All articles posted by Scott Jameson, founder and editor of the original CNYRadio.com. Scott started the site on March 1, 2001 and announced his decision to go "suspend regular publication" on April 22, 2005. In that time, he posted a total of 997 articles. We're gradually adding those back articles in this category, in an effort to fully unite the original site with the current site.
Citing "inappropriate comments" made on the air last week by 'Java Joel' Murphy on Chicago's 103.5 KISS (WKSC), Clear Channel Communications ousted the jock from his nighttime on-air duties as host of the 'The Rubber Room.' Murphy is a former Hot 107-9 (WWHT) jock.Source (link may no longer work): fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=61701
Peter Cavanaugh was a local DJ at WNDR nearly 50 years ago at the start of his radio career. He chronicles his time spent in Syracuse and in other markets in his book "Local DJ." Through mid-February, Cavanaugh is reading the book in 28-minute segments Mondays through Fridays on WDET in Detroit. There's no need […]
UTICA-ROME -- On the heels of last month's format switch at WUCL, comes word of several staffing changes at the Clear Channel cluster in Utica-Rome.
Syndicated radio host John Tesh is heading to Southeast Asia next week to help in tsunami relief efforts. Tesh, whose nightly radio show is heard on Y94FM (WYYY) in Syracuse, leaves for Sri Lanka on Saturday as part of "Operation Blessing" where he and his family will spend a week overseas. During his stay, Tesh […]
Northeast Public Radio is extending its affiliate network to the west into the Utica-Rome market. Regent Communications has sold WRUN for $275,000 to the Albany-based NPR cluster headed up by Alan Chartock. That brings to 13 the number of stations simulcasting programming from WAMC, the group's flagship station in Albany.
Howard Stern is back from his two week vacation, but not in the five markets where Citadel Communications had been broadcasting the shock jock's show.
Howard Stern is back from his two week vacation, but not in the five markets where Citadel Communications had been broadcasting the shock jock's show. For the past two weeks 95X (WAQX) has been airing bits of the Opie and Anthony Show instead of Stern repeats, but with Stern's return this morning, Citadel Communications has […]
Former 570 WSYR weekend news anchor Maria Leaf has moved to Washington, DC to join the news team at WTOP and its sister station Federal News Radio. Leaf, a SUNY Oswego Communications graduate, also worked as a producer for WIXT NewsChannel 9's "Your Stories" segments in Syracuse before moving on to anchor the morning news […]
Lite 105.9 (WLTI) morning man Dave Allen got a surprising email Sunday from Chris Xaver who was vacationing in Thailand when the catastrophic tsunami hit. Xaver, a former WTSM news reporter and substitute radio newscaster on 93Q (WNTQ), was caught up in the surge along with her husband and was trapped for 30 minutes under […]
After two years as Kool 93.5, WUCL has flipped formats from a blend of oldies to classic hits and has become The River 93.5. Jack Moran, the station's program director and afternoon host, says the goal of the new format is to offer music from a broader range of artists including Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat, […]