An OMW reader just found this item on WKYC/3 senior director Frank Macek's excellent "Director's Cut" blog.Frank reports that WOIO/19 investigative reporter Tom Meyer will be coming to "Channel 3 News" as Chief Investigative Reporter.In the end, it basically amounts to a "trade" between the local NBC affiliate and CBS affiliate, if a bit removed.Former "Channel 3 News" investigative reporter Carl Monday left WKYC bound for "19 Action News", though he's had to sit off camera to wait out a … [Read more...]
EXCLUSIVE: WKDD Munroe Falls?
Posted on May 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It hasn't been that long since we pointed out a new way the FCC does business with radio stations, and how the agency now handles such things as changing a station's community of license.In the past, in the process followed by Clear Channel to move the allocation of WJER-FM/101.7 Dover to North Canton, a company had to bring up a mountain of evidence to change an FM allocation - then, after that was approved, file a construction permit under that new allocation and wait for it to be … [Read more...]
Thursday Mix – Serious To Funny
Posted on May 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
And therefore removing any doubt that items just fall together here, with no particular rhyme or reason...until they start running together coherently, as if by magic...BIG TEN, NOT YET: An OMW reader tipped us to this article on the "Bucknuts" site, which is an independent sports news site catering to All Things Athletic concerning The Ohio State University. (We hear there's a state law prohibiting one from referring to that big university in Columbus without using the article "The" in … [Read more...]
Midweek Teasers
Posted on May 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Well, mostly teasers, as it's a motley collection of semi-developed items and rumblings...with SOME very solid news...FAREWELL SOON: OMW was the very first place where the impending retirement of WJW/8 "FOX 8"'s Big Chuck and Lil John was reported in October 2006, much to the chagrin of, well, management on South Marginal Road.Just one day later, Plain Dealer entertainment/media writer Julie Washington talked to "Big Chuck" Schodowski, who told her that he was considering retirement...oh, right … [Read more...]
We’re Still Here
Posted on May 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW publishes as frequently as possible, given news events in the local media world, and the schedule of your Primary Editorial Voice(tm).So, this is not an official "hiatus" announcement - if it had been, the attention signal you just heard in your head would have been followed by more hallucinations. But we may not be able to get around to updating this report until sometime Tuesday evening.We'll try to post "breaking" media news as soon as possible, and we could be back sooner than … [Read more...]
Closing The Week
Posted on May 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
We've got a bunch of items just waiting to see air. Or, umm, pixels...NEWS DIRECTOR SHUFFLE: Cleveland has been one of the larger TV markets to have two news director openings at the same time.OMW hears noise that one of the two positions is all but filled, and the other has some strong candidates.We'll get to that one first.We're told by sources walking by South Marginal Road that two in-house candidates are among the top contenders for the job to replace Greg Easterly at FOX O&O WJW/8 - … [Read more...]
Thursday In-Box Clear Out
Posted on May 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Just some random stuff we've been sitting on for a while...FLYING ND: We catch up with a lot of news about Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC/3 without even having to contact anyone - by way of station senior director Frank Macek's "Director's Cut" blog.This time, Frank checks in with former WKYC news director Dick Moore, who left the station for a teaching job in the journalism school at the University of South Carolina.Moore is on a break from that teaching gig to fly around the country in a … [Read more...]
A New Ohio Sports Outlet
Posted on May 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OK, so Columbus is a ways away from our Northeast Ohio home base, but you'd think we would have heard about this by now.The folks in Central Ohio have a brand new regional sports network, to compete with the likes of FSN Ohio for Columbus-market sports viewers. Well, sort of a "network".It's the Columbus Sports Network, alternatively abbreviated as either "CS" (per the logo) or "CSN" (like the Comcast folks call their sports networks). It launched in late March."CSN" aims to fill a hyper-local … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Ashtabula CC Pickup A Local One
Posted on May 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
In our continuing coverage of the disposition of the Clear Channel small market clusters in Ohio, we've noted that the company's Ashtabula cluster was one that is apparently NOT going to GoodRadio.TV, the company started by former PAX-TV/ION Networks president Dean Goodman out of Florida.It turns out that we were correct. And the identity of the buyer may be quite an interesting surprise for local media types.AllAccess reports that Clear Channel's Ashtabula stations are being sold to a new … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Carole Chandler Returns To WKYC Part-Time
Posted on May 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A former WKYC/3 mainstay is returning to "Channel 3 News".WKYC senior director Frank Macek reports on his "Director's Cut" blog this afternoon that former morning news co-anchor Carole Sullivan is back at the local NBC affiliate on a part-time basis, working as a reporter two days a week (Tuesday and Wednesday, starting May 15th)."Channel 3 News" viewers first knew her as Carole Chandler, before the morning anchor married football coach Mike Sullivan and changed her on-air name. She left WKYC … [Read more...]
