A heads up - this will be one of our slower update weeks, due to off-blog concerns. But sometimes stuff just begs to be put up...COLUMBUS MOVES: Within a half-hour of each other, two OMW readers gave us the heads up... the long-awaited move of Clear Channel's WMRN/106.9 Marion into the Columbus market is about to take place.In fact, the station itself has announced the change to listeners on a web page, which gives word of WMRN's upcoming COL move from Marion to the Columbus suburb of Dublin, … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: “19 Action News” Joins The 21st Century
Posted on October 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment
As rumored for well over a year, as hinted here more times than we can count...Porcine creatures are officially airborne over Reserve Square, and the temperature in Hades is under 32 degrees and holding.Raycom Media Cleveland CBS/MyNetworkTV combo WOIO/19-WUAB/43's "19 Action News" is now broadcasting in HDTV format.We don't know when exactly it happened, but based on the flurry of E-Mail we received from our ever vigilant readers, "19 Action News HD" would appear to have debuted with the 6 … [Read more...]
Clearing Out On Friday
Posted on October 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 10/20/07 12:30 PM: A correction to the below...the wedding mentioned above happened two years ago. But we're still happy for Autumn and her now-no-longer-new husband.Our apologies. The original site didn't say which year "October" was in...--------------It's Friday, and EVERYTHING MUST GO!OK, not everything. Only the random items on our plate and in our brains...NEW 5'ER?: Thursday on WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5", we heard a voice and a name that should be familiar to some of those in the … [Read more...]
Random Thought
Posted on October 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment
While awaiting our next full update, sometime later today or tomorrow... a question.How can Cleveland Cavaliers flagship WTAM/1100 produce a Cavaliers' broadcast from literally the other side of the world - Shanghai, China - that sounds like Fred McLeod is doing it from Cleveland......but Akron market talker WNIR/100.1's regular weekend remotes from car dealers literally down the same street from their studios in the same Akron suburb sound like they're coming from China?OK, so we know the … [Read more...]
Quick Midweek Shot
Posted on October 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Some stuff that's been piling up, waiting to be let free...A CLEARER OUT OF THE STUDIO PICTURE: OMW hears that with this coming Saturday night's 11 PM newscast, Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" will be the first local station with news video in the field to be shot and delivered in HDTV format.Our sources at 3001 Euclid tell us that all recorded video shot after Saturday will be in full 16x9 720p HD format, with no upconversion. Video shot before the new HDTV video recording and … [Read more...]
Doerr Sighting In Rhode Island
Posted on October 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Former WOIO/19 "19 Action News" news director Stephen Doerr is back in the business of running a TV newsroom.Our colleague Scott Fybush at NorthEast Radio Watch published the news Sunday:Global Broadcasting closes on its purchase of WLNE (Channel 6) from Freedom. The new owners are bringing in their own management team, which means general manager Roland Adeszko and news director Edwin Hart are out, replaced by Stephen Doerr, who's handling both jobs for now.WLNE is licensed to New Bedford MA, … [Read more...]
Rover In Controversy Land Again
Posted on October 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A picture posted on the website of CBS Radio Cleveland alt-rock/talk WKRK/92.3 "K-Rock" morning host Shane "Rover" French today has caused a raft of controversy.The site operated by the "Rover's Morning Glory" show, RoverRadio.com, posted a graphic picture that it said could be of school shooter 14 year-old Asa Coon - taken immediately after his self-inflicted shooting death at Cleveland's SuccessTech Academy this Wednesday.The page is titled "School Shooter Dead?" with a question mark in that … [Read more...]
A Part Of The Story
Posted on October 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Local television newsrooms have fleets of vans, satellite trucks and cars to speed their reporters to breaking news stories.On Wednesday, one local TV station didn't have to leave its own building for much of the time.The shootings at Cleveland's Success Tech Academy, which brought national media attention to the city all day, happened at the school's location - within sight of WKYC/3's Digital Broadcast Center at 13th and Lakeside. (And since we often refer to local media outlets by their … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WKYC’s Anderson(s) To Philly
Posted on October 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW hears from numerous sources in both cities that Gannett NBC afilliate WKYC/3 morning co-anchor John Anderson is heading to a similar job in Philadelphia - morning co-anchor at FOX O&O WTXF/29.His wife, WKYC reporter Kristin Anderson, is presumably also headed east to Cheesesteak Land, though we have no information if she's in line for a job at WTXF or any other station in Philadelphia.John Anderson's new boss at "FOX 29" is former Clevelander Mike Renda. You might recognize him as the … [Read more...]
Two Quick Updates
Posted on October 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
We'll throw these up this afternoon, instead of waiting for our usual morning report...FM TALK WATCH ROLLS ON: Our ongoing tracking of the move of traditional news/talk/sports formats to the FM dial nets a big one this afternoon, not that terribly far from Ohio.AllAccess reports that Emmis talk powerhouse WIBC/1070 Indianapolis is the latest to be added to the FM Talk Convert list. Emmis will move the legendary Indiana talk station to the FM dial at 93.1, replacing top 40 "Radio Now" WNOU.Not … [Read more...]
