Here are some items we'd been working on, but put on the back burner after the passing of WKYC legend Del Donahoo... NORM GONE: A long-time radio personality known for oldies music is out at SiriusXM. The departure of Cleveland's Norm N. Nite wasn't specific to him, though, as numerous reports say the satellite radio service dumped all air personalities from two channels, "50s on 5" and "90s on 9". Norm did Saturday and Sunday shows live from the Alan Freed studio at Cleveland's Rock … [Read more...]
Del Donahoo Passes
Posted on February 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Viewers of Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 in Cleveland knew him, for generations, for "Del's Folks" - his series of personal stories of many Northeast Ohioans. Del Donahoo passed away last night at the age of 90. Like many other even older media personalities, Del had a Facebook account...presumably updated by the same person who posted this on Wednesday: It's with great sadness that we report Del Donahoo passed away yesterday evening, February 4, 2014. He was a television icon here in … [Read more...]
Short Month, Long News
Posted on February 1, 2014 · 1 Comment
The year's shortest month starts out with a pretty decent list of news items... many from the past few days... SHOES TO FILL: Long-time Clear Channel Cleveland programmer Bo Matthews left behind some big shoes to fill when he departed the PD chair at rock/talk WMMS/100.7, top 40 WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" and station-in-a-closet alt-rock WMMS-HD2-W256BT/99.1 "99X". With Matthews now the cluster programming VP for Clear Channel's Cincinnati cluster, Oak Tree has found his replacement. He's Chris … [Read more...]
Lanigan Wraps It Up
Posted on January 25, 2014 · 3 Comments
By now, the news that Cleveland radio icon John Lanigan has decided to retire has reverberated around all of Northeast Ohio and beyond. It's not exactly a surprise. After all, Lanigan has contemplated retirement numerous times over the past few years on his Clear Channel classic hits WMJI/105.7 "Majic 105.7" morning show. But it wasn't just talk on "Lanigan and Malone" on Friday morning...the long-time local radio personality had a plan, and a date. That date is March 29th, where … [Read more...]
It’s Official: Lanigan Heading To Retirement
Posted on January 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment
It's not that Clear Channel classic hits WMJI/105.7 morning icon John Lanigan hasn't hinted about retirement...but now, we have a date. Lanigan announced on Friday morning's "Lanigan and Malone" that he's retiring on March 29th. We are unable to post a full update until late tonight, but we wanted to get this up until then... … [Read more...]
To Our E-Mail Subscribers
Posted on January 21, 2014 · 1 Comment
The OMW E-mail subscription server sent out a year-old update last night. This was not intentional and we have no idea how it happened. The update was originally published to this site in January 2013, and as far as we can tell, did not reappear anywhere but on our E-mail subscription list... --The Management … [Read more...]
Controversy On Tap
Posted on January 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Our first two items are definitely of a controversial nature... and the first one has spread like wildfire all over Northeast Ohio media... SALES BOMBSHELL: We don't normally spend a lot of time with off-air items in local TV and radio, but this one is too...interesting. When we first heard that a lawsuit had been filed claiming salacious working conditions in a local TV station's sales department, we joked, "oh, it's probably at Reserve Square"...the home of Raycom Media duo CBS affiliate … [Read more...]
Bo Knows Cincy
Posted on January 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Or at least a long-time Cleveland radio programmer will get to know Ohio's Queen City at any rate. Clear Channel Cleveland program director Bo Matthews, who has had rock/talk WMMS/100.7 and top 40 WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" on his plate, is heading for the company's cluster in Cincinnati. Along the Ohio River, Matthews will take programming oversight of the entire Clear Channel cluster in Cincinnati. Tom Taylor, in his excellent "Tom Taylor Now" daily E-mail report today, notes that Matthews … [Read more...]
La Mega 87.7 Debuts (Includes Sound)
Posted on January 1, 2014 · 5 Comments
Cleveland's first full-market Spanish-language station made its debut on schedule on this January 1st, as Murray Hill Broadcasting's WLFM-LP 87.7 went from English-language alt-rock "87.7 Cleveland's Sound" to Spanish-language "La Mega 87.7, Latino and Proud" exactly at 12 midnight. Below is a scoped aircheck of the first few minutes of "La Mega 87.7". [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127369998" params="color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%" … [Read more...]
Clearing Out The Year
Posted on December 26, 2013 · 2 Comments
There's a lot of media news to wrap up 2013, and not all of it is good, unfortunately... HEGAN PASSES ON: Long-time Cleveland Indians broadcaster Mike Hegan passed away Christmas Day in South Carolina. MLB.com Indians beat writer Jordan Bastian has the story: Mike Hegan spent most of his life around the Cleveland Indians. He shagged fly balls in the outfield of Cleveland Municipal Stadium as a boy, played in the ballpark as a visiting big leaguer and went on to call some of the … [Read more...]
