Some people make use of personal FM modulators or transmitters to play their iPods, or send Internet radio streaming all around the house.One Columbus radio station is using it the Internet to, well, provide actual programming content for the station...full-time.It's been over one month since the liberal talk format returned to the Columbus airwaves, via the facilities of Bernard Radio's WVKO/1580 - which now being LMAed by a group called "Cowtown Communications". That group is headed up by … [Read more...]
Tip Of The Hat To SOJ
Posted on January 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OMW tips our virtual hat to the "Sunday Oldies Jukebox", the adult-programmed day full of oldies music heard every Sunday in the Akron market over WSTB/88.9 Streetsboro.The Akron Beacon Journal's Jim Carney has an article in Thursday's paper about SOJ, which takes over the airwaves of the station programmed with alternative rock music six days a week by student volunteers at Streetsboro High School - using the on-air slogan "The AlterNation".On Sundays, listeners in greater Akron and nearby are … [Read more...]
Midweek Housekeeping
Posted on January 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
While sharpening our creative writing skills, some brief headlines of stuff we've not posted so far...and some fairly new stuff...BELLO EXITS: AllAccess reports that Radio One urban AC WZAK/93.1 Cleveland assistant program director/music director/midday personality Terry Bello is no longer in the building on St. Clair Avenue.In addition to his duties on WZAK, Bello was also program director of sister gospel outlet WJMO/1300 "Praise 1300"...MR. BURBANK'S RETIREMENT: We regret providing the … [Read more...]
Findlay And Lima Changes Monday?
Posted on January 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
OMW is hearing that some changes on the radio dial are about to take place on Clear Channel radio stations in the Findlay and Lima areas.It starts with a brief official announcement on the website of Findlay-based classic rocker WFPX/107.7 North Baltimore OH "107.7 The Fox":"Catch us on the dial at 106.3 on Monday!"That's all it says.106.3 in the region is currently oldies WBUK/106.3 Ottawa OH "The Big Buck", which pumps out mostly satellite-fed oldies...and is headquartered at Clear Channel in … [Read more...]
End Of The Week
Posted on January 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
No, no announcement yet...just a couple of updates, though! Well, it was a "couple of updates", but it grows by the hour...WKSU RESPONDS: OMW reported the end of Kent State University NPR outlet WKSU/89.7's "Your Way Home", hosted most recently by staffer Daniel Hockensmith.With Hockensmith's departure to the Crain Business Media Empire - in specific, Akron-based "Plastics News" - he won't be replaced as host, and the show will no longer air.But WKSU public relations chief and regular OMW … [Read more...]
Where’d We Go?
Posted on January 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Thank you for hanging in there while we took an extended hiatus. And, welcome to 2008!Here are some random items to carry you along for a while. And watch this space for a possible announcement sometime in the next few days...FREEMAN EXITS 45/49: Kent-based PBS outlet WNEO/45-WEAO/49 "PBS 45 & 49" is saying goodbye later this year to a key, long-time employee.The station says chief operating officer Don Freeman will retire on March 28 of this year.Freeman has been with the … [Read more...]
A FOX 8 Folo
Posted on December 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment
On this day after Christmas, we've had a couple of days to read followup on the reported sale of "Cleveland's Own" WJW/8 "FOX 8" and its seven mid-market owned and operated sister stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners.It's old news to us, of course, though we did have one bump in the road - which we quickly and publicly corrected.In the end, though, our first report that Oak Hill would be buying the for-sale FOX O&Os turned out to be fully correct...though we couldn't foresee the moves … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays
Posted on December 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Just a note to let you know we're still here, and to wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas, and a wonderful holiday season.There will be a post or two up here sometime between now and the New Year... … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WJW, FOX O&Os Sold – This Time, Officially
Posted on December 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW first reported weeks ago that Cleveland's WJW/8 "FOX 8" - and eight of FOX's other smaller market owned-and-operated stations - were being sold to Oak Hill Capital Partners.The sale is now official. (Well, minus one of the stations, which we'll explain later.)OMW hears that this News Corporation press release was put up this morning, on walls all over the local station's South Marginal Road headquarters:------------News Corporation Announces Sale of Eight Television Stations to Oak Hill … [Read more...]
Weekend Update Without Chevy Chase
Posted on December 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment
...or, whoever's doing that segment now on "Saturday Night Live". (That show is still on, right?)We have a couple of items that can't wait until Monday. And we're basically on hiatus for the holidays, though again, we have promised to post major items whenever we are able to do so... like, perhaps, these...BUTTE LEAVING WEWS: OMW hears that Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 general manager John Butte is retiring from the station effective January 31st.And what do you know...Butte's … [Read more...]
