Television news reporting is often thin when it comes to international events, where news beyond the U.S. is either ignored, or covered only when it drastically affects this country.A former Cleveland TV reporter hopes to change that with his new public television news show, which premieres tonight on many PBS stations.The anchor of American Public Television's "Worldfocus" is familiar to many Northeast Ohio TV viewers. Martin Savidge has spent the last few years in the national news spotlight … [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...]
Some TV Items
Posted on October 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
News from the TV side of the OMW ledger...with another bigger item to be added later today...THREE OHIO TV STATIONS OFF CABLE: Yet another one of those "retransmission consent" disputes has pulled three Ohio TV stations off local cable TV systems in each of their markets.The inability of LIN TV and Time Warner Cable to reach a new deal by this morning's midnight deadline has forced LIN's three Ohio stations off TWC: Dayton NBC affiliate WDTN/2, Columbus CW affiliate WWHO/53, and Toledo FOX … [Read more...]
Ready For Its Name Change
Posted on September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As reported earlier here on OMW, Kent-based public TV stations WNEO/45 Alliance-WEAO/49 Akron are about to take on a new identity.Starting Wednesday, the stations now known as "PBS 45 & 49" on the air will become "Western Reserve PBS"...under the umbrella name of "Western Reserve Public Media".Both are just branding changes for 45/49 - the call letters will remain the same for both stations, and the stations' owner continues to be known legally as Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, … [Read more...]
OMW’s First Digital TV Q&A
Posted on September 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We went back to read our item about the early analog switchoff of Youngstown market PBS affiliate WNEO/45 Alliance, and...well, we figured some of our readers may have some questions about the digital TV transition.Late on the night of February 17, 2009, just before the clock strikes midnight into the 18th, TV transmitter facilities around America will be very busy places...as every full-power TV station in the nation shuts off its analog transmitter for good. (For the record, as far as we … [Read more...]
Satellite HD Locals In Youngstown
Posted on September 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An item that actually broke last week, that we're catching up with...The DirecTV satellite service has launched HD local channel service to the Youngstown market, according to a news release put out by the satellite company.DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading satellite television service provider, is now offering local HD programming to customers in the Youngstown, Ohio designated market area. The following broadcast networks are available in HD: WYTV/ABC and WFMJ/NBC. With the addition of … [Read more...]
WNEO’s Early Change
Posted on September 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Northeast Ohio has already seen one full-power analog TV station go dark months before the federally mandated digital transition, though the change has affected only a small part of the Cleveland/Akron (Canton) market. Mansfield local independent station WMFD/68 won approval to go digital-only due to various issues regarding the replacement of its analog facility/antenna. WMFD-DT (RF 12) no longer has an analog 68 sister.In what's no surprise to regular OMW readers, we're not long from the … [Read more...]
Big Monday
Posted on September 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
No time to chat...time to get busy, with all these items on our Monday plate.And perhaps on our lunch plate later today: a footlong chili cheese dog from the Sonic drive-in set to open for the first time today in Streetsboro...THE WHY OF LAURA: We've kept you up to date over the weekend on the departure of Talk Radio Network syndicated mid-morning host Laura Ingraham from all 17 of her Salem affiliates, including the comapny's talk WHK/1420 Cleveland.Salem's own Mike Gallagher will slide into … [Read more...]
And Some More For Tuesday
Posted on September 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We're trying to break out of the sports-related items, honest...MOVING TO THE DT: This isn't actually a sports item, though it involved a sporting event.Raycom Media CBS affiliate WOIO/19 Shaker Heights/Reserve Square Basement/Cleveland moved CBS' coverage of the men's U.S. Open tennis final off of its main channel Monday, and aired it on its digital subchannel (WOIO-DT 19.2 "WeatherNow").As far as we know, it's the first time WOIO has bounced regularly scheduled CBS programming off the main … [Read more...]
No Particular Place To Go
Posted on September 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
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...]
