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.
Rush Limbaugh is set to check out of drug rehab and plans to return to his daily radio show on Monday. Limbaugh's brother, David, said Rush is "chomping at the bit to get back on the air." The syndicated conservative talk show host has been in a drug treatment program for five weeks to help […]
Art Bell is returning to syndication. The creator and former weeknight host of Coast to Coast AM will take over the weekend editions of the show which have been hosted by Barbara Simpson. George Noory will continue to hold down the fort during the week. Bell was quoted as saying that his return to radio […]
With a commanding lead in Arbitron numbers for the Ithaca market released last week, Q-Country (WQNY) has nearly doubled its ratings in the past six months. Lite 97 slipped into second place with a 14.4 which is a nearly 4 point increase for the Eagle Broadcasting AC station.
Citadel Broadcasting collected a whopping $418 million on its sale of 12 million shares of common stock during Friday's IPO. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDL, the company, which owns and operates 151 FM and 64 AM stations in 44 markets, will use some of the proceeds to pay down […]
Controversial radio talk show host Michael Savage was let go from his weekend show on the MSNBC television cable news channel this week after referring to a caller as a "sodomite" and wishing he would "get AIDS and die." Savage's syndicated radio show airs in Syracuse on 570 WSYR and on NewsTalk 920 (WKRT) in […]
This week marks CNYRadio.com's two-year anniversary as an online source for news about the Central New York radio community. The site has continued to grow over the past twelve months, a year in which we added an online store and expanded our coverage area to include the Watertown and Ithaca markets.
What does today's ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mean to radio in Central New York? Not much. The easing of ownership restrictions approved by the commission deals primarily with television and newspaper owners.
Kevin LeGrett is leaving his position with Infinity Broadcasting as general manager of the company's four-station cluster in Rochester to become a regional vice president at Citadel Communications. LeGrett will work out of Buffalo and oversee Citadel's Buffalo, Syracuse, Ithaca, and Binghamton markets. Citadel owns six stations in the Syracuse and Ithaca markets.
Real Rock Radio 93.5 (WVBR) has named Chris Bianchi as the station's new program director, while Brad Bershad gets music director stripes. The Ithaca rocker is owned by Cornell Radio Guild.
Beginning April 28, NewsTalk 920 WKRT will add the syndicated Dead Doctors Don't Lie to its schedule. The MLM Radio Networks show, hosted by Dr. Joel Wallach, will air at 6 p.m.