Ohio Media Watch, The Next Generation is coming soon. We hope the transition won't be too jarring for you. The core of this effort will remain as it is now, and the new site hopefully won't cause many complaints. Again, it isn't a retreat to social media like we tried in the recent past...if anything, it'll be an expansion. In the meantime, there's more media news to cover and talk about... ROVER'S AFTERNOON COURT DATE:The case against Clear Channel rock/talk WMMS/100.7 and syndicated … [Read more...]
Welcome To A Busy 2013
Posted on January 5, 2013 · 2 Comments
And as usual when we start a new year, or return from a hiatus, there's stuff waiting to land like so many airplanes. We are probably missing a topic or three, so don't be surprised if there's a crash...we'll pick up where we left off in a future update... UPDATE 1:35 AM 1/5/13: Cox and Raycom have reached an agreement, and OMW social media followers tell us that the local stations, WOIO/19 and WUAB/43, are back in the Cox lineup. Here's part of what we originally wrote before Friday … [Read more...]
Engineering Giant Passes
Posted on September 28, 2012 · 1 Comment
It's not difficult to call Cleveland-based Telos Systems co-founder Steve Church an "engineering giant". Colleagues and engineering and other friends of Cnurch are mourning his passage, even far away from the company's headquarters on Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland. He passed away earlier today at age of 57, after a long battle with brain cancer. We'll start with an extensive remembrance of Steve Church, posted on the Telos Alliance website: Frank Foti, CEO of The Telos Alliance, … [Read more...]
The 99X Follow Post
Posted on May 23, 2012 · 7 Comments
UPDATE 5/23/12 8:01 PM: Due to Internet routing tables and how they handle last minute changes, some Internet users are getting redirected to the main iHeartRadio page when going to 99XCleveland.com. The newly launched "99X" page can be accessed instead via its "WMMS HD" address (wmms-hd.clearchannel.com) until all the routing catches up over the next day or two... --------- As per usual around here, here's our followup item on a major debut today, the start of Clear Channel Cleveland … [Read more...]
The Next Batch
Posted on May 8, 2012 · 6 Comments
As has been our custom in recent months, we'll continue to parcel out updates in batches...depending on our availability to update this Mighty Blog(tm) and the constraints of Real Life(tm). As such, we just happen to have some free time this afternoon... SAD NEWS: Two severe personal situations have local newsrooms in a bit of a "down" mood... but working hard to provide moral and other support. The first situation is quite public. Not only has Local TV LLC Fox affiliate WJW/8's "Fox 8 News" … [Read more...]
Weekend Cleanup
Posted on January 22, 2012 · 3 Comments
With such a busy week, even the weekend provides us with the opportunity to clean up news from the remainder of the week... NOLAN RADIO AND THEN SOME: We were mostly playing around last week when we were speculating about the radio future of now-former Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 morning news co-anchor Mark Nolan. Though that speculation intersected with changes at CBS Radio AC WDOK/102.1, now known as "New 102", it turns out Mark's return to radio will take place at a different location - … [Read more...]
BREAKING: CBS News’ Russ Mitchell Joins WKYC
Posted on December 21, 2011 · 6 Comments
It's not often that a major news correspondent leaves one of the legacy "big three" news organizations to take a job at the affiliate level. In an unprecedented move, Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 has made official the hiring of CBS News correspondent/"Evening News" weekend anchor Russ Mitchell as their new evening news managing editor, and primary 6pm/11pm weeknight anchor. He succeeds Romona Robinson, who left WKYC on December 16 after her contract ran out. Russ' start date at WKYC is January … [Read more...]
Some Other Stuff
Posted on August 22, 2011 · 1 Comment
We're just a week away from the debut of a new station that's held much of our attention lately...CBS Radio's incoming Cleveland sports talk outlet, the transformation of alt-rock WKRK/92.3 "Radio 92.3" to "92.3 The Fan" next Monday. We'll have plenty more to update about that story later today. But for now, some other stuff... JIM'S COMING BACK: With health problems sidelining him from calling Cleveland Browns preseason games on Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3, a lot of viewers are … [Read more...]
Entering July
Posted on July 1, 2011 · 2 Comments
And we start the month with a long list of topics, some that have been sitting here a while, and others brand new... MATT'S LANDING: Like, for example, the word of the Houston landing place of Northeast Ohio-born-and-bred talker Matt Patrick. The former Clear Channel Akron market hot AC WKDD/98.1 and talk WHLO/640 host, who holds the 1-4 PM Saturday slot at Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 Cleveland, is making a big splash at a huge Clear Channel station in Houston. Starting Tuesday, July 5th, … [Read more...]
That WKNR Fallout
Posted on June 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
When Good Karma sports WKNR/850 Cleveland "ESPN 850" makes one of its "major announcements", there's always a follow up, and there's no exception in this case. The most detail comes from Crain's Cleveland Business, where an article by the paper's Joel Hammond showed up on the paper's website at 9:01 AM Wednesday - two and a half hours before WKNR announced "Cleveland Browns Daily" on "The Really Big Show" with Tony Rizzo. (For that matter, the Browns sent out their press release shortly … [Read more...]
