Some pickups/leftovers/questions to start the week:THERE GOES JOHN: OMW hears that Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 announced on its 11 PM newscast Sunday night that sports anchor John Chandler's last day would be - Sunday. It's news that isn't news to regular readers of This Space, which reported the "NewsChannel 5" sports anchor's exit on Thursday.(An error on our part resulted in us reporting a last date of April 26th.)We didn't get a chance to see it, but we're told anchors Curtis Jackson and … [Read more...]
WTAM’s Crystal Award
Posted on April 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment
With the folks at the National Association of Broadcasters holding their yearly gathering this week in Las Vegas, it's also time for awards.And one of those awards goes to a local news/talk mainstay, Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 Cleveland. WTAM received one of the NAB's Crystal Awards, which goes to stations with an "outstanding year-round commitment to community service".Two WTAM efforts got the NAB's attention for the 2006 Crystal Awards.The first is a long-running station campaign, "Coats … [Read more...]
Tuesday’s Here
Posted on April 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
And a note from your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm): Real life intrudes again, and our updates may not be as regular this week as we'd like. But we'll try to check in...MAD DASH TO BLACKSBURG: As America got really familiar with a college campus in Southwest Virginia really quick, coverage of the largest shooting massacre in American history overtook local airwaves as well.All local TV stations, that we saw, dipped in and out of coverage of the mass murder at Virginia Tech on Monday afternoon, … [Read more...]
Opening Up The Week
Posted on April 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Happy Monday to you, such as it is...and our opening volley of the week is a mix of stuff...THAT WHK 85TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW: As first mentioned here months ago, Salem talk WHK/1420 Cleveland is planning an 85th anniversary special.We now know the date - this coming Thursday at 6 PM. And we know the host - former WHK personality Johnny Holliday.From the WHK website page about "The WHK Radio Retrospective":From 1959 to 1964, Johnny Holliday was the biggest name in Cleveland radio.Join Johnny as he … [Read more...]
Up Next On WKNR Saturdays: “Hammer and Booms”
Posted on April 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment
On Good Karma sports talk WKNR/850 Cleveland in the Saturday 9 AM-noon slot this week:The second "Saturday Morning Sports Show" co-hosting appearance by comedian, former FOX Sports Radio host and Euclid resident Chuck Booms.The show comes with a built-in name this time - "Hammer and Booms" - the first name in the billing, of course, being "Rizzo on the Radio" producer/sidekick Aaron Goldhammer.We're not sure if the show name is significant, or as usual, if anything regarding this time slot … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: It’s Q104’s Turn
Posted on April 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment
On the heels of the departure of CBS Radio AC WDOK/102.1 Cleveland afternoon driver Chris Fox, it's time for sister hot AC WQAL/104.1 to take a spin in the "Lineup Change Machine".AllAccess reports that "Q104" is changing around its schedule.Station midday personality and music director John Conner exits, to "enter the world of artist management" - that's an AA quote from WQAL programmer Dave Popovich.That moves evening host Tim Richards up to the midday slot, and brings in WDVD/Detroit's Rob … [Read more...]
The Imus Cleveland Fallout
Posted on April 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Don Imus hasn't been on the radio airwaves in Northeast Ohio for a good 10 years, since his syndicated show aired on sports talk WKNR, then at 1220 AM.But there are plenty of connections between this region and the now-former host of "Imus In The Morning", a morning drive radio program that aired on CBS Radio, and simulcast on MSNBC cable, until this week.We won't repeat the oft-reported story here. You've probably already heard that both his radio and TV masters have now shown Imus the door, … [Read more...]
Moving Central Ohio Radio Stations
Posted on April 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Our friend and colleague Scott Fybush at NorthEast Radio Watch, who goes through new FCC applications like some folks go through candy, passes this one along.Scott tips us off that WKOV/96.7 Wellston OH, licensed to that city in extreme southern Ohio near Jackson, has filed an application to head north - for a change of community of license to Frazeysburg.Yeah, that meant nothing to us, either, until Mr. Fybush pointed out to us that the small town is just outside of Zanesville, and the station … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: “Triv TV” Shutting Off
Posted on April 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 afternoon driver Mike Trivisonno says he's giving up his "Triv TV" segment on Raycom Media CBS affiliate WOIO/19's "19 Action News" this week. Cleveland Plain Dealer media columnist Julie Washington has more on the PD's Entertainment Blog.In the item, Washington says Triv blames the current broadcast climate, particularly the well-publicized trouble former Cleveland radio star Don Imus brought upon himself recently with rather poorly chosen words.Triv made the … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WDOK PM Driver Out
Posted on April 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
CBS Radio AC WDOK/102.1 Cleveland is often the model of radio stability, so we don't usually have anything to say about them. Well, until now.AllAccess reports that WDOK afternoon driver Chris Fox "exits". The shift will be filled, at least on an "interim" basis, by local radio veteran and WDOK part-timer Bob McKay.OMW is reminded that McKay did afternoon drive at Clear Channel hot AC WMVX/106.5 "Mix 106.5" until about five years ago.More as it develops... … [Read more...]
