Our condolences to family and friends of former Cleveland radio mainstay Ray Marshall, who passed away over the weekend of a heart attack at the age of 51.Though Ray spent much of the past 16 years at Citadel's cluster in Lansing MI (as operations manager), his time here in Northeast Ohio was fruitful and long.We're still trying to fill in all the blanks here, but we know he spent many years as program director of the old "3WE"/WWWE/1100, the station known now as Clear Channel talk WTAM.After … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: WKYC’s Mark Nolan Moves From Weather To News
Posted on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Now, here's a switch that doesn't happen every day.WKYC/3's "Director's Cut Blog" reports that station chief meterologist Mark Nolan is hanging up the umbrella and leaving the weather center. But he's not leaving 13th and Lakeside - as he moves a few feet over to become co-anchor of the morning "Channel 3 News Today"...filling the position vacated by John Anderson, who just started his new job today on Philadelphia FOX O&O WTXF/29's morning show.A WKYC release quoted in Frank Macek's … [Read more...]
Monday Odds And Ends
Posted on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Not much really stands out about the below items, or for that matter, connects them. Well, aside from the fact that all the items have to do with persons no longer on the air in Cleveland in 2007 - or are about to leave the area.But it's Monday, and we're dragging ourselves back to the grind.A reminder: we're still in "sporadic update" mode due to various personal/off-blog issues. But we'll try to check in at least once every day or two...MORE ON THE ANDERSON MOVE: The Plain Dealer's Julie … [Read more...]
Another Ashtabula Change
Posted on October 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It hasn't taken long for the new entity known as Media One to make its mark on the former Clear Channel cluster in Ashtabula.After flipping top 40 WZOO/102.5 Edgewood to oldies as "Magic Oldies 102.5", the company is about to make its second format change - this time on the AM dial.The Ashtabula Star-Beacon's Robert Lebzelter reports that Media One's WFUN/970 is dropping its news/talk format, moving to become an all-sports outlet sometime in November.The station's morning drive … [Read more...]
Moving Day’s Coming
Posted on October 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Over the past month or two, we've heard references on Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN 850"'s mid-morning show with Tony Rizzo about the station's upcoming studio move to the Galleria in downtown Cleveland.We didn't know WHEN, though, despite hearing "Rizzo on the Radio" producer/co-host Aaron Goldhammer talk a while back about getting trained on new equipment at the new 'KNR facility.Well, it's coming.Since the Rizzo show is our best source of information about some of the internal workings of … [Read more...]
Midweek Update
Posted on October 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A heads up - this will be one of our slower update weeks, due to off-blog concerns. But sometimes stuff just begs to be put up...COLUMBUS MOVES: Within a half-hour of each other, two OMW readers gave us the heads up... the long-awaited move of Clear Channel's WMRN/106.9 Marion into the Columbus market is about to take place.In fact, the station itself has announced the change to listeners on a web page, which gives word of WMRN's upcoming COL move from Marion to the Columbus suburb of Dublin, … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: “19 Action News” Joins The 21st Century
Posted on October 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment
As rumored for well over a year, as hinted here more times than we can count...Porcine creatures are officially airborne over Reserve Square, and the temperature in Hades is under 32 degrees and holding.Raycom Media Cleveland CBS/MyNetworkTV combo WOIO/19-WUAB/43's "19 Action News" is now broadcasting in HDTV format.We don't know when exactly it happened, but based on the flurry of E-Mail we received from our ever vigilant readers, "19 Action News HD" would appear to have debuted with the 6 … [Read more...]
Clearing Out On Friday
Posted on October 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 10/20/07 12:30 PM: A correction to the below...the wedding mentioned above happened two years ago. But we're still happy for Autumn and her now-no-longer-new husband.Our apologies. The original site didn't say which year "October" was in...--------------It's Friday, and EVERYTHING MUST GO!OK, not everything. Only the random items on our plate and in our brains...NEW 5'ER?: Thursday on WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5", we heard a voice and a name that should be familiar to some of those in the … [Read more...]
Random Thought
Posted on October 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment
While awaiting our next full update, sometime later today or tomorrow... a question.How can Cleveland Cavaliers flagship WTAM/1100 produce a Cavaliers' broadcast from literally the other side of the world - Shanghai, China - that sounds like Fred McLeod is doing it from Cleveland......but Akron market talker WNIR/100.1's regular weekend remotes from car dealers literally down the same street from their studios in the same Akron suburb sound like they're coming from China?OK, so we know the … [Read more...]
Quick Midweek Shot
Posted on October 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Some stuff that's been piling up, waiting to be let free...A CLEARER OUT OF THE STUDIO PICTURE: OMW hears that with this coming Saturday night's 11 PM newscast, Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" will be the first local station with news video in the field to be shot and delivered in HDTV format.Our sources at 3001 Euclid tell us that all recorded video shot after Saturday will be in full 16x9 720p HD format, with no upconversion. Video shot before the new HDTV video recording and … [Read more...]
