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The station web site for New Rock 105 The Dog (WWDG) is up and running. Check out station events, jock profiles, and music industry news at www.newrock105.com.

There has been a lot of hype over the past year about digital television. Now local broadcasters hope digital signals for AM radio stations will help draw listeners back to the AM band. Syracuse is on the fast track with the new technology, HD Radio, being named as one of 40 radio markets in the

Got relationship problems? Need to know if you can get pregnant after having sex standing up? Starting Sunday night, K-Rock (WKRL) will have all the answers to your “intimacy issues” with a unique spin that only hosts Dr. Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla can provide. The nationally syndicated Loveline will air Sunday through Thursday nights

This Sunday, WCNY FM 91.3 airs a special edition of Bluegrass Ramble in honor of the show’s 30th anniversary.

Buckley Radio president Rick Buckley will be honored by the Broadcaster’s Foundation with a 2003 Broadcast Pioneer Award to be presented at an April ceremony in Las Vegas. Buckley Radio, based in Connecticut, owns 18 radio stations nationwide including Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) and TalkRadio 1050 (WFBL) in Syracuse, and the WOR Radio Network. Rick Buckley

WSCP AM/FM has signed up as a Motor Racing Network affiliate. Beginning this week, the NASCAR-focused show Ned Jarrett’s World of Racing will air weekdays at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. it’s NASCAR Live, a call-in show hosted by noted NASCAR race announcer Eli Gold. WSCP will also feature Winston Cup and Busch

The downtown Syracuse translator on 97.7 FM has flipped from its simulcast of Sunny 102.1 (WZUN) to Galaxy Communications’ sister station K-Rock (WKRL). The class D signal, which operates at 120 watts at a height of 98.4 feet, was a K-Rock translator prior to September 2000 when it began simulcasting WZUN.

Heralded by many as the boldest format change in Syracuse radio history, 94 Rock, then a highly successful album rock station, flipped its format to adult contemporary and became Y94FM (WYYY) on January 10, 1983. The on-air lineup on day one included ‘Big Mike’ Fiss, Kathy Rowe, Bob Mitchell, Dave Anthony, and Phil LoCascio (the

ESPN has signed a deal with Jim Rome to bring the Premiere syndicated radio talk show host back to television. The new series, Rome is Burning, will air Tuesday nights beginning May 6. Rome can be heard afternoons on SportsRadio 620 in Syracuse and Clear Channel’s cluster of AMs in Utica-Rome.

CNY Radio received over 225,000 page views in 2002, up from nearly 75,000 visits in 2001. We crunched the numbers and came up with the most popular searches in eight different categories.