We normally don't dip into politics here at your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm), but this one directly involves the media.Today, the Ohio Supreme Court voted to pull the effort to recall controversial Toledo mayor Carty Finkbeiner off the November 3rd ballot...in a narrow decision. From an article posted this afternoon on the Toledo Blade website:The all-Republican high court, by a 4-3 vote, came to the defense of the Democratic mayor in finding that the deadline of two months before the election for … [Read more...]
Hoping For Good News
Posted on July 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Yes, your Primary Editorial Voice(tm) is the bearer of bad news again.On our Twitter account, we shamelessly begged for some good news to throw into the below mix, but there doesn't seem to be much to share.And yes, we're as tired of the drumbeat of bad economic news as you are, but here we go again...we don't make the media news, we just report it...IDEASTREAM CUTS: OMW hears that Cleveland public broadcaster Ideastream is cutting 8 percent of its full-time staff - resulting in the elimination … [Read more...]
Honest. Fair. Everywhere. Except On Twitter.
Posted on July 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
When doing some housecleaning on our Twitter account, we noticed that we were following the Twitter accounts of pretty much all local media outlets, both broadcast and print, except for one.We attempted to add the account of WOIO/19's "19 Action News" into our PC client - the excellent "Twhirl" - and the software responded that we couldn't view the station's profile. We were also unable to add "19actionnews" to the list of accounts we were already following.It took a trip to Twitter's web … [Read more...]
Shakeups And Awards
Posted on July 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
IMPORTANT UPDATE: - 7/22/09 7:35 AM: OMW has received some new information calling the accuracy of the first part of this report into question. We have removed that portion of the report, which cited financial-related rumblings linked to the CBS Radio cluster and its employees in Cleveland.In addition, though it appears the rest of the item is accurate, it may have taken place a little less recently than believed...a few weeks ago, as opposed to in the past few days.At OMW, we're the first to … [Read more...]
Uncle Walter Has Left Us
Posted on July 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It would appear that we've waited until just about everyone with access to a computer keyboard has weighed in on Friday's passing of CBS News icon/legend Walter Cronkite, who died at the age of 92.That's partly because we really had no special insight or stories to share with you. We were just regular viewers of Cronkite via now former local CBS affiliate WJW/8, where he was part of the news dominance the station had in the Cleveland market for so many years. (WJW flipped to Fox network … [Read more...]
Weather And Storms
Posted on July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
And the latter part of our title, this time, isn't necessarily about thunderstorms...it's about economic storms, again. But first...MCSHEA RETURNS: OMW hears that former Cleveland Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 meteorologist and "Good Company" co-host Eileen McShea is about to return to local TV, but not at 13th and Lakeside.Instead, she'll be doing weather on Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 "NewsChannel 5"'s weekend newscasts...at least for now.The folks at 3001 Euclid are "down one" weather … [Read more...]
New Vision Bankruptcy
Posted on July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The operator of nearly all commercial TV stations in the Youngstown market is now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.New Vision Television owns CBS affiliate WKBN/27 and Fox affiliate WYFX (WYFX-LP 62/WFXI-CA 17/WKBN-DT 27.2), and operates PBC (Parkin Broadcasting) owned ABC affiliate WYTV/33 and sister MyNetworkTV affiliate MyYTV (WYTV/33.2). That's every commercial station in the Mahoning Valley except for one big one, Vindicator NBC affiliate WFMJ/21, along with its sister CW affiliate "WBCB" … [Read more...]
Radio Bombshells To Our East
Posted on July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Tuesday was a big, big day for announced radio changes to the east of Ohio. But...how do they affect us?Or, do they? Read on....To start, CBS Radio officially unveiled the next two stops on its FM Sports Radio Express. All aboard, Washington DC (July 20th) and Boston (August 13th)!The DC sports flip announcement is almost an anti-climax. Everyone from Dave Hughes' DCRTV.com to the Washington Post's Paul Farhi has been reporting the rumored/conirmed change of talk WJFK/106.7 to sports ("106.7 … [Read more...]
Tom’s Bad Day
Posted on July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Those following the news in Northeast Ohio on Tuesday learned that over 100 animals were removed from a private Akron animal rescue shelter.The shelter known as "Heaven Can Wait" is run by a woman named Heather Nagel, who is listed in various media reports as a candidate for an Akron City Council at-large seat.It's not difficult to find coverage of Tuesday's events at the home on Vesper Street, in Akron's North Hill neighborhood.Just as a sampling, here are links to articles by NBC affiliate … [Read more...]
WMAN Schedule Shuffle, More Local
Posted on July 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Clear Channel talk WMAN/1400 Mansfield is moving its schedule around later this month, adding more local talk and moving a syndicated host to his live time slot.Starting July 27th, "AM Mansfield" midday local host Rusty Cates moves to afternoon drive, with his new show airing from 3-5 PM.That, and the move of "WMAN Marketplace" to a new Saturday time slot (10 AM-noon), clears the way for the previous WMAN afternoon drive host - Premiere's Glenn Beck - to move to a live clearance on WMAN from 9 … [Read more...]
