It's official. OMW hears that Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 general manager Viki Regan is no longer in the building.Well, maybe we should say "she's no longer the general manager" as of Monday, because we hear she actually hasn't been in the building for some time, as her status at Channel 5 was being negotiated with upper Scripps management over the past week or so.We're told that she couldn't see eye to eye with her Scripps bosses over the direction of the station, which led to her … [Read more...]
Two Passings
Posted on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Two local media fixtures from two very different parts of Northeast Ohio's media landscape have passed away in just the past few days...THE PROFESSOR: Sports talk radio fans from the 1980s and 1990s know what the phrase "The Professor has died" means.Geoff Sindelar actually started his run on local sports talk radio in a familiar place - as a caller to "Pete Franklin's Sportsline" on the old WWWE/1100 "3WE" in Cleveland. (Of course, another regular Franklin caller became Clear Channel talk … [Read more...]
In No Particular Order
Posted on March 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Since we've been sporadic lately, here are some items that have taken place in recent days... in no particular order...and there are still more items we haven't touched yet..."MISS BARBARA" PASSES ON: If you grew up on Northeast Ohio television into the early 1970s, you need no further explanation.Barbara Plummer, known as "Miss Barbara" on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5's local edition of "Romper Room", has died.From her online obituary (we have the text, but don't have a link):From 1958 to 1972 … [Read more...]
Unloading The Pile
Posted on March 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Our stack of unfinished items has gotten so large, we're not sure we can fit it in one update. But... we'll try, working backwards from the present...and we could have another update soon, as we're not sure we have everything out of the backlog file yet...ROMIGH IN: As previously posted on our Twitter account, Clear Channel talk WKBN/570 Youngstown has made fill-in Mike Romigh, the former CBS Radio talk KDKA/1020 Pittsburgh host, its new permanent morning drive host.Quoting Clear Channel … [Read more...]
About Christine
Posted on March 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We're still "away" from the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) for the most part, though we'd been planning a comprehensive update sometime soon.Since we've been actually sitting on this one since mid-February, and are now getting questions on it from readers, we'll let this item free early.Yes, Scripps Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS/5 has a new meteorologist. From a station memo released about a month ago:Christine Ferreira will join the Good Morning Cleveland team as Meteorologist. Christine comes to … [Read more...]
Big Monday
Posted on March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Our pile of news is large this Monday, so we might as well get it posted and out of the way...TV MADE EASY: That's the catchphrase used by Time Warner for its latest digital/HD cable channel changes, which are taking effect starting today.We've already heard from one OMW reader in TWC's Wadsworth system, who tells us that the flip of the HD channels has already taken place there - from the 400s to the 1000s on the cable lineup. (We'll need reader help here, as we won't be able to track the … [Read more...]
WNIR Kills Radio One Translator
Posted on March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Media-Com talk WNIR/100.1 Kent "The Talk of Akron" has successfully killed an effort to put up a new translator on 100.3 (W262BN), which would have been located on a Verizon Wireless cell phone tower in North Ridgeville.As we reported earlier, WNIR took to its own airwaves to warn listeners in the Elyria and North Ridgeville areas that "an out of town company" was proposing a signal in that area that could interfere with WNIR, and asking those listeners to write to the station.The Federal … [Read more...]
Mid-Hiatus Post
Posted on March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Since we're in another of our semi-hiatus periods ("Life Intervenes"), here's another all-encompassing update, featuring - mostly - some long-held items we have missed...DIGITAL, AT LAST?: An OMW reader pointed us to digital applications filed by both of the Media-Com LPTV/Class A outlets in Northeast Ohio, seeking digital facilities for both W35AX/Cleveland and WAOH-LP Akron.The WAOH application is for a digital flash cut on the station's current analog channel, 29, with 15 kW of power. The … [Read more...]
Beacon Stations For Sale
Posted on February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We'd already heard that at least one of the Beacon Broadcasting Youngstown market stations - Christian/eclectic rock/talk WEXC/107.1 "Indie 107.1" Greenville PA - had interested buyers... even before owner Harold Glunt passed away in late January.Now, all five Beacon stations along the Ohio/Pennsylvania border are up for sale.In addition to some helpful tips from OMW readers, we received this release directly from Pittsburgh-based station broker Ray Rosenblum....who clearly knows that the Beacon … [Read more...]
Monday’s Follow
Posted on February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This one is mostly updates or comments, on earlier items...we were quite busy over the weekend, as you can see. Though there is at least one "new" item or two...ANOTHER POLITICIAN: Our blogging colleague over at Gannett Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC/3, senior director and "DIrector's Cut" blogger Frank Macek, tells us that former WKYC anchor Tim White isn't the only former station anchor to head for the ballot box.As we noted here, White filed in the Democratic primary for the 17th Ohio House … [Read more...]
