Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

Check out one of our newests promos featuring the accomplishments of WKYC Chief Meteorologist Betsy Kling.

WKYC 6 & 11 PM Anchor Kris Pickel WKYC's Anchor Kris Pickel went "Over the Edge" on Monday. But it was for a good cause! "Over the Edge" provides individuals the opportunity to rappel down the side of a huge building. There's still a few Tuesday slots open to "Go Over the Edge of the DoubleTree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown - Lakeside." Contact information for "Go Over the Edge" to sign up Some companies even collect employee donations to "Toss the Boss" over the side, "forcing" him or her to take the jump. All participants that take part in this adventurous event raise money for Special Olympics Ohio. Each participant will get the opportunity to Go Over the Edge of the DoubleTree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown - Lakeside. A training will be held prior to each participant's rappel. Special Olympics Ohio will have Over the Edge trained professionals guide each person through his or her rappel experi...

"Meet The Press" Host David Gregory The moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" was in town on Monday to moderate the City Club's "Swing State, Building Our Momentum" at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel on Public Square. The event began at noon and was widely attended by Cleveland's business leaders and political movers. The panel featured Christopher Connor, Chairman and CEO of Sherwin Williams Co., Dr. Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, President and CEO at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Stephen Steinour, Chairman and CEO of Huntington Bancshares Inc. and Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton, President of Cuyahoga Community College. Afterwards, David stopped by the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center for a visit, to shoot some promos with Senior Political Correspondent Tom Beres and to sit down with WKYC 6 & 11 PM anchor Russ Mitchell for a one on one interview about educating the campaigns on Cleveland's strengths. David has hosted "Meet Th...

By Frank Macek It's time for another behind the scenes look at what's happening inside the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center. We'll keep this edition brief, but wanted to take a moment and note our return from a very "brief" and indefinite hiatus. Your blogger received so many notes from those on Facebook and our regular readers that I decided to reconsider the move to end the blog. If nothing else, I wanted to show that I was truthful about saying no one at WKYC "forced" me to end the blog. It was my decision then and my decision to start the blog back up today. WKYC management has been very supportive of my efforts in the past and I fully expect that to continue. Sweeps end next Wednesday, May 23rd, and we'll all be glad when that moment comes. May and November sweeps months seem like the longest months of the year for some reason. This May is very competitive in the Cleveland market and the final results will be interesting. The WKYC staff i...

Sara Shookman, coutesy: WVLT-TV Sara Shookman will be joining Channel 3 News as a Multimedia Journalist from WVLT/Knoxville where she currently handles similar duties for the CBS and MyVLT stations. Shookman is a Buckeye at heart, having grown up in Akron and attended Ohio University. She graduated summa cum laude from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalist. Her other studies took her to Universita degli Studi di Torino in Turin, Italy, where she studied International Business. Her first job was reporting and anchoring for WOUB in Athens, Ohio, where she spent three years telling stories about Appalachian life and learning her way around a camera. From there, she joined WVLT. She'll start her new duties at Channel 3 in June.

The WKYC News app for Android users has finally arrived! Now available in the Android Marketplace, the news app has all the features as our news app for iPhone users including the following: Latest local news for metro Cleveland area - Current weather conditions, short term and extended forecasts, radar map, health indices, school closings and weather alerts Robust full screen video Consumer, Health and Watercooler news The latest sports news and scores - Share news and video via Facebook, Twitter or email. Channel 3 is determined to provide the best content possible in a way that serves the interests and the needs of our viewers and users. To download it, go the Android Marketplace and search for "WKYC-TV" or click on the following link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gannett.local.library.news.wkyc We also have the WKYC Interactive Radar App available for free as well on Androids at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wkyc...

Bruce Edwards (L) and Andre Bernier (R) By Frank Macek WKYC's Bruce Kalinowski has a reason to celebrate this week as it was 30 years ago that he and WJW Meteorologist Andre Bernier kicked off a brand new cable channel called "The Weather Channel" out of its new studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Under the on-air name Bruce Edwards, the channel began broadcasting on May 2, 1982, airing weather forecasts and weather-related news, 24 hours a day. "We Take The Weather Seriously, But Not Ourselves" was the on-air slogan used from the launch in 1982 to 1984 before moving on with other witty weather branding over the years. On January 3, 2008, it was reported that The Weather Channel and its assets were put up for sale by its original owner, Landmark Communications. On July 6, 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group agreed to purchase the Weather Channel from Landmark and was finalized on September 12, 2008. A 30 year reunion was held last ...

By Frank Macek For the first time in this new digital age, Channel 3 broadcast its first news shows with all digital, all high definition remotes on Thursday, May 3rd at 6 & 7 pm, as the station sent all our main on-air talent to different locations to break in the new system. And it worked perfectly thanks to the hard work and dedication of our engineering team at Channel 3 led by Director of Technology Jim Miller. Except for some standard definition signals coming into the station from satellite and other lower quality sources, you will now see all our live shots in true high definition. The station has been shooting video with high definition cameras in the field since last year. However, this is the first time that the station could transmit live pictures in high definition from our remote trucks. At 6 & 7 pm, WKYC anchor Russ Mitchell broadcast from the 3rd floor deck at Channel 3, along with sports anchor Jim Donovan as they overlooked...

Nielsen has announced their 2013 survey dates for both LPM (Local People Meter) and non LPM markets for the Cleveland/Akron/Canton DMA. Each survey lasts for a period of four weeks and excludes the following weeks: December 27th-January 2nd, May 23rd-29th, July 25th-31st, September 26th-October 2nd and November 28-December 4th. To download the complete list for 2013 (.pdf), click on the following link: http://on.wkyc.com/IlBVJW