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.
For four decades Tom Joseph has been known to listeners in Ithaca as "Mr. Radio." Joseph, who is director of operations at Eagle Broadcasting, is retiring from radio after 43 years. Joseph's radio career started in 1962 at WHCU AM/FM which were owned by Cornell University at the time. He is currently in charge of […]
The FCC has heard from an Ithaca area group who is looking to break up the group of four stations in that city owned by Eagle Broadcasting. In its petition, the 'Finger Lakes Alliance for Independent Media' claims WHCU, WTKO, WYXL, and WQNY make up the entire Ithaca advertising market and are looking for a […]
Cortland's News Talk 920 WKRT debuts a new morning show next week. Kevin Mooney hosts Mooney in the Mornings weekdays from 6 - 9 a.m. The new local show replaces Doug Stephan's syndicated program Good Day. Mooney, a graduate of SUNY Oswego's broadcasting program, has worked for WFAN AM in New York City and was […]
Chris Halen has been away from the Central New York radio scene for a few years after leaving the overnight shift at 95X (WAQX) for WNSA in Buffalo. He's back though, this time at sister Citadel Communications station I-100 (WIII) in Cortland as the classic rocker's morning sidekick and midday jock.
WRVO FM 90 continues to lead in the public radio segment in the Syracuse radio market with a 4.2, while Classic FM (WCNY) topped the Utica-Rome ratings. In Ithaca, WEOS, which scored a 7.0 audience share, had a strong spring 2004 book. For all of the public radio station ratings, check out our ratings section.
Arbitron has some very, very good news for Q Country (WQNY). In ratings released last week, the station not only maintained its lead in the market, but also more than doubled its ratings, jumping from a 12.1 last fall to a 25.6. Sister Eagle Broadcasting stations Lite 97 (WYXL) and WHCU 870 followed behind in […]
Saga Communications has picked four Ithaca radio stations as the company's first acquisitions in the state of New York. Saga has agreed to buy Q-Country (WQNY), Lite 97 (WYXL), WTKOldies (WTKO), and WHCU 870 AM from Eagle Broadcasting. The deal should be completed by the fourth quarter of this year. Saga owns radio stations in […]
Q Country (WQNY) dropped nearly seven ratings points from the spring to fall ratings period, but the Ithaca station managed to hold on to the top spot in the market with a 12.1. In Arbitron numbers released last week, Q's sister Eagle Broadcasting station, Lite 97 (WYXL), also lost ground in its share of the […]
Rush Limbaugh says he will appeal a ruling by a Florida judge that says he must release his medical records to prosecutors investigating possible drug-related crimes. The conservative talk-show host believes that Democrats are out to get him. According to Limbaugh, "The Democrats in this country still cannot defeat me in the arena of political […]
Rick Sommers, a part-time and weekend jock for New York City's 106.7 Lite FM (WLTW), is leaving the station for graduate school and a return to stand-up comedy. Sommers began his radio career in the early 1980s at Ithaca's WTKO as Ricky King. Rick's brother is Syracuse radio veteran Peter King.