The Cleveland State University Vikings men's basketball team has hooked up with a new radio home in Cleveland.The Vikings have inked a one-year deal with Salem Christian talk/teaching WHKW/1220 "The Word" to air all games live for the 2008-2009 season, according to a CSU sports news release issued last week. (Thanks to the folks at AllAccess for the hat tip, or, since we're talking about basketball, maybe the assist?)Vikings basketball moves from last year's flagship station, Radio One gospel … [Read more...]
Monday Is Packed
Posted on November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
...full of news, mostly updates to some of our previous items. But they're necessary updates...WKDD MORNINGS: As it turns out, veteran Clear Channel Akron/Canton hot AC WKDD/98.1 morning man Matt Patrick won't be soloing it on the FM side of his broadcast life.After being tipped by a reader who spotted the absence of Patrick co-host Angela Bellios on the station's website, OMW confirmed Friday that the station's morning show will no longer be "Matt and Angela".But there will be a replacement … [Read more...]
End Of A Busy Week
Posted on November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just some items we didn't want to leave around for the weekend...CINCINNATI SHUFFLE: In mid-October, long time Friend of OMW Scott Fybush stumbled onto something in his role as editor of the radio industry directory web site 100000watts.com.Scott told us that he saw a filing for a call letter swap in Cincinnati...with the WSWD call letters moving from 94.9 FM to 97.3 FM, and the WYGY call letters moving to replace them at 94.9.We didn't think much of it, as there was no other information to … [Read more...]
Job Wanted – OMW 2
Posted on November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Another local radio professional has taken advantage of our offer to put up a free "job wanted" ad.He's a familiar name to Cleveland market FM listeners - former WNWV/107.3 "The Wave" afternoon drive host Richard Greer, who lost his long-time gig at the Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting-owned smooth jazz station in a recent station schedule shuffle.Richard tells OMW that he's "pretty well looking anywhere in the Tri-State area, but would love to stay in Ohio." He tells us:I have a resume/aircheck … [Read more...]
Small Screen Browns
Posted on November 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There are times when the NFL's Cleveland Browns have stumbled in nationally-televised games, so much so that they may have wished the size of the picture to shrink dramatically. A recent big Monday Night Football win over the Giants excepted, of course.No matter what the local pro football team does tonight, some will indeed watch the game on very small screens.The Browns play the Denver Broncos tonight in the opener of the NFL Network's Thursday night series. As per usual in these … [Read more...]
Moving – And Jobs
Posted on November 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A fast-growing Northeast Ohio-based radio syndicator is moving...within the area...and hiring.Beachwood-based Envision Radio Networks announces that it's finished the move to new, larger digs at 3733 Park East Drive, Room 222. The company's using the postal address of "Cleveland, OH 44122", but they tell us that Park East Drive is still in Beachwood, among the various hotels off the Chagrin Boulevard exit of I-271 in the eastern Cleveland area suburb.And in a move that's pretty breathtaking … [Read more...]
Midweek Visit
Posted on November 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just some followup and stuff floating around...WSTB: We hinted at this in our last item, when we reminded readers that general manager Bob Long and his student crew at Streetsboro's WSTB/88.9 wouldn't be around last night to cover Portage County election returns.OMW hears that moves are actually being made to reconstruct the Streetsboro school district-owned station and return it to the airwaves - at some point.As we pointed out shortly after school officials had station computers removed and … [Read more...]
Election Day
Posted on November 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
On this perhaps Biggest Ever Election Day, it's as close to the Super Bowl as local newsrooms will ever get.Since the presidential race is the primary race of interest, the various network partners of local TV and radio stations will do the "heavy lifting", with pretty much all of the TV and radio network newsrooms showing up at around 7 PM Eastern time - with coverage available even on broadcast TV networks well past midnight.Local news outlets won't stay on the sidelines all night, though. … [Read more...]
Radio Day Of Changes
Posted on November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 11/3/08 12:00 PM: The just updated schedule at Clear Channel talk WHLO/640 Akron shows that it's self-syndicated money advice guru Dave Ramsey filling the 8-10 PM hole in the station's weekday schedule, starting today.Ramsey has been heard in the area only on Melodynamic talk/religious WCER/900 Canton since being dropped from a clearance on Salem religious talk/teaching WHKW/1220 Cleveland "The Word", in a dispute between Ramsey and Salem - Salem wanted Ramsey to start paying for his … [Read more...]
The Job Loss Storm
Posted on November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We wish we had better news for our return.In our last full item, we talked about the continuing reports of job losses at Ohio media outlets. We had no idea that the following week would be one of the worst such weeks for local media workers...ever.The news is so bad, and so widespread, that we abandoned plans for a single, large update covering everything we've missed in the past week. Instead, we decided to split this bad news into a large update of its own. We'll have other news not related … [Read more...]
