Ohio Media Watch

From AllAccess:---------WQAL - Cleveland’s Q104 “90’s & Now” needs part-time air talent. Work with a new digital facility this summer and with a team who wins. Duties include weekend on-air shifts. At least 2 years on-air experience preferred. Send your CD and resume to WQAL, Attn: Allan Fee, 1 Radio Lane, Cleveland, OH 44114. Please, no calls.Infinity Broadcasting is an Equal Opportunity Employer. … [Read more...]

AllAccess reports that former Clear Channel Cleveland WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM" jock "Stick on the Radio" is taking nights at CC's CHR "XL 106.7" in Orlando. He's scheduled to start in late August."Stick" left Cleveland's Kiss FM after it was announced that former Kiss APD/MD Kasper, a regular reader of This Space, was returning to his old job in Cleveland...from his current gig at CC sister CHR "Q102" in Philadelphia.Oh, one housekeeping issue: We have a new E-Mail address. It's linked in the … [Read more...]

This little nugget, from dependable Chicago Sun-Times media columnist Robert Feder, caught the eye of OMW:Mancow, Johnny B. could be on the moveThe upshot in the column is that Infinity and Emmis are reportedly negotiating over a game of musical chairs among three of the Chicago market's bigger stations. If it all falls into place, it'd land WKQX/101.1/TRN FM morning host Erich "Mancow" Muller onto Infinity's hot talk WCKG/105.9, as the replacement for Howard Stern, who'd be pulled off WCKG and … [Read more...]

Posted in various places by Clear Channel's Keith Kennedy:---------------NTR/Marketing Director Akron, OhioAt Clear Channel Akron/Canton (Hot AC WKDD/Newstalk 640 WHLO and Progressive talk 1350am Radio Free Ohio) we are losing one of the best in the business! If you can conceive, plan, and manage both large and small events; hire, train and manage a staff; conceive, and design effective marketing pieces; and have a background in graphic design; we need to talk Email resumes to: (danlankford at … [Read more...]

Continuing in our quest to keep track of what network radio newscasts are being run at various Northeast Ohio radio stations:* It turns out that OMW was mistaken, and a well-informed source at the Akron Radio Center tells us that WAKR/1590 Akron runs the ABC Entertainment hourly news feed. As we noted to the source, it's difficult to tell the difference between the ABC Entertainment, Direction, and other feeds that aren't the Information network. The primary difference between the non-Info … [Read more...]

Talk/religious WCER/900 Canton's new early evening local talk show apparently won't start until the third week in August, according to station OM John Amrhein. AllAccess.com had reported the show, with host Jason Burnette, would begin Monday at 6 PM.And a question for John, if he's reading: Why 6-7 PM? That time slot will be brutal for Jason when WCER is forced to go to its anemic night power (75 watts!) before 6, in the late fall and winter... … [Read more...]

There won't be a big production number about it, because Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 Cleveland doesn't carry full-length network newscasts...but it appears they've turned the corner with FOX News Radio.In the past day or two, OMW has heard WTAM using only FNR wraps in their locally-produced newscasts. WTAM has also used FOX reporters for morning drive live hits, though that's been going on for a while (and they've also used ABC reporters in the mix).(UPDATE: Sunday afternoon, we did hear an … [Read more...]

500 watt Canton religious/talk WCER/900 is now syndicated advice talk host Dr. Laura Schlessinger's only Northern Ohio affiliate.OMW doesn't know when it happened, but Dr. Laura's last Clear Channel affiliate in the region, talk WMAN/1400 Mansfield, replaced her with a delayed airing of her affiliation nemesis, Glenn Beck. WMAN's website schedule now shows Beck running 3-5 PM and 6-7 PM, with an hour local news block filling the gap. Dr. Laura has been pushed off the WMAN schedule entirely, and … [Read more...]

The recently-released ratings contain the first measure of WTAM/1100's experiment: replacing conservative Premiere syndicated talker Glenn Beck with liberal syndicated talker Jerry Springer, a Clear Channel product out of WCKY/1530 Cincinnati. (Springer is also heard on the Air America liberal talk network, but WTAM's carriage of the show is not tied into AAR.)If you believe numbers reportedly given out by Beck on his show recently, the news isn't good for Jerry. OMW hears Beck told an area … [Read more...]

There's been a lot of chatter recently about Salem sports WKNR/850 Cleveland's behavior during daytime Cleveland Indians games. The behavior - basically - is that the market's only full-time sports talk station acts like the Tribe doesn't exist while they're playing during the day.'KNR's sports update anchors are apparently not giving the Indians score while they're still on the field, and its sports talkers aren't talking Tribe while the team is playing. This only happens when the Indians play … [Read more...]