Cooler because, though we have highs in the mid-80s, it's sure cooler than it was last time we set the air conditioning in the OMW World Headquarters to "freeze"... A STEADY HAND: So, you're a Cleveland TV station, and your news director has "made the move up" to a job with your parent company. You're heading into an all-important period which will gain you new viewers...the 2012 Summer Olympics, live from London. But SOMEONE has to run the newsroom until a permanent candidate is found, and … [Read more...]
Youngstown And Nearby
Posted on July 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Most of the items this time around are from the Mahoning Valley, though at least one is from nearby...and one item involves the Cleveland market... RICH MORGAN: Readers in the Youngstown/Warren TV market have been peppering our inbox with questions about market veteran Rich Morgan...who's been absent from his duties as morning and noon meteorologist for New Vision-to-be-LIN CBS affiliate WKBN/27's "27 First News". We did some digging, but the question could have more easily been answered (for … [Read more...]
Much Ado About Sports Radio
Posted on June 21, 2012 · 4 Comments
We actually predicted this before local CBS Radio sports outlet WKRK/92.3 "92.3 The Fan" debuted last August. We'd been hearing rumors that CBS was going to launch its own national sports talk radio network, though at the time we believed it would be limited to the night/weekend hours to fill time on its full-fledged sports talkers. The comparison we made was with CBS' initial efforts to air KMOX/1120 St. Louis-based overnight host Jon Grayson ("Overnight America") on other large market CBS … [Read more...]
Fallout And More
Posted on June 13, 2012 · 2 Comments
UPDATE 6/13/12 7:06 PM: The Asset Purchase Agreement (PDF) for Bernard Radio's WRBP/101.9 Hubbard says that Educational Media Foundation will pay $500,000 for the Youngstown market station... ---------- We had planned this as a "fallout" item after the testing of Venture Technologies' WLFM-LP/6 "87.7" FM Cleveland, but as they say in the news business..."This Just In". WRBP TO EMF: Just under a month ago, Bernard Radio urban WRBP/101.9 Hubbard "JAMZ 101.9" was presented a resolution by the … [Read more...]
It All Happens At Once
Posted on June 7, 2012 · 1 Comment
We paused long enough to take a breath or two, and then, six things happened in the space of a day. And we're sure we missed something... LEON'S REDUCTION: A veteran TV anchorman in Cleveland is moving around his work schedule. Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" anchor Leon Bibb, who has been anchoring the noon and 6 PM editions of the station's newscasts, is no longer anchoring the 6 PM show as of this week...replaced by Chris Flanagan, the Dallas-Fort Worth anchor the station … [Read more...]
A Nice Pile Of Items
Posted on June 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
One of our readers commented the other day that they wished "we'd post more often"...but of course, life continues to intervene, and off-blog business is keeping us very busy...dealing with both extreme highs and lows. But...we're around this afternoon, so here goes... THE R WORD WATCH: When you're 80 years old and have been doing weather on TV for 50 years, it's no surprise that there's speculation on your eventual retirement. But for now, we have no information on when Local TV LLC Fox … [Read more...]
Two TV Notes
Posted on January 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
And from the world of local TV on this Tuesday... MORNING GLITCH: The world of morning TV news has quickly become a hotly competitive landscape. From the days where congenial "Today in Cleveland" hosts Tom Haley and Del Donahoo held forth on a folksy kitchen set on Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3, the playing field has turned morning news into a multi-hour, multi-anchor extravaganza at all four local TV news operations. To say "the stakes are high" in local TV morning news would be an … [Read more...]
The Other Stuff
Posted on January 10, 2012 · 5 Comments
As promised, a few hours late...let's go through the other stuff not connected (mostly) with the rebranding of CBS Radio AC (we think it still is) WDOK/102.1, now known to the world as "New 102". For now... THAT OTHER CONTRACT: The renewal of the contract of WDOK..er..."New 102"'s morning man Trapper Jack Elliot became a public item, when Elliot told the Plain Dealer's Chuck Yarborough late last week that the 2 year deal was sitting there, unsigned. When he came back to the 102.1 airwaves on … [Read more...]
Technical And Non-Technical
Posted on December 6, 2011 · 6 Comments
UPDATE 12/6/11 6:23 PM: If you're just seeing this notice, we've added one more update we forgot...at the end of this item... -------- We have some "facilities" items up front, and a nice mix of non-technical stuff after that. Scroll down for the latter... THE WBNX FLY IN WJW'S OINTMENT: We breathlessly reported here recently that the Federal Communications Commission had issued an "NPRM" (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) that would clear the way for Local TV LLC Fox affiliate WJW/8 in … [Read more...]
A Snowy Mix Piling Up
Posted on November 30, 2011 · 7 Comments
As we write this item, the first snow of the season can be seen outside the OMW World Headquarters. Meanwhile, our items are piling more than the snow in this short-lived event... THIS JUST IN, FROM THE FCC: Monday, the Federal Communications Commission officially approved the $6.5 million sale of Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting AAA WNWV/107.3 "V107.3" to Akron's Rubber City Radio Group. There's no word on a timetable for the deal to close, or on what the new owners plan to do with the … [Read more...]
