We were going to have a "theme week" item, with three things all related in some way, and then...a whole bunch of other media news popped up... THE FCC SAID THAT: Long-time listeners to Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN 850" midday fixture "The Really Big Show" know it well...the infamous "Who Said That?" contest. For those who don't follow the antics of Tony Rizzo, Aaron Goldhammer and company: the contest, which ran until it finally ran out of gas last year, asked listeners to identify a … [Read more...]
The Big Update
Posted on November 23, 2010 · 3 Comments
"We're slipping," as a reader said. Just days after our big return, your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) became scarce, and we did not invoke our Secondary Editorial Voice(tm), though we notice he was busy with some items "off stage". So, it's a Thanksgiving feast of items, some of them courtesy of our second... EARLY CAST: Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 is joining a growing trend in local TV news across the country - pre-5 AM newscasts. GM Sam Rosenwasser notes, in a memo that floated out of … [Read more...]
WKSU Focuses on Bullying
Posted on October 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Starting this Monday, Kent State University’s WKSU/89.7 will examine the tender subject of bullying, which is apropos considering recent news events. WKSU reporter/producer Vivian Goodman presides over "Mean Kids", a six-part series that will air during WKSU’s local segments on NPR’s Morning Edition. (For the uninitiated, NPR's flagship program airs on WKSU weekdays from 5:00AM to 9:00AM.) The segments will examine current statistics on bullying, the ease of creating havoc over the Internet, … [Read more...]
Ohio SPJ honors WNEO/WEAO “Final Edition” documentary
Posted on October 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A 2009 documentary about the Akron Beacon Journal and it's founding family has won very high accolades for public TV outlet Western Reserve PBS (WNEO/45 Alliance-WEAO/49 Akron). Final Edition: Journalism according to Jack and Jim Knight, which tells the story of the Knight family, the Akron Beacon Journal and the rise and fall of the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, won a top award in the 2010 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists competition. The hour-long documentary, which was a three-year … [Read more...]
WKBN’s New Evening Anchor
Posted on September 28, 2010 · 1 Comment
New Vision CBS affiliate WKBN/27 Youngstown has found a new co-anchor for Dave Sess on their 6:00PM and 11:00PM broadcasts, after Whitney Ward left the station last month to be closer to family in her native Washington (joining KEPR-TV Pasco in the process). It's Teresa Weakley, who comes to WKBN from Young Broadcasting-owned (and Gray Television-managed) ABC affiliate WKRN/2 Nashville, where she was that station's live morning reporter and fill-in anchor. She formally debuted on WKBN's 5:00 … [Read more...]
The Big Flood
Posted on August 10, 2010 · 4 Comments
UPDATED 8/10/10 10:45 PM: Oops! There's one more item we forgot to mention, which you can read by scrolling down to the bottom if you read this when it came out... --------- We don't know why we bother to go on hiatus, no matter how busy life beyond the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) may be. Items tend to write themselves, anyway, and basically demand to be put up...and there's another flood we have to deal with... WCLV MOVE: Classical mainstay WCLV in Cleveland has already made one big move in the … [Read more...]
Starting With Beginnings
Posted on July 28, 2010 · 1 Comment
Since we started with life ending in our last update, let's start with life beginning... NOT VOICETRACKING...YET: A new baby with quite a local radio "head start" entered the world over the weekend. Katherine Ann, born Saturday morning (7 pounds, 20.5 inches), is the brand new daughter born to a couple of local Clear Channel stars... top 40 WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" assistant program director/music director/afternoon driver/OMW reader Kasper and his wife, hot AC WKDD/98.1 morning co-host Krissy … [Read more...]
The Last To Know
Posted on July 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 11:42 AM 7/22/10: OMW has confirmed that former Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 producer Ryan Gohmann is returning to WTAM, after a stint as morning producer/assistant program director at sister talk station WFLA/970 Tampa FL. We also hear Gohmann will indeed be assigned to the Mike Trivisonno show, though his exact role on the show will be determined later. He's scheduled to be back in Cleveland in mid-August... ------------ We're kinda used to being on the cutting edge of local media … [Read more...]
Closure Is Coming
Posted on July 7, 2010 · 3 Comments
Closure is coming about a number of items we've talked about in the past few days... with new information and updates on nearly all of them... LBJ'S BIG NIGHT: The sports world and pretty much all of Northeast Ohio will be glued to ESPN in about 24 hours, as NBA superstar and Bath Township resident LeBron James announces if he's staying with the Cleveland Cavaliers, or headed to New York, New Jersey, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Shanghai or London. (Well, we guess those last two would be … [Read more...]
Hot Holiday News
Posted on July 5, 2010 · 2 Comments
UPDATE 7/5/10 1:05 PM: If you went to this item shortly after we posted it, scroll down...we've added and changed a few things... --------- It's been a hot July 4th holiday, and we're not just talking about the weather. Now, some of the fireworks...and no, we're not going to nearly cover them with large, static graphics...we're talking about you, Reserve Square... THE 7 PM BATTLE: Local TV Fox affiliate WJW/8's "Fox 8 News" is expanding into a new time slot, and setting up a new local news … [Read more...]
