UPDATE 9/20/07 2:35 PM: Mr. Maloney backs off just a little in an update to the below post.The "Radio Equalizer" blog editor says that O'Reilly may sign a "short-term" extension to the "Radio Factor" contract into early next year. But he believes the FNC host is still destined to dump radio, to concentrate on his popular evening TV talk show.Our original take on his report is below...----------This word comes from a blog just across the Blogger-sphere:According to "Radio Equalizer" blogger … [Read more...]
Followup Stuff
Posted on September 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Mostly followup to stuff posted below this item, with some new items as well..."RIK AND SARAH" NOW CORE OF WHBC-FM MORNINGS: For at least some time, WHBC-FM/94.1's Madison Woods actually hosted morning drive solo at "Mix 94.1", NextMedia's Canton AC outlet.When Rik Elliot showed up, the two teamed up. And now, "Maddie" is out of mornings.A memo from the station flew out of Market Street South and somehow made the trip up I-77 to us. It says "Mix" is "building" the morning show around Rik and … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Drudge Out, WLW’s Cunningham In
Posted on August 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Premiere syndicated Sunday night host Matt Drudge exits his show after his September 30th show. OMW hears that Premiere says the host "has chosen to depart the radio business" to concentrate on his popular Internet site and "other endeavors".The Drudge show airs on most Clear Channel-owned talk stations in Ohio, and counts an affiliate base of over 325 stations nationwide.Replacing him is WLW/700 Cincinnati early afternoon mainstay Bill Cunningham, who starts October 7th in the Sunday night … [Read more...]
A Lot For A Monday
Posted on August 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It's a pretty full breakfast plate for us on a Monday morning. Hmm, we're getting hungry...MORE ON THE WNIR MORNING DRIVE OPENING: Though we'd mentioned that the full-week auditions for the open chair on Akron market talk WNIR/100.1's morning drive show were slowing down, we heard another "auditioner" last week sitting alongside Stan Piatt, Jim Midock and Steve French.Near the end of the program, which is pretty much nearly all of what we'd heard, Piatt made it clear - on the air - that the … [Read more...]
Enough To Publish
Posted on July 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Aside from our own time issues, we sometimes aren't here because there's nothing to publish. That certainly isn't the case this early Tuesday morning...ANNOUNCEMENT FEVER: Why do at least two local radio stations find Tuesday morning a good time to announce things?That's what Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN 850"'s "Rizzo on the Radio", and Akron market talker WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron" have done...picked the late Tuesday morning time slot to make on-air announcements.WNIR's, which we … [Read more...]
A Busy Weekend
Posted on June 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It'll be a busy weekend not for us here at OMW World Headquarters, but for some local radio folks...CAVS SATURDAY: Your Cleveland Cavaliers are, at this writing late Friday, on the cusp of Something Big...an NBA Finals appearance that the local franchise has never made since entering the league in 1970 or so.And the local sports media atmosphere is starting to resemble the mid-1990s, when the Cleveland Indians made it into two World Series...in 1995 and 1997, if you're new to town and don't … [Read more...]
