Just checking in...and some of these items have been sitting around for a while...THREE EXIT, ONE RETURNS: We've gotten some inquiries about some of these recent local radio departures, and a former local radio mainstay is coming back to this area to take one of the openings.AllAccess reports that NextMedia AC WHBC-FM 94.1 "Mix 94.1" Canton program director and afternoon driver Hunter Scott is out, confirming rumblings we've heard the past week.And the trade site reports today that his … [Read more...]
After The Holiday
Posted on July 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 11:20 PM 7/7/08: AllAccess confirms, as do our own sources within WNCX, that the below moves on the WNCX Morning Show are permanent. It's indeed "Miller, Mihalik and Mike" now, and yes, that is former WDOK programmer Scott Miller aboard at 98.5...he's been in the chair since last week.The artist known solely as "Mud" on the show is no longer with WNCX.And we don't feel as bad now for mangling the spelling of Kim Mihalik's last name in previous items. At least we didn't use a "C" like … [Read more...]
Other BAS Shoes Drop
Posted on July 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Thanks to the folks at AllAccess, we can "clear the books" on the Findlay/Tiffin side of the BAS Broadcasting purchases from Clear Channel.The trade site reports that BAS is flipping both WPFX/107.7 North Baltimore/Findlay and WTTF/1600 Tiffin to different owners.A company called Toledo Radio, headed by someone AllAccess identifies as Daniel Dudley, picks up the station that has been known as AC "My 107.7" for a cool million bucks. The company name is interesting, though we'd have to run it … [Read more...]
Radio News Website, Other Local Connections In Murrow Awards
Posted on July 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A hearty congratulations to Akron's Rubber City Radio for a much-deserved award.The local radio company's extensive local news website, AkronNewsNow.com, has received an Edward R. Murrow Award.Quoting the local site's own article on the award, written by Rubber City VP/Information Media Ed Esposito:AkronNewsNow.com was judged best news website for the category covering radio stations in markets 51+ for the Murrow Award. The Murrow Awards program is administered by the Radio Television News … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WQMX Looking For New AM Drive Co-Host
Posted on July 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OMW has confirmed that Rubber City Radio Akron market country station WQMX/94.9 is looking for a new morning co-host, after the voluntary departure of Shannon Alexander.Well, the initial word came from WQMX's own Morning Show website page:Special Announcement: It's is with mixed emotions we announce that Shannon Alexander has left her position on the WQMX Morning Show. We are happy that Shannon will get to be at home full time with her boys, but we will miss her presence on the air daily. In … [Read more...]
BAS Takes Over Findlay’s WPFX
Posted on July 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An OMW reader in the region tells us that BAS Broadcasting has taken over one of the stations it acquired from Clear Channel earlier this year - WPFX/107.7 North Baltimore, the Findlay-area station that flipped from rock "The Fox" shortly before the sale to AC "My 107.7".The "Fox" rock format then scooted over to WBUK/106.3 Ottawa OH, near Lima, formerly oldies outlet "The Big Buck".The reader in the Findlay area mentions that WPFX has been off the air "since yesterday".When it returns, is WPFX … [Read more...]
WNWV Names New PD
Posted on June 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Various trade websites report that Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting has picked its replacement for long-time smooth jazz WNWV/107.3 program director Bernie Kimble.She's Angie Handa, who comes to "The Wave" from a stint as assistant program director/music director of Clear Channel's Phoenix smooth jazz outlet, KYOT. Her resume includes a gig at a another smooth jazz station in Phoenix, and other earlier experience at AC and Hot AC outlets.Phoenix is a good market for smooth jazz (or "smooth AC", or … [Read more...]
Chuck’s Moves
Posted on June 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OMW hears that long-time reader Chuck Matthews is keeping busy these days.The former Cumulus talk WTOD/1560 Toledo programmer has picked up more work for his voiceover business - from a WTOD competitor.We hear Chuck has been signed up to do voiceover and imaging work for crosstown newly-minted talk WDMN/1520, and sister LPTV MyNetworkTV outlet WMNT-CA/48 "My 48/58".We also hear he's been doing work for a new small local ad agency based in suburban Perrysburg, and continues to search for his next … [Read more...]
Stopping By For A Visit
Posted on June 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Our infrequent update schedule had one formerly regular reader assuming that we're gone for good!No, we're not.Your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) has been out of town and busy, for one, and we're about to leave Northeast Ohio for a while again.In the past, that's triggered something in the space-time-media continuum, but we're not sure our exit from the region still results in major changes. One of our vacations a couple of years ago ended up with even Cleveland Browns GM Phil Savage scrambling … [Read more...]
Random Weekend Cleanup
Posted on June 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Come to think of it, we have some early summer cleaning to do at the Palatial OMW World Headquarters as well...JUNE 20TH: We did not note it here beforehand, but Friday was a busy day at the Clear Channel World Domination HQ compound on Oak Tree.Cleveland talker WTAM/1100 morning host Bill Wills celebrated his 10th anniversary at the Northern Ohio version of "The Big One". He joined 'TAM on June 20, 1998 - from the original "Big One", co-owned WLW/700 Cincinnati."Wills and Snyder" is a pretty … [Read more...]
