570 WSYR afternoon talk show host Jim Reith has some listeners fuming over comments he's made concerning the war in Iraq and Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim, and for his censoring of listener postings to the show's online forum.
570 WSYR afternoon talk show host Jim Reith has some listeners fuming over comments he's made concerning the war in Iraq and Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim, and for his censoring of listener postings to the show's online forum.
Dick Burch, who worked in several major radio markets, spent time at Syracuse's WHEN in the early 1970s. Bob Mitchell has unearthed a nearly 18 minute aircheck of Burch whose morning show, which featured his risque and corny humor, helped transition WHEN from an old line middle of the road station to one with a […]
Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) has a new voice on the weekends: 'The Real' Jeff Moulton has joined the station's roster of weekend/fill-in jocks. Moulton, who worked at several Utica-Rome stations in the 1970s including WTLB, WRUN, and WLFH, was most recently on the air at Rochester's oldies station 93 BBF (WBBF).
News and public affairs station WRVO FM 90 has devoted much of its programming over the past three weeks to the war in Iraq. William LaRue of the Syracuse Post-Standard spoke with program director John Hurlbutt about listener reaction and WRVO's plan to shift back toward more regular programming. The war coverage has also caused […]
Radio and theater veteran Bob Brown will be pinch hitting during afternoon drive at Sunny 102.1 (WZUN) for a few weeks while Marty Santy recovers from hip replacement surgery. Santy, who was hurt in a motorocycle accident four years ago, had the operation last week and is at home recovering.
For anyone who couldn't get near a television set last night, or for those still without power, forced to listen to the game on battery operated radios or in their cars, there were a lot of choices to hear the Syracuse University Orangemen win the NCAA men's basketball national championship.
After a nine month run, 570 WSYR has decided to drop Sam Donaldson's daily talk show, Alive in America, in favor of one hosted by conservative talk host Glenn Beck. Beck's nationally syndicated show, which is broadcast out of Philadelphia and heard on over 100 stations nationwide, airs locally from 10 a.m. - noon weekdays.
With Oswego being one of the areas hit hardest by last week's ice storm, it's no surprise that WRVO FM 90 is having a tough time getting back on the air. Electrical power was never a problem for the public radio station thanks to a generator purchased last year with the help of listener contributions. […]
Friday night's ice storm in Oswego, Cayuga, and Onondaga counties which left over 125,000 utility customers without power, also kicked several Central New York radio signals off the air. A spot check of the dial over the past twelve hours found sporadic or extended outages at WRVO FM 90, Oldies 92.1 (WSEN), 93Q (WNTQ), Radio […]
With J.J. Herr's move to North Carolina, K-Rock is shuffling its jock schedule. 'Silent Bob' Staffa moves from middays to fill Herr's Total Request Morning duties. The station is also bringing back Rainman to afternoon drive, a shift he hosted from 1999-2001. "When K-Rock offered me the chance to kick itin afternoons in Central New […]