OMW hears that former WOHI/1490 East Liverpool morning host Jim Martin has returned to a regular spot on the station.Martin lost his long-time morning drive show on the station when it changed format to ESPN Radio, the same change made by other Keymarket/Forever AM stations in Steubenville and Wheeling WV (Bellaire OH). We hear that Martin's back on the air on WOHI in a different time slot - 10 AM to 1 PM weekdays. Martin's new program started on Monday.After he left WOHI, the former veteran … [Read more...]

The new Cleveland Indians-run TV network has officially unveiled its 2006 schedule, and its name - SportsTime Ohio.SportsTime Ohio - or "STO" - will launch March 12th, with a tape-delayed spring training contest between the Indians and the New York Yankees. It'd already been reported that the new network will carry 130 regular season games, and 8 spring training outings.Aside from the name, other news:* Long-time Indians TV team John Sanders, Rick Manning and Mike Hegan will return for the 2006 … [Read more...]

The other shoe has dropped in the UPN/WB sweepstakes.Fox Broadcasting has announced a new "network" - or more accurately, programming service - aimed at stations that have been left at the altar in the upcoming retooling of the two smaller broadcast networks into "The CW".The new service will be known as "My Network TV". A News Corporation press release says it'll air on all of the company's soon-to-be-former UPN affiliates in the 8-10 PM ET/PT time slot, and they're making pitches for other … [Read more...]

FOX Sports Net Ohio's high-definition broadcasts of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers are coming to Adelphia Cable's systems in Northeast Ohio.In an event that OMW reported exclusively would happen, Adelphia has officially added channel 798 to the service's high-definition tier. It's labeled "HDBON", and though it currently airs a blank screen...the Cavaliers' next two HD games are already in the program guide for that channel. It also shows up under that channel number and name on our QAM HDTV … [Read more...]

It's not a big deal unless you want to see every cut in a cubic zirconium ring, but it looks like Shop at Home O&O WOAC/67 Canton has brought its full power digital TV outlet online.Here at the OMW World Headquarters in northwest Akron, WOAC-DT 47 is putting about an 80% signal into our digital receiver...with only an indoor antenna pointed at a wall (with no windows!) in the general direction of Brimfield. That's where both the WOAC analog and digital towers are located, at the I-76/Rt. 43 … [Read more...]

Since the soon-to-be-for-sale OMW World Headquarters is in Adelphia Cable territory, we haven't seen this on TV...so it took a mention in Plain Dealer sports media columnist Roger Brown's Monday offering for us to find out about it.Having already taken their case to the public in an earlier Roger Brown column, Cox Cable's Cleveland operation is now taking their case to the Internet. Cox has set up a website called "MakeThemPlayFair.com", outlining their case for refusing the offer by the new … [Read more...]

You might remember the brief item from the Friday before Super Bowl XL...where "Dieter", of CBS alt-rock WXRK/92.3 Cleveland's "Rover's Morning Glory", impersonated Cleveland Browns tight end Aaron Shea along "Radio Row" in Detroit.As you might expect by the kind of show it is, Dieter had some fun with the local radio hosts doing their shows live from the Super Bowl site, and made some pretty controversial comments while pretending to be the Browns player.As you might also expect, Shea's not … [Read more...]

Just a couple of items and things on our mind(s):Item 1: OMW's been writing a lot about WARF/1350 midday host Joe Finan, due to the debut of his show on liberal talk "Radio Free Ohio". But we also hear he'll make a TV appearance starting Sunday night.Over the transom from our good friend Scott Fybush at NorthEast Radio Watch, via a mailing list - Finan will be one of many folks appearing in the documentary "Rock 'n Roll Invaders - The AM Radio DJs". It starts running on the Discovery Times … [Read more...]

WJW FOX 8 graphic and pictureAbout 500 people got together in a Westlake hotel ballroom Friday night to honor a man a lot of people have been thinking about in the past few months.The event was all about Casey Coleman, the WTAM/1100 veteran sports voice and Browns Radio Network sideline reporter...who's unfortunately been sidelined himself due to pancreatic cancer. If you can tell a man by the number of friends he has, having 500 people spend a Friday night helping you out sure says a lot about … [Read more...]

One quality a sports talk radio show host is well-advised to have is self-promotion. The hosts in the genre often make themselves look larger than life, and call attention to themselves with controversy...either real or blown up.So it's no surprise that one Dino Costa is back in the news again, this time for an apparent confrontation with Denver Nuggets player Kenyon Martin in the team's locker room. Dino apparently wasn't alone in receiving foul language from Martin... the NBA fined the … [Read more...]