June 2004

Howard Stern is not giving up. Months after being kicked off of six Clear Channel stations across the country, the syndicated shock jock announced today his show will debut in nine new markets beginning in July. That’s good news for Stern fans in Rochester which was one of the markets affected by Clear Channel’s decision

Big Frog 104 (WFRG) welcomed a new morning co-host earlier this month. Kristie Waters jumps from middays at Galaxy’s Rock 107 (WRCK) to pair up with Matt Herkimer. Waters replaces Lisa Webber who left for New England in April. Over at Rock 107, the midday chair is now occupied by former WFRG/WFRY personality Matt ‘Bullfrog’

Kobe (Zimmerman) Austin is keeping himself busy out on the West Coast these days. The former Syracuse jock who got his start in radio on Z89 (WJPZ), 93Q (WNTQ), and Hot 107-9 (WWHT) has branched out into voiceover production work and acting in addition to gigs on the radio in Portland, Oregon and Boston. All

With cold temperatures and high winds the weather wasn’t ideal, but that didn’t stop thousands of country music fans from showing up at Verona Beach State Park last Saturday for FrogFest. The annual outdoor concert, sponsored by Big Frog 104 (WFRG) and now in its 16th year, featured headliner Shenandoah along with several local country

Syracuse native Tom Tradup has a new position at Salem Radio Network (SRN). As director of network programming, he’ll oversee content, direction and strategic planning for all of SRN’s nationally syndicated talk shows and SRN’s network news programming. Tradup was news director at WRVO FM 90 in the late ’70s.Source (link may no longer work):

570 WSYR’s Sarah Buynovsky said goodbye to listeners Friday afternoon as she transitions to her new position in television news at Time Warner’s New 10 Now. Buynovsky, a reporter and afternoon news anchor for the news-talk station, received on-air well wishes from co-anchor Jules Thompson and Bill Leaf who put together a brief retrospective of

Joe Diffie headlined the 10th annual B-Jam country music outdoor concert this past weekend. The event, which is sponsored each year by B104.7 (WBBS), attracted about 6,000 people to Long Branch Park on Saturday. Mark Bialczak of the Syracuse Post-Standard was there and reports that while the weather cooled off, the music sizzled.Source (link may

Matt Johnson got his start in radio as an intern at WHEN in Syracuse while he was a junior in high school. He eventually wound up as a morning sidekick on Hot 107-9 (WWHT) before heading south to Jackson, Mississippi in 2001. This week, All Access goes ‘Ten Questions With…’ Matt from his current gig

With Kevin Kline leaving K-Rock (WKRL/WKLL) to pursue opportunities in New York City, Galaxy Communications management has big plans for the station’s morning show.

Moravia native Diane Wade got her start in radio at Cornell University’s campus station. A couple of decades later, she’s still at it, serving up hits of the ’60s and ’70s at Oldies 92.1 as WSEN’s midday air personality. We go ‘Beyond the Studio’ with Diane to find out what makes her tick when the