The Keeler Show, a local late night television program featuring Bill Keeler, has made its way to Syracuse.
The Keeler Show, a local late night television program featuring Bill Keeler, has made its way to Syracuse.
He went by many names: Salty Sam, Bill Everett, and Epal. Willard Everett Jr. died Sunday at the age of 74 after a long illness. Everett was probably best known as a children's television entertainer, but during his long Syracuse broadcast career he spent 30 years at 570 WSYR beginning in 1961. He got his […]
It was a good night for Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim last Thursday at the Mulroy Civic Center. Boeheim was in the hot seat during a live taping of National Public Radio's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me where he managed to get 2 out of 3 questions right in the "Not My Job" segment. […]
Anish Shroff and Jason Horowitz both survived last night's first round of ESPN's popular reality show Dream Job, a 10-week competition where participants vie for a spot on the ESPN broadcast team. Shroff, who is a sports anchor on SportsRadio 620 (WHEN) and co-host of The Friday Sports Connection, graduated from Syracuse University in May, […]
WRVO FM 90 is bringing the NPR news quiz show Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me to Syracuse this Thursday night for a live broadcast recording of the weekly program hosted by Peter Sagal. In addition to the show's roster of regular players including Sue Ellicott and Mo Rocca, Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim will […]
$15,440.58. That's the grand total of this past weekend's two-day fundraising radiothon for Casey's Place sponsored by Sunny 102 (WZUN). Casey's Place will provide a place where special needs children from Central New York can have fun, meet new friends, and just have the chance to be a kid while receiving the care and attention […]
In the three years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks radio stations across the country have adjusted their playlists accordingly. How have the stations in the Syracuse market changed their tune when it comes to the airing of songs with patriotic or war protest themes, and what about the Dixie Chicks? The Syracuse Post-Standard takes a […]
Lou Rouviere thinks Syracuse New Times writer Kevin Corbett should broaden his horizons a bit when it comes to country music. Rouviere, a former WSCP jock known as 'The Cosmic Cowboy', may have moved south a decade ago, but he hasn't given up on artists like David Allan Coe and Guy Clark whom he calls […]
Former Hot 107-9 (WWHT) jock and program director Jason Kidd is heading back to his hometown of Baltimore. Kidd, who has had stops in Pittsburgh and Baltimore since leaving Syracuse two and a half years ago, was most recently program director at KOYT in Austin, Texas. His first day of work in Baltimore at Infinity […]
A day after Premiere Radio Networks announced the cancellation of Leeza Gibbons' Hollywood Confidential, we find out the reason why. Gibbons has signed with Westwood One to host a five-hour nightly show called Leeza at Night.