Here at OMW, we generally don't cover the print media in depth, but we've already checked in on major changes at local newspapers.We've noticed that, for example, Cleveland Browns beat reporter Patrick McManamon is still covering the team for the Akron Beacon Journal...despite an earlier report that he'd be one of the employees let go in a job purge of a third of the ABJ's newsroom staff.We're guessing that they'll find a way to keep McManamon on staff until the end of the Browns season. Since … [Read more...]

For the past couple of weeks or so, it's been a foregone conclusion in this corner that Good Karma Broadcasting's Craig Karmazin was going to launch his upcoming Cleveland ESPN Radio-fueled sports format on the daytime signal of his new WABQ/1540, with nights covered by Radio One talk WERE/1300.Indeed, in this very Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), an eagle-eyed OMW reader uncovered the new "ESPN Cleveland" logo on the ESPNCleveland.com website...with the "1540 Days /1300 Nights" legend we'd long … [Read more...]

WKYC/3 investigative reporter Carl Monday has apparently come to terms with his newfound worldwide Internet fame, a fame that was only set on fire this week by a story on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"."Daily Show" reporter Jason Jones caught up with Monday a couple of weeks ago - to do a piece on Monday's now world-famous story on the man he found getting a little too much into what he was viewing on a Berea library computer.Monday talked about the encounter on his blog, and WKYC has … [Read more...]

Just some items floating around:KELLY VISIT UPDATE: OMW has heard some more feedback on what we guess could be called "David Kelly's Recent Vacation Plans".The former Browns beat reporter for Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 Cleveland was heard on something of a busman's holiday in Northeast Ohio...doing at least a couple of games of high school football play-by-play, and appearing on the mid-morning show hosted by WTAM's Bob Frantz.We hear that Kelly's been having a great time as a voice of the … [Read more...]

You may have noticed that most of our items this past week come from outposts like Cincinnati and Toledo. It's been a quiet week for Cleveland area media...until now.Major changes are sweeping the halls at local CBS affiliate WOIO/19, according to Cleveland Plain Dealer TV/radio writer Julie Washington in the PD's Entertainment blog.Oh, sure, there are anchors moving around again.New weekender Paul Joncich barely makes it into his first month at "19 Action News" before being moved to the … [Read more...]

As has been reported, Cumulus' 96.5 frequency in the Cincinnati market is about to be something else, when country WYGY officially moves fully to the 94.9 frequency once housing "Mojo 94.9".Following up on the speculation about top 40 on the former WMOJ/96.5...a top Cumulus suit says "not so fast".Cumulus executive VP John Dickey tells AllAccess that the station's new calls of WPRV "mean nothing", and calls rumors of a top 40 format "pure wishful speculation on the part of the industry"...saying … [Read more...]

OMW reported earlier that former hot AC WWWM/105.5 "Star 105" Toledo programmer Steve Marshall had been heard in afternoons on Cumulus sister top 40 station WTWR/98.3 "Tower 98-3".We now hear that Marshall, as we speculated earlier, has taken the vacant program director chair at "Tower"...which has been without a PD for months... … [Read more...]

AllAccess is hinting at a possible new top 40 outlet in Cincinnati, but has posted no other details.OMW helpfully reminds folks that there'll be an odd frequency out in all the Radio One/Cumulus shuffles involving the move-in of 100.3 FM to the Cincinnati market.With that frequency adopting the "Mojo" identity from Cumulus/ex-Susquehanna's 94.9, and country WYGY decamping at 94.9 from 96.5, that'll open up the latter frequency to a new format.OMW has not heard even any rumors about top 40 on … [Read more...]

This just in...Scripps has finally found a buyer for WOAC/67 Canton, and the four other stations formerly owned by its former Shop at Home division.The five stations are being sold to Multicultural Television Broadcasting in a $170 million deal.The company is a new TV offshoot of Multicultural Radio, which owns a number of foreign language/brokered radio stations in major markets like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.The company made news outside the foreign language radio world when it was … [Read more...]

Starting off the week:NO NEWS TO US: Your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) is no stranger to late night hours, but we hadn't checked in for a while with Clear Channel Cleveland talk WTAM/1100 during the hours devoted to Premiere's George Noory and Art Bell and "Coast to Coast AM".So it was a surprise to us when an OMW reader informed us that he was no longer hearing WTAM overnight anchor Steve Gatans in the wee hours, and that the station was running FOX News Radio instead.Sure enough, a late night … [Read more...]