News items related to the Ithaca/Cortland radio market. Counties: Cayuga, Cortland, Tompkins. Arbitron issued its final ratings report for this market in early 2010 (for Fall 2009) and the market has been unrated since that time. CNYRadio.com stopped covering the Ithaca/Cortland radio market in 2014, but our archive of stories remains available.
ALBANY -- He worked primarily in print media, referred to as "the dean" of State Capitol journalists by the Albany Times-Union... but he was also a frequent contributor to WHCU's Morning Newswatch. Former Gannett Albany bureau chief Jay Gallagher passed away Monday evening in an Albany hospital after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a year. Today, […]
ITHACA/CORTLAND -- While your editor was away on vacation, the long-awaited debut of new radio station WITH 90.1 took place on Monday. The joint venture between Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva and WXXI in Rochester also offers an HD2 channel.
GENEVA -- After hearing the WRVO-sponsored Syracuse appearance of "Says You!" is limited to balcony seating after all the floor-level seats sold out, WEOS General Manager Aaron Read says there's plenty of good seats available for the show's stop in Geneva. Some tickets include a chance to meet the host and panelists.
ITHACA/CORTLAND -- It's a special edition of the locally-produced Homemade Jam this weekend on rocker I-100 (WIII). The show will be paying tribute to Cortland native and rock star Ronnie James Dio, who died this past Monday at the age of 67. Dio's wife announced last November that Dio had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
ITHACA/CORTLAND -- ROI Broadcasting's top 40 Z95.5 (WFIZ) is looking for a morning co-host. Didn't they just hire one? Yep, about two months after the station announced the arrival of Nikii, PD and morning co-host Corey tells us Nikii had "family/personal problems and had to move back to her hometown in Ohio."
ITHACA -- Public radio listeners are noticing some recent changes on the FM dial, thanks to the anticipated launch of WITH 90.1. Ithaca's Community Radio at 88.1FM (W201CD), which had been simulcasting Geneva-based WEOS, is now simulcasting a Binghamton-area station's signal instead. Updated 5/19.
ITHACA -- The FCC has ordered Saga Communications to pay $10,000 in fines, in regards to what the Commission has ruled to be "willful violations" the company made regarding transmitter W240CB. The ruling came after complaints were filed by the Geneva-based Finger Lakes Media Group, who argued W240CB's signal at 95.9FM had interfered with programming […]
ITHACA -- If you've been reading CNYRadio.com for awhile, you might remember last May, when we had a "Name that Studio" Picture of the Week -- the "mystery studio" was the home studio of Ithaca's Rudy Paolangeli. This week, Rudy has an impressive collection of vintage microphones... see how many you can identify by make […]
ITHACA -- Time's running out for Hobart & William Smith Colleges' construction permit to get new radio station WITH (90.1 FM) on the air. With some help from public broadcasters in Rochester and Binghamton, it looks like WITH will meet the deadline, with plans to sign-on sometime in May.
ITHACA/CORTLAND -- Progressive Talk 1470 (WNYY) has added Free Talk Live with Mark and Ian to their lineup for one hour, weeknights at 9pm. The show will also air Saturdays from 9pm to midnight. The show describes itself as "talk radio that ANYONE can take control of ... about Liberty with a capital L."