Just some stuff to refresh the Mighty Blog for a Monday...and as it turns out, another sports-related theme has emerged, without us even trying...ONE QUESTION ANSWERED: It didn't take long for Youngstown TV Supergroup New Vision Television to name a replacement for veteran WYTV/33 sports director Bob Hannon, who left the station to head up the Youngstown branch of the United Way.He's the station's assistant sports director, Bill Castrovince, who's been in that role and doing the ABC affiliate's … [Read more...]
A Sports Theme
Posted on September 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It's been pretty quiet in local media circles this week, after a busy week last week.But as it turns out, we have a newsy update to close out the first week of September...with all the items having a least some connection to the world of sports, even if the first host doesn't consider himself strictly a sports talk show host these days...HE'S BAAACK: We haven't fished through the podcasts to figure out what day he returned, but Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 afternoon driver Mike Trivisonno is … [Read more...]
TWC: OSU Big Ten Network Saturday Game In HD
Posted on August 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Time Warner Cable's Northeast Ohio division has announced that this weekend's Ohio State Buckeyes game on Big Ten Network will indeed air locally in high-definition.The contest between the Buckeyes and the Youngstown State University Penguins will air Saturday at noon on HD digital channel 433.A TWC Northeast Ohio press release on the subject is reprinted below:------------------Time Warner Cable To Offer OSU GameIn High-Definition on Channel 433Akron, OH (AUGUST 2008) – Time Warner Cable … [Read more...]
Zips Add FM Voice
Posted on August 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The University of Akron Zips football team will not only be on TV this weekend.In their last season at the Rubber Bowl, the Zips gain a regular FM radio home.The university and Clear Channel Akron/Canton announced today that in addition to carriage on sports WARF/1350 Akron, the team's games will also air on Clear Channel rock WRQK/106.9 Canton, starting with this weekend's Zips contest with Wisconsin.Though "Rock 106.9" has long been a Canton station, it has made efforts to expand its reach and … [Read more...]
A Newsy Thursday
Posted on August 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Items are popping up all over...CC CLEVELAND'S NEW OM: Clear Channel's Cleveland cluster has found a new operations manager.He's Keith Abrams, who comes to Oak Tree from the VP/Programming slot at CBS Radio's Denver cluster. Though the title is slightly different, he'll replace former cluster programming fixture Kevin Metheny...who parted ways with Clear Channel late last month.Abrams also has Salt Lake City, Seattle, Charlotte, Memphis and Pittsburgh on his programming resume. We hear that … [Read more...]
Big Ten Network, Time Warner Finally Reach Deal
Posted on August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Big Ten Network and Time Warner Cable have reached "an agreement-in-principle" to clear the network on TWC's expanded basic tier, along with providing high definition and video-on-demand Big Ten Network offerings.A joint statement between the two entities was released late Monday. Time Warner is the dominant cable provider in Ohio, serving over 2 million customers and nearly all of the state's major metropolitan areas.The "pending" pact means TWC will be able to carry this coming weekend's … [Read more...]
UPDATE: WKNR “Little Brother” Growing
Posted on August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Good Karma Broadcasting now has the FCC go-ahead to upgrade sports WWGK/1540 "KNR2", the company's first Cleveland market acquisition, with the approval earlier this month of an upgraded signal construction permit.OMW reported in April that WWGK filed to more than triple its daytime power - from 1000 to 3500 watts - and to move its transmitter site to co-locate at the WKNR site in North Royalton. WWGK's current transmitter site is at 1540's long-time former home, on Euclid Avenue on Cleveland's … [Read more...]
It’s That Time Of Year
Posted on August 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and cable TV was in its infancy, you had just a handful of places to find a televised high school football game in Northeast Ohio.The primary carrier of high school football was local PBS affiliate WVIZ/25, which featured its "Game of the Week" on tape delay late Friday nights.Various other outlets, like cable access channels, carried some assorted games. But that was about it.Now, televised high school football has popped up all over - with a … [Read more...]
Two Fer Tuesday
Posted on August 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
And we're back for a Two-Fer Tuesday!(OK, so we never have said that phrase, ever, on-air or off...there's a first time for everything! And we do have two items, and it is Tuesday as we write this...)APARTMENT FIRE KILLS MAN, AND...: One of Cleveland's top news stories this Tuesday morning was the fire at a downtown Cleveland apartment building, which killed the resident of one apartment.WOIO/19's "19 Action News" reports that the fire was contained to the 13th floor apartment of the victim, 27 … [Read more...]
Monday Menu
Posted on August 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 8:46 AM 8/11/08: It turns out our reader was onto something about the absence of "Valentine" from the WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" website.The station is now promoting its new morning show, set to begin airing August 25th. "Elvis Duran and the Kiss FM Morning Show" will air from its home base at Clear Channel top 40 WHTZ/100.3 in the New York City market - the legendary "Z100" - part of its mounting syndication effort.Duran first expanded his reach when Miami's "Y100" picked up the show...which … [Read more...]
