An OMW reader passes along word that FOX's coverage of game four in baseball's National League Championship Series will be moved in Cleveland next Monday - to Raycom MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43.The move is necessitated by FOX affiliate and former O&O WJW/8's local carriage of the ESPN "Monday Night Football" game between the Cleveland Browns and the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants.(For those who don't follow NFL rights issues, the league's rules mandate that local affiliates … [Read more...]
NBC Weather Plus Shutting Down
Posted on October 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It's a national media news item that affects us locally - as NBC Universal has announced it's shutting down the "NBC Weather Plus" network.TVWeek reports that the weather service operating on NBC affiliates' digital subchannels, including that of Gannett's WKYC/3 in Cleveland, Media General's WCMH/4 in Columbus and Barrington's WNWO/24 in Toledo, will be "phased out in stages" between now and the end of the year.NBC News division head Steve Capus tells the trade magazine that it wasn't just the … [Read more...]
A Global Focus
Posted on October 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Television news reporting is often thin when it comes to international events, where news beyond the U.S. is either ignored, or covered only when it drastically affects this country.A former Cleveland TV reporter hopes to change that with his new public television news show, which premieres tonight on many PBS stations.The anchor of American Public Television's "Worldfocus" is familiar to many Northeast Ohio TV viewers. Martin Savidge has spent the last few years in the national news spotlight … [Read more...]
Monday Return On Sunday Night
Posted on October 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here at your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), we'll let out the usual Monday early morning update on Sunday evening, for one good reason...our first item.5 CATCHING CHANGES: We hinted at this in our last update, and hoped to have it late Friday, but we haven't been able to get to it until now.Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" is no stranger to juggling its anchor lineup. We get a headache trying to remember all the times that the station has moved around, juggled or changed jobs of … [Read more...]
Where’s Aaron
Posted on October 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
...as it turns out, in an Akron radio studio tonight.Rubber City Radio oldies WAKR/1590 Akron will host ABC News Radio's Aaron Katersky tonight, a fact the station has announced frequently during its newscasts this afternoon.Katersky has been in Akron the past couple of days...talking to Akron-area voters and residents about the presidential election before tonight's vice presidential debate between Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.Since we're talking ABC News Radio, … [Read more...]
Chris Quinn Calling Hours
Posted on October 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
For those of you who missed the update to our earlier item about the passing of Chris "The Mighty" Quinn: Calling hours for the long-time Cleveland broadcaster will be this evening from 5-7 PM, at Burr Funeral Home, at 116 South Street in Chardon.We only touched briefly on Quinn's life and career in our earlier item. For those looking for much more, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Alana Baranick has a well-written obituary in Tuesday's paper.One thing we didn't know - Quinn, while working in his … [Read more...]
Ready For Its Name Change
Posted on September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As reported earlier here on OMW, Kent-based public TV stations WNEO/45 Alliance-WEAO/49 Akron are about to take on a new identity.Starting Wednesday, the stations now known as "PBS 45 & 49" on the air will become "Western Reserve PBS"...under the umbrella name of "Western Reserve Public Media".Both are just branding changes for 45/49 - the call letters will remain the same for both stations, and the stations' owner continues to be known legally as Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, … [Read more...]
Your Digital TV Q&As
Posted on September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Late last week, we put out the call for your questions about the digital TV transition.Here's our first batch of those questions:Q: Perhaps a list of stations and their actual operating frequencies would be helpful to all.A: We'll start here, because that information is pretty basic and should be up front. The following covers all full power local TV stations in the Northeast Ohio area. For those of you in the other parts of the state, that list would be way too long...a quick stop by the … [Read more...]
Chris “The Mighty” Quinn Dies
Posted on September 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 12:30 AM 9/30/08: OMW hears that there will be calling hours for Chris Quinn later this week - Thursday, October 2nd from 5-7 PM, at Burr Funeral Home, at 116 South Street in Chardon...-----We're getting word this evening that Cleveland radio personality/engineer/all around radio guy Chris Quinn has passed away, apparently after an illness. We have no further details.Chris "The Mighty" Quinn's resume covers a number of important stations in Cleveland.In the 1990's, Chris moved from … [Read more...]
New HD Radio
Posted on September 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As one of the approximately one-dozen Northeast Ohio residents with an HD Radio unit, it's our obligation to inform the other 11 about new stations lighting up the "HD" light on those receivers.There's a new one as of this past week, and one we believe is pretty new.The HD Radio newcomer is on the AM side, as Clear Channel sports WARF/1350 Akron "SportsRadio 1350" is using the digital technology as of late last week. That makes it the first Akron-licensed broadcaster to go "HD" - as sister … [Read more...]
