Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

The Investigator, Tom Meyer Congratulations to WKYC's Investigator Tom Meyer who is a finalist in the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors 2013 radio and TV contest. Tom's works being voted upon include Best Continuing Coverage: "Castro Exclusives" and Best Enterprise Reporting: "Bad Medicine." The awards will be announced at the annual banquet May 18th in Columbus.

Special to the Director's Cut from wkyc.com Robin Swoboda has decided to leave WKYC-TV. Swoboda's last day on the 7 p.m. news will be Friday, February 28. The announcement was released by President and General Manager of WKYC, Brooke Spectorsky, Tuesday afternoon. Spectorsky said "It's exciting for her, but sad for us. Robin Swoboda has decided she'd like to do something new with her life." She joined Channel 3 in March 2011. She and reporter Chris Tye were teamed as co-anchors of the 7 p.m. newscast. In 2012, Jim Donovan replaced Tye as her co-anchor.

Starting Monday February 7, NBC's daytime coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi will cause us to shuffle daytime programming on Channel 3. NBC's daily coverage of the games airs from 3 to 5pm every weekday until February 21 so here's what our daytime line-up will look like during the Olympics: 11am - Family Feud 11:30am - Entertainment Tonight Noon - Ellen 1pm - Days of Our Lives 2pm - Dr. Phil 3-5pm - Olympic Coverare 5-6pm - Channel 3 News at 5 6pm - Channel 3 News at 6 6:30pm - NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams 7pm - Channel 3 News at 7 7:30pm - The Ozone. Channel 3's Olympics Zone show Unfortunately we will not be able to re-air missed episodes of Bethenny, The Doctors or Rachel Ray. Live on Lakeside will go on hiatus until the Olympics have ended. All shows will be back in their normal time slots on Monday February 24.

Special to the Directors Cut from wkyc.com Del Donahoo Del Donahoo was an integral part of the Channel 3 WKYC family from the day he walked through the door here on July 1, 1968. Del celebrated his 90th birthday on Nov. 15, 2013, and he passed away Wednesday morning. People throughout Northeast Ohio knew Del and, as WKYC's Tom Beres said today, "He was a kind, decent man." He was an important part of the Channel 3 family. From 1981 to 1998, Del co-anchored the "Today in Cleveland Show" with Tom Haley. His wife, Martha, even became part of the show, with her now famous coffee and Tom's incessant criticism of it. Haley passed away March 16, 2009. While at the University of Iowa, Del met his future bride, Martha, who was a student at Drake College. They were married in 1948. Martha passed away in October, 2006, and the couple had two children and four grandchildren. Together in Del's Folkswagon, Del and Martha attended just about every para...