September 2002

The Syracuse radio market passed a milestone over the weekend, marking the 80th anniversary of the sign on of the area’s first radio station. It was on September 15, 1922 from his estate off Route 13 in Cazenovia that Clive Meredith, for the first time, flipped the switch at station WMAC. Six years later, Meredith

After a four-month hiatus, the women’s issues oriented weekly talk show Women’s Voices returns to WAER 88.3 FM on October 10. The show will go by a slightly different name, Women’s Voices Radio, to distinguish it from a new television version of the show, Women’s Voices, which debuts next week on Time Warner Cable.

‘Big Frog 104 Cares for Critters Radiothon’ got underway yesterday at 6 a.m. as WFRG personalities broadcast live from Utica’s Sangertown Square Mall for the entire radiothon which runs until 7 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday. Money raised during the two-day event will be divided among several humane societies and

FULTON – It’s Patsy Cline and George Jones for ‘The New AM 1300’. Fulton’s WAMF 1300 AM (formerly WOSC and WZZZ) is up and running with a new format of traditional country music with Don DeRosa, the station’s new owner, handling morning show duties.

The Syracuse radio community is offering its condolences to WSYR’s Joe Galuski on the news of the passing his father on Monday. Calling hours for Henry J. Galuski, 74, are Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. at Welter-Price Funeral Home on James Street in Syracuse. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday morning.

Most Central New York radio stations plan to memorialize and pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks of one year ago with special programming today. The published schedule of events include…

After 30 years on WCNY (91.3 FM), broadcasts of Syracuse University’s Thursday Morning Roundtable are moving to WAER (88.3 FM). According to WCNY station manager Paul Dunn, “everybody’s happy” with the switch which will give Classic FM more hours of classical music and University Roundtable will now be heard on a station owned by the

Looking to be “older than Y94 but younger than WSEN,” Ed Levine says carving out that slice of the adult contemporary pie is “the correct position” for Sunny 102.1. The new mix of music bumps up the amount of songs from the 1970s played on the station from about 10% to 50%.

As the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks nears, we look back at how radio in Central New York responded to the news of the day and pulled together to support the relief efforts.

Things have been a little quiet this summer over at 89.1 FM. After a silent few months in which station facilities were upgraded, Z89 is set to trot out a new format of sorts come this Sunday. Promos for the launch are running on a continuous loop all this week. And, for a down-to-the-second countdown