As we write this, it's just three days from the Cleveland Browns opening day game against the Pittsburgh Steelers...and Cleveland Browns senior editor/"Cleveland Browns Daily" co-host Vic Carucci is getting ready to head out of town. Carucci is leaving the local NFL team, bound for his old hometown of Buffalo and the job he held a few years before coming to Cleveland...covering the Buffalo Bills for the Buffalo News. The newspaper writes: Carucci steps in for Mark Gaughan, who requested a … [Read more...]
Akron’s Most Trusted (Retiring) Radio Newsman
Posted on September 4, 2014 · 1 Comment
If you're at the top of your field, and have been for decades, you're basically the living dictionary definition of your profession. If the broadcasting dictionary entry is "Akron radio newsman", the answer is clearly "See: States, Larry". After over 40 years in radio news, the last 30-plus at Rubber City Radio Group talk WAKR/1590 Akron, Larry States is calling it a career. We'll call on long-time OMW reader and Rubber City VP/information media Ed Esposito for a few words about Larry, … [Read more...]
Sports And People
Posted on August 23, 2014 · 2 Comments
And let's start with a helpful item for sports fans tonight... BROWNS VS. GLADIATORS: No, the NFL's Cleveland Browns won't be tangling with the Arena Football League's Cleveland Gladiators in downtown Cleveland tonight. But on the radio dial, even with the Gladiators going for a league crown, the Browns obviously win that battle. CBS Radio sports WKRK/92.3 "The Fan" is the arena football team's flagship radio station, and has been carrying Gladiators games all season long, with Doug … [Read more...]
Want To Buy A Cleveland Radio Station?
Posted on August 14, 2014 · 25 Comments
Full market Cleveland radio stations don't go on the block every day, but one's now for sale. Radio Disney is all but getting out of the over-air radio business, as it was revealed Wednesday that Disney is selling 23 of its 24 owned-and-operated Radio Disney outlets, including Cleveland's WWMK/1260. Broadcasting & Cable had first word. The Wrap has the full memo to staff by the chain's general manager, Phil Guerini. The company is keeping Radio Disney flagship KDIS/1110 Los Angeles as … [Read more...]
A Lot To Catch Up On
Posted on August 12, 2014 · 9 Comments
As Life is Intervening(tm) a little less here at the OMW World Headquarters, we have some time to catch up... WKNR MIXES IT UP AGAIN: The rumored lineup change at Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN Cleveland" came to fruition, but not quite as rumored. Still, the big pieces are as expected, and the biggest move affects the station's signature program, "The Really Big Show" in middays. The changes take effect August 25th. The 9 AM-1 PM show keeps its lead host, long-time local sports … [Read more...]
JOB OPENING: Engineer, WKSU
Posted on August 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A big update is coming a little later today, but first...are you an engineer and looking for a job? Retirements at Kent State University's WKSU/89.7-and-its-many-simulcasters have the station looking for new engineering talent. Thanks to two very long-time Friends of OMW for this one...WKSU marketing guru Ann VerWiebe, and Northeast Radio Watch's Scott Fybush... ------ WKSU seeks a talented, innovative and motivated individual to join our technical team as a Broadcast Engineer. In … [Read more...]
Sports Radio Changes
Posted on August 7, 2014 · 7 Comments
There are a lot of changes ahead in Cleveland sports radio...some announced, some rumored. Since the rumors have made it to the public through usually reliable outlets, let's go there first... WKNR SHAKEUP: Bob Finnan of the Lake County News-Herald and the Lorain Morning Journal submits possible upcoming lineup changes at Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN Cleveland". All were posted on Twitter on Wednesday by Scene's Vince Grzegorek and Crains Cleveland’s Kevin Kleps To wit: * Two … [Read more...]
Alan Freed’s Ashes
Posted on August 4, 2014 · 2 Comments
UPDATE 10:09 AM 8/4/14: Alan Freed's son Lance appeared on WONE's Jeff Kinzbach Show this morning. ----- The biggest controversy in Northeast Ohio media this Monday morning isn't what a "shock jock" said on the air, or a possible format change. It revolves around a man who died in 1965. But Alan Freed is not just any man, especially in the world of "rock and roll", a term he's usually credited with coining while a disk jockey at Cleveland's WJW/850 in the early 1950s. A golden urn … [Read more...]
Latest TV Mega Deal Reverberates Here
Posted on July 31, 2014 · 3 Comments
In the latest TV Super Deal, Cleveland's ABC affiliate will gain a bunch of sister TV stations, and even some sister radio stations. E.W. Scripps Company, the Cincinnati-based owner of WEWS/5, announced a merger with Milwaukee-based Journal, which owns TV, radio and newspaper assets nationwide. In the end, WEWS will remain a key piece of the new Scripps, which will focus on broadcast and digital while sending both companies' newspapers to the new Milwaukee-based Journal Media … [Read more...]
Maggie Fuller: “Go Fund” My Sexual Harrassment Lawsuit
Posted on July 21, 2014 · 9 Comments
Regular readers are well aware of the story of Maggie Fuller, who spent 14 years as morning show co-host at MediaCom talk WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron". She's no longer there, of course, leaving the station at the same time as co-host Stan Piatt, in a situation that could perhaps best be called messy...and embarrassing for the station. From our item last December, bouncing off an article by Beacon Journal pop culture writer Rich Heldenfels: Fuller filed for unemployment, claiming the … [Read more...]
