June 2009

Update 6/17 – Thanks for your patience as our trip “back in time” to our old look runs a little longer than planned.  But don’t let the look dissuade you — we’re still taking news tips, story ideas, Picture of the Week submissions and everything else as we continue working on issues behind the scenes.

AUBURN — Finger Lakes News Radio has a part-time opening for a play-by-play announcer to cover various Auburn High School sports, starting this fall.

ONEIDA — The sale of, as they legal ID themselves, “WMCR AM 1600 and FM 106.3 in Oneida, New York” is a done deal.  After about 40 years of ownership, Vivian Warren has retired from the radio ownership game, nearly a million dollars richer.

SYRACUSE — No, that’s not a typo in the headline… Syracuse-based WRVD 90.3 FM will sign-off around 8:30 Saturday morning for some transmitter maintenance work.  Fred Vigeant, program director for the WRVO Stations says the outage will last “throughout the day.”  Parent station WRVO/Oswego and siblings WRVN/Utica and WRVJ/Watertown will not be affected by the

After 36 years, tomorrow’s edition of Radio & Records will be the very last.  The weekly trade newspaper’s owner, Nielsen, made the announcement to staffers yesterday.

SYRACUSE — It’s not quite like before, but sidelined on-air personalities Mark Vanness and Big Jim Donovan are returning to the airwaves — on different stations both in Syracuse — and both on a part-time basis.

Looking for the 2010 lineup for K-Rockathon 15? Click here for coverage posted 6/7/2010. SYRACUSE — Three Doors Down and Papa Roach are among what KROCK is calling the “strongest lineup the radio station has presented in its 14 years of putting on” the KROCKATHON.  Tickets go on sale this Saturday, for the August 8th