Time to head to Cleveland's electronic equivalent of Grand Central Station (Tower City?), and chart a whole bunch of Cleveland TV entrances and exits, and a small radio note... THE NEW MELISSA: OMW hears that Local TV Fox affiliate WJW/8 "Fox 8" has found a replacement for meterologist Melissa Mack...who left Cleveland with great fanfare for a new job at CBS O&O WBZ/4 in Boston. She's Angelica Campos, who shares a now-former employer with Raycom Media CBS/MyNetwork TV WOIO/19-WUAB-43 "19 … [Read more...]
Cleveland Connections
Posted on May 6, 2010 · 4 Comments
Three items with at least past connections to the Cleveland radio and TV market... LEEANN'S DENVER EXIT: AllAccess reports that a former Cleveland radio personality is out at her Denver station, in an item posted earlier this week: ALL ACCESS confirms that WILKS Hot AC KIMN (MIX100) middayer LEEANN SOMMERS exits LeeAnn was heard in Northeast Ohio on Clear Channel hot AC WMVX/106.5 "Mix 106.5" from 2001 to 2005, and was previously heard on stations like WENZ/107.9 and the old "Jammin' 92.3", … [Read more...]
5’s New GM And Other TV News
Posted on April 28, 2010 · 1 Comment
NEW BOSS ON EUCLID: Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 has found its new general manager.After hearing from our sources that former Tampa FL general manager Sam Rosenwasser had been introduced to employees as the new VP/GM at the Cleveland station, we did a Google search - and found that Plain Dealer TV writer Mark Dawidziak had already posted an item about Rosenwasser's hiring:Rosenwasser, 57, was the president and general manager of WTSP Channel 10, the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate in the Tampa-St. … [Read more...]
Clearing Out The To Do Box
Posted on April 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
Our sporadic publishing schedule means that we occasionally have to clear out the "To Do" box, and that's what we're doing today...NEWSNIGHT "HIATUS": Western Reserve PBS is shelving the long-running, popular public affairs talk show "NewsNight Akron" after this week...for now.A release from our friends at Campus Center Drive says that the public TV outlet (known to the FCC as WNEO/45 Alliance-WEAO/49 Akron) will put the Friday evening show hosted by WKYC/3's Eric Mansfield "on hiatus" starting … [Read more...]
Ohio’s Mobile TV Future
Posted on April 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A host of TV station owner groups are banding together to create a much broader future for mobile digital television, and nearly all groups in the Cleveland market are involved.From the first article about the joint venture of 12 ownership groups, courtesy of TVNewsCheck's Harry Jessell:The groups: Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Ion Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom … [Read more...]
From Cleveland To Youngstown to Canada
Posted on April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
...and beyond, as this is quite a geographically-broad update...KEN COURTRIGHT: Services were held Thursday for long-time Cleveland and Northeast Ohio radio newsman Ken Courtright, who died Saturday at the age of 74.A complete obituary is available at the Linn-Hert-Geib Funeral Home website, and in our earlier item, someone posted a comment with a link to video of the service, which is now archived and available for viewing. (It appears to be password protected, so we're not sure we should … [Read more...]
Channel 5 General Manager Out
Posted on March 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It's official. OMW hears that Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 general manager Viki Regan is no longer in the building.Well, maybe we should say "she's no longer the general manager" as of Monday, because we hear she actually hasn't been in the building for some time, as her status at Channel 5 was being negotiated with upper Scripps management over the past week or so.We're told that she couldn't see eye to eye with her Scripps bosses over the direction of the station, which led to her … [Read more...]
Two Passings
Posted on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Two local media fixtures from two very different parts of Northeast Ohio's media landscape have passed away in just the past few days...THE PROFESSOR: Sports talk radio fans from the 1980s and 1990s know what the phrase "The Professor has died" means.Geoff Sindelar actually started his run on local sports talk radio in a familiar place - as a caller to "Pete Franklin's Sportsline" on the old WWWE/1100 "3WE" in Cleveland. (Of course, another regular Franklin caller became Clear Channel talk … [Read more...]
In No Particular Order
Posted on March 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Since we've been sporadic lately, here are some items that have taken place in recent days... in no particular order...and there are still more items we haven't touched yet..."MISS BARBARA" PASSES ON: If you grew up on Northeast Ohio television into the early 1970s, you need no further explanation.Barbara Plummer, known as "Miss Barbara" on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5's local edition of "Romper Room", has died.From her online obituary (we have the text, but don't have a link):From 1958 to 1972 … [Read more...]
About Christine
Posted on March 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We're still "away" from the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) for the most part, though we'd been planning a comprehensive update sometime soon.Since we've been actually sitting on this one since mid-February, and are now getting questions on it from readers, we'll let this item free early.Yes, Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 has a new meteorologist. From a station memo released about a month ago:Christine Ferreira will join the Good Morning Cleveland team as Meteorologist. Christine comes to … [Read more...]
