Fox Sports Ohio has never really known what it wanted to be, and despite a healthy roster of talent at times, it never really broke through the traffic jam of folks covering sports in Northeast Ohio. That being said, it did boast some talented reporters, among them Zac Jackson, who told us today that he was told by FSO his last day on the job would be June 30.
A second source confirmed that it wasn’t just the Akron and Swenson’s aficionado who was let go — the cuts were across the board and not limited to Jackson or the NFL. Folks talked of some vague restructuring by FSO (whose bosses don’t seem to talk to their employees much, except when they’re axing them, so those details are still up in the air.)
Also, we’ve heard similar conversations have been happening with staff in other Fox regional outfits.
Surely Zac and the others will land on their feet. Go hire them.
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This article appears in May 27 – Jun 2, 2015.
When the Dolan’s sold the station to FOX Sports, there were probably more than a few area fans banking on fewer infomercials, less taped leftovers airing time and time and time again & actually building credible live sports programming around the baseball season. And what the out-of-state suits delivered was a pathetic landfill which embraced failure.
FoxSportsOhio (home of the Cavs/Blue Jackets) is different than SportsTimeOhio (the old Dolan network)…
Thanks for the clarification, though the comments concerning FOX Sports STO remain the same…..FOX Sports Ohio is also quite worthless for massive chunks of the day and appears to exist as a dumping ground for programming under the national FOX Sports banner.
STO was sold by Dolan to Fox Sports… It is currently owned by them but still operating under the name of Sports Time Ohio because it was established in NE Ohio
This is a nice start, Jackson was too cozy with the Browns. Former Browns employees shouldn’t be writing about the Browns, there’s an inherent conflict of interest. But the layoff job won’t be complete until that shilling homer Sam Amico is told to pound the pavement. He is an appendage of the franchise, he writes and says whatever the franchise wants him to write and say. Five years on the Cavaliers beat for that rumormongering hack, and amazingly still hasn’t broken a single story about the Cavaliers, about the NBA, about nothing. And what’s most amazing of all, I honestly believe that he honestly believes he’s an “NBA insider.” Just a horrible, horrible sportswriter that has spent the last five years of his life using national NBA beat writers as his sources. Long live Twitter.