UPDATE 10/20/07 12:30 PM: A correction to the below...the wedding mentioned above happened two years ago. But we're still happy for Autumn and her now-no-longer-new husband.Our apologies. The original site didn't say which year "October" was in...--------------It's Friday, and EVERYTHING MUST GO!OK, not everything. Only the random items on our plate and in our brains...NEW 5'ER?: Thursday on WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5", we heard a voice and a name that should be familiar to some of those in the … [Read more...]
Quick Midweek Shot
Posted on October 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Some stuff that's been piling up, waiting to be let free...A CLEARER OUT OF THE STUDIO PICTURE: OMW hears that with this coming Saturday night's 11 PM newscast, Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" will be the first local station with news video in the field to be shot and delivered in HDTV format.Our sources at 3001 Euclid tell us that all recorded video shot after Saturday will be in full 16x9 720p HD format, with no upconversion. Video shot before the new HDTV video recording and … [Read more...]
Doerr Sighting In Rhode Island
Posted on October 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Former WOIO/19 "19 Action News" news director Stephen Doerr is back in the business of running a TV newsroom.Our colleague Scott Fybush at NorthEast Radio Watch published the news Sunday:Global Broadcasting closes on its purchase of WLNE (Channel 6) from Freedom. The new owners are bringing in their own management team, which means general manager Roland Adeszko and news director Edwin Hart are out, replaced by Stephen Doerr, who's handling both jobs for now.WLNE is licensed to New Bedford MA, … [Read more...]
First Of New Time Warner Cable Channels?
Posted on October 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW has heard through various online sources that Time Warner Cable is launching more HD channels across the country, though apparently not on the same schedule in each area.The first of the new HD wave was TBS-HD, the former WTBS cable feed now split off from its former over-air Atlanta sister station. That came in early in Northeast Ohio, in time for the American League Division Series playoff race involving the Cleveland Indians.We're hearing lots of online rumors, but no confirmation, that … [Read more...]
A Part Of The Story
Posted on October 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Local television newsrooms have fleets of vans, satellite trucks and cars to speed their reporters to breaking news stories.On Wednesday, one local TV station didn't have to leave its own building for much of the time.The shootings at Cleveland's Success Tech Academy, which brought national media attention to the city all day, happened at the school's location - within sight of WKYC/3's Digital Broadcast Center at 13th and Lakeside. (And since we often refer to local media outlets by their … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WKYC’s Anderson(s) To Philly
Posted on October 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW hears from numerous sources in both cities that Gannett NBC afilliate WKYC/3 morning co-anchor John Anderson is heading to a similar job in Philadelphia - morning co-anchor at FOX O&O WTXF/29.His wife, WKYC reporter Kristin Anderson, is presumably also headed east to Cheesesteak Land, though we have no information if she's in line for a job at WTXF or any other station in Philadelphia.John Anderson's new boss at "FOX 29" is former Clevelander Mike Renda. You might recognize him as the … [Read more...]
Thursday Update
Posted on October 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Yep, we're still around.We haven't had much to say since our last update, but we've cobbled together enough items - including some news, some revisits and some other stuff...COLLINS NAMED OPERATIONS MANAGER: A local radio veteran has increased his role at his employer's cluster.Rubber City Radio has named Chuck Collins as operations manager for the company's three Akron stations - standards WAKR/1590, country WQMX/94.9 and rock WONE/97.5.Chuck has been program director of WAKR, leading its move … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: TBS-HD Added To Time Warner Northeast Ohio
Posted on October 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment
As speculated in the item just below this one, Northeast Ohio's Time Warner Cable systems have added the HD feed of the TBS cable network, just in time for the one-game pre-National League Divisional Series baseball contest between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies.TBS-HD has made its mark on Time Warner Cable's channel 778 on the Cleveland-area system formerly owned by Adelphia.We don't know what channel numbers are used elsewhere, but we believe it is also now available on the … [Read more...]
Monday Big Update
Posted on October 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A lot has happened since our Friday night update, for whatever reason. So, let's try to start strong this week...FROM THE BONDS OF CLEAR CHANNEL: Two weeks ago, Tom Embrescia's Sweet Home Ashtabula, LLC took control of the now-former Clear Channel cluster in Ashtabula, a group that once only consisted of talk WFUN/970 and AC WREO/97.1.Since that era, the cluster added now-top 40 WZOO/102.5, classic rock WFXJ/107.5, and the most recent entry, country WYBL/98.3 - which means a total of five … [Read more...]
Memo To Reserve Square
Posted on September 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It looks like WOIO/19 "19 Action News" anchor Sharon Reed isn't proud of taking her clothes off in front of a camera, anymore.Some three years after Ms. Reed became perhaps the most infamous local TV news anchor in America for her "Body of Art" series, the anchor and her station are now making the rounds of various websites, trying to get them to remove the racy pictures.The Plain Dealer's Michael K. McIntyre quotes Sharon's immediate boss, news director Dan Salamone, in Saturday's "TipOff" … [Read more...]
