Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

By Frank Macek Officially, the Director's Cut (and your blogger) is on vacation until the end of the year and will return shortly with a new year of behind the scenes coverage from Channel 3. But to say 2012 was a long year is an understatement with exciting changes that brought plenty of new faces to Channel 3 News and a farewell to others who moved on in their television careers. Let's take a look back at the year that was at WKYC... In January, Channel 3 News welcomed former CBS News anchor Russ Mitchell who made his debut as the solo weeknight anchor and managing editor of Channel 3 News at 6 & 11 PM on January 15th. The following morning, Chris Tye and Erin Kennedy debuted as the new anchors of Channel 3 News Today (replacing Mark Nolan who left for WMJI radio)...with Robin Swoboda and Jim Donovan taking over as the new anchor team of Channel 3 News @7. In February, "Good Company" said goodbye to longtime Cleveland television legend Fred Griffith w...

Brennan Donnellan Award winning journalist Brennan Donnellan will begin a new role at the station beginning in January. “I’m very happy to promote Brennan into the News Director position,’ stated Brooke Spectorsky, President and General Manager of WKYC. “While he’s only been at Channel 3 for 18 months, he’s been instrumental in launching our new anchor teams of Russ Mitchell and Kris Pickel, Chris Tye and Erin Kennedy, and Lynna Lai and John Anderson. He’s led our live coverage of major news events including the shootings in Chardon, the Presidential Election, Super Storm Sandy and others. He’s a forward thinking manager who expects the best from his team and fights for the resources to bring high quality newscasts to viewers in Northeast Ohio.” An Ohio University graduate, Donnellan has held news management positions in Atlanta, Boston, and Cincinnati. “He also led a digital media team for two years, and understands the challenges and opportunities that producing content for v...

Get the news the way you want it with WKYC’s new iPad app, available beginning today, December 18, 2012. The app is more visual, has live HD video of newscasts, and our popular interactive radar. The app has a sleek design, robust weather, news, sports, social interface and video content. It will also offer live HD video streaming of the station’s newscasts. Features include: Interactive radar, hourly extended and weekend forecasts Interactive weather radar maps-in-motion Social sharing ability to Facebook, Twitter and email A video-centric content display Extensive photo and video galleries Selections for users to opt-in for breaking news, weather and/or general news alerts Real time school closing information customized to the user’s favorite schools Automatic desk clock mode featuring stunning imagery of Grand Rapids “We know consumers want access to our content and newscasts whenever and wherever they are so providing great content on all platforms is a priority ...