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Fulton's WAMF switches to country

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.

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Calling hours Wednesday for Joe Galuski's father

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.

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Special programming planned for 9/11 anniversary

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...

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University Roundtable moves to WAER

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 […]

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9/11: How local radio responded last year

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.

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Sunny 102.1 slides in between WYYY and WSEN

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%.

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Z89: lights are on, nobody home yet

Things have been a little quiet this summer over at 89.1 FM. After a silent few months in which station facilities were upgraded, Z89 is set to trot out a new format of sorts come this Sunday. Promos for the launch are running on a continuous loop all this week. And, for a down-to-the-second countdown […]

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Hot 107-9 hires new program director

The search for a programmer for Hot 107-9 is over. Erin Bristol takes over from Jason Kidd who left for Pittsburgh five months ago. Bristol moves from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she was program director for Clear Channel's hot AC formatted Mix 96.5.

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Sunny 102 switches format

The programming department at Galaxy Communications has been busy the past few days. As the kids head back to school, Sunny 102 is rolling back the music clock about a decade or so. Following yesterday's day-long jock-free preview of the station's new playlist, "The New Sunny 102.1" is now serving up an oldies-based adult contemporary […]

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Galaxy flips Albany's WHTR to modern rock

It's another K-Rock in upstate New York for Syracuse-based Galaxy Communications. After four months of hot talk, Albany's WHTR switched to a modern rock format over the weekend. Gone are Don & Mike, Tom Leykis, Phil Stern, and Opie and Anthony who were fired by their syndicators a couple weeks back. Galaxy's Ed Levine said […]

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