Raycom Media CBS/MyNet combo WOIO/19-WUAB/43 general manager Bill Applegate gets a profile treatment in Broadcasting & Cable magazine this week, and also lets forth a bit of news.The Cleveland market's most controversial TV executive makes no apologies for his style in the article titled "Bold and Brash Is Good News for Applegate":Love it or loathe it, a Bill Applegate newscast is like no other. It's fast, hard-hitting, brash and—to the profound chagrin of news purists—loaded with opinion. … [Read more...]
Cleaning Up After Ourselves
Posted on June 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A few things just fell out, so we have to clean up after ourselves...FOX 8 FOLO: Well, at least we know that someone at the Cleveland Plain Dealer still reads OMW.After our item on the FCC's approval of the sale of WJW/8 "FOX 8" and other FOX O&Os to Local TV, LLC, PD media columnist Julie Washington wrote an article for the following day's paper - based on the same source we found, the "tvnewsday" trade news website.Shortly after Ms. Washington's story hit Cleveland.com Tuesday morning, … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: FCC Approves WJW/8 Sale
Posted on June 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This just in:The website TVNewsday reports that the Federal Communications Commission has approved the sale of 8 FOX TV owned and operated stations to Local TV, LLC.The $1.1 billion dollar deal includes a number of FOX's non-top-10 market owned stations, including WJW/8 "FOX 8" in Cleveland. FOX will hang onto its largest market stations, and those with duopoly situations.Local TV, LLC is headed by former Jacor radio executive Bobby Lawrence. And former Local TV and Jacor/Clear Channel Radio … [Read more...]
Saying Goodbye, And Hello
Posted on May 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Today, as scheduled, is the final day of the WKYC/3-produced "Akron/Canton News", which in recent times has been airing on (most of) Time Warner Cable's systems in the Akron/Canton area.The last two newscasts will air at 6:30 PM and 10 PM on the company's "NEON" local programming channel in the Akron/Canton region (23, or 15 on the former Adelphia systems in Western Summit County).The newscast moved from WVPX/23, the former ABC-turned-PAX TV affiliate long known for local TV news in the … [Read more...]
Monday Updates And Corrections
Posted on May 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We're just going off on a tangent or three here, and there may not be any connecting thread. This is just stuff that's been piling up in the Collective Mind here at the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm)...SANE: Not really much to update here, but it appears the announcement of the arrival of incoming VP/general manager Victoria Regan at Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 Cleveland was well received.OMW hears that when announcing her appointment at 3001 Euclid, Scripps bosses used the word "sane" more than once … [Read more...]
WEWS Names New Leader
Posted on May 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Cleveland Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 has named a new vice-president and general manager. She's Victoria Regan, who comes in from Hearst ABC affiliate WPBF/25 in West Palm Beach FL.Though she's joining "NewsChannel 5" from Florida, she has extensive experience in Pittsburgh TV.The official release from Scripps follows...--------------------------Regan Named Vice President and General Manager of Scripps Station in ClevelandWednesday May 14, 3:15 pm ETCINCINNATI, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- … [Read more...]
WVIZ/WKYC DTV Update
Posted on May 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OMW reported earlier that Cleveland PBS affiliate WVIZ/25 has a construction permit to co-locate its full-power post-transition digital TV facility with Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3.Fellow blogger Frank Macek, WKYC senior director and proprietor of the "Director's Cut" blog over at WKYC.com, picked up on the story and expanded it in a recent item.As it turns out, WVIZ-DT's full-power antenna will not reside atop the current WKYC tower.WKYC and WVIZ will build a new tower at the station's Parma … [Read more...]
A Quick Group Of Items
Posted on May 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just some stuff that's been floating around the OMW Inbox, mostly outside of our immediate Northeast Ohio focus. OK, there is one Cleveland item, which we've saved for last...WSYX HD NEWS: As hinted and expected, Sinclair has flipped the HD News Switch at its Columbus stations, WSYX/6 (ABC) and WTTE/28 (FOX).The move makes the company's news operation the last Columbus market TV newsroom to go the HDTV route.We haven't figured out yet, despite input from our readers in the market, how far … [Read more...]
WVIZ Heads For New Tower
Posted on May 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It's complaint number one among Cleveland market digital television viewers...the temporary low-power digital signal of ideaStream PBS affiliate WVIZ/25, on an antenna that just clears the roof of the station's former Brookpark Road studios in Parma, is almost impossible to receive any distance from that suburb.The station has been in a long dispute over placement of its permanent full-power digital antenna on the tower where its analog antenna is now, a North Royalton structure owned by CBS … [Read more...]
Loose Ends For A Friday
Posted on May 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Fridays seem like just the time to clear up loose ends before the weekend...so, here we are!NOT YET FOR ALL: Though it appears that Time Warner Cable has flipped around its digital cable channel lineups for the bulk of its Northeast Ohio customers, there are apparently some yet to be converted.We're basing this on our own anecdotal evidence, but the former Adelphia/Western Reserve cluster in northeast Summit County and nearby would appear to be doing without the digital channel realignment - … [Read more...]
