ITHACA/CORTLAND -- The Cayuga Radio Group, the market-leading cluster of radio stations owned by Saga Communications, has a couple of job vacancies. They need a full-time news reporter/anchor for WHCU and they need a voicetrack talent for 98.7 The Vine. Details on both positions, as provided by the front office, are as follows:
ITHACA -- Another new format is on the air in Ithaca -- Saga Communications brings AAA to the market with Wednesday's launch of "98.7 The Vine" (W254BF). As you might have guessed from the call letters, this is Saga's second Ithaca station relying on the combo of a low-power analog FM translator with an HD […]
SYRACUSE -- High praise from one of the region's most prominent charitable organizations for Galaxy Communications President/CEO Ed Levine and his wife, Pam, GM of the company's Events division. The couple will be honored as "MVPs" this year at The Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation's 14th annual Basket Ball Gala.
ITHACA -- Triple-A rock-formatted 98.7 The Vine (W254BF) has a new addition to its weekend lineup. Every Saturday night, the station is taking listeners into Little Steven's Underground Garage.
SYRACUSE -- For new students visiting the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications for the first time, one of the most impressive sights is the school's Professional Gallery. This year, the school inducted forty people to the gallery, including Ed Levine, CEO and President of Galaxy Communications, the Syracuse-based owner of 14 radio stations in the […]
SYRACUSE -- Galaxy Communications CEO and President Ed Levine will join a select group of Syracuse University alumni next weekend, when he's inducted to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communcations Professional Gallery. Levine and the rest of the induction class of 2012 will be honored on Saturday, November 10.
"Nixon Elected." Less than three weeks after former K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH/WKLL) PD/middayer Ty announced she'd be leaving for a new job Baltimore, Galaxy Communications has announced the hiring of her replacement.
Galaxy Communications chief Ed Levine is one of five radio executives from across the country recently named to the Arbitron Radio Advisory Council for terms that begin in January. Levine, as general manager of TK-99/105 (WTKW/WTKV), will focus on AOR formats in Arbitron's "continuous" markets. Source (link may no longer work): syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-8/110241710971263.xml
Galaxy Communications in a lone wolf in the Syracuse radio market. Local ownership of stations is becoming a rarity these days, but Ed Levine is bucking the trend.
Galaxy Communications president Ed Levine is quoted in today's R&R Online on the issue of media consolidation. Saying that "smaller, focused organizations will always thrive", his hope for the new year is that large organizations like Clear Channel and Citadel will scale back their ownership in markets where they control more than five or six […]