Since we don't usually buy Cleveland Magazine, we didn't know that a prominent local sports media personality is featured this month until we saw Bruce Drennan on the magazine's cover at a local newsstand.Sure enough, the very interesting tale of the sportscaster's recent fall - and rise - is featured in a story titled "The Reconstruction of Bruce Drennan", which can be read online here.The magazine also offers a podcast featuring the Drennan story.The basics of the story are well known to OMW … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Herb Score Dies
Posted on November 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The man whose voice carried the sounds of Cleveland Indians baseball to generations of Northeast Ohio radio listeners has passed away.The Cleveland Indians confirm that Herb Score, who called the Indians' games on radio (and initially, on TV) from 1964 through Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, died this morning at his Rocky River home at the age of 75 after a long illness.The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a detailed obituary for Score here.The team expressed its condolences in a statement by team … [Read more...]
Vikings Bounce Ball To 1220
Posted on November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Cleveland State University Vikings men's basketball team has hooked up with a new radio home in Cleveland.The Vikings have inked a one-year deal with Salem Christian talk/teaching WHKW/1220 "The Word" to air all games live for the 2008-2009 season, according to a CSU sports news release issued last week. (Thanks to the folks at AllAccess for the hat tip, or, since we're talking about basketball, maybe the assist?)Vikings basketball moves from last year's flagship station, Radio One gospel … [Read more...]
Monday Is Packed
Posted on November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
...full of news, mostly updates to some of our previous items. But they're necessary updates...WKDD MORNINGS: As it turns out, veteran Clear Channel Akron/Canton hot AC WKDD/98.1 morning man Matt Patrick won't be soloing it on the FM side of his broadcast life.After being tipped by a reader who spotted the absence of Patrick co-host Angela Bellios on the station's website, OMW confirmed Friday that the station's morning show will no longer be "Matt and Angela".But there will be a replacement … [Read more...]
Small Screen Browns
Posted on November 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There are times when the NFL's Cleveland Browns have stumbled in nationally-televised games, so much so that they may have wished the size of the picture to shrink dramatically. A recent big Monday Night Football win over the Giants excepted, of course.No matter what the local pro football team does tonight, some will indeed watch the game on very small screens.The Browns play the Denver Broncos tonight in the opener of the NFL Network's Thursday night series. As per usual in these … [Read more...]
Brian Of The What?
Posted on October 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Forgive us the brief side move into Ohio Print Media Watch for this entry.So, your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) was losing sleep early this morning. Stomach tumbling around in the wee hours, we sought help to feel better...and reached for the Mighty Laptop, since we were up, anyway.A quick run through the Internet led us to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's sports news blog...headed up by an item tabbed to "Brian Windhorst's Cavaliers Blog". Huh?This early morning surfing session was starting to … [Read more...]
Game Shuffling
Posted on October 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An OMW reader passes along word that FOX's coverage of game four in baseball's National League Championship Series will be moved in Cleveland next Monday - to Raycom MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43.The move is necessitated by FOX affiliate and former O&O WJW/8's local carriage of the ESPN "Monday Night Football" game between the Cleveland Browns and the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants.(For those who don't follow NFL rights issues, the league's rules mandate that local affiliates … [Read more...]
Monday Return On Sunday Night
Posted on October 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here at your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), we'll let out the usual Monday early morning update on Sunday evening, for one good reason...our first item.5 CATCHING CHANGES: We hinted at this in our last update, and hoped to have it late Friday, but we haven't been able to get to it until now.Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" is no stranger to juggling its anchor lineup. We get a headache trying to remember all the times that the station has moved around, juggled or changed jobs of … [Read more...]
Your Official Tony Bruno Station
Posted on September 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
In its two stints as a sports radio station, Clear Channel's WARF/1350 Akron "SportsRadio 1350" has one long, cherished tradition.It carries Tony Bruno.The long-time national sports radio host has appeared on Akron's 1350 in all three national incarnations of his program...first at ESPN Radio, then at FOX Sports Radio, and most recently at Sporting News Radio.He's back.Bruno is launching his fourth national radio show courtesy of the folks at The Content Factory, the new syndication/sports media … [Read more...]
Mahoning Valley Bandscan
Posted on September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Some oddities from two recent trips to the Youngstown/Warren radio market, particularly on AM...WHERE'S REV. MANN?: OMW reported in February that Salem was selling the station now known as WHKZ/1440 Warren - which has mostly been a simulcast of Cleveland religious sister station WHKW/1220 "The Word" - to the Pentecostal Temple Development Corporation out of the Pittsburgh area.PTDC is run by one Rev. Loran Mann, a former Pittsburgh TV reporter who owns WGBN/1150 New Kensington PA in that … [Read more...]
