Various published reports late this week said Time Warner Cable was putting up a crawl on the NFL Network advising of its possible re-removal...after returning the channel to systems that once carried it, but were swallowed up by TWC this week.We kept watching the NFL Network on the now-former Adelphia/Cleveland system, waiting for the TWC crawl.But we only saw this NFL Network plea to new TWC customers, urging them to call 866-NFL-NETWORK to register their support for the channel between now … [Read more...]

Some items that have either fallen through the cracks, or whatnot, at least some catching up from items printed from your Cleveland Plain Dealer...JULIE'S WORLD: Plain Dealer radio/TV columnist Julie Washington has been busy writing about stuff other than local moviemaking. Like many people who cover local radio and TV for newspapers, Washington also covers other entertainment related news.Washington weighed in the unveiling of WNCX/98.5's new morning show - "Mud, Mihalik and Mike" - in a … [Read more...]

OMW is hearing from some former Comcast subscribers that Time Warner Cable has NOT yet returned NFL Network to that part of their new service area.One commenter says instead of the network, local ex-Comcast folks are seeing a notice on the former NFL Network channels that the league-owned channel will be pulled on September 3rd. That would seem odd, since it has apparently not yet been RETURNED for those subscribers.As OMW reported earlier, Time Warner has returned NFL Network to digital … [Read more...]

When your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) returned home tonight, we were about to report that we believed former WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" voicetracker "Java Joel" Murphy had the inside shot at returning to the Clear Channel Cleveland top 40 outlet's open night slot, this time live and in person.It turns out our feelings were even more accurate than we suspected."Java Joel" will indeed take the night slammer slot opened up when J-NIICE announced he'd join former WAKS program director Dan Mason at his new … [Read more...]

UPDATE: 4:00 PM 8/4/06: We still haven't seen a banner from Time Warner with the notification that the NFL Network is going away. But NFL Network itself is running one of those top-screen crawls...warning Time Warner Cable viewers that the network is back, "but not for long". The NFL Network crawl is once again urging people to call a toll-free number to show they want TWC to keep the network...-----------------------After taking most of the day to think it over, Time Warner Cable returned the … [Read more...]

"Holy smokes - it's so nice to be back on the air."That was the opening line from "Mud", the new morning co-host at WNCX/98.5, as "Mud, Mihalik, and Mike" made their debut on the CBS Radio Cleveland classic rocker.He went on to talk about what kind of show listeners should expect. "We hope it's going to be a lively talk," said the host known to some other Cleveland listeners under his other former air name of Wynn Richards, but who's only going by his M105-inspired moniker of "Mud" on WNCX. … [Read more...]

It's one of those periods of time here on OMW - we've been knee deep in sports media news due to all the "breaking news" from that world the past week or so. We've had so much "breaking news" that our "news breaker" is almost "broken"!Let's look "in depth" to some of the most recent big stories we've brought you here:BROWNS/WKYC DEAL: In the end, it was familiarity that won the day for Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3, which gets the Browns pre-season and in-season-show over-air deal for the 2006 … [Read more...]

It's official: WKYC/3 has nabbed the 2006 pre-season game rights to Cleveland Browns football, and will air other Browns-themed local programming. The pact is for one year.And the deal had to happen quickly. The local NBC affiliate will be carrying the first pre-season game next Thursday, August 10th against the Philadelphia Eagles.WKYC will also air pre-game and post-game shows for each of the pre-season games it carries this year, as well as a regular Sunday morning pre-game show during the … [Read more...]

The long-awaited announcement is official at CBS Radio classic rocker WNCX/98.5. The new local morning show starts Friday, and will be called "The WNCX Morning Show with Mud, Mihalik and Mike"."Mud", as expected and reported earlier here, will be the artist formerly known as "The Mudd" on then-WWWM/105.7 "M105". He's also used the on-air name Wynn Richards at stations like then-WGAR/1220."Mihalik" is indeed Kim Mihalik, the former co-host to WTAM/1100 afternoon driver Mike Trivisonno. Kim … [Read more...]

Broadcasting and Cable reports that the Federal Communications Commission has ordered Time Warner Cable to return the NFL Network to the systems it acquired this week from Adelphia and Comcast cable, pending resolution of the issue by the FCC.Time Warner shut off the NFL Network feed early Tuesday morning, replacing it locally with a message sending subscribers to the website NFLGetReal.com, with a plea to allow TWC to put the NFL Network on a separate sports tier.The FCC has also ordered TWC to … [Read more...]