syndication firm.More on the move in a press release from the Envision folks, reprinted below:-----------ENVISION RADIO NETWORKS … [Read more...]
More Print Cuts
Posted on December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Internet rumors we hinted about in Monday's update have, unfortunately, become reality at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.WKYC/3 is reporting today that 50 Plain Dealer staffers are exiting the state's largest daily newspaper, in the latest round of job cuts at the Advance/Newhouse owned paper.WKYC's Tom Beres reports that 27 PD newsroom staffers got the word via phone this morning that they were being laid off, and that another 23 workers have accepted a buyout from the paper.Beres notes that … [Read more...]
Radio Changes, The Tuesday Edition
Posted on December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
When there's change or upheaval at a radio station or cluster, it often takes a while to figure out who's still around...and who's not.So, let's try to figure out the situation at CBS Radio alt-rock WKRK/92.3, which just tweaked its music format and dumped its on-air personalities - including syndicated morning drive talk fest "Opie and Anthony" - on Monday.Apparently still in the building, if not on the air, is program director Dom "Nard" Nardella, who describes the new "Radio 92.3" format to … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: “K-Rock” Broken
Posted on December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just a few months after losing its high-profile morning star to a crosstown competitor, it appears major changes are being heard at CBS Radio alt-rock WKRK/92.3, the Cleveland market station known - apparently until today - as "K-Rock".The station is now playing continuous alt-rock music without benefit of any air personalities, and is now using the on-air identifier "radio 92.3" in occasional recorded liners.Radio-Info.com's news page reports that WKRK was one of two stations that dumped CBS/XM … [Read more...]
Radio Daze: The Documentary
Posted on December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A TV documentary based on Mike Olszewski's book "Radio Daze" premieres this week."Radio Daze: Cleveland’s FM Air Wars" debuts Tuesday night at 9:30 PM on Western Reserve PBS, the local PBS affiliate combo known to mere mortals as WNEO/45 Alliance-WEAO/49 Akron.Quoting a release from our good friends over on Campus Center Drive:It presents the dramatic rise of northeast Ohio’s FM rock scene, from its early days on college and ethnic stations manned by hippie disk jockeys to a billion-dollar … [Read more...]
Monday In December
Posted on December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Unless you're a big winter weather fan, or happy about the start of a new work week, the phrase "Monday in December" seems rather foreboding. For that matter, so do some of our news items as we start the week...WKYC BUYOUTS: OMW hears that our earlier fears regarding Gannett's continuing effort to reduce staff at Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC/3 are true.We passed along an item earlier from Dave Hughes' DCRTV - that Gannett was actively offering buyouts to help further cut staff at its TV … [Read more...]
Friday Oddities
Posted on November 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OK, so we'll squeeze out one more update of odd stuff this Friday after the Thanksgiving Day holiday.There is some more economic bad news for those in local media, but we'll put that on the back burner until our Monday morning update...keeping the meaning of "Black Friday" for holiday shopping crowds for now...ION OF CHANGE: A little change could be coming to the digital signals of the ION Network's owned and operated TV stations, and the ION folks are going about proposing the changes in an … [Read more...]
Random Tuesday Stuff
Posted on November 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Some items kicking around the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm)'s storage bin...HSFB IN HD: The good folks at SportsTime Ohio have passed along their coverage plans for this coming weekend's Ohio High School Athletic Association high school football championships.And the schedule of six games includes three that will be broadcast in HD format:11/28 11:00am Div. VI - Delphos St. John's vs Bascom Hopewell-Loudon11/28 3:00pm Div. IV - HD - Steubenville vs. Kettering Archbishop Alter11/28 7:00pm Div. II - … [Read more...]
Two Christmas Stockings Filled
Posted on November 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The early flip to Christmas music has happened twice in Cleveland.As expected, CBS Radio AC WDOK/102.1 "Soft Rock 102.1" and Salem CCM WFHM/95.5 "The Fish" have become the next Northeast Ohio stations - and the first Cleveland market stations - to flip to all Christmas music.The moves comes after Clear Channel Canton market AC WHOF/101.7 "My 101.7" and Youngstown market classic hits WBBG/106.1 "Big 106.1" flipped to holiday music in the past week.WDOK had been promoting a Christmas music flip … [Read more...]
