Spotted in the first 2007 edition of ShopTalk, the TV industry E-Mail newsletter...an item credited to agent Rick Gevers:Steve Mauldin, General Manager of KTVT-TV announced that Greg Easterly, originally slated to join the station as its news director, will remain in Cleveland. Easterly is Vice President, News Director of WJW-TV. Family reasons were cited for Easterly's change of heart. … [Read more...]

2007 is upon us.And unlike at least some of the years that have piled up behind us, we here at the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) actually put 2006 in the "good" column, personally.A lot of good things happened in the past year for your Primary Editorial Voice(tm). Some are professional, some are personal, and we are optimistic that both will continue well into the new year and beyond. Some very special things happened as a result of this blog in 2006, even accidentally.If this blog grew into what it … [Read more...]

Former WMMS program director John Gorman passes along this online "guestbook" via Cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer, which is dedicated to WMMS voice Len "Boom" Goldberg.Listeners, former co-workers and everyone else can express their condolences there... … [Read more...]

At Crazy OMW...EVERYTHING MUST GO!Oh, sorry, not that kind of "closeout". We're just looking under the chair here for some leftover items, and some updates...MORE BOOM: Tributes and funny stories keep pouring in for Len "Boom" Goldberg, the long-time WMMS/100.7 voice who passed away this week.The Plain Dealer's Julie Washington has a story in Friday's paper about the man almost everyone calls simply Boom. Washington says Boom was found dead in his South Euclid home on Wednesday, and died at … [Read more...]

Like those local radio icons who passed before him in recent weeks, WMMS veteran Len "Boom" Goldberg basically defined what happened around him on the radio.Like Jaybird Drennan, whose voice you instantly hear in your head when you think about long-time Akron country outlet WSLR "Whistler 1350", "Boom" was the voice of "The Buzzard".He was also the station's longest running air personality, continuing with weekend airshifts on WMMS long after others took over his full-time duties.Former WMMS … [Read more...]

We don't have many details on this, but OMW hears that iconic WMMS voice Len "Boom" Goldberg has died. Funeral arrangements have yet to be announced."Boom" was quite simply THE voice of Cleveland's world-famous rock radio station for some three decades. When you thought of "The Buzzard" in your head, it was Len Goldberg's voice you were hearing...even if you never listened to 100.7, as he was also the "Voice of WMMS" on various advertisements and in promotions.More information as it becomes … [Read more...]

And when they say "long-rumored", AllAccess means "reported on OMW months ago".The popular trade website reports that the swap between Cumulus and Clear Channel, involving rock WRQK/106.9 Canton locally, has been filed with the FCC. The official FCC filing for the proposed WRQK transfer can be found here.As previously reported here on OMW (many, many times), Cumulus gets the Clear Channel clusters in Ann Arbor and Battle Creek in Michigan in exchange for sending WRQK to the Clear Channel … [Read more...]

Regular readers of OMW know that we kind of go in cycles...when certain news events swirl around, we swirl around with them.So, with one update to a previous item, and another update to another previous item later, let's start with a new update to...umm, a previous item...WEWS IN HD, AND WOIO?: One of our regular sources at 3001 Euclid Avenue confirms further what we saw on Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 a while back...the station is indeed readying for HDTV news.Our source tells us you can … [Read more...]

We've been meaning to put this up since it was brought to our attention by long-time friend and colleague Scott Fybush over at NorthEast Radio Watch...Dick Plessinger was perhaps best known in Ohio for running the country's only "all-Elvis" radio station, Cincinnati market AM outlet WCVG/1320 Covington KY. Plessinger, who recently sold that station - now Regional Mexican "La Ley" - to Davidson Media Group, passed away December 19th.We're reminded that Plessinger also owned Cincinnati market … [Read more...]

OMW hears that Dover's WJER-FM 101.7 has officially signed off the air, after a day and change airing a loop with staff members urging listeners to tune to WJER(AM) 1450.The AM frequency continues the programming that had been simulcasted on both frequencies the past few months...and as reported earlier, the 101.7 frequency is expected to return to the airwaves sometime after the first of the year from its new Canton transmitter site with...a new format... … [Read more...]