Here's how Thursday is stacking up so far...RADIO ONE NAMES CLEVELAND OM: Cleveland's Radio One cluster has named its replacement for former operations manager/program director Kim Johnson.A Radio One E-mail news release obtained by OMW makes the announcement:Colby Colb will return to Radio One. Colby will act as OM for all Radio One Cleveland stations, and PD for WENZ and WZAK, starting in October. Colby previously worked as an on-air personality and Program Director at Radio One … [Read more...]
Ex-Cleveland GM Leaving Norfolk
Posted on September 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We got word that a former Cleveland television general manager has left his current gig in Virginia.But we didn't remember what Bill Scaffide did here until we did a quick Google search on his name, and found this YouTube video from WKYC:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxZNgDiUt2Y&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]Yes, that's then-WKYC general manager Bill Scaffide circa 1994, urging viewers to call the WKYC Talkback line with their comments, input and suggestions about Channel 3 News.More … [Read more...]
Quick Midweek Notes
Posted on September 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Just a couple of things...SDV/HD?: One of our regular readers brings word that Time Warner Cable subscribers in the Mentor area could be getting some of the company's newer HD offerings that have been missing in the former Comcast areas.We're told that at least one subscriber in the Mentor area reports getting the channels that would require TWC's Switched Digital Video (SDV) technology, which has enabled a broader HD channel expansion in both the "legacy" TWC areas … [Read more...]
A Flood of Tuesday Items
Posted on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Items have been piling up over the Labor Day holiday weekend like cars stuck in a traffic jam to get home from a holiday trip...JIMBO AGAIN: At this rate, we ought to consider splitting off another secondary blog dedicated to former Mahoning Valley congressman/ex-con Jim Traficant.Anyone who's even remotely followed Traficant in the Youngstown area or in Washington knew that the bombastic former lawmaker couldn't stay quiet for long, after his release from a federal prison medical facility in … [Read more...]
GUEST COLUMN: Cleveland Digital TV
Posted on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Long-time OMW reader Trip Ericson (RabbitEars) gives us his take on the local digital TV situation, including potential channel availability should one of the Cleveland market stations wish to make a channel move...particularly the alleged CBS affiliate currently stuck on RF digital channel 10...-----------------Hello, all!I'm Trip Ericson, the lunatic behind the website RabbitEars.Info, and I've penned this special guest feature on Ohio Media Watch to try to address some of the questions about … [Read more...]
Local And Connected
Posted on September 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Some of these items are local to our Northeast Ohio base, and others are only marginally connected...FRY STEPS DOWN: The long-time leader of Time Warner Cable's Northeast Ohio division is calling it a career.Beacon Journal business writer Betty Lin-Fisher reports that Steve Fry, who's been guiding the local arm of the cable company for as long as anyone can remember - the last 19 years as TWC's Northeast Ohio division president - is retiring.Fry's been working for Time Warner Cable and its … [Read more...]
Of Jimbo, Frogs and Love
Posted on September 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
That's "Love" as in "K-Love", and "Frogs" as in amphibian radio and TV symbols...MORE JIMBO: Former Youngstown-area congressman Jim Traficant could probably scratch his nose at this point, and he'd dominate media coverage...covering which direction he scratched, and at what time, and where.In our last item, OMW visited the possibility that Traficant could wind up doing something on the air at Clear Channel talk WKBN/570 in his home market.Though we'd earlier downplayed the prospect, Clear … [Read more...]
Jim’s A Free Man, But A Radio Man?
Posted on September 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As noted in an earlier item, an iconic and controversial Mahoning Valley political figure is headed back to the Youngstown area."Beam him up"...the one and only James A. Traficant, former Congressman, released felon, has his post-prison life ahead of him starting today. The Youngstown Vindicator notes that he's not expected to show up at his suburban Poland home until the weekend, after a "short vacation", but today is his official date of release.His supporters in the Youngstown area have … [Read more...]
Some Answers
Posted on September 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
One thing we've learned here in the over four years we've been doing OMW - unanswered questions eventually get answered...CHUCK'S OUT: Like, for example, the question many of our readers had a few weeks ago - where is Chuck Galeti?We got a flood, well, a minor trickle, of E-mail when people started seeing former WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5" sports anchor/reporter Sue Ann Robak doing the sports segments on the Cleveland market's alleged CBS affiliate's weekend newscasts...instead of Galeti.Fast … [Read more...]
All Over The Map
Posted on August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It's a typical Monday, as we let items free that need their freedom...GOING DOWN: It's no surprise to anyone who follows population figures, but the folks at Nielsen Media Research have announced that the Cleveland TV market continues to lose position in its market rankings.From the TV ratings giant's release:The Top 10 local markets, known in the industry as Designated Market Areas or DMAs, will remain the same this season, with a few rank changes in the Top 20. Moving up are Seattle, from 14 … [Read more...]
