Rusty Muck

To be fair, WEWS has struggled in some way or form since the late 90s, right around the time WKYC managed to free themselves of the negative connotation of “NBC’s farm team station” and being “the third station” in the market. But that’s part of the story. WEWS has had a litany of general managers and news directors since the late 1990s. Their new news director is the second straight one to come from KMGH. It took them a year to find a replacement for longtime anchor Ted Henry, and that replacement - Chris Flanagan - didn’t pan out. Then the station lost Oprah, Dr. Oz bombed badly and WoF/J! were lost due to corporate meddling. Meanwhile, WJW took the clear and decisive lead in mornings - ground that WEWS had to cede completely when they were forced to move the groundbreaking “Morning Exchange” out of morning drive. WEWS has blown up their morning show roster at least half a dozen times over the past five years, and that’s not hyperbole. A badly generic logo is the least of Lotto 5’s troubles.

I regret I can only like this just once lol

It’s obvious Ernest wants to be the next Gene Scott and literally take the station into the grave with him. Even without the CW, it’s still a source of easy income, and he had to have foreseen that when he bought the license from Rex Humbard’s estate 35 years ago.

It’s the toupee, it makes him 40 years younger. Oh wait.

And this is the picture of Angely that they went with, which seems fitting. [spoiler=Don’t say I didn’t warn you...]

They still own KRON, and it’s even more of a laggard in market #8.

John B. Wells is also recognized for his radio imaging work, mostly for rock stations (WEBN in Cincinnati being the most notable example; WMMS in Cleveland also used him in the late 90s/early 2000s). He most recently has been a weekend talk radio host on the Coast to Coast AM franchise before branching out onto a late-night talk show of his own (he was actually fired from C2C for being too political on the paranormal-themed show).

I didn’t say it was a clean situation lol. Mob + long-term economic depression = a mess.

Youngstown is - not joking - half the size it was about 40 years ago, but it’s voter base is so chaotic and politically unpredictable. (Hell, they supported Traficant’s toupee, I mean, Traficant, for decades...) Political ad spending in a market like that has got to be ridiculous.

Considering how utterly abysmal KABC 790’s ratings have been over the past decade (a mediocre AM-only signal in a really big market where talk stations struggle in), it almost sounds like Cumulus is slow-auditioning Edwards and Lucey to re-team with Jillian.

Only because he died and his family cashed in.

Didn't Gray make an attempt once to get the 4 PSIP ID back from KRDK for KXJB-LD?

The only reason why WUAB gave up The WB was because of their contracts to run both Indians and Cavs games OTA, which reaked havoc on juggling two networks with (at the time) partial schedules. Neither of those exist now, and MyTV is so irrelevant that it can be cleared between 1am-3am and no one would know otherwise. But switching affiliations this coming Monday? The CW must know something about WBNX that we don’t if they made a switch this abrupt.

Jim Rogers saw that coming almost a decade ago and tried to make KSNV as news-heavy as an NBC affiliate could possibly get (not unlike what NBC did with KCNC prior to trading it to CBS).

WOIO tends to get a lot of attention for being an “also-ran” in the market, but WEWS has been terribly unstable WRT management since at least the early 2000s.

It was Hugh Hewitt’s 30 minute show that got canned. Apparently no one noticed until now.

The funny thing is, KMOV rolled out that same exact design for their mobile app... what... two years ago? I'm fine with a logo evolution, and that's what this is, but the glaciers retreated from the Midwest at a much faster pace than this. The new logo features the KMOV calls prominently, so why not the KMOV4 brand?

Not just "two old men," they were lifers at the station - Tom Haley and Del Donahoo. That show was the first pre-8am local newscast in the Cleveland market (NBC slapped it on in 1981) and it only stayed on the air as long as it did because it wound up attaining a loyal following.

Wow. A comedian on a morning show. Why does that sound so familiar?

Thank god WCMH's website never became WeAre614OlentangyProud.com or some variation thereof.

The same fools who are trying to restructure iHeart and Cumulus... John Malone, for one.

No, WKBW and WMYD were sold by Granite to Scripps months before the Journal merger.

KB runs a 30 minute form of The Now at 7:00, which is their de facto local newscast in a market that doesn’t have any newscasts in that time slot.

If anything, Scripps will go towards a restructuring bankruptcy, not a liquidation bankruptcy. Seriously, the company is not going to be peeled apart. WXYZ or other stations will not be sold off separately. Far more likely the company will wind up like Granite... holding on just for the sake of holding on.

Who knows at this point. Something's been amiss with Scripps in general ever since the legacy company spun off the cable network division.