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.
ITHACA - We're a couple days late on this one: W254BF, the former Power 106.9 (WPHR) translator located at 98.7 on the FM dial in Ithaca, is indeed being sold by Clear Channel to Saga Communications. We told you last week that Saga used the outlet to launch a new AAA-formatted station branded as "98.7 The […]
SYRACUSE -- Former Ithaca morning show host Mark Vanness excitedly writes CNYRadio.com today: "I got a J-O-B!" Not only did he find a way to get back into radio on a full-time basis; he's making a rather significant market rank jump as well.
Earlier this week, Scott Fybush added some fresher Syracuse legal IDs to the collection at tophour.com. Today, his colleague Jeff Lehmann has added a few more of his own updates to the Syracuse page, along with IDs from the Utica-Rome and Ithaca markets. (And they have IDs from other markets all over the country, not […]
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 […]
Updated 9/9/09 - GENEVA -- Brendan Cooper is headed to a new job in Rochester, creating an "immediate" opening for a News Director at Finger Lakes News Radio. The three-station network includes WGVA 1240 in Geneva, along with WAUB 1590 AM and 98.1 FM in Auburn.
OSWEGO -- The next phase in selecting the design for WRVO's commemorative 40th Anniversary Coffee Mug is underway. The station has narrowed the entries down to their five favorite designs, and now they're asking for your help in choosing a winner.
ITHACA -- General Manager Frank Lischak at Z95-5 (WFIZ) says he has a job opening in his sales department. The job posting from Frank reads as follows:
ITHACA -- Saga's Q-Country (WQNY) is still the clear leader in Ithaca, but not without taking a hit of nearly 7 ratings points from Spring 2008 to Spring 2009. And in the newly-released Arbitron Persons 12+ ratings, CHR-formatted Z95-5 (WFIZ) has flashed from non-existence to second place.
ITHACA -- To use a long-standing radio cliché, call it a WICB "doubleshot," both in terms of CNYRadio.com articles, and in terms of being named the best college radio station in the country.
ITHACA -- At a time of the year when most student-run college stations are running on a skeleton crew and/or automation, students at Ithaca College's WICB are working as hard as ever, helping to raise record-breaking amounts of money for local charity.