...and keep reaching for the stars. Sadly, we'll never hear those words uttered (except in long-ago recorded form) by music radio icon Casey Kasem, who passed away early Sunday at the age of 82. The younger folks who have read the TMZ coverage of Casey's family members fighting over his care and end days may not know the man who singlehandedly changed the face of hit music radio. But starting in 1970, Casey's "American Top 40" turned music chart-based radio on its ear, at a time where radio … [Read more...]
Not Just LeBron
We have plenty of items that have nothing to do with a talented young athlete choosing to throw a ball into a hoop in a different city. But since LeBron James has dominated the media both here and outside of here, we'll start off this item with the obvious... LESOUTH BEACH: The now-former Cleveland Cavaliers star was Topic 1, 2 and 3 even before he scraped Northeast Ohio off of his shoe in an hour-long ESPN special on Thursday. That special, by the way, was the highest rated TV show Thursday … [Read more...]
The Mason Has Landed
With much fanfare, WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" programmer Dan Mason left the Clear Channel Cleveland top 40 outlet for the warmth of South Florida.He left Northeast Ohio to take the program director's chair at sister top 40 station WHYI/100.7 "Y100" in Miami.It seemed like the perfect match for one of America's fastest rising top 40 PDs, and one of the country's iconic stations in that format.And it lasted, well, not very long.Before you could say "Miami Vice", Mason was out at "Y100".We're not very … [Read more...]
While Waiting For A Sports Radio Overhaul
Some other stuff not related to impending changes in Good Karma Land...well, mostly not related...MILLER REPLACEMENT TIME: WEWS/5 sports director Chris Miller is now under a week away from his departure from the Cleveland ABC affiliate, bound for Washington DC's Comcast SportsNet regional sports channel. His last day is February 28th.We hear that Miller and CSN's Tony Burke (an ex-WEWSer) go back a long time, and that the presence of the offer from DC didn't result in a counter offer from the … [Read more...]