With much fanfare, WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" programmer Dan Mason left the Clear Channel Cleveland top 40 outlet for the warmth of South Florida.He left Northeast Ohio to take the program director's chair at sister top 40 station WHYI/100.7 "Y100" in Miami.It seemed like the perfect match for one of America's fastest rising top 40 PDs, and one of the country's iconic stations in that format.And it lasted, well, not very long.Before you could say "Miami Vice", Mason was out at "Y100".We're not very … [Read more...]
Winding Down
Posted on March 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Yes, we're still here, for now. So we probably owe you some updates...MORE WHBC TALKING: As NextMedia oldies WHBC/1480 Canton moves towards what looks like a firm date for the launch of its talk format on April 2nd, we have been pondering who will take the mid-morning time slot - you know, 10 AM-noon, the slot between the morning show with Fred Chenevey and Pam Cook, and Westwood One syndicated talker Dennis "Obscure Cultural References" Miller.Did you notice? We said "pondering".And for good … [Read more...]
New Comment Policy
Posted on March 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment
After much talk, mostly by your Primary Editorial Voice(tm), we've implemented the first change in our comment policy.As of today, comments will be open for approximately 24 hours, then will be closed without regard to the topic being discussed. It'll be an automatic policy for us, no matter what.Comments on topics not having to do with the original item or related topics will be also deleted, at our discretion.We've closed comments on all recent items before this - everything on our front page … [Read more...]
Tuesday Madness
Posted on March 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Stuff we have to get out of our heads...JOHNY D LANDS: Just a couple of months after getting bounced from his morning drive gig at Cumulus Toledo top 40 outlet WTWR/98.3 "Tower 98-3", Johny D has landed.And it's a pretty soft landing, too.Toledo Blade media columnist Ron Musselman reports that Johny D will launch a new two-hour weekday show on CBS Radio FM talker WKRK/97.1 Detroit, a station which carries both the "Live" and "Free FM" banners.We were also not aware that Johny's picked up a … [Read more...]
Brian Jennings Riding In To Program WGAR
Posted on March 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel country WGAR/99.5 Cleveland has found its replacement for former program director Meg Stevens, who left the station to program Clear Channel's country outlets in Washington DC and Baltimore.He's Brian Jennings, who's spent over 8 years in Lincoln NE at another Clear Channel country outlet - KZKX "96KX - the last 6-plus as its program director.OMW hears Jennings will start at Oak Tree on April 2nd.With a new PD installed at WGAR, Clear Channel cluster VP/Programming Kevin Metheny … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Akron’s WHLO Drops Laura Ingraham
Posted on March 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
An alert OMW reader called this to our attention, and we've confirmed it: TRN's Laura Ingraham has been dropped by Clear Channel talk WHLO/640 Akron.She's been replaced in the 9-11 PM slot by another TRN host, Rusty Humphries.OMW hears that one reason for the Ingraham departure on WHLO is timing.Originally brought aboard in her live mid-morning time slot (then 10 AM to noon on 640), Ingraham was moved to nights on WHLO after the station grabbed Premiere's Glenn Beck, when sister talk WTAM/1100 … [Read more...]
Another Weekend Update
Posted on March 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment
And no, still without Chevy Chase...MORE WHBC STUFF: Our sources have provided more clarification on the immediate future of NextMedia oldies-to-talk WHBC/1480 Canton, though there are still unanswered questions.We're told that you may or may not hear Brady Russell doing full-fledged talk radio starting Monday in WHBC's afternoon drive slot, occupied until this past week by 20-year station vet Brice Lewis. And we're not sure he actually starts in the time slot as early as Monday.We get the … [Read more...]
1480 Moves To More Talk
Posted on March 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OMW hears that NextMedia oldies WHBC/1480 Canton, as long rumored in This Space, is finally bringing on the talk.We hear from many sources this evening that WHBC veteran afternoon drive host Brice Lewis was let go after his Thursday program.And sure enough, the station has done the "Soviet-style purge" of Mr. Lewis from its website.Listed on the WHBC schedule 3-7 PM now is "Afternoons on WHBC". Lewis is also off the station's "On-Air Personalities" page as of today.OMW hears that taking his … [Read more...]
Your Weekend WKNR Update
Posted on March 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Next up in the rotation on the ever-changing host lineup of Good Karma sports WKNR/850 "ESPN 850"'s "Saturday Morning Sports Show": Chuck Booms.Well, not just Chuck, as the former FOX Sports Radio host ("Kiley and Booms") and Euclid resident will be joined by Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland Cavaliers beat writer Branson Wright from 9-noon Saturday - presumably to talk All Things Hoops, in the midst of the MAC Tournament, the upcoming NCAA "March Madness" and the Cavaliers' own run to the NBA … [Read more...]
Escape From Youngstown TV
Posted on March 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Just days after WYTV/33 news director Pat Livingston announced his move to Toledo's WNWO/24 - in the wake of pending changes at the Youngstown ABC affiliate that could decimate that station's newsroom - two other bombshells have dropped.If CBS affiliate WKBN-TV/27 begins producting news content for WYTV in that FCC-tipped "shared services agreement" filed by new WYTV owner Parkin Broadcasting, you won't be seeing "27 First News" mainstays Robb Schmidt and Sarah Eisler on 33.You won't even see … [Read more...]
