This is an item filled with mostly some random items, much of the content from outside the immediate Cleveland/Akron/Canton area.But as they say, "stay tuned".The rumblings surrounding pending major moves at one local TV news operation are very loud...so loud you could probably hear them while standing on, oh, just to pick a street totally out of random, Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland.What we're hearing will probably surprise you, and not just because of any names involved, or for that … [Read more...]
A Packed Wednesday
Posted on December 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This one's full of both radio and TV items, news updates and enough to make us want to charge you for it. Hey, a Primary Editorial Voice(tm)'s gotta eat somehow.But alas, fortunately for you, OMW is free, as always...MORE 92.3 FALLOUT: It's not really a format change, per se...just a deeper playlist and a more shallow staff list. But we're still picking out the details from the changes of the newly revamped CBS Radio alt-rocker WKRK/92.3, now known as "Radio 92.3".As befitting the bare bones … [Read more...]
Tim Kelly To Envision
Posted on December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We have details on the new destination for Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting's operations director and Sandusky market manager Tim Kelly, who announced his resignation from the Elyria-based broadcaster Monday.Kelly moves to a management role at Beachwood-based Envision Radio Networks, where he takes a new post as vice president and general manager at the growing local radio syndication firm.More on the move in a press release from the Envision folks, reprinted below:-----------ENVISION RADIO NETWORKS … [Read more...]
Radio Changes, The Tuesday Edition
Posted on December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
When there's change or upheaval at a radio station or cluster, it often takes a while to figure out who's still around...and who's not.So, let's try to figure out the situation at CBS Radio alt-rock WKRK/92.3, which just tweaked its music format and dumped its on-air personalities - including syndicated morning drive talk fest "Opie and Anthony" - on Monday.Apparently still in the building, if not on the air, is program director Dom "Nard" Nardella, who describes the new "Radio 92.3" format to … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: “K-Rock” Broken
Posted on December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just a few months after losing its high-profile morning star to a crosstown competitor, it appears major changes are being heard at CBS Radio alt-rock WKRK/92.3, the Cleveland market station known - apparently until today - as "K-Rock".The station is now playing continuous alt-rock music without benefit of any air personalities, and is now using the on-air identifier "radio 92.3" in occasional recorded liners.Radio-Info.com's news page reports that WKRK was one of two stations that dumped CBS/XM … [Read more...]
Radio Daze: The Documentary
Posted on December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A TV documentary based on Mike Olszewski's book "Radio Daze" premieres this week."Radio Daze: Cleveland’s FM Air Wars" debuts Tuesday night at 9:30 PM on Western Reserve PBS, the local PBS affiliate combo known to mere mortals as WNEO/45 Alliance-WEAO/49 Akron.Quoting a release from our good friends over on Campus Center Drive:It presents the dramatic rise of northeast Ohio’s FM rock scene, from its early days on college and ethnic stations manned by hippie disk jockeys to a billion-dollar … [Read more...]
Friday Oddities
Posted on November 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OK, so we'll squeeze out one more update of odd stuff this Friday after the Thanksgiving Day holiday.There is some more economic bad news for those in local media, but we'll put that on the back burner until our Monday morning update...keeping the meaning of "Black Friday" for holiday shopping crowds for now...ION OF CHANGE: A little change could be coming to the digital signals of the ION Network's owned and operated TV stations, and the ION folks are going about proposing the changes in an … [Read more...]
Random Midweek Update
Posted on November 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We guess the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) is not very organized this holiday week...and this may well be our last update before the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday...CLOSING IN ON A HOME: Though it's technically a service and not a radio station, OMW has occasionally carried items about Akron's WCRS.Those aren't FCC call letters - the acronym "WCRS" stands for "Written Communications Radio Service", otherwise known as the Akron-based radio reading service for the blind. In a previous life, WCRS was … [Read more...]
Random Tuesday Stuff
Posted on November 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Some items kicking around the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm)'s storage bin...HSFB IN HD: The good folks at SportsTime Ohio have passed along their coverage plans for this coming weekend's Ohio High School Athletic Association high school football championships.And the schedule of six games includes three that will be broadcast in HD format:11/28 11:00am Div. VI - Delphos St. John's vs Bascom Hopewell-Loudon11/28 3:00pm Div. IV - HD - Steubenville vs. Kettering Archbishop Alter11/28 7:00pm Div. II - … [Read more...]
Maybe Nothing To These – Yet
Posted on November 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A couple of rumors, reports and such that may or may not mean anything to Northeast Ohio... yet:CLEAR CHANNEL/CBS SWAP: A note in Monday's "Taylor on Radio-Info" E-Mail newsletter caught our attention.Columnist Tom Taylor reports word that CBS Radio chief Dan Mason spent Monday in Houston, reportedly working out details a rumored swap that would have Clear Channel sending two stations to CBS Radio there.As part of Clear Channel's recent privatization deal, the U.S. Department of Justice … [Read more...]
