Yes, we've been gone a while. ("Life Intervenes", you know.) As things settle down a little, we can come up for air and shovel out a lot of items. We'll revisit some items both here and on our social media accounts, and put in some new items as well. A warning...you'll definitely need to bring a lunch for this one... NFL NETWORK, TWC MAKE FRIENDS: Northeast Ohio's Time Warner Cable subscribers didn't have to wait until Thursday to get the long-awaited NFL Network. TWC's Travis Reynolds … [Read more...]
TV Retrans Wars Hit Cleveland – Fox 8 and DirecTV
Posted on August 29, 2012 · 2 Comments
UPDATE 8/31/12: Both DirecTV and WJW Fox 8 owner Local TV LLC announced an agreement today, with no signal interruption... UPDATE 8/30/12 10:20 AM: Fox 8 has put up a more extensive site on their side of the dispute - keepwjw.com. Note that there's not one mention of trying to pick up the station's currently anemic over-air signal as an alternative... ------ The ongoing wars over TV retransmission consent are hitting Cleveland. Local TV Fox affiliate WJW/8 has posted a note on its … [Read more...]
Major League Catchup
Posted on August 28, 2012 · 5 Comments
No, that's not something the Cleveland Indians are about to try, based on their dismal play as of late. It's something we're going to try now, after an unplanned Life Intervenes(tm) hiatus for about two weeks. (Note: We'll have a planned hiatus for personal reasons, right after the Labor Day holiday. Or, maybe we'll be more active...) Anyway, on with the show... OTHER SHOE DROPS: We already told you that now-former Ohio News Network Cleveland bureau reporter Cristin Severance had found a new … [Read more...]
A Pile Of Items, Released
Posted on August 16, 2012 · 9 Comments
UPDATE 8/16/12 10:05 AM: If you read this before 10 AM, scroll down for an additional item... -------- As per usual, important items pile up in a clump of anywhere from three to a half-dozen. This update doesn't cover everything in that pile, but we'll get close enough to doing so. And coming 'round the bend sometime in the next few days - "Couch Burner, The Followup". Yes, as reported here and by the Akron Beacon Journal, John Denning has taken over the 10 AM-3 PM time slot on WNIR/100.1 … [Read more...]
The Storm Rides Out
Posted on July 26, 2012 · 1 Comment
On a day seeing Northeast Ohio pelted with thunderstorms (and some lost power or cable TV service), let's take advantage of a calm period to update some items we've been piling up for the past day or more. But nearly all of the below items have previously been announced on our social media presence... THE END OF ONN: Ohio's only regional cable TV news operation will be no more as of August 31st. The Ohio News Network, an arm of the Dispatch operation in Columbus, announced Wednesday afternoon … [Read more...]
Late July Mixed Bag
Posted on July 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
In which we update some stuff, bring on new items and more... 87.7 BUILDING BLOCKS, BUT WHEN?: We're hearing some details surrounding the launch of Venture Technologies/Murray Hill Broadcasting's WLFM-LP 6/87.7, which will operate as a radio station under the name "87.7 Clevelanders Rock". First, an appearance by station operators Tom Wilson and Tom Embrescia on the soon-to-be-extinguished "Good Company Today" on NBC affiliate WKYC/3 shed at least some light on what shape the soon-to-launch … [Read more...]
A Cooler Combination
Posted on July 11, 2012 · 4 Comments
Cooler because, though we have highs in the mid-80s, it's sure cooler than it was last time we set the air conditioning in the OMW World Headquarters to "freeze"... A STEADY HAND: So, you're a Cleveland TV station, and your news director has "made the move up" to a job with your parent company. You're heading into an all-important period which will gain you new viewers...the 2012 Summer Olympics, live from London. But SOMEONE has to run the newsroom until a permanent candidate is found, and … [Read more...]
Youngstown And Nearby
Posted on July 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Most of the items this time around are from the Mahoning Valley, though at least one is from nearby...and one item involves the Cleveland market... RICH MORGAN: Readers in the Youngstown/Warren TV market have been peppering our inbox with questions about market veteran Rich Morgan...who's been absent from his duties as morning and noon meteorologist for New Vision-to-be-LIN CBS affiliate WKBN/27's "27 First News". We did some digging, but the question could have more easily been answered (for … [Read more...]
The Week Ender
Posted on June 29, 2012 · 7 Comments
The week ender, as we head into the weekend... ALBRIGHT TO MIDDAYS: The death of iconic Akron talk radio host Howie Chizek has left a major hole in the schedule of his 38 year home station, Media-Com talk WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron", which is vowing to continue its all-local talk lineup...while faced with the unenviable task of figuring out who will be heard on WNIR, permanently, from 10 AM to 3 PM weekdays. The unfortunate demise of Akron's talk radio king has also presented an opportunity … [Read more...]
Press Release Theatre, Vol. 4 (The Drew Carey Edition)
Posted on June 27, 2012 · 1 Comment
It's not often we get two press releases within a day about the same person, with wholly unrelated topics behind them...but that's what's happened with Cleveland native Drew Carey ("The Price is Right", "The Drew Carey Show"). As per usual, Friend of OMW Ann VerWiebe, marketing and public relations guru for Kent State University's WKSU/89.7-and-its-many-simulcasters, goes first...with help from Cleveland's Ideastream (WCPN/90.3)... --------------- Drew Carey on Stage for Live Presentation of … [Read more...]
