Regular readers may have caught on that we picked up one of those Radio Shack Accurian HD Radio receivers recently. Total cost "after rebate": $99, otherwise known as The Price Point We Wouldn't Have Bought This Above.(It's now listed at RadioShack.com at $199. Our pricing was during the Christmas shopping season.)We've always been technology freaks here at OMW, so here we go again!And we've picked up two new HD Radio signals on the air in Northeast Ohio. One was expected, and one was a … [Read more...]

We don't know if he'll debut as soon as Monday, and it may be a week from Monday, but it looks like WHBC-FM/94.1 Canton "Mix 94.1" has a new morning host.He's "Scoop". (Hence, the pun in our heading.)"Scoop" is most recently a casualty of the massive downsizing at Clear Channel's Cincinnati cluster, where he was a sidekick on the "Dawn Patrol" morning show and did weekend airshifts on rock WEBN/102.7.He went to Cincinnati from a 7 year stint at North American Broadcasting rocker WBZX/99.7 "The … [Read more...]

That "trickle" of changes coming out of Good Karma Broadcasting's local sports operations doesn't stop for a weekend.Long-time WKNR/850 staple "The High School Sports Show" is moving to sister WWGK/1540 starting next weekend, according to an announcement on the show this morning by host Jim Isabella.And the callers, at least, were not happy - particularly those outside of the immediate Cleveland area, where "Cleveland's ESPN Radio 1540" is but a rumor signal-wise. For that matter, you could say … [Read more...]

And a short item wrapping up the week, before we endure a Northeast Ohio weekend with weather that could compare to Minnesota's...MOVING DAY: Clear Channel-operated rock WRQK/106.9 Canton's sales offices had already moved to the company's World Domination HQ/Southern Command on Freedom Avenue in greater North Canton...now the on-air side has done so as well.A mole at Freedom Avenue tells us that "Rock 107" made the studio move at just after 2 PM on Friday afternoon.And because of that move, or … [Read more...]

Some new, some we missed, and we'll start off with the big one...MONDAY JUMPS: Veteran investigative reporter Carl Monday has jumped from NBC affiliate WKYC/3 to CBS affiliate WOIO/19, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Julie Washington this afternoon on the PD's Entertainment blog.Monday has spent the past few years at WKYC, after an over-two decade long stint at WJW/8 - which was the local CBS affiliate for the bulk of his time on South Marginal Road.Washington reports that Monday has … [Read more...]

We've neglected to mention some big broadcast news out of Jacobs Field this week.Long-time Cleveland Indians radio voice Tom Hamilton has been given a contract extension by the team through the 2011 season, and color commentator Mike Hegan gets an extension through 2009.Hamilton will call his 18th season of Indians games in the 2007 campaign. Hegan's been connected to the Indians broadcasting for even longer, 19 years, but has been a part of the Tribe radio crew for 10 years.The Indians' radio … [Read more...]

Is this a "trickle" of changes with the Good Karma sports talk radio empire in Cleveland?The latest comes to us courtesy of E-Mails from a bunch of OMW readers, and comments on our earlier item.OMW readers have told us that Good Karma's WKNR/850 is advertising the start of a new Saturday midday local sports talk show hosted by...drumroll, please...WJW FOX 8 sports anchor Tony Rizzo - Saturdays 10 AM to 1 PM.As it turns out, according to the Akron Beacon Journal's George M. Thomas, the Saturday … [Read more...]

Some of our speculation regarding Good Karma Broadcasting's pair of Cleveland sports radio stations is already coming true. Well, at least a part of it.In an earlier item, we'd noted that we'd expected Good Karma to operate WWGK/1540 "Cleveland's ESPN Radio 1540" "with a primarily network lineup, carrying sports events and programming overflow from WKNR, as its broadcast hours permit."Some of that "spillover" from 850 to 1540 is happening as soon as this weekend.Long-time OMW reader/tipster … [Read more...]

...with no connection, that we know of:MORE OHIO MOVES: You invoke Scott Fybush, he's bound to check in.The NorthEast Radio Watch and 100000watts.com editor, and long-time friend, who could recite station moves and allocations off the top of his head, checks in with another Ohio FM move we forgot about...and it's linked to the recent FCC rules changes talked about in an earlier item.This one is Saga Broadcasting's application to move Columbus market smooth jazz outlet WJZK/104.3 Richwood much … [Read more...]

OMW hinted a while back about the new local morning show on Clear Channel's new Canton market AC outlet, WHOF/101.7 "My 101.7". We now have the entire lineup.Mornings will be "live and local" with AC veteran Gary Rivers handling wakeup duties.Though we're told Rivers had a brief stint in the 1990's at WHOF's main competitor, now NextMedia-owned AC outlet WHBC-FM/94.1 "Mix 94.1", he's recently been doing radio in the Central Ohio city of Marion.After holding down mornings at Clear Channel AC … [Read more...]