The theme for this one is change... in one way or the other... CHARTER, NOT COMCAST: Northeast Ohio customers of Time Warner Cable, the area's dominant cable provider, were preparing themselves to deal with Comcast. The merger of Time Warner and Comcast has been in the works, and is currently awaiting federal regulatory approval. It's that bid to garner approval that led Comcast and Time Warner to team up with a third company, Charter Communications...which will either directly or … [Read more...]
All In The Family
Posted on March 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
No, not the iconic 1970's sitcom with Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton, which airs weeknights on Antenna TV (Tribune's WJW/8.2 locally)... FIRST FAMILY OF LOCAL TV: A shuffling at Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 brings top management of the station officially into the same family. WKYC's long-time top advertising and promotions executive has been promoted, according to our friend and blogging colleague Frank Macek at his "WKYC Director's Cut" blog: “I am pleased to announce the … [Read more...]
Press Release Theatre (Vol. 9), The Time Warner Cable SportsChannel Edition
Posted on December 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 12/20/12 10:07 PM: We're told that the network actually launched in August...we haven't had Time Warner Cable's digital service since before then. But TWC's own release talks about the network in terms of "will be" and "will bring", so they must see this as a post-soft launch statewide. Some wording fixed... ----- Having apparently lost or abandoned its reported bid to buy SportsTime Ohio, Time Warner Cable is going ahead full steam with its own statewide sports network...called "Time … [Read more...]
The Awards Post
Posted on June 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Local TV and radio broadcasters spent a lot of time in Indianapolis and Columbus this past weekend, picking up awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Great Lakes Chapler (the local Emmy awards), and the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters. Here are the winners for stations and organizations within the OMW primary coverage area. Of course, a number of operations did not enter nominations... ----------- EMMY AWARDS (Only categories with Northeast Ohio winners are … [Read more...]
Clearing Out
Posted on June 24, 2010 · 6 Comments
The rain is clearing out, according to the weather forecasters...and so are we. The inbox, that is...and we have some updates on old items... RUMORS DYING: We passed along rumblings in Tom Taylor's always excellent "Taylor on Radio-Info" column that involved the Cleveland market. The original rumors noted sale talks that could involve the cluster of four CBS Radio stations in Cleveland - alt-rock WKRK/92.3, classic rock WNCX/98.5, AC WDOK/102.1 and hot AC WQAL/104.1. Tom initially noted … [Read more...]
Ohio’s Mobile TV Future
Posted on April 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A host of TV station owner groups are banding together to create a much broader future for mobile digital television, and nearly all groups in the Cleveland market are involved.From the first article about the joint venture of 12 ownership groups, courtesy of TVNewsCheck's Harry Jessell:The groups: Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Ion Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom … [Read more...]
All Over The Map
Posted on August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's a typical Monday, as we let items free that need their freedom...GOING DOWN: It's no surprise to anyone who follows population figures, but the folks at Nielsen Media Research have announced that the Cleveland TV market continues to lose position in its market rankings.From the TV ratings giant's release:The Top 10 local markets, known in the industry as Designated Market Areas or DMAs, will remain the same this season, with a few rank changes in the Top 20. Moving up are Seattle, from 14 … [Read more...]
Weather And Storms
Posted on July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
And the latter part of our title, this time, isn't necessarily about thunderstorms...it's about economic storms, again. But first...MCSHEA RETURNS: OMW hears that former Cleveland Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 meteorologist and "Good Company" co-host Eileen McShea is about to return to local TV, but not at 13th and Lakeside.Instead, she'll be doing weather on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5"'s weekend newscasts...at least for now.The folks at 3001 Euclid are "down one" weather … [Read more...]
Metro About To Close In Ohio
Posted on May 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There's really nothing new here for OMW readers, except some details and timing.This item on AllAccess' Net News scroll jumped out at us:METRO NETWORKS/WESTWOOD ONE Regional Dir.Operations/DETROIT-CENTRAL HOWARD BOUTON tells ALL ACCESS, "I am looking for talent in DETROIT for our Metro Networks Regional Hub. I need traffic producers and editors, traffic anchors for DETROIT, GRAND RAPIDS, CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, COLUMBUS, TOLEDO and DAYTON Radio and TV stations. News anchors for same markets. … [Read more...]
No Connection Monday
Posted on April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's pretty much All Quiet on the Media Front, with not much to pick up for this Monday update. But we wanted to let our readers know that we're around...somehow...SAVAGE VISIT: When talk WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron" evening host Tom Erickson goes on vacation, the Akron market station will plug in one of its syndicated offerings...most of them usually consigned to regular late night/weekend clearances due to the full-time local talk schedule on WNIR.Until Westwood One dropped his show, Lars … [Read more...]
