Clear Channel Canton market AC outlet WHOF/101.7 "my 101.7" is a family-friendly, female-friendly standard-issue AC format station.Which is what makes what happened there Monday all the more out of place.Canton Repository entertainment writer Dan Kane reports that a "string of profane words" aired during a recorded segment at 6:30 on Monday's morning drive show - by the timing, it was presumably a newscast.And as a result, WHOF news anchor and co-host Jesse Johnson is "no longer with the … [Read more...]
A Newsy, Newsy Week’s End
Posted on May 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment
(Our apologies for posting this without allowing comments...it's a mistake that has been corrected. Thanks! -- The Management)Local media news items are stacking up like so many planes trying to land, so we'll try to close them out as we close out the week. And since we've done a lot of TV items recently, let's start on the radio side...WERE, WJMO SWAP: Radio One, on the heels of selling off its Dayton stations (we'll revisit that below), has announced major changes in Cleveland involving its … [Read more...]
EXCLUSIVE: WKDD Munroe Falls?
Posted on May 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It hasn't been that long since we pointed out a new way the FCC does business with radio stations, and how the agency now handles such things as changing a station's community of license.In the past, in the process followed by Clear Channel to move the allocation of WJER-FM/101.7 Dover to North Canton, a company had to bring up a mountain of evidence to change an FM allocation - then, after that was approved, file a construction permit under that new allocation and wait for it to be … [Read more...]
Midweek Teasers
Posted on May 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Well, mostly teasers, as it's a motley collection of semi-developed items and rumblings...with SOME very solid news...FAREWELL SOON: OMW was the very first place where the impending retirement of WJW/8 "FOX 8"'s Big Chuck and Lil John was reported in October 2006, much to the chagrin of, well, management on South Marginal Road.Just one day later, Plain Dealer entertainment/media writer Julie Washington talked to "Big Chuck" Schodowski, who told her that he was considering retirement...oh, right … [Read more...]
Closing The Week
Posted on May 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
We've got a bunch of items just waiting to see air. Or, umm, pixels...NEWS DIRECTOR SHUFFLE: Cleveland has been one of the larger TV markets to have two news director openings at the same time.OMW hears noise that one of the two positions is all but filled, and the other has some strong candidates.We'll get to that one first.We're told by sources walking by South Marginal Road that two in-house candidates are among the top contenders for the job to replace Greg Easterly at FOX O&O WJW/8 - … [Read more...]
Thursday In-Box Clear Out
Posted on May 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Just some random stuff we've been sitting on for a while...FLYING ND: We catch up with a lot of news about Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC/3 without even having to contact anyone - by way of station senior director Frank Macek's "Director's Cut" blog.This time, Frank checks in with former WKYC news director Dick Moore, who left the station for a teaching job in the journalism school at the University of South Carolina.Moore is on a break from that teaching gig to fly around the country in a … [Read more...]
A New Ohio Sports Outlet
Posted on May 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OK, so Columbus is a ways away from our Northeast Ohio home base, but you'd think we would have heard about this by now.The folks in Central Ohio have a brand new regional sports network, to compete with the likes of FSN Ohio for Columbus-market sports viewers. Well, sort of a "network".It's the Columbus Sports Network, alternatively abbreviated as either "CS" (per the logo) or "CSN" (like the Comcast folks call their sports networks). It launched in late March."CSN" aims to fill a hyper-local … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Ashtabula CC Pickup A Local One
Posted on May 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
In our continuing coverage of the disposition of the Clear Channel small market clusters in Ohio, we've noted that the company's Ashtabula cluster was one that is apparently NOT going to GoodRadio.TV, the company started by former PAX-TV/ION Networks president Dean Goodman out of Florida.It turns out that we were correct. And the identity of the buyer may be quite an interesting surprise for local media types.AllAccess reports that Clear Channel's Ashtabula stations are being sold to a new … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: GoodRadio Coming To Ohio
Posted on May 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 8:36 PM 5/7/07: Thanks to a comment by an OMW reader, we tracked down this Lima News article from Saturday, which has the Clear Channel Lima and Findlay stations going to GoodRadio.But...that's not all, according to this quote from the article:The company has reportedly sold its six Lima station, along with stations in Findlay, Tiffin, Marion, Sandusky and Chillicothe, to the Iowa-based Good Radio.TV.Add in the Ohio Valley stations based in Wheeling (see below), and that's a large chunk … [Read more...]
Monday’s Here
Posted on May 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Yeah, we know...we're as excited as you are. But at least the weather may be nice...PD #1 (RADIO): Nearly all of our items this Monday are follow-ups on articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer over the weekend, as the area's largest newspaper seems to have rediscovered local media for some reason.Well, OK, PD entertainment columnist Julie Washington always has the media on her beat here in Northeast Ohio, but Saturday's column was a bit more extensive than usual.We'll start with an item we have … [Read more...]
