Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

By Frank Macek It's time for another "behind the scenes" look at what's happening inside the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center. Hope you all had a great holiday season with family and friends. Hard to believe we are already into January 2017! Your blogger is really looking forward to seeing what this year brings both for the city of Cleveland and our country. I think it would be really hard to top 2016 in terms of excitement, but we can hope it's a fun year in local television. I have just a couple of notes for this month's edition of "News and Notes." For those of you counting, this month marks our 16th year at the Channel 3 Studios at the corner of E. 13th and Lakeside Avenue, or has it is now called "Tom Beres Way" in honor of WKYC Senior Political Reporter Tom Beres who retired last month after 37 years with the station. If you remember, WKYC debuted our new set on the Monday following the Superbowl in January 2001. Over the yea...

Hosts Carrie Young and Jonathan Adkins WKYC's hot new social media show "Flash Mob" will air its second episode following "Saturday Night Live" on Sunday morning, January 16th, at 1 a.m. The show features hosts Carrie Young and Jonathan Adkins along wtih several behind the scenes staff at Channel 3 looking at trends in social media and viral video as WKYC continues to be Cleveland's social media leader on Facebook, Twitter and wkyc.com On this new episode of  “Flash Mob”, we’ll have a look at the technology behind the colored lights on the Terminal Tower, we’ll take a trip to a Twitter bakery, you’ll meet another WKYC Facebook “Friend of the Day” and we’ll teach those who don’t know about it, a little about FourSquare. We’ll also have a wrap up from the from the Consumer Electronics Show, and we’ll look at a cool new gadget that makes transferring photos from your digital camera a breeze. The first airing of the show in October was the most watched...