Here we are, for once, for a second day in a row. Feels like old times, no?TOLEDO'S HOME OF THE BROWNS: ...is nowhere, at least on the radio.Some non-radio friends confirmed to us that no Toledo radio station carried the Cleveland Browns' pre-season win over the Kansas City Chiefs over last weekend. Not WTOD/1560, nor any other Cumulus or Clear Channel stations, or...anyone.And radio sources in the market say the situation is bleak for expecting any station to swoop in and carry the Browns … [Read more...]
A Monday In Mid-August
Posted on August 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Items for a Monday...MAGGIE'S AUDITION: OMW has nailed down, thanks to an anonymous tip, details on the upcoming week-long audition by former Akron market talker WNIR/100.1 morning co-host Maggie Fuller on another Northern Ohio station.Maggie will be on the air one week from today (August 20th) on Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting talk WEOL/930 Elyria, alongside Les Sekely on his "Les in the Morning" show in morning drive.As we hinted in our earlier item, the Elyria station is actually a lot closer … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WEWS/5 Names Sports Director
Posted on August 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 12:50 PM 8/10/07: Our apologies to Akron Beacon Journal sports/media columnist George M. Thomas, an OMW reader who has Andy Baskin's appointment Thursday as WEWS/5 sports director as the lead item in his sports media column today.OMW learned the news late Thursday night, separately, from one of our regular sources at "NewsChannel 5".We weren't aware that it was in the Beacon Journal today. We don't subscribe to the Dead Trees edition of either the Beacon or the Cleveland Plain … [Read more...]
One Of Those Follow-Up Posts
Posted on August 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
So, since we've mostly been gone for the past week or two, it would figure that our first big "return" post is almost entirely an update of our most recent item.But we'll start with a new one...MS. GILL: OMW told you some time ago that Kimberly Gill was headed for 3001 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, taking the permanent co-host gig on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5's "Good Morning Cleveland".Gill's not on "GMC" yet, but she's in town, and like Akron bureau chief Pete Kenworthy before her, she's … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WKYC Names New News Director
Posted on August 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Gannett Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC/3 has officially named a news director.WKYC senior director Frank Macek's "Director's Cut" blog alerts us that acting news director Rita Andolsen, who was assistant news director under now-former ND Mike McCormick, takes the top news job on a permanent basis.After McCormick left "Channel 3 News", he landed at WPMI in Mobile AL.We'd heard rumblings of other possible news director candidates at 13th and Lakeside over the past few months.But from what we've … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: FCC Approves WYTV Sale
Posted on July 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment
This just in: The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval of the sale of Youngstown ABC affiliate WYTV/33 from Chelsey Broadcasting to a new Los Angeles-based company called Parkin Broadcasting.Andrea Wood of the Youngstown-based Business Journal reports that the FCC approved the sale Monday, with little word about why a petition by the NABET union to block the sale was turned away.But Wood says that in a letter, an FCC official outlined the rejection of the union's objection, … [Read more...]
And…Friday
Posted on July 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment
There's not really much "out there" right now...but we felt the need to clear up the week's agenda...WEATHER SET: In our continuing, 50-part, in-depth series on WJW/8 "FOX 8 News"' new news set...OMW hears that Dick Goddard, Andre Bernier and the gang will soon get a new "weather center", if it hasn't happened already. For now, the FOX 8 weather folks have been camping out outside, or in front of a green screen.But we hear that the set won't be all that different from the alcove that the … [Read more...]
No Officials Day
Posted on July 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A lot of things you see on local TV news are somehow driven by a consultant's recommendation, or some sort of concerted effort by management to tweak the station's image, or correct perceived problems with the station.You should keep that in mind when watching WEWS/5's newscasts today.OMW hears that today, Thursday, has been proclaimed "No Officials Day" in the newsroom at "NewsChannel 5".What does that mean?Our sources tell us that news staffers at 3001 Euclid have been told not to use any … [Read more...]
Just Falling Together
Posted on July 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes, before we expect to publish one of these items, we wonder if enough news will be available to us to put up a post.And then, it just happens...ANOTHER HIRE ON EUCLID AVENUE: Though it appears to be no closer to solving its sports problem, Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" in Cleveland has tapped a permanent co-anchor for "Good Morning Cleveland".OMW hears that the station is bringing aboard Kimberly Gill, who's been morning anchor at Media General CBS affiliate WBTW/13 in … [Read more...]
A Nice Monday Mix
Posted on July 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment
...and our apologies for being a bit late, since we were "on the road".We're back, with at least one item we believe to be an exclusive...YET ANOTHER NEW SPORTS REPORTER: If we told you a Cleveland station was hiring a new sports reporter, you'd probably guess it would be ABC affiliate WEWS/5, right?We mean, after all, "NewsChannel 5" has but two sports anchors/reporters on staff, and station veteran Sue Ann Robak is the only one who's working full-time...with Andy Baskin still doing … [Read more...]
