Rusty Muck

Looking at WKBW's schedule, they are picking up "The List" at 7pm weeknights, with "Extra" moving to 4pm. They've also added "Comics Unleashed," "America's Court" and "Justice for All with Christine Perez" in overnight. Weekends look like they are slowly rebuilding their weekend programming inventory, with a cutback in infomercials. No sign that they will be producing "The Now" anytime soon, but KB reporter Jason Gruenauer was tapped to be a national correspondent for "The Now" awhile back.

Hubbard selling out... not yet. Their radio division has been slowly growing over the past few years (most notably with their purchase of Sandusky Radio) and they own WTOP-FM, radio's 800-pound billing monster. They will probably hold onto their TV stations for a few more years. Just my opinion...

Back in late 1995, WBNX (which was finally starting to find footing in the Cleveland market) actually aired WJW's 10pm newscast seven nights a week in a one-hour tape delay. That ended shortly after Fox completed its purchase of WJW in September 1996. I don't really fault Raycom for losing the Indians rights for WUAB. It was going to happen regardless of who owned the station, mainly because Larry Dolan overpaid for the team (Dick Jacobs was one lucky SOB; he sold the team at peak value with a massive payroll that couldn't be sustained in the long run). Moving solely to Fox Sports Ohio was a fait accompli. And as it went, the Dolan family eventually wanted to cut the middleman and operate their own regional sports network akin to YES, NESN and SNY, so they left Fox Sports Ohio and launched their own RSN in collaboration with Time Warner and WKYC/Gannett. (Extra trivia note: Larry's brother Charles Dolan vis-a-vis Cablevision bought and launched the original SportsRadio 1220 WKNR in 1991, making it a rather faithful clone of WFAN, and acquired the Indians' radio PBP rights. Cablevision sold WKNR to Jacor Communications as the era of radio consolidation began to rear its ugly head.) Thing is, the Yankees, Red Sox and Mets can get away with running an RSN, but a mid-major market team like the Indians really cannot... SportsTime Ohio was often hard-pressed to find any additional programming that wasn't Indians-related, not to mention that the RSN revenue pie was already cut thin with Fox Sports Ohio's continued existence (and they still had Cavaliers PBP rights in the midst of LeBron's first stint with the team). When the Dolans sold SportsTime Ohio to Fox, it was hardly a surprise to anyone. As for WKYC, they did air several games per year that were billed as from "Channel 3 Sports" for the first few years of STO's life. Jim Donovan was the lead PBP announcer for those games, which STO would simulcast. That arrangement was flipped during the 2010 season, around the same time Donovan had to relinquish the PBP role while in treatment for leukemia. Fun fact: that iteration of WGCL (again, the current WNCX/98.5) and WZGC/92.9 in Atlanta were sister stations, owned for many years by General Cinemas. Hence, the "GC" calls.

Nevermind the leaps of faith some have about a theoretical sale of WBNX (personally, if it gets sold, my money would be on Nexstar for a standalone market-entry not unlike KASW)... Fox owns and operates SportsTime Ohio, not Tribune. Master control is still run out of WKYC's facility (dating back to when the Dolan family - vis-a-vis the Cleveland Indians Baseball Company - owned the network, and WKYC operated it). And in any event, WKYC's contract to simulcast 10-15 STO games per year runs for several more years.

WKYC still simulcasts about 10-15 STO games per year. And they are complete simulcasts with zero "channel 3" branding.

WUAB will be making some major programming changes beyond the "CLE43" rebrand. Current lineup: Upcoming lineup: Yes, for the first time ever, Cleveland will have a 9pm newscast. And WUAB has apparently conceded defeat after competing with WJW in the 10pm timeslot for 21 years.

That was worth the laugh. If anything, WOIO's new logo should have been in a blue and silver color scheme instead of blue and gold. I think 'dated...' because WJW's short-lived "Fox 8 Is NEWS" logo (for less than three weeks in September 1996... no proof of it exists on YouTube anywhere) had the same exact color scheme. The (SC)UofM and the Golden State Warriors are the LAST things that came to my mind.

Couldn't they at least have tried to make it look a little bit more like the logos for the legacy Ellis stations? (WMC, WECT, KFVS)

At least WOIO and WUAB aren't sharing the same logos (ie, "Hometeam 19" and "Hometeam 43"). Over/under on WOIO morphing from "Cleveland 19 News" to "CBS 19 News?" I say six months.

This Dan Deroos tweet should answer that question.

Which would work if Danielle Serino didn't announce earlier this afternoon that she's leaving the station.

They are keeping the Dufala/Robinson pairing on the 11pm newscasts. Assuming that Tiffany Tucker and Whitman are staying in place, I believe this will be the anchor rotation: 4pm: Nolan/Robinson 4:30pm: Tucker 5pm: Whitman/Dufala 5:30pm: Tucker 6pm: Nolan/Robinson 10pm: Whitman/Tucker 11pm: Dufala/Robinson

Former WKYC chief meteorologist/morning anchor Mark Nolan is joining WOIO as their 4pm and 6pm anchor. Denise Dufala is remaining at 11pm and probably is being assigned to the other early-evening newscast blocks. This as WOIO's rebrand as "Cleveland 19" is imminent. Nolan will remain as the morning host at WMJI "Majic 105.7," a role he's held since shock jock mega-icon John Lanigan retired last April.

Like "43 The Block?" (WUAB's on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again branding)

The amazing thing is, WJW is tied with WXIN for the most news output of any standalone station in the US (65 1/2 hours!!!) but has no 11pm newscast whatsoever.

Heck, WWJ 950 is now voice-tracking their overnight newscasts after the recent bloodletting at the all-newser.

TD Jakes' show will be taking the 2pm slot on WKYC currently held by "The Doctors." It's not like they are pre-empting the far more visible "Ellen" or "Dr. Phil," and it's a late summer fill-in... so why not? In any event, the show wouldn't even be ready for a national roll-out until the 2016-2017 season.

NewsNet5.com was relatively unchanged since the initial rollout in 1998 until it was finally integrated into the Scripps CMS back in 2010...

Having seen her work at WJW off and on for the past several years, I never had a problem with Angela. It took a while for Clevelanders to warm up to her delivery (mainly as she was the replacement for Melissa Mack, who returned to WJW as one-third of the evening Goddard/Bernier/Mack meterological triumvirate at WJW) but they did. And of course weather forecasting in Cleveland is much, much different than forecasting a perpetually sunny market like San Diego.

From "vjm1," my partner in crime at RadioDiscussions, WEWS is picking up "Access Hollywood" at 7:30pm weeknights as the replacement for "Let's Ask America" (LAA is being banished to 1:05AM as it plays out the summer string). Until this past week, "Access Hollywood" was buried in late nights on WUAB, which has the bulk of tabloid newsmagazines not named "Entertainment Tonight" on their schedule.

Disappointed in a way that they didn't revive channel 22's original WPTT calls, which were retired from radio a few years back...

Mike and Mike is a must-carry show for ESPN Radio affiliates (a few stations don't carry it, most notably WPEN-FM; ESPN purchases time on WTEL 610 to clear it). So even with the show being on ESPN2, it's always been a cross-promotional tool for ESPN Radio.

I doubt that it even matters. Besides, KUSA has generally been known as 9NEWS for 20 years.

Washington, DC is the nation's capital. It makes sense for WUSA to keep the callsign, with or without the USA Today.

And yet, WUSA announced a wide-ranging partnership with the Washington Post a few weeks ago.