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More, from The Changing Newscasts Blog. … [Read more...] about WKRC-TV adds another hour of weekday morning news

Forever Media's Classic Country/WLEJ (1290am, Bellaire) also has an FM translator W261DH (100.1fm, Wheeling, West Virginia).  Over the summer, 1290am changed format from Sports to Classic Country and changed call letters from WOMP to WLEJ ("Lejends").  Recently, "Lejends" changed their branding to "Willie 100.1/1290" and the call letters became WYLY. … [Read more...] about WLEJ changes format and call letters

TSJ Radio, LLC owns Gospel/WVKO (1580am, Columbus).  WVKO has an FM translator W225CS (92.9fm, Columbus) owned by Sandblast, L.P.  Sandblast filed this STA with the FCC. There are two issues that have prompted the filing of this STA .An adjacent operator is believed to be encroaching on the protected contour of W225CS .A period of silence is requested to facilitate preparation of measurements to support a legal challenge to the unauthorized operation .Secondly, A totally baseless claim has been made that W225CS did not receive written permission to rebroadcast the primary station . An action … [Read more...] about Columbus FM translator files STA to go temporarily silent, claiming possible interference

On August 28, Wittenberg University's student run WUSO (89.1fm, Springfield) now simulcasts Dayton Public Radio's WDPR (88.1fm, Dayton) from 6 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon.  Here's more, from the Springfield News-Sun. … [Read more...] about Dayton’s WDPR now partially simulcasts on Springfield’s WUSO (Wittenberg University)

3ABN (Three Angels Broadcasting) sells W23DE-D (Channel 23, Lima, Ohio) for $200,000 to American Christian Television Services. Danny Shelton leads 3ABN, while Kevin Bowers leads American Christian Television Services. … [Read more...] about 3ABN sells Lima LPTV

More from Cleveland.com. … [Read more...] about Press Club of Cleveland picks 6 for 2017 Journalism Hall of Fame

The Changing Newscasts Blog reports that Raycom's CBS affiliate WOIO-TV (Channel 19, Shaker Heights) will cut their 4:00pm weekday newscast from an hour to a half hour.  This hour long 4:00pm newscast debuted in 2004.  They made this move to accommodate "Inside Edition" at 4:30pm, followed by more local news from 5:00pm until 6:30pm. … [Read more...] about WOIO-TV cuts 4:00pm weekday newscast in half

More, from WDTN-TV. … [Read more...] about Ohio native joins WDTN-TV’s 2 News Today

Ed Esposito announced his retirement on yesterday's Rock/WONE morning show, saying in part, "I'm done...it's been a good ride, but all good rides come to an end." Mr. Esposito managed the news and public affairs programming for the entire Rubber City Radio/Akron group.  Mr. Esposito also was a former chair of RTDNA.  Before joining Rubber City in 1998, he worked at several Cleveland radio stations (the former WWWE(AM), the former WRMR(AM), the former WLTF-FM, and WDOK-FM.) … [Read more...] about Rubber City Radio’s VP/Information Media Ed Esposito will retire

More, from The Changing Newscasts Blog. … [Read more...] about WCMH-TV expands their weekday morning newscast