tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post7800909647958567465..comments2023-09-22T13:45:50.991-04:00Comments on Ohio Media Watch: BREAKING NEWS: Ashtabula CC Pickup A Local OneOhio Media Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003503894299610300noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-45985875411411468142007-05-12T21:38:00.000-04:002007-05-12T21:38:00.000-04:00Why fight for scraps in Erie? Why fight even more...Why fight for scraps in Erie? Why fight even more stations for scraps in Cleveland, where nobody knows you? Do you really think a cheapskate like Embrescia is going to spend big to promote a "new" Cleveland station? Do you think there was ever a good reason for small and medium market stations? WREO was both at the same time, since it covered the small, Ashtabula market, and the medium Erie market. <BR/><BR/>Move the stick and the station becomes another face in the crowd. The face that no one knows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-2857442766287977552007-05-12T15:11:00.000-04:002007-05-12T15:11:00.000-04:00I can vouch for the above comment. I was there. ...I can vouch for the above comment. I was there. The only one who made any money was David Spero.<BR/>Tom SullivanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-63500954436826205242007-05-12T13:04:00.000-04:002007-05-12T13:04:00.000-04:00Going back even further. When Tom and Jim Embresci...Going back even further. When Tom and Jim Embrescia owned WWWM in Cleveland they were paying their jocks barely over minimum wage including "names" like Bill Stallings, Dawg Johnson and Suzie Peters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-87223682202263769572007-05-12T12:50:00.000-04:002007-05-12T12:50:00.000-04:00... I might add to the above that there is current...... I might add to the above that there is currently a CP for a LPFM on 95.9 in Erie. However, a full-service FM (Class A or higher)would take precedence on that channel and send the LPFM looking for a new home on the dial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-76226296304368255672007-05-12T12:42:00.000-04:002007-05-12T12:42:00.000-04:00"Are you sure about 95.9??"I got this from the FCC..."Are you sure about 95.9??"<BR/><BR/>I got this from the FCC website and it listed 95.9 as a Class A "vacant allotment" assigned to Erie, PA. It does seem strange that CFPL's 300kw stick is only about 90 miles away, but there it is on the site. I think I had heard somewhere that US and Canadian stations are only protected to their respective home shorelines when the signal goes over water. The only area that the stations would likely interfere with each other would be over the lake. On land, CFPL's signal would be marginal enough that because of the capture ratio of FM receivers interference from CFPL would not be an issue. I've noted that there are quite a few shared class B allotments between Detroit and Cleveland with only about 100 air miles between the two cities. There are stations on 93.1, 95.5, and 99.5 in both cities and I beleive are all full-power class B's, although normal spacing should be around 150 miles.<BR/><BR/>If anyone has more info on this, I'd be interested to hear it.<BR/><BR/>Here is the link: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&appid=668989Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-14255290304766234312007-05-12T10:10:00.000-04:002007-05-12T10:10:00.000-04:00Yeah my Model T in 1905 sure ran great too cause g...Yeah my Model T in 1905 sure ran great too cause gas didn't cost too much. Put the DJs out to pasture already. Matt the Cat Jeff Kinzbach, Ed" I never met a Democrat I wouldnt shill for" Ferenc. Time for different people on the air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-36065925577598042612007-05-11T21:54:00.000-04:002007-05-11T21:54:00.000-04:00Are you sure about 95.9??Don't forget the big "FM ...Are you sure about 95.9??<BR/>Don't forget the big "FM 96" from OntarioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-31037940494161823652007-05-11T21:00:00.000-04:002007-05-11T21:00:00.000-04:00"I would choose the market where I have establishe..."I would choose the market where I have established ties and recognition and fewer competing stations. Especially if it's a shorter drive from the stick."<BR/><BR/>Why fight over scraps in Erie... maybe a $10M revenue market at best..... when you can get a shot at $100M+ in Cleveland? If you moved the stick 10 miles to the west it would be pretty much equidistant to either city. Actually, you could have your cake and eat it too. There are currently unused allotments in both Ashtabula (96.1) and Erie (95.9). Move the WREO sticks east and become a Cleveland contender. Move the WREO intellectual property to 96.1 and simulcast on 95.9.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-54481857610208432752007-05-11T19:57:00.000-04:002007-05-11T19:57:00.000-04:00If I remember correctly WRQK paid their overnight ...If I remember correctly WRQK paid their overnight jock Pat Conley about 8,200 in 1991 and Lou Santini a whopping 10,000 the same year. This was when the station was consulted by John Gorman. I think the part time weekenders were making like $3.35 an hour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-76012701850548757012007-05-11T19:55:00.000-04:002007-05-11T19:55:00.000-04:00Hey you still have Mook and Dum on WNCX if you wan...Hey you still have Mook and Dum on WNCX if you want to hear old time talent. Those are two of the cream of the crop yeah right. This is 2007 time to move on stop living in the past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-80933201582747224492007-05-11T06:44:00.000-04:002007-05-11T06:44:00.000-04:00It could be that the current crop of radio talent ...It could be that the current crop of radio talent (if you could call them that) is pretty bad and most are unrelated to Cleveland. Are you saying Trivisonno is better than Kid Leo or Scott Howitt? Are you saying Bob & Tom is better than Jeff & Flash? (Lanigan is the last of the great old breed still around) Are you saying Jen Toohey, Lorie Bradley or Dawn Robinson is better than Ravenna Miceli or Matt the Cat or Dia or Betty Korvan? Are you saying (whoever is on nights at WMMS) is better than Denny Sanders?<BR/>Even the losing stations had better talent like Dancin' Danny Wright, Byrdman, Brandy Kelogg, Bill Stallings. There are no farm team stations for new talent to develop and there are no program directors to nuture talent and there are no single station sales managers to insure maximum output in that department. Yes, it was better then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-27930144155635882892007-05-10T20:44:00.000-04:002007-05-10T20:44:00.000-04:00Why do Clevelanders continually want to hear has b...Why do Clevelanders continually want to hear has beens on the air? What is this fascination with Matt the Cat, Denny Sanders,Scott Howitt, Spaceman Scott. My gosh move out of the early 1980s already!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-76748699489723849652007-05-10T12:12:00.000-04:002007-05-10T12:12:00.000-04:00I know this is getting a little off the thread. I...I know this is getting a little off the thread. I remember when WMJI was called the home for wayward DJs because Gorman would offer shifts to whomever was out of work and in doing so always had strong talent on even on weekends. Landecker, Gina St. John, Ken Morgan, Bob Becker, Vickie Sue Winston among them.<BR/>Related to that is that Embrescia stations whether it was Tom or Jim or both ran their stations lean. M-105 and WRQK jocks were paid barely above minimum wage. With voice tracking and syndication I doubt budgets will change in Ashtabula and if anyting will be run even cheaper than Clear Channel budgets allowed. The Embrescias are also known for their liberal use of "Trade-o on the radio"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-91868128134855245272007-05-10T11:12:00.000-04:002007-05-10T11:12:00.000-04:00Let's see... choice of a rim-shot into market #25 ...Let's see... choice of a rim-shot into market #25 or market #168... which would I choose???<BR/><BR/>I would choose the market where I have established ties and recognition and fewer competing stations. Especially if it's a shorter drive from the stick. <BR/><BR/>I would not choose to be one of dozens of stations in the larger market, where almost no one knows my station. <BR/><BR/>The anonymous 8:24 who mentioned the confusion with the "star" name makes an excellent point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-5352734182005057132007-05-10T10:12:00.000-04:002007-05-10T10:12:00.000-04:00"He also brought WKYC meterologist Mark Nolan to W..."He also brought WKYC meterologist Mark Nolan to WMJI for weekends after hearing him on a short lived oldies station ( "Kool?" ) in Canton. "<BR/><BR/>If you call 8 years short lived, then I suppose you're right.<BR/>Kool 92 became Z92.5 and now Q92.<BR/>Mark Nolan also worked on-air at WKDD for a while, if I am not mistaken.<BR/>This was after his gig with WAKC TV 23 I believe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-73227734300836179312007-05-10T08:24:00.000-04:002007-05-10T08:24:00.000-04:00The FCC granted WREO a translator in Erie at 96.7...The FCC granted WREO a translator in Erie at 96.7 in 2004. As far as I know, CC never used it but they do promote WREO in Erie and do local promotions and contests. A problem WREO does have in Erie, is its name. Star 104 is the dominant Erie station, thus Star 97 is not known very well as it is an out of market signal. A name change is needed so they can compete better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-24550369503982292062007-05-10T08:04:00.000-04:002007-05-10T08:04:00.000-04:00Only Jim Embrescia and not Tom was involved with W...Only Jim Embrescia and not Tom was involved with WRQK? I do know that<BR/>in addition to Lou Santini, Ravenna Miceli and Jennifer Wylde John Gorman hired Debbie Vincent for WMMS who also worked at WRQK WONE ( before WRQK ) and WENZ ( after WRQK ). I believe Debbie was also acting PD at WRQK for a short time. He hired former WRQK PD Spaceman Scott back to WMMS when he "cleaned up his act". In that timeline he brought in Lisa Rodman a former PD at a New Orleans station he was consulting ( Z-something )to WRQK, where she became PD after "Big Dave" ( can't remember his last name. ) who replaced Spaceman Scott when he was forced to resign. Lisa also worked at WMMS-WHK owners' OmniAmerica's research company Elephant Land ( I never understood that name ) before going to WNWV whose PD Bernie Kimball worked for Gorman at both WHK and WNCX. He also brought WKYC meterologist Mark Nolan to WMJI for weekends after hearing him on a short lived oldies station ( "Kool?" ) in Canton. I don't think Gorman and Ravenna were married at the time and if I am not mistaken he brought her to WRQK from WAAF in Boston. Gorman's Untamed Radio format ( that also ran in Boston, New Orleans, Ft. Lauderdale and a few other stations and at least another one owned by Jim? Tom? Both? Embrescia ) was a template for the WMMS Next Generation format which initially played a mix of alternative and mainstream rock before it moved to a quasi-alternative format.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-47438741620032929042007-05-09T23:47:00.000-04:002007-05-09T23:47:00.000-04:00Bulmer recently sold his last stations, WDOE and W...Bulmer recently sold his last stations, WDOE and WBKX in Dunkirk/Fredonia NY, to the Finger Lakes Radio Group, which has a cluster further east in the Geneva area.<BR/><BR/>At last account, he was down in Florida relaxing and waiting for the next chapter to unfold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-73609885409135010212007-05-09T20:16:00.000-04:002007-05-09T20:16:00.000-04:00"There's no way that REO tower is moving. They hav..."There's no way that REO tower is moving. They have a great situation there in a watershed lowland."<BR/><BR/>Let's see... choice of a rim-shot into market #25 or market #168... which would I choose??? A watershed lowland is a great site for an AM tower because of enhanced ground wave. However, that is a disadvantage to an FM station. I agree, the AM would probably not move, but who knows with new owners with Cleveland roots. The one thing that might keep Embrescia from moving the tower might be a non-compete covenant in the sale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-46536635123013701802007-05-09T16:31:00.000-04:002007-05-09T16:31:00.000-04:00Bulmer built WZOO in Ashtabula "102 Zoo"WZOQ in Wa...Bulmer built <BR/><BR/>WZOO in Ashtabula <BR/>"102 Zoo"<BR/><BR/>WZOQ in Wapakoneta/Lima <BR/>"92 Zoo"<BR/><BR/>WHMQ in North Baltimore/Findlay <BR/>"Q107 FM"<BR/><BR/>WHZR-FM Logansport<BR/>"Hoosier 103.7"<BR/><BR/>WJBI-FM Waterville<BR/>-This signal was given back to the FCC<BR/><BR/>In 1991, he sold WZOQ and WHMQ to Keymarket who also owned WYRX in Lima "93 Y Rock". Keymarket sold the stations to sister company Forever Broadcasting who owned WAJC and WCIT in Lima.<BR/><BR/>WHZR was spun off to Logansport Broadcasting who was purhased by Mid America Media.<BR/><BR/>WZOO, well you know where that went.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-16134507923704545092007-05-09T14:21:00.000-04:002007-05-09T14:21:00.000-04:00You're right. Bulmer still owned the ZOO in 1991 a...You're right. Bulmer still owned the ZOO in 1991 and 1992 as well. They were still competing hard with the Rowleys at that time. <BR/><BR/>Bulmer signed on a number of 3kw "drop-ins" in the late-80's and early '90's. With the exception of WZOO, he got them up and running cheap and sold for a quick profit. He seemed more interested in keeping WZOO, for some reason. <BR/><BR/>There's no way that REO tower is moving. They have a great situation there in a watershed lowland. Also, it is putting a very strong signal in Erie and the station is well-established there. Even if the ratings have dropped (I haven't seen them in years), the potential to promote it and re-build the ratings is still there.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if they still have the MUZAK franchise, but the Rowleys made more money in Erie on MUZAK than everything else combined. It moved on 97.1's side channels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-40378420243691968982007-05-09T13:46:00.000-04:002007-05-09T13:46:00.000-04:00"Once had a dealing with Tom Embrescia in the late..."Once had a dealing with Tom Embrescia in the late 80'. what a total jerk." <BR/><BR/><BR/>Well I worked for Tom in the late 80's. He was (and I assume still is) a class act.<BR/><BR/>Yes, they tend to run their operations lean but they get the job done.<BR/><BR/>Also on another note, the owners of WFUN-WREO could not have owned WZOO in 1990 or 91. The law allowing duopolies was not in effect until 1994.<BR/><BR/>One has to wonder if Embrescia will move the towers closer to Cleveland. Under current regs 97.1 could be moved about 10 miles to the west, right on the Lake County border. From that site, they would have a decent rimshot that would cover from downtown Cleveland and eastAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-56024693873723496592007-05-09T12:53:00.000-04:002007-05-09T12:53:00.000-04:00Once had a dealing with Tom Embrescia in the late ...Once had a dealing with Tom Embrescia in the late 80'. what a total jerk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-31291976822754094132007-05-09T12:39:00.000-04:002007-05-09T12:39:00.000-04:00Sandy Bennett is at Sunny 95 in Columbus ...NOT go...Sandy Bennett is at Sunny 95 in Columbus ...NOT going to AshtabulaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13975530.post-58198842849436623932007-05-09T12:35:00.000-04:002007-05-09T12:35:00.000-04:00WRQK was at one time consulted by John Gorman.His ...WRQK was at one time consulted by John Gorman.<BR/><BR/>His wife, Ravenna Miceli, worked there briefly before being brought up to replace Mike Ivers when G-Man got to WMJI.<BR/><BR/>Later Gorman would bring up Lou Santini and Jennifer Wylde from WRQK to WMMS "Next Generation".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com