And heading into a Friday, some followups...and one more item...QUICK EXIT: Thursday morning, we reported that Clear Channel Cleveland market manager Mike Kenney was packing his bags and heading to North Carolina. It'd been officially announced, just an hour or so before our post, that Kenney would take over the market manager post at Clear Channel's Charlotte cluster.Back in Cleveland, it was "promotion from within" at Oak Tree, with Gary Mincer taking over as market manager, and George Allen … [Read more...]
Thursday’s Oddities
Posted on August 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Aside from our breaking news a little earlier (see item below), Thursday's list is just as mixed up as our last entry on Wednesday...ARE YOU READY FOR SOME HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL?: As we've noted, Northeast Ohio's high school football season kicks off this week...and in fact, tonight.(Back in the Dark Ages, when your Primary Editorial Voice[tm] was in high school, teams didn't play on Thursday nights...but now, they do.)We've kept track of the TV side of high school football coverage, but haven't … [Read more...]
THIS JUST IN: CC Northeast Ohio Management Shuffle, Part Two
Posted on August 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 8/27/09 2:20 PM: AllAccess reports that Mike Kenney will take the place of "longtime" CC/Charlotte market manager Morgan Bohannon, who is apparently out of that building today...-----------Just days after we told you that Clear Channel Akron/Canton market manager Dan Lankford was heading to a similar post at the company's Harrisburg/Allentown PA operations, a bigger shoe has dropped...and that falling footwear is at Oak Tree.OMW hears that it's been officially announced - Clear Channel … [Read more...]
Making The Midweek Connection
Posted on August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As has been the case recently, we have a bunch of odd, mostly unconnected items that need to be let free...MORE FOX: It's not like it was exactly a secret.We knew that Local TV Cleveland Fox affiliate WJW/8 "Fox 8" was about to lose its 9-10 AM syndicated morning show, "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet"."M&J"'s run ended months ago, with the announcement that original production would be stopped earlier this year. The show has continued to air on affiliates like "Fox 8" locally, but … [Read more...]
Very Random Tuesday
Posted on August 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Clearing out our inbox on a Tuesday makes for a very, very random collection of items...DIGITAL TRANSLATORS: Unique among major Cleveland market TV stations, Ideastream PBS affiliate WVIZ/25 has maintained low-power translators in locations on the edge of the market for years.OMW reader Trip Ericson (proprietor of TV information site RabbitEars) gives us the heads up that the pubcaster intends on converting these small transmitters to digital format.W63CT is licensed to Eastlake, but the 34 kW … [Read more...]
Those Cable Boxes Have To Go
Posted on August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Many Time Warner Cable customers in the company's areas formerly serviced by Comcast have been E-mailing us over the past two months or so...with one question. "When are we going to get the same HDTV offerings now available elsewhere on Time Warner?"Some have speculated that the cable boxes Comcast used - manufactured by Motorola and General Instrument - have been an obstacle that slowed down the HDTV rollout in the areas that used to be served by that company.Those boxes...are being shoved out … [Read more...]
CC’s New Akron/Canton Market Manager
Posted on August 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We now have the name of the new market manager who will take oversight at Clear Channel's Akron/Canton cluster.And though he comes to Freedom Avenue from out of state, he's no stranger to Ohio.Bill Clark comes to the local group from the Clear Channel cluster in Macon GA. But we hear that he's also a "20-plus year veteran" of the Toledo market.And sure enough, we found this Clear Channel press release from 2004, when he was appointed to the Macon market manager post:For the last 25 years, Bill … [Read more...]
19 Asks For More Juice
Posted on August 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
...and no, we don't mean in the vending machines in the basement of Reserve Square.Raycom Media's alleged Cleveland market CBS affiliate, known legally to the FCC as WOIO(TV) Shaker Heights, is requesting an immediate power increase for its digital TV facility on RF channel 10.WOIO is asking to increase power from 3.5 kW to 9.5 kW on its existing antenna system.The station recently received approval to mount a new, higher antenna that would put out 10.3 kW of power. The special temporary … [Read more...]
Thursday’s Post
Posted on August 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Some more things coming down the OMW Pipeline...MANAGE THE MARKET: A day after OMW reported the exit of long-time Clear Channel Akron/Canton market manager Dan Lankford to Pennsylvania, we hear his replacement is heading for Freedom Avenue.For the moment, we don't know the name of this mystery person, but expect the Akron/Canton cluster to have a new hand at the management wheel very soon.The job presumably continues to include oversight of Clear Channel's Ashland/Mansfield cluster in the … [Read more...]
Joe The Talk Show Host
Posted on August 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There had been some recent speculation that a name from the 2008 presidential campaign was eyeing a possible career in talk radio.But enough about now-former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. This isn't about her.The Northwest Ohio man forever immortalized on the 2008 campaign trail as "Joe The Plumber" is making an attempt to become "Joe The Talk Show Host" in his local radio market.The Toledo Blade reports that Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, known to the entire world as "Joe The Plumber", could have a … [Read more...]
