Since 1969, WRVO has been broadcasting from SUNY Oswego's Lanigan Hall. Come this May, the public radio station will move to brand new studios in a different building on campus. A year-long capital campaign in 2004 raised a total of $330,000 for the studio upgrades which will include new digital studio equipment and a new, […]
Radio station 570 WSYR and WIXT TV 9 have been cooperating partners in local news and sports coverage since shortly after Clear Channel Communications purchased the television station more than two years ago. Beginning in April they'll also be sharing the same call-letters: WSYR. The heritage call-letters on the television side were mothballed 25 years […]
If you think you heard a lot of Hoobastank and Kenny Chesney on the radio last year, you're not alone. Mediabase, a California based company which specializes in tracking radio station playlists electronically, tallied what eight Syracuse stations played during 2004. The Syracuse Post-Standard has more on which artists got the most air time and […]
B104.7 (WBBS) is once again the ratings king in Syracuse. By an almost 5 point margin, the Clear Channel country station came in way ahead of the pack with a 12.6 rating. Clear Channel stations overall did well, taking the top four slots in the rankings. It was a tough book for the Citadel group […]
Things got a little heated last week on 570 WSYR's afternoon talk show hosted by Jim Reith. After Reith was critical of Stephanie Miner's stance on the proposed downtown convention center hotel, the Syracuse Councilor-at-Large called in to explain her side. The discussion quickly turned heated with Reith yelling at Miner and calling her "a […]
Homegrown may be history. The local music show hosted by Eric Will and several different co-hosts during its 10-year run has been squeezed out of its slot on TK-99/105 (WTKW/WTKV) for economic reasons. Will, who started the show on WNDR AM in 1995, is looking for a deal with another station after learning that Galaxy […]
570 WSYR has hired Erica St. James as the newest addition to its news staff. St. James had been news director at Regent Communications' WIBX AM 950 in Utica-Rome for just over a year. She moved to Central New York in 2003 from Wisconsin where she worked for a six-station cluster in Wausau/Stevens Point.
Is Rick Gary the Regis Philbin of Syracuse? Gary, a veteran radio and television broadcaster who holds down the fort each morning with Kathy Rowe on Y94FM (WYYY), is upping his television air time beginning this week. Bridge Street with Rick & Julie, a local talk show that Gary hosts with Julie Abbott on WIXT […]
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 […]