Mornings just got a bit busier for Keith Kobland. The morning anchor for WTVH's 5 on Your Side just last week picked up news duties on Big Mike's show on Sunny 102 (WZUN). Kobland, a 1981 North Syracuse graduate, got his start in Syracuse radio as part of 570 WSYR's news team before making the […]
Syracuse country station B104.7 (WBBS) has launched a contest giving listeners a chance to win dinner with country star Patty Loveless while she's in town next weekend for Countryfest at the Oswego Speedway. Things get a little sticky when you consider that it's B104.7's competitor, WSCP AM/FM, that is bringing the star to town. WSCP's […]
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 […]
In Arbitron numbers released today for the Syracuse radio market, Y94FM (WYYY) and Lite 105.5 (WLTI) both clocked in with the best ratings either station has seen in over two years. Y94FM had the biggest jump of all the Syracuse stations with a 1.5 increase, which helped move them from 7th to 5th in market […]
National Public Radio (NPR) and Slate Magazine have teamed up to produce a new daily newsmagazine which will air locally on WRVO FM 90 beginning next week. Day to Day is NPR's first collabortive effort with a commercial media outlet since the network debuted in 1970.Veteran NPR correspondant Alex Chadwick will host the hour-long show […]
There are a couple of new Central New York radio airchecks at NortheastAirchecks.com as they add to their growing roster of sound clips from the past. Listen to Don Rossi on WFBL in Syracuse from 1980 and from Utica-Rome's WRUN, its a 1979 tape of Jeff Moulton.Source (link may no longer work): www.northeastairchecks.com
Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh has signed on with ESPN to provide a weekly opinion piece on the network's Sunday NFL Countdown show beginning in September. Limbaugh, who is a huge football fan, says, "I get to take my observations from the living room couch to the ESPN studios and talk football with the […]
The lineup for this year's University Lectures series, which will be formally announced later today, includes writer and host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor. The dry-witted public radio broadcaster is scheduled to speak at Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel on February 17, 2004. A Prairie Home Companion airs Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons on […]
The lineup, or at least part of it, for the 8th annual K-Rockathon has been announced. Evanescence will headline the Augest 16th concert at Vernon Downs organized by K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH). Also along for the ride: Tantric, Saliva, Cold, Revis, Cauterize and Plan 607 who won a local competition to open the day-long event.
Bob Brown is back spinning oldies at WSEN. The veteran Syracuse jock had been helping out over at Sunny 102.1 (WZUN) for a few months earlier this year, pinch hitting for Marty Santy on afternoons. In addition to his part-time/swing work at Oldies 92.1, Brown stays busy heading up his local theater company Opening Night […]