Scarborough Research has released results of a nationwide study of rock music fans and their active lifestyles. Syracuse and Minneapolis were rated highest for concentration of rock fans with 38% of listeners tuned into rock formatted stations. The study also found that 58% of rock listeners are more likely to fall into the Generation X […]
Nationally syndicated veteran newsman Paul Harvey received a Marconi Award at this week's National Association of Broadcasters conference in Seattle. Harvey, who can be heard three times daily on 570 WSYR in Syracuse, was named Network Syndicated Personality of the Year.
The Syracuse radio market passed a milestone over the weekend, marking the 80th anniversary of the sign on of the area's first radio station. It was on September 15, 1922 from his estate off Route 13 in Cazenovia that Clive Meredith, for the first time, flipped the switch at station WMAC. Six years later, Meredith […]
After a four-month hiatus, the women's issues oriented weekly talk show Women's Voices returns to WAER 88.3 FM on October 10. The show will go by a slightly different name, Women's Voices Radio, to distinguish it from a new television version of the show, Women's Voices, which debuts next week on Time Warner Cable.
FULTON - It's Patsy Cline and George Jones for 'The New AM 1300'. Fulton's WAMF 1300 AM (formerly WOSC and WZZZ) is up and running with a new format of traditional country music with Don DeRosa, the station's new owner, handling morning show duties.
Most Central New York radio stations plan to memorialize and pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks of one year ago with special programming today. The published schedule of events include...
The Syracuse radio community is offering its condolences to WSYR's Joe Galuski on the news of the passing his father on Monday. Calling hours for Henry J. Galuski, 74, are Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. at Welter-Price Funeral Home on James Street in Syracuse. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday morning.
After 30 years on WCNY (91.3 FM), broadcasts of Syracuse University's Thursday Morning Roundtable are moving to WAER (88.3 FM). According to WCNY station manager Paul Dunn, "everybody's happy" with the switch which will give Classic FM more hours of classical music and University Roundtable will now be heard on a station owned by the […]
As the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks nears, we look back at how radio in Central New York responded to the news of the day and pulled together to support the relief efforts.
Looking to be "older than Y94 but younger than WSEN," Ed Levine says carving out that slice of the adult contemporary pie is "the correct position" for Sunny 102.1. The new mix of music bumps up the amount of songs from the 1970s played on the station from about 10% to 50%.