UPDATE 3:40 PM 8/1/06: The Plain Dealer reports that the Browns have reached a financial settlement to end their relationship with WOIO, and have opened negotiations with channels 3, 5 and 8. An announcement could come as soon as Thursday on a new Browns TV outlet.A copy of the joint press release announcing the end of the WOIO/Browns contract is here...---------Just over the transom via the Cleveland Plain Dealer's weblog:A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court judge has sided with the NFL … [Read more...]

Some items of note:STILL WAITING: OMW is still waiting for the items we talked about before. Not all of it is "big, huge" news, but it will be classified as Breaking News here at your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm). (Hey, if local TV news can use "Breaking News" graphics for anything more important than an ankle sprain, so can we!)We're getting feedback that at least one of these items SHOULD be happening sometime later today. If it does, we'll "break in"...BYE, BYE DAVE: AllAccess confirms our … [Read more...]

(UPDATED BELOW WITH NEW CHANNEL LINEUP AND LINKS)Someone else will have to help us out with the Comcast version of this, but here's what's happened in the first half hour of Time Warner Cable's ownership of the former Adelphia system in Cleveland...As expected, NFL Network has been pulled from the systems formerly served by Adelphia, on both digital cable (178) and in HD (778). And ESPNU has also been removed at digital cable channel 125. OMW also hears that similar changes were made early … [Read more...]

CBS Radio has launched HD2 channels on two of its digital signals in Cleveland. OMW hears the switch was flipped earlier today.Alt-rock/talk WXRK/92.3 "K-Rock" goes back to its format past for the future on its HD2 channel. We're told the secondary format is similar to how "Xtreme Radio" sounded before the recent changes in the music mix on 92.3, with more "harder" alt-rock cuts.(No, they won't air "harder" versions of Rover or O&A's shows on the HD2 channel. Yes, that was our attempt at … [Read more...]

Reuters and other news wires report tonight that the $17 billion acquisition of Adelphia's assets by Time Warner and Comcast has been completed.That paves the way for Time Warner to take over the Cleveland-based Adelphia system effective at midnight tonight. Along with the area's Adelphia customers, Time Warner also takes in Comcast systems in the Cleveland market in a complicated system swap with that operator. In turn, Comcast takes over some Time Warner systems in other markets.We can't … [Read more...]

OMW is still waiting for what's expected to be a major piece of radio-related news out of Canton, as we reported on Friday. Expect to read more about it in the next day or so...And in an entirely unrelated item, we're also getting rumors regarding new developments in an ongoing story we've been covering here on your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm). We understand that news should also be coming over the OMW transom in the next day or so... … [Read more...]

Chicago Sun-Times media columnist Robert Feder is reporting that formerly Cleveland-based morning host Shane "Rover" French is losing his slot on his flagship station, CBS Radio talk WCKG/105.9 Chicago "Free FM".UPDATE: Billboard Radio Monitor confirms that Rover and his crew will indeed be headed back to Cleveland, and will once again be based at CBS Radio alt-rock/talk WXRK/92.3 "K-Rock". Updated quotes from Rover, and from WXRK management, are below.Feder reports that newly re-crowned CBS … [Read more...]

An update on the syndication effort of WLW/700 Cincinnati midday host Mike McConnell, which starts today:McConnell tells Cincinnati Enquirer TV/radio columnist John Kiesewetter that his show started airing today on "a handful of stations", though none of them are listed. He says a month or two down the road, that affiliate list could be "significantly higher".The veteran WLW midday talker (pictured here in an Enquirer file photo) says the syndicated version of the show can run something … [Read more...]

We'd heard about this, and have confirmed it from the WTAM/1100 website.Veteran sports voice Casey Coleman returns to the WTAM morning show that bears his name tomorrow, August 1st."Wills and Coleman" producer "Scooter" posts the word officially on his show recap page. We hear that Casey was on with substitute host Brad Sussman this morning to announce his return.The "Casey Update" page on WTAM.com says Coleman has been getting "plenty of exercise" and walks three miles a day...hoping to return … [Read more...]

A couple or three things to follow up on:NO MUDD, YET: A quick check of our regular morning drive recording of WNCX/98.5 reveals what sounds like a jock-less morning show today on the CBS Radio Cleveland classic rocker.But the station is now promoting the start of the new morning show "later this week", which would seem to fit what we've been hearing about the show OMW reported will be fronted by the former WWWM/"M105" personality once known as "The Mudd".A helpful message board type pointed us … [Read more...]