One of Beacon Broadcasting's 5 stations on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border is extending one of the company's brands.We mentioned changes at the company's WRTK/1540 Niles, which had been running gospel as the local affiliate for the 24/7 satellite format "Rejoice - Musical Soul Food" before launching into Christmas music over the holidays. But we never updated the station's status.WRTK has launched a Christian contemporary music format - using the "Freq 1540" moniker it adopted with the Christmas … [Read more...]
Rover’s Affiliate Future?
Posted on January 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Mark this one mainly as "speculation", please.Though it would seem that Clear Channel rock WMMS/100.7 Cleveland morning star Shane "Rover" French has returned to earth from the high sampling he got after his station debut, he's presumably still miles ahead of previous occupants of the WMMS morning drive time slot.But there could - we stress "could" - be some trouble for "Rover's Morning Glory" in one of its two remaining syndicated markets.Rochester NY alt-rocker WZNE/94.1 "The Zone" stayed with … [Read more...]
Those WKNR Changes
Posted on January 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As reported, first by Lake County News-Herald sportswriter Bob Finnan, there are indeed changes afoot at Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN 850".Starting today, the station's afternoon drive time slot will be taken by Michael Reghi. The former Cavaliers TV play-by-play voice, a utility player for WKNR since the team replaced him on FOX Sports Ohio, moves into the 3-6 PM weekday time slot starting today, replacing Mark "Munch" Bishop's "Munch on Sports".Though Bishop is not going to be doing the … [Read more...]
Back To Monday
Posted on January 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 1/12/08 9:28 AM: Or maybe that WKNR announcement below could actually be something.In the comments below this item, an OMW reader provides a link to an item by the Lake County News-Herald's Bob Finnan.Quoting:Michael Reghi will move into the 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. slot on WKNR-AM 850 starting today, an industry source said. Reghi will replace Mark “Munch” Bishop in that time slot.Reghi has been with WKNR since shortly after he lost the Cavaliers' TV play-by-play job on FOX Sports Ohio, though … [Read more...]
A Snowy Update
Posted on January 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As local TV weather forecasters predict anywhere from 4, to 10, to 250 inches of snow for Northeast Ohio this weekend, what else do you have to do but read this Snowbound Week-Ending OMW update?We've stocked up on the essentials...you'll have enough here to last you through the snowy weekend. And we're only kidding about that "250" number above. It only seems like it...WEOL EXIT: We have few details, but we hear that Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting talk WEOL/930 Elyria has parted ways with … [Read more...]
Three Things Together
Posted on January 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
And there's not much connecting these three things... except that they're all linked to the Cleveland market...ENVISION THIS: Beachwood-based Envision Radio Networks has unveiled its new website.The local radio syndicator turned to the folks at Single Source Marketing for the redesign. Quoting the Envision release:The new site incorporates a number of new elements, including conservative use of the latest Flash and RSS technologies for a web presentation of Envision’s shows and services that … [Read more...]
Harry Martin Passes On
Posted on January 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Those younger than, say, 50 or 60, may not recognize "Martin and Howard" - a very popular Cleveland radio team of the 1960s at then-KYW/1100...which is today's Clear Channel talk WTAM.One of the two men who dominated Cleveland morning radio for many years in the 1960s has passed away. Harry Martin died Monday at his Southern California home at the age of 81, reportedly of liver cancer.We're told that "Martin and Howard" occupied the top rung of Cleveland radio success from their KYW perch from … [Read more...]
Odd Items Update
Posted on January 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There have been some news items from areas outside Northeast Ohio in the past few days, and we've either been on hiatus, or busy with items closer to our base to cover markets like Columbus, Toledo and Youngstown.That's most of this item, though we'll start with Cleveland...TROUBLED TALKERS: Late December was a bad time for talk radio hosts getting into hot water.But it wasn't something that came from the mouth of Clear Channel Cleveland talk WTAM/1100 Sunday night host Art McKoy that got him … [Read more...]
The Spirit Of Akr…er…Texas?
Posted on January 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For those of you who wonder where TV news music comes from, there are a number of people out there on the Internet who track such things.Perhaps the best such effort is "SouthernMedia's News Music Search Archive", a website which categorizes TV news and other theme music by package, location or other such search methods.It even helpfully includes audio samples of news themes, imaging campaigns and the like.One such local TV imaging campaign started as "The Spirit of Texas", which has been a … [Read more...]
Rolling Into 2009
Posted on January 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
And here it is...with the exception of our special "Breaking News" over the weekend - more on that later - our first regular update for 2009.Since we've been mostly gone since just before Christmas, it'll be a long one...SUNDAY NEWS: With TV groups looking to save money, the latest focus is on Sunday mornings.As we hinted earlier, Local TV Fox affiliate WJW/8 in Cleveland has indeed scrapped its Sunday morning edition of "FOX 8 News", which had been airing from 8 to 9 AM.We hear from our … [Read more...]
