Just some odd items we're stitching together:MORE ADELPHIA/TWC/ETC.: We're still trying to find out the disposition of locally-produced programming both on Time Warner Cable channel 23, and Adelphia cable 15.We're not talking about the local access programming - we're talking about general market programming like WKYC's "Akron/Canton News" (TWC 23) and Les Levine's sports talk show (Adelphia 15).For now, as we noted yesterday, both programs continue to air on the systems they started on. … [Read more...]

We heard this one as a rumor a while back, but it's just been confirmed on the airwaves of Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100.Reporter Levon Putney, who's been with the Cleveland station for six years, is heading to New York City. OMW hears he'll be joining the reporting staff of CBS Radio's "flagship" all-news outlet in the Big Apple, WCBS/880.Putney joined WTAM in August 2000, fresh off of stints in Elmira NY and out of college in Columbia MO. He also has TV experience, working for NBC affiilate … [Read more...]

If it's Monday, it must be time to check in with Cleveland Plain Dealer sports columnist Roger Brown's regular Monday Media Column...NASCAR IRE: Roger's getting some of the same feedback we've gotten in the past day or so... from angry NASCAR fans upset with local NBC affiliate WKYC/3 for pre-empting much of the race for a meaningless Cleveland Indians game.WKYC programming director Terry Moir tells The Artful Roger that the team had scheduled the Indians contest "well before" NBC decided on … [Read more...]

We've thought a long time about this here at OMW, and we've decided to not only make a policy change...but to make an announcement about it here.Your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) has become less fun these days.We're realizing, day by day, that we are a major source of information for Northeast Ohio (and beyond) radio and TV. We get roughly 1200 visitors a day on weekdays, and are read at pretty much every major electronic media operation in the area and beyond.Well-respected radio trade news … [Read more...]

At the OMW Sports Desk, we're watching closely the moves of Craig Karmazin, whose Good Karma Broadcasting is buying Cleveland gospel daytimer WABQ/1540. The station is widely expected to flip to sports with ESPN sometime later this year, after Salem's WKNR/850 loses its ESPN affiliation in mid-October...unless Karmazin's holdings in the Cleveland market take another form.Good Karma's Milwaukee ESPN Radio outlet, WAUK/1510, has made another bold move in its competition with Entercom's … [Read more...]

OMW will be away from the keyboard the remainder of the weekend, and maybe into Monday.Our traffic drops in half over the weekend, and we're going to take advantage of the nice weather and perhaps even leave town for a while.We'll catch you back here sometime early next week. Get out and enjoy! … [Read more...]

It's a name very few of our younger readers will remember.Mike Douglas was truly a television pioneer, and he started his road to nationwide stardom right here in Cleveland. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Michael Heaton reports that Douglas has died in a Florida hospital at the age of 81.Your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) is just old enough to remember the last TV years of the syndicated "Mike Douglas Show".But long before that, in 1961, then-KYW/3 lured him to town hoping to knock off WEWS/5's … [Read more...]

Some original items, and some leftovers as we sweep around the rest of the state, starting north and moving south:TOLEDO CLASSIC ROCK MORNING CHANGE: OMW hears that Cumulus classic rock WXKR/94.5 morning team "JR & Kelso" are no longer with the station, as John Richards and Marc Kelso were let go today.Toledo radio veteran Mark Benson slides into the WXKR morning slot starting Monday. He moves up the 94.5 schedule from 7 PM-12 AM (and a simultaneous stint on sister sports talk WLQR/1470), … [Read more...]

Listeners to Salem Christian talk/teaching WKHW/1220 "The Word" Cleveland - and sister WKHZ/1440 Warren/Youngstown - heard "Janet Parshall's America" in the 3-5 PM slot formerly occupied by syndicated money advice host Dave Ramsey.The Salem/Ramsey split - first brought to light anywhere right here on OMW - involved Ramsey's people saying the show refused to pay to remain on the Salem talk/teaching and secular talk outlets. Ramsey pulled his show from all 21 of his Salem affiliates after … [Read more...]

As we're scrambling to get out the door before 2:WAPS HONORS: The Akron Beacon Journal's Jim Carney looks at Akron Public Schools AAA WAPS/91.3 "The Summit" being a finalist for a national award - Radio & Records' Triple-A Non-Commercial Station of the Year.Though well-regarded WXPN/Philadelphia picked up the honor, WAPS was competing with top-20 market stations.The Carney article also answers a question we had...the station recently went on its own as far as funding from the Akron school … [Read more...]