Now, here's a switch that doesn't happen every day.WKYC/3's "Director's Cut Blog" reports that station chief meterologist Mark Nolan is hanging up the umbrella and leaving the weather center. But he's not leaving 13th and Lakeside - as he moves a few feet over to become co-anchor of the morning "Channel 3 News Today"...filling the position vacated by John Anderson, who just started his new job today on Philadelphia FOX O&O WTXF/29's morning show.A WKYC release quoted in Frank Macek's … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WKYC’s Mark Nolan Moves From Weather To News
Posted on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
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...]
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...]
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...]
Memo To Reserve Square
Posted on September 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It looks like WOIO/19 "19 Action News" anchor Sharon Reed isn't proud of taking her clothes off in front of a camera, anymore.Some three years after Ms. Reed became perhaps the most infamous local TV news anchor in America for her "Body of Art" series, the anchor and her station are now making the rounds of various websites, trying to get them to remove the racy pictures.The Plain Dealer's Michael K. McIntyre quotes Sharon's immediate boss, news director Dan Salamone, in Saturday's "TipOff" … [Read more...]
Friday Stuff
Posted on September 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment
We're clearing out the decks for the weekend...with some updates, some new stuff (mostly from elsewhere), and some thoughts..."SISSY'S" START: As it turns out, the Stefani Schaefer Era (round 2) on WJW/8's "FOX 8 News in the Morning" hasn't officially started yet.The former WJW and WEWS anchor returned home to Cleveland after leaving NBC Universal's talk show for company O&O's, "iVillage Live". And her return was announced on the FOX 8 morning show last week, complete with an appearance by … [Read more...]
Keeping Busy Tuesday
Posted on September 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment
We hadn't planned on an update Tuesday, but some stuff to sweep up after...IT'S OFFICIAL: The day it happened, and two days after OMW reported it would happen, the takeover of the former Clear Channel Ashtabula stations was reported in the national radio trade press.The announcement, which we saw on AllAccess's Monday Net News scroll, says Tom and Matt Embrescia's Sweet Home Ashtabula spent $3.5 million on the WFUN/WREO/WZOO/WFXJ/WYBL combo in Northeast Ohio's most northeastern-most small … [Read more...]
Thursday Collection
Posted on September 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Some updates, some speculation, and some mea culpa from your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm)...SHE'S IN: As reported here late Tuesday night, former local TV anchor Stefani Schaefer is back in Northeast Ohio, taking an apparently new position on WJW/8's FOX 8 News In TheMorning.UPDATE: The station has posted information about her return, and video from the announcement, here.It's a return to the area, and a return to the very show she was on in the mid-1990's.Stefani was the "big announcement at 8 AM" - … [Read more...]
Followup Stuff
Posted on September 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Mostly followup to stuff posted below this item, with some new items as well..."RIK AND SARAH" NOW CORE OF WHBC-FM MORNINGS: For at least some time, WHBC-FM/94.1's Madison Woods actually hosted morning drive solo at "Mix 94.1", NextMedia's Canton AC outlet.When Rik Elliot showed up, the two teamed up. And now, "Maddie" is out of mornings.A memo from the station flew out of Market Street South and somehow made the trip up I-77 to us. It says "Mix" is "building" the morning show around Rik and … [Read more...]
Short Weekend Wrap
Posted on August 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW will not be updated between now and Labor Day, as barbecue sauce doesn't mix well with keyboards.But coming early next week, we'll have an exclusive (as far as we know) Q&A with a former local TV news anchor who's working on a very interesting new project...WOW! PIGS DO INDEED FLY!: It's not often that the other local media outlets praise Raycom Media's WOIO/19 and the Cleveland CBS affiliate's "19 Action News", but it's happened today.Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett has … [Read more...]
