Syracuse may end up with the largest free country music festival in New York State. At least that's the goal. The city is teaming up with Galaxy Communications for a one-day free concert at Clinton Square on July 10 featuring country stars Lee Greenwood, Marty Stuart, and John Anderson. Galaxy president Ed Levine hopes to […]
Former American Idol contestant Kimberley Locke will headline the opening night of this year's Balloonfest in Jamesville next month. The hot air balloon and music festival presented by Syracuse radio station 93Q marks its 25th anniversary on June 11-13. Locke is one of 14 acts that will grace the main stage during the three-day event. […]
WRVO FM 90 has once again come out on top in the latest ratings for public radio stations in Syracuse. While the station's 4.2 rating is a bit below where they were a year ago, they maintain a comfortable lead over Classic FM (WCNY) and Jazz 88 (WAER). Visit our Ratings section for all the […]
Y94FM (WYYY) has a new morning team. Station management confirmed yesterday that Rick Gary will pair up with Kathy Rowe for the 5-9 a.m. shift beginning next Monday. Gary, who has a long history in Syracuse radio, recently gave up his morning television duties at WIXT channel 9 where he still plans to unveil a […]
After nearly a week of chatter and rumors about Y94FM (WYYY) and TK-99/105 (WTKW/WTKV), the cat is officially out of the bag. Well, sort of.
The Syracuse Press Club handed out its annual awards at a dinner on Saturday, May 8. In the radio division, WSYR, WRVO, WAER, and WHEN all picked up awards. 570 WSYR's assistant news director, Chris Weidman, was also honored with the Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award.
One of the hot issues discussed at a recent two-day meeting of 250 Clear Channel Communications program directors was the amount of commercials and "clutter" airing on the group's radio stations. Clear Channel president John Hogan says changes are in the works. According to Hogan, the company will "demonstrably reduce the amount of commercial interruptions […]
Sunny 102 (WZUN) has seen a slow steady increase in listenership over the past year and a half, but the Galaxy Communications station credits a recent television ad campaign featuring Juli Boeheim for giving the station an added boost into ninth place. William LaRue of the Syracuse Post-Standard takes a look at how Sunny 102 […]
Donald Trump seems to be everywhere these days, and beginning in June he may be coming to a radio near you. Trump has partnered with Clear Channel Communications to produce daily 60- to 90-second radio commentaries called "Trumped!" The Syracuse Post-Standard reports that 570 WSYR will probably carry the segments during Joe Galuski's morning drive […]
Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) bounced back from its lackluster performance in the fall book and jumped three spots in the rankings to fifth place in numbers released yesterday by Arbitron. Perennially strong B104.7 (WBBS) proved once again that its spot as the clear leader in the market is unchallenged. The country station's 12.7 rating in 12+ […]