We've got a bunch of items just waiting to see air. Or, umm, pixels...NEWS DIRECTOR SHUFFLE: Cleveland has been one of the larger TV markets to have two news director openings at the same time.OMW hears noise that one of the two positions is all but filled, and the other has some strong candidates.We'll get to that one first.We're told by sources walking by South Marginal Road that two in-house candidates are among the top contenders for the job to replace Greg Easterly at FOX O&O WJW/8 - … [Read more...]
Thursday In-Box Clear Out
Posted on May 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Just some random stuff we've been sitting on for a while...FLYING ND: We catch up with a lot of news about Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC/3 without even having to contact anyone - by way of station senior director Frank Macek's "Director's Cut" blog.This time, Frank checks in with former WKYC news director Dick Moore, who left the station for a teaching job in the journalism school at the University of South Carolina.Moore is on a break from that teaching gig to fly around the country in a … [Read more...]
A New Ohio Sports Outlet
Posted on May 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OK, so Columbus is a ways away from our Northeast Ohio home base, but you'd think we would have heard about this by now.The folks in Central Ohio have a brand new regional sports network, to compete with the likes of FSN Ohio for Columbus-market sports viewers. Well, sort of a "network".It's the Columbus Sports Network, alternatively abbreviated as either "CS" (per the logo) or "CSN" (like the Comcast folks call their sports networks). It launched in late March."CSN" aims to fill a hyper-local … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Carole Chandler Returns To WKYC Part-Time
Posted on May 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A former WKYC/3 mainstay is returning to "Channel 3 News".WKYC senior director Frank Macek reports on his "Director's Cut" blog this afternoon that former morning news co-anchor Carole Sullivan is back at the local NBC affiliate on a part-time basis, working as a reporter two days a week (Tuesday and Wednesday, starting May 15th)."Channel 3 News" viewers first knew her as Carole Chandler, before the morning anchor married football coach Mike Sullivan and changed her on-air name. She left WKYC … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Paul Kiska Named Anchor Of “Good Morning Cleveland”
Posted on May 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
In our "They Took THIS Long To Replace Adam Shapiro?" department:OMW hears that it's official this morning...Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 has named reporter Paul Kiska as permanent anchor on the station's morning show, "Good Morning Cleveland".And it's actually a homecoming for Kiska. We're reminded that Kiska joined WEWS some seven years ago from South Bend IN, as a reporter for the very same show... … [Read more...]
Monday’s Here
Posted on May 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Yeah, we know...we're as excited as you are. But at least the weather may be nice...PD #1 (RADIO): Nearly all of our items this Monday are follow-ups on articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer over the weekend, as the area's largest newspaper seems to have rediscovered local media for some reason.Well, OK, PD entertainment columnist Julie Washington always has the media on her beat here in Northeast Ohio, but Saturday's column was a bit more extensive than usual.We'll start with an item we have … [Read more...]
Friday Leftovers
Posted on May 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment
And, closing out our weekday additions to the MBoF(tm):WHERE WERE THEY THEN?: We hadn't checked in with the excellent "Director's Cut" blog, crafted with care by WKYC/3 senior director Frank Macek on local NBC affiliate's website, so we visited again today.And Frank's top item is one touting a package airing at 11 PM tonight on "Channel 3 News", where reporter Chris Tye revisits the early broadcasting careers of some of the station's current staff members, with decent doses of humor.Eric … [Read more...]
Catching Up, Midweek Edition
Posted on May 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment
We're sorry for those of you who are used to daily updates out of us...but we're back for a new round on this Wednesday. We think we give you the best publishing frequency you're likely to get out of a site that doesn't charge for subscriptions, after all...DEELY AND WDOK: No less an authority than WDOK/102.1 program director Scott Miller has checked in with your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) about a rare bit of uncertainty at the CBS Radio Cleveland AC outlet.A number of OMW readers caught … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WJW’s Easterly Moves Up To GM
Posted on April 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
He almost left Cleveland entirely to take a job in Dallas, but WJW/8 news director Greg Easterly is staying at "FOX 8" in Cleveland.As general manager.OMW hears that it's been officially announced on South Marginal Road - Easterly, who has run the WJW news department for 10 years, will move up to the GM's chair to replace Mike Renda.Renda announced a month ago that he was moving within the FOX corporate structure as well, to head up the company's O&O in Philadelphia, WTXF/29.And Easterly all … [Read more...]
A Newsy Monday
Posted on April 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Our first item for the new week is rather newsy. We actually have some interesting stuff this time! (No, not our usual flotsam-and-jetsam for a Monday morning.)But a request, first.Please dial back on the jokes in our comments at the expense of a certain board op who was once on-air at a local radio station. There are many who know the "back story", and we do, as well...and we don't think he deserves the joking potshots. It's really out of the spirit of what we do here, anyway, and we'll … [Read more...]
