UPDATE 3/31/09 7:25 PM: We have properly attributed the last item in this scroll to long-time Cleveland radio voice Ted Lux. Thanks, Ted! We're proud to call you a Friend of OMW...-------------------It's pretty quiet on the radio/TV front in our home base area of Northeast Ohio, but there are plenty of items from Central Ohio. And...maybe one or two with a Cleveland-area link.As per usual, we'll mark the sub-items with a bold-print headline, so you can quickly scroll past the stuff you don't … [Read more...]
WKYC Tower: Up It Goes
Posted on March 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
LIVE FROM SEVEN HILLS/PARMA, OHIO -- OMW is on the road this Sunday evening, and yes, we found our way to the WKYC/3 transmitter site on Broadview Road in Parma.And yes, Virginia, there is a tower Santa Claus. (No, we're not sure that works in late March.)Your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) braved the soggy, windy weather this evening to snap this first shot of the under construction tower that will hold the new digital antennas for WKYC, and for ideastream PBS affiliate WVIZ/25.(Our apologies for … [Read more...]
Saturday Grab Bag
Posted on March 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Yes, we're adding a Saturday update here at the Mighty Blog...mostly because Friday got away with us...TOWER RISING: We've visited the transmitter site of Cleveland Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 so often, the site's neighbors living along a nearby Parma street are starting to recognize the OMW Mobile on sight.We've made fast friends with a couple of 'em, and as a result, we're now hearing that WKYC's long-delayed tower is finally starting to go up - as of Friday. (As it turns out, if you live … [Read more...]
Lighting It Up For Thursday
Posted on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Combing through our list of Thursday items...we'll find a common thread in here somewhere...LIGHTING UP "THIS": Buried deep within the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Cleveland.com, hidden under those annoying rollover ads, and probably in small print in the Dead Trees edition of the PD, is a note that Raycom Media MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43 "My 43" will finally launch the "This TV" subchannel soon.We uncovered this item published Wednesday:This TV, a new classic-movie channel, will launch on WUAB … [Read more...]
Tuesday’s Full Basket
Posted on March 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's a pretty random, but important, collection of items in our basket on Tuesday morning...OH, AND BY THE WAY, THE PD: The news of the impending end of another American newspaper had everyone buzzing Monday, including your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm).Oh, by the way, employees of the Northeast Ohio sister paper of the Ann Arbor News took a budget hit Monday as well.Shortly after we took ourselves out of the media news stream to attend to Real Life, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced its own latest … [Read more...]
Some Other Monday Stuff
Posted on March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We were going to do our usual Monday "mix" item, but the previous entry got a bit larger than we expected.So, here's the rest of the "mix"...NEWS HITS HOME: We've noted a few occasions where a local news organization either becomes the story, or is directly affected by it.Among other items: recently, Raycom Media CBS affiliate WOIO/19-MyNet affiliate WUAB/43 saw a high profile killing just across the street from their main entrance at Reserve Square in downtown Cleveland, at Perk Park. The same … [Read more...]
Your Digital TV Update
Posted on March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
With the FCC laying down its latest guidelines for the Digital TV transition, the agency has now identified which stations will be signing off earlier than the new June 12 deadline for all full-power analog stations to shut down.(Unless the government changes its mind again in May or so.)And in most areas, including Northeast Ohio, the list (FCC PDF link here) doesn't come as any surprise.In the Cleveland/Akron (Canton) TV market, only Trinity Broadcasting O&O WDLI/17 Canton has elected to … [Read more...]
Sports And Television Monday
Posted on March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As we hinted in our last Twitter update, there's not really much going on media-wise around these parts. Or, if there is, it hasn't made it to our attention.(Yes, that's a hint that you can E-mail us if you're seeing something we aren't! Consider it the OMW version of those radio "traffic tip lines", though we have no money for the best tip of the month...heck, we have no money, period!)For the moment, what we have is mostly sports related, along with some television...SPORTS DANCING: It's … [Read more...]
Some Mixed News
Posted on March 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Let's see where the Tuesday morning item mix takes us...unfortunately, it's mostly not good news...CUTBACKS: The sour economy has resulted in some economic-related cutbacks on Campus Center Drive in Kent.That's the home of Western Reserve PBS, the local public TV outlet which operates WNEO/45 Alliance and WEAO/49 Akron, which is making some financial moves to try to ensure economic stability in an economy that's forced pretty much every media outlet to make some hard choices.Quoting a news … [Read more...]
Enough To Run
Posted on February 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We're a day late, and hopefully not a dollar short...but to be honest, aside from issues like the news video sharing plan among Cleveland TV newsrooms, not much has been going on.We do have some items this Tuesday morning, though...SPORTS SHUFFLE: Clear Channel sports WARF/1350 and Media-Com sports WJMP/1520 in the Akron market* have shuffled networks and formats quite a few times before, and OMW hears it's in the works again...at least network-wise.It won't be happening right away, but we're … [Read more...]
